brendan o'connor

Thanks to @MassLiveNews for great coverage of our @ICWSM'25 study of global news coverage 📰! We show that deaths and event country 💰GDP💰 are the strongest predictors of global news coverage of disasters and terrorist attacks (w @erica__ec, @gonemelon, @EthanZ, @brendan642)!

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Some personal news: I'll join @UMassAmherst CS as an assistant professor in fall 2026. Until then, I'll postdoc at @Meta nyc. Reasoning will continue to be my main interest, with a focus on data-centric approaches🤩 If you're also interested, apply to me (phds & a postdoc)!

We're hiring new #nlproc faculty this year! Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS -- careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/…

@manningcics at @UMassAmherst is planning to hire two tenure-track faculty in #NLProc at Assistant / Associate Professor levels. Job posting: careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/… Applications are due on Dec. 1st. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out! Please RT!

🎉 New paper: "Latin Treebanks in Review: An Evaluation of Morphological Tagging Across Time" We review existing Latin treebanks, standardize their morphological annotations, and show BERT-based taggers outperform prior models across time periods. (1/2)

Excited to present our #ACL2024 paper on extracting argument structures from text by prompting LLMs with the names of a pedagogically popular linguistic theory, and applying this method for analyzing public comments! Work \w @brendan642, @EthanZ. 📜tinyurl.com/4xcte9z4 🧵👇

Our submission deadline is still about 1.5 months away (March 24th), but in case it's not yet in your calendars: here's your reminder ;) sites.google.com/site/nlpandcss…

Check out ezCoref, our open-source tool for easy coreference annotation across languages/domains. Demo: azkaban.cs.umass.edu:8877/tutorial Re-annotation study via ezCoref reveals interesting deviations from prior work. 📜aclanthology.org/2023.findings-… #CRAC2023 @emnlpmeeting Dec 6, 2:50PM 🧵👇

It's not the first time! A dream team of @enfleisig (human eval expert), Adam Lopez (remembers the Stat MT era), @kchonyc (helped end it), and me (pun in title) are here to teach you the history of scale crises and what lessons we can take from them. 🧵arxiv.org/abs/2311.05020

Considering the mind-boggling amount of $$ flowing through #NLProc right now, it's surprising to hear that @WiNLPWorkshop has funding shortages. If your org has cash, please reach out to WiNLP to help them fund underrepresented authors at @emnlpmeeting!

We've opened public registration for Text as Data 2023! Slots are limited, but if interested sign up from the TADA website: tada2023.org

🚨 We are back! Our workshop returns next year at #NAACL24. Watch this space for more details

Do you work with text data? The abstract submission deadline for Text as Data has been extended to Aug 11! This is a great, supportive, and interdisciplinary conference and includes a doctoral consortium

Reminder - for the terrific interdisciplinary Text as Data conference, abstract submissions coming up - due Aug 4! tada2023.org It's a great, small, non-archival conference to discuss emerging work with folks across social sciences, humanities, and computer science.

Starting tomorrow! blogs.umass.edu/bridging-socio/

i fondly remember watching eugene give an amazing whiteboard talk on constituency parsing starting from Charniak 1996, incrementally the ideas invented over the years, complete with their PTB Section 23 F1 scores, and no notes. (New England Machine Learning Day 2017 @ MSR)