#alta2024 — Public Fediverse posts

What an excellent start to Day 1 of #ALTA2024!

In yesterday's #tutorial, Dr Nicholas I-Hsien Kuo took our participants through:

➡️ Implementing and evaluating #PEFT and quantisation techniques.
➡️ Fine-tuning and deploying #LLMs on hardware with limited resources.
➡️ Optimising workflows for real-world applications without sacrificing performance.

A huge thanks to Google Colab for our #compute requirements 👏

📷 by Taylor Liu, one of our incredible #ALTA2024 Volunteers

🌟 TUTORIAL DETAILS - #LLMs, #LORA and #PEFT 🌟

Join us at #ALTA2024 for a tutorial led by Dr Nicholas I-Hsien Kuo from the UNSW Centre for Big Data Research in Health, #UNSW Sydney.

🌟 What You’ll Gain 🌟

➡️ Implement and evaluate PEFT and quantisation techniques.

➡️ Fine-tune and deploy LLMs on hardware with limited resources.

➡️ Optimise workflows for real-world applications without sacrificing performance.

🌟 Register now! 🌟
https://alta2024.alta.asn.au

❗ #CfP EXTENDED to 27th Sep

Did your #NLP #RAG #NLU paper get rejected from @emnlpmeeting #EMNLP?

Consider submitting instead to #ALTA2024, affiliated with @aclmeeting.

📅 Submission deadline for short/long papers, presentation abstracts and industry demonstrations: 27 Sep 2024, 23:59 Anywhere on Earth, UTC -12

📅 Author notification: 29 Oct 2024

📅 Camera ready: 12 Nov 2024

📅 2nd-4th Dec 2024, #ANU, #Canberra, Australia.

#Hybrid in person and online.

https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls/papers

We're delighted to announce Commonwealth Bank #CBA as a BRONZE #sponsor of the Australasian Language Technology Association 22nd Annual Workshop - #ALTA2024 - being held at The Australian National University December 2nd-4th #ANU

#CommBank's strategy is to build tomorrow's bank today, committing to support customers, invest in communities and provide strength and stability for the broader #economy.

Thank you so much for your support, CommBank!

https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/sponsors/

We'll shortly be announcing our Shared Task for #ALTA2024.

In the meantime, we are sharing the 3rd-placed winner of the #ALTA2023 Shared Task, which was to distinguish #LLM-generated from human-generated text.

Here, Ahmed El-Sayed and Omar Nasr of the Arab Academy for Science and Technology use an #ensemble approach of many models to perform well on both the dev and test sets.

https://aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.20/

While you're thinking about what to submit to the Call for Problems for the #ALTA2024 Shared Task (link below), we're sharing with you the 2nd-place winner of the #ALTA2023 Shared Task, where participants distinguished between #LLM-generated and human-generated text.

Here, Yunhao Fang of #UniMelb used #fineTuning and #EnsembleModels to achieve accuracy of 99%

🔗 Call for Problems for Shared Task: https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls

🔗 Paper: https://aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.19.pdf

While you consider submitting to the Call for Problems for the #ALTA2024 Shared Task (see link below), we'd like to share with you the winner of the #ALTA2023 Shared Task, which involved distinguishing #LLM-generated from human-generated text.

Here, Rinaldo Gagiano and Lin Tian from #RMIT use a fine-tuned #Falcon7B model with label smoothing, yielding an accuracy of 99.91%. Well done!

🔗 Call for Problems for Shared Task: https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls

🔗 Paper: https://aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.18/

In the lead up to #ALTA2024, we're highlighting #research papers from previous #workshops.

Here, Yu-Kai Lee, Chia-Hui Chang from #NationalCentralUniversity in #Taiwan 🇹🇼 develop a #dialogue module for story co-telling for #ESL students using open domain information extraction techniques and the construction of a #KnowledgeGraph.

Interesting for anyone working in #LanguageAcquisition or #ComputerAidedLanguageLearning #CALL #NLP

🔗 Paper: https://aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.2/

In the lead up to #ALTA2024 in December at @ANUResearch, we're featuring interesting papers and talks from #ALTA2023

In this paper, Steven Nguyen at #UniMelb, Daniel Beck at #RMIT and Katja Hölttä-Otto also of #UniMelb work on the novel task of cognitive #empathy.

Using paired sentences from #design interviews and #NLP techniques, they show similarity of vectors from an #LLM is a promising approach in this space.

https://aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.14/

In the lead up to #ALTA2024
we're highlighting excellent talks and papers from previous ALTA events.

This paper, from Vlada Rozova, Jinghui Liu, and Mike Conway at #UniMelb from #ALTA2023, applies #NLP to help solve problems of ambiguity and complexity in #medical #clinical data.

This paper also formed part of the informative #tutorial series at #ALTA2023.

https://aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.23/

In the lead up to #ALTA2024, we're highlighting excellent talks and papers from previous ALTA events.

Here, listen to a #Keynote presentation from #ALTA2023 by Professor Heng Ji from #UniversityOfIllinois Urbana-Champaign, speaking to the #SmartBook - an #AI prophetess for disaster reporting and forecasting.

In this insightful talk, Professor Heng shows us how #NLP techniques provide better decision making tools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuju3Fzz4Tk

#IR #InformationRetrieval #TopicSummarization