Ori Shapira

NLP research

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

This is ridiculous and infuriating, *especially now*.
The "tech workers of conscience" supporting this cause have no idea how critical @Israel is in keeping the middle east region from falling apart.
Please take a look @ajassy @amazon @sundarpichai @Google

[No Tech For Apartheid @NoTechApartheid]

Statement from @amazon and @Google workers with the #NoTechForApartheid campaign:

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

@biunlp @yusuf_i_mehdi @bing Our paper "Extending Multi-Document Summarization Evaluation to the Interactive Setting": https://t.co/sV2YWH1TtN

And a follow up paper "Interactive Query-Assisted Summarization via Deep Reinforcement Learning": https://t.co/MeGO4ZUII5

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

Web search is changing. At #EMNLP 2021, Ido Dagan gave a keynote about work at @biunlp on multi-text consumption, including "interactive summarization". His slides resemble those in today's presentation by @yusuf_i_mehdi on the new search experience on @bing. Ido said it first😎

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

@biunlp @yusuf_i_mehdi @bing Here's our interactive summarization UI and the Bing chat UI.

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

@VeredShwartz @ThomasScialom There's SacreROUGE by @_danieldeutsch: https://t.co/0vLPDLBzQl

[Natalie Shapira @NatalieShapira]

What is Linguistic Synchrony?
How can it be measured?
And what is it good for?

#NAACL2022 @CLPsychOrg

Measuring Linguistic Synchrony in Psychotherapy

Natalie Shapira (@NatalieShapira), Dana Atzil-Slonim (@AtzilDana), Rivka Tuval Mashiach, Ori Shapira (@obspp18)

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

@AlvinGrissomII True. That's why we need to first formalize such tasks with evaluation frameworks in a way that the NLP community will understand them (in "NLP words"). Once a task becomes approachable, it will more easily take off. That's exactly what Ido Dagan was advocating in his keynote.

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

@NatalieShapira @RosenzweigYossi Story of my life.

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

@yanaiela I remember the sense of power when I finally grasped recall/precision, and then feeling I had superpowers when I could use TP/FP/TN/FN freely in speech.
I think the latter was reinforced, less through my research, but rather by Covid testing talk a year back :)

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

@yanaiela זה כאילו נראה מצחיק, אבל בקונטקסט יש כאן הגיון כי זה בטח מקום, כמו משרד, שאנשים דופקים או מצלצלים ורוצים למנוע את הפעולה. זה מראה את חשיבות הסביבה וידע העולם. זה אומר בצורה אימפליציטית "...ואל תצלצל/י בפעמון". זה נשמע כמו מה שאתה עושה במחקר שלך :)

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

Proper gradient descent is required and etc.

[Simon Sinek @simonsinek]

It's better to go slow in the right direction than to go fast in the wrong direction.

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

@ani_nenkova The context of this tweet confused me, because "ganon" in Hebrew means nursery school :)

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

@AlexTamkin As you point out, there are many aspects that have advantages/disadvantages with respect to where one is in the PhD (e.g. at the beginning needing more/less of something, and later on the opposite).
Fortunately, I have an advisor that dynamically evolved for my needs.

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

@ani_nenkova They're lucky to have such a mind and a mensch.
Wishing you much success and true fulfillment.
You're a real role model!

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

@RTomMcCoy If we knew how to measure actual NLU, let alone automatically, it seems to me like we would also know how to make much better NLP models.

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

@yoavgo אולי ד"ר הדר רונן תהיה מעוניינת, או שהיא תוכל לקשר למישהו אחר שמתאים.

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

This year's first @biunlp group meeting (virtual this time). About 40 participants, and quite a few missing. Happy faces everywhere :)

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

BIU NLP is huge! First group meeting of the year. Another ~15 (!) people are not even in the picture.

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

@NatalieShapira יש לילדים שלנו נטייה לשאול שאלה בפורמט של השלמה, לדוגמא: "צריך לנסוע כי", ולצפות לתשובה. אני אומר להם, "אל תעשה לי language model, תשאל אותי שאלה!". אני מרגיש שזה מגיע מתוך עצלות מנטאלית וזה מפריע לי. יכולת ניסוח שאלה זה כלי חשוב.

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

@VeredShwartz Nice! Any non-accepts? I wonder if you've managed to submit even more papers :)
Shana Tova!

[Ori Shapira @obspp18]

@assoulix @yoavgo I like the test-of-time award that we have in NLP.