Alan Akbik
@alan_akbik
Professor of Machine Learning at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Tacos and NLP! 🌮🌵 Meet us this week at NAACL 2024 in Mexico City! My group is presenting two papers on Tuesday: - OpinionGPT, our very biased GPT model: arxiv.org/abs/2309.03876 - LM Pub Quiz, our LLM evaluation library: arxiv.org/abs/2404.04113 #NLProc #NAACL2024
Problem: There are thousands of language models on 🤗 @HuggingFace - but which one is the best for *your* NLP task? Solution: ⚖️ TransformerRanker ⚖️! Our newest library directly connects to🤗 HF and quickly/efficiently ranks LMs for your task! github.com/flairNLP/trans…
2 papers accepted to #EMNLP2024 main conference! See you in Miami in November! ☀️🏖️🍹

Meet us this week at #ACL2024 in Bangkok, Thailand! 🛕🏝️ My students present two papers tomorrow (13.08.): • Fundus, our simple-to-use news crawler: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.15279 (at 10:30) • Automatic "best transformer" selection: alanakbik.github.io/papers/2298_Ch… (at 12:15)
Flair now supports🔥biomedical text analysis🔥: • Detect biomedical named entities (🧬 genes, 🦠 diseases, ⚛ chemicals, ..)! • Link them to entries in a knowledge base! See the tutorial (flairnlp.github.io/docs/category/…) and🔥Flair 0.14.0 release notes (github.com/flairNLP/flair…)!

Crawl 1 million news articles in 7 hours*! Announcing the release of 🗞️ Fundus v0.4 🗞️! github.com/flairNLP/fundus *crawling speed depends on your internet connection. I launched it 1.5 days ago and already gathered over 5 million news articles across 41 languages 🔥🔥🔥!
Announcing the 🧠LM Pub Quiz🧠- the ultimate test of your LLMs factual knowledge! Probe any LM (masked/causal) on Huggingface with our new library. We mitigate biases (answer distribution, domain, etc.) to give the most exact reading possible. Try it! lm-pub-quiz.github.io

Our paper "🗞️Fundus🗞️: A Simple-to-Use News Scraper Optimized for High Quality Extractions" accepted to ACL 2024 Demos! Fundus allows you to easily build a high quality corpus of news data for your NLP project. Try it out :) github.com/flairNLP/fundus #NLProc #ACL2024NLP

Awesome meeting with Sepp Hochreiter (@HochreiterSepp) today! We discussed the #xLSTM and possible integration with Flair NLP. Also other topics like evaluation with our "LM Pub Quiz". Looking forward to trying out the xLSTM in Flair!
