๐จNew paper! Does social integration change how minorities vote?
Classic theories say yes: voting patterns should converge with the majority. But looking at Muslim Turks in Germany, we found the exact opposite.
A thread on the integration puzzle ๐
Introducing ECLeKTic, a new benchmark for Evaluating Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer in LLMs. It uses a closed-book QA task, where models must rely on internal knowledge to answer questions based on information captured only in a single language. More โhttps://t.co/hCSE2hGGJR
Wanna check how well a model can share knowledge between languages? Of course you do! ๐คฉ
But can you do it without access to the modelโs weights? Now you can with ECLeKTic ๐คฏ
๐ August issue
How do legislators re-establish responsiveness?
๐ฃ๏ธ R Itzkovitch-Malka, @GuyMor5, @OshriOdelia & S Shenhav argue that they use speaking time in parliament to pay attention to constituents who might be dissatisfied with how they voted
#OA https://t.co/KVj0tE3ld5
Levanti aims to bridge the gap in NLP tools for spoken Arabic, addressing dialect diversity and limited resources. Collaborations and feedback welcome!
#Levanti#ArabicNLP#HebrewNLP#MachineLearning
6/6
I'm excited to announce ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ถ - a novel set of models and data for Levantine spoken Arabic! ๐
๐ Key features:
* Translation models for spoken Arabic dialects โ๏ธ Hebrew/English
* 500K sentence dataset
* Palestinian Arabic diacritizer
* Transliteration model
1/6
>> This work was done as part of my doctoral studies, and co-authored with Effi Levi. Check out the details and our findings here: https://t.co/zsafk8KQpG
๐ Thrilled to share that our paper "Exploring Factual Entailment with NLI: A News Media Study" has won the โจ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ซ ๐๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐โจ at *SEM 2024 (co-located with NAACL 2024) for best short paper! >>