Raya (Raia)

tweets about linguistics, NLP, AI, Palestine, and cats (not necessarily in that order)

[Raya (Raia) @raya_aa1]

My heart was so full last week witnessing this at LREC-COLING in Turin.

Seeing an outstanding Palestinian researcher wearing a kuffiyah and representing us so wonderfully made me very proud.

Thank you, Nizar, and congratulations!

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

In an exclusive interview with Middle East Eye, Ghassan Abu Sittah, a British-Palestinian doctor who has become known for his work in Gaza, detailed how he was detained at an airport in Germany and subsequently denied entry. Abu Sittah wanted to attend a conference where he would present evidence on the war in Gaza and his witness statement as a doctor working in its hospitals.

[Raya (Raia) @raya_aa1]

someone on a podcast I was listening to casually said that they "dropped" a research paper last year as if they're an international pop star dropping an album and I will def start using that

[Raya (Raia) @raya_aa1]

Did...did she not... watch the film?
How people like her are ministers of "culture" is beyond me

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

We have gone from structural to open, blasting, in-your face racism, I see

[Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם @yuval_abraham]

A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German politicians absurdly labeled my Berlinale award speech - where I called for equality between Israelis and Palestinians, a ceasefire and an end to apartheid - as ‘antisemitic’. The appalling misuse of this word by Germans, not only to silence Palestinian critics of Israel, but also to silence Israelis like me who support a ceasefire that will end the killing in Gaza and allow the release of the Israeli hostages - empties the word antisemitism of meaning and thus endangers Jews all over the world. As my grandmother was born in a concentration camp in Libya and most of my grandfather’s family was murdered by Germans in the holocaust, I find it particularly outraging that German politicians in 2024 have the audacity to weaponize this term against me in a way that endangered my family. But above all else, this behavior puts Palestinian co-director Basel Adra’s life in danger, who lives under a military occupation surrounded by violent settlements in Masafer Yatta. He is in far greater danger than I am. I’m happy our award winning film, No Other Land, is sparking an important international debate on this issue - and I hope that millions of people watch it when it comes out this year. Sparking a conversation is why we made it. You can have harsh criticism of what me and Basel said on stage without demonizing us. If this is what you’re doing with your guilt for the holocaust - I don’t want your guilt.

[Raya (Raia) @raya_aa1]

What is happening at Karneval...?

[swamp hag ✨☕️🌸🍓🍰 @potatoslav]

seeing germans try to defend dressing up as native americans, as an american living in germany, is absolutely wild. what are you guys doing? i saw this at a parade yesterday in freiburg and my eyes popped out of my head like a fucking cartoon character.

[Raya (Raia) @raya_aa1]

I can't help but laugh at the irony of this. So much for your Erinnerungskultur..

[Hüseyin Dogru @hussedogru_]

This is how Germans portray Palestinians at their traditional carnival in Cologne: as dogs with collars in Palestinian colors, labeled with the words “hatred” and “violence.” In addition, “anti-Semitism” is represented as a woman wearing a keffiyeh.

This year’s carnival in Cologne, the biggest in Germany, echoes the dehumanizing rhetoric of Israel’s fascist government, which also degrades Palestinians as animals.

In most countries, carnival is a display of culture; in Germany, it is too: a culture of racism under the fake cover of anti-antisemitism.

[Raya (Raia) @raya_aa1]

@yoavgo @notnaughtknot @_onionesque I think this has to be addressed and clearly defined by the appropriate people in charge then

[Raya (Raia) @raya_aa1]

@yoavgo @notnaughtknot @_onionesque Okay, I guess our views on what is appropriate to be in a paper are different. Imo papers are scientific conversations and should not include political (or even personal) statements that are not in the scope of the presented research..

[Raya (Raia) @raya_aa1]

@yoavgo @notnaughtknot @_onionesque I know you are, but as long as the statement is written without expressing that it’s personal, it reads a very political. I don’t think the average reader will find this tweet to understand your personal intention

[Raya (Raia) @raya_aa1]

@yoavgo @notnaughtknot @_onionesque I respect that but I bet you 100% that many people will, mostly in israeli academia. I think it is legitimate to express those feelings of grief etc. as you stated, just not in an academic paper :)

[Raya (Raia) @raya_aa1]

@yoavgo @notnaughtknot @_onionesque Doesnt really matter what you personally think of it, it is objectively a very political statement from the authors..

[Raya (Raia) @raya_aa1]

@yoavgo @notnaughtknot @_onionesque .. There was no need to have 5 paragraphs about it that (conveniently) excluded the bigger context of the attack .. as stated previously, the ethics section (or any other section of a paper) should not be used for political matters that have nth to do with research

[Raya (Raia) @raya_aa1]

@yoavgo @notnaughtknot @_onionesque If your purpose was to simply point out that readers should excuse errors in your paper because of the trauma you endured, it could have been said in just one sentence (or just the last paragraph in the screenshots you shared).

[𝙽𝙵𝙳𝙸𝟺𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚂𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 @nfdi4ds]

Interested in the upcoming EU AI Act? 🇪🇺🤖 Watch Prof. Dr. Wolf-Georg Ringe and @JaanaMue in “Conversations on AI Ethics” as they break down its principles and what it means for AI regulation💡#AI #EUAIAct #AIEthics #NFDI4DS #video #series
https://t.co/i6ALVzRNuc

[Raya (Raia) @raya_aa1]

🏋️Our second (more challenging!) subtask deals with classifying multi-label publications from the @aclanthology. We focus on classifying fine-grained topics of #CL and #NLProc using a novel taxonomy and a new annotated corpus.
View more info and sign up: https://t.co/AqJh4SiKcy

[Raya (Raia) @raya_aa1]

📢 Training & testing data are now available!

Join the Field of Research Classification of Scholarly Publications (FoRC) shared task, which will be part of the #NSLP2024 workshop co-located with @eswc_conf!
https://t.co/1NBqyfVxTM

@nfdi4ds #FoRC #eswc2024

[Raya (Raia) @raya_aa1]

🔍Our first subtask deals with classifying single-label publications using the general research field taxonomy of the @orkg_org. The dataset is constructed from several open-source repositories.
View more info and sign up: https://t.co/qdRLoxDsaV

[Raya (Raia) @raya_aa1]

@phinot_noir كل عام وانت بخير اون هي يا 🫶��

[Raya (Raia) @raya_aa1]

@ringwald_c @sefikaefeoglu Yesss please do 😍

[Raya (Raia) @raya_aa1]

Very excited about our upcoming workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs, which will be co-located with ESWC 2024 in Greece!

The workshop will include two shared tasks on the topic. Training data will be released very soon! ⏳

[𝙽𝙵𝙳𝙸𝟺𝙳𝚊𝚝𝚊𝚂𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 @nfdi4ds]

We will be hosting a workshop at @eswc_conf next year. NSLP: 1st Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs. The workshop is open for paper submissions and offers two shared tasks #FoRC and #SOMD. Further information: https://t.co/r9d8n9tt9A