Tom Pickard

Computational linguistics, speech and language tech, data science.
PhD candidate with @sltcdt .
Personal: @Oddtwang | Puzzles: @eveninferred

He / him.

[Constantinos Karouzos @ckarouzos]

🎓🇬🇧🇵🇹 Exciting times, with @SheffieldNLP in #LxMLS2023 @istecnico.

🌟 Learning from the best in the field and networking with fellow #NLP enthusiasts.

What a great experience!
Grateful for this opportunity!
Sheffield thanks for sending us.
Lisbon thanks for having us.

[Tom Pickard @SLTpickard]

Not peer-reviewed, conflates accountability with abuse and ignores one of the most substantial aspects (race) altogether. Imagine pretending @HackneyAbbott just ... doesn't exist.
Am incredible example of how ML and AI "research" can propagate harm and contribute to propaganda.

[Tom Pickard @SLTpickard]

(Alt text: a Tunnocks Caramel Wafer wrapper. The text reads "More than 7,000,000 biscuits made and sold every week.")

[Tom Pickard @SLTpickard]

Interesting to include both "made" and "sold"; I'd say either one entails the other, no?

[Tom Pickard @SLTpickard]

I suppose Tunnocks *could* be giving away millions of delicious caramel wafers every week (or simply throwing them straight in the bin), or perhaps doing all their yearly manufacturing in one glorious day, steam rising from the machines and operators of Glasgow.

[CDT in Speech and Language Technologies @sltcdt]

Huge thanks to @MartinBisiker, Founder & Trustee of the Legasee Educational Trust (@Legasee_Archive), for introducing the work our #Cohort 3 students have been doing with Legasee to apply advanced #SLT to support richer archive #search and #discovery. https://t.co/OvDNo8ByGd

[Tom Pickard @SLTpickard]

Dall-E doing Dali in the style of Dali is rather enjoyable!

[CDT in Speech and Language Technologies @sltcdt]

Final recruitment round for our fully-funded #CDT #PhD studentships closes soon!

Want to do #AI research on speech or written language? Learn #NLP / #NLProc, #speech proc, #linguistics, #ML, and #acoustics? Join us!

Apply now! Deadline: 6 May 2022

https://t.co/PoNwTtx756

[Tom Pickard @SLTpickard]

A couple of months in I'm greatly enjoying this, the current and previous cohorts are great people to work with and the programme is fascinating. Come join us! #NLP #SpeechProcessing #PhD #PhDposition

[CDT in Speech and Language Technologies @sltcdt]

Applications for our fully-funded #PhD studentships now open!

Want to do #AI research on speech or written language? Learn #NLP / #NLProc, #speech proc, #linguistics, #ML, and #acoustics? Join us!

** Apply now! Deadline: 31 Jan 2022 **

https://t.co/VO21QRctTY

[Tom Pickard @SLTpickard]

Will Facebook's NLP division now be called MetaTextual?

[Logically @LogicallyAI]

Logically in partnership with @apcoworldwide are today publishing a new analysis of climate misinformation and the impact COVID-19 has had on these narratives. (Thread)

[Tom Pickard @SLTpickard]

@DrClaireH Looks like something similar is a component in this misinformation detection system: https://t.co/XQY5zAp17h

[CDT in Speech and Language Technologies @sltcdt]

Could #AI technologies for processing #speech or #written #text / #language help your business? Want to leverage insights and value from existing documents or speech interactions?
Our new ‘SLT Consultancy Hub’ can help you - for FREE! Find out more: https://t.co/tdXnreGSpC

[Sheffield Comp Sci @shefcompsci]

Join us for the next Women+@ DCS seminar
A piece of cake or a hard nut to crack? How well can computational models understand (idiomatic) languages?
Speaker: Prof. Aline Villavicencio
Tuesday 12 Oct. 2pm
https://t.co/N7yAJVfkdg