Erik Velldal

Professor in #NLProc at @LTGOslo University of Oslo

[LTG Oslo @ltgoslo]

📣 We are hiring! 📣 3-year postdoc position in @SFIMediaFutures located at LTG - Language Technology Group University of Oslo.

Application deadline is December 13th, more info here: https://t.co/X74z4MJ9p9

[LTG Oslo @ltgoslo]

This week LTG members will be presenting several papers at the ACL 2024 and co-located workshops! Check them out 👇

[SamiaT @SamiaTouileb]

We are looking for a PhD candidate to work on language generation in the news domain. Proficiency in Norwegian is not a requirement! Check the details here: https://t.co/JVB1nqO2Jw

Contact me if you have any questions 😊

@SFIMediaFutures
@infomedia_uib
@LiljaOvrelid
@erikve

[LTG Oslo @ltgoslo]

Fredagens lansering av LTGs store språkmodeller for norsk trakk fullt hus!🤩🙌🏛️ Om du gikk glipp av arrangementet: Opptak av alle innlegg er nå lagt ut på NORA's YouTube-kanal: https://t.co/IfX0uP75Rz

[LTG Oslo @ltgoslo]

This week several of us are attending @eaclmeeting in lovely Malta ☀️ Check out our presentations at the @caseworkshop and LAW workshop!

[Erik Velldal @erikve]

If you're at @eaclmeeting or @caseworkshop in Malta next week and would like to know more, come talk to us (@LiljaOvrelid & @erikve) 👋

[Erik Velldal @erikve]

Looking for a postdoc-level researcher position in #NLProc and want to work on event extraction in the domain of armed conflict? Come join us at @ltgoslo with @PRIOresearch! Full posting here: https://t.co/213ZB97iFn #researchjobs #postdocposition

[Erik Velldal @erikve]

Fin sak i Titan i dag om de nye norske og åpne språkmodellene vi har utviklet ved @ltgoslo, i samarbeid med @Nasjonalbibl og @NORAdotAI 🤖 🇳🇴 https://t.co/5fsDQxMOSB

[Erik Velldal @erikve]

Closing date 4 March 2024. Integreat is a Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway (2023–2033), hosted by @UniOslo, @UiTNorgesarktis, and @NRegnesentral. Come join us in Oslo or Tromsø! 5/5

[Erik Velldal @erikve]

13 fully funded PhD fellowships available at Integreat, the Norwegian centre for knowledge-driven machine learning! With cross-disciplinary projects across machine learning, statistics, logic, language technology, and ethics. 🧵1/5

[Erik Velldal @erikve]

Project 8: Knowledge and bias extraction from Large Language Models: https://t.co/vVwOcjrxtF 4/5

[Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal_cuni]

The @hplt_eu winter school hosted a panel discussion on Large 🦣 vs. Small 🤏 language models with @HajicJan from @matfyz among the panelists.

[Erik Velldal @erikve]

Several LLMs for Norwegian now released by @ltgoslo; 7B versions of both Mistral and BLOOM 🤗@NORAdotAI So far only pre-trained; improved versions with instruction-tuning will follow 👩‍🏭 Great work by @davidsamuelcz and Vladislav Mikhailov in particular!
https://t.co/ceBz9sdEtF

[HPLT @hplt_eu]

Right now at Skeikampen, Norway: the HPLT&NLPL Winter School on Large Language Models: Creation, Customization, Evaluation, and Use https://t.co/zDj0pBJ0TY is starting! @ufal_cuni @oepen @ltgoslo @unioslo #NLProc #LLM @EuropeanCommiss @digitaleu https://t.co/xjVWx7JZc3

[Lilja Øvrelid @LiljaOvrelid]

Our new Center of Excellence Integreat announces 13 PhD and 2 postdoc positions! 🔥 More info below (but check out PhD projects 6 and 8 and one of the postdoc projects if you are interested in NLP and LLMs 🤗) @ltgoslo @erikve @northernkender @freeges

https://t.co/rfLyk9dKdy

[Erik Velldal @erikve]

We again have a research fellowship in #NLProc available at the University of Oslo, focused on armed conflict event extraction. Come join our newly started cross-disciplinary collaboration between @ltgoslo and @PRIOresearch – closing date Nov. 2nd. https://t.co/aJPgIYidGo

[Lilja Øvrelid @LiljaOvrelid]

We are hiring in Oslo! In case you are at @eaclmeeting and want to have a chat, both @erikve and I are here 🤗

[Lilja Øvrelid @LiljaOvrelid]

Don’t miss this poster tomorrow morning @eaclmeeting presented by @SamiaTouileb ✨
«Measuring Normative and Descriptive Biases in Language Models Using Census Data» @erikve @SFIMediaFutures