Tarun Tater

Research Scientist @AmazonAds
Multimodal NLP PhD student @ Uni. Stuttgart. #NLProc
Prev: @IBMResearch | IIIT-Bangalore

[The Jaipur Dialogues @JaipurDialogues]

Professor Who Caught the IIT-B Student

Look at His Achievements.

We Are Making a Joke of Our Education System — and the SC/ST Act Is at the Heart of It.

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

साहिल वकोड़े IIT बॉम्बे के छात्र थे। परीक्षा चल रही थी। पूरा प्रश्नपत्र AI एप्प को अपलोड कर के उत्तर कॉपी में लिख रहे थे। प्रोफेसर ने पकड़ लिया। बाहर ले गए, डाँटा और कहा कि संस्थान के नियम स्पष्ट हैं आप चोरी करते पकड़े गए तो सस्पेंड किए जा सकते हो।

साहिल ने बाद में आत्महत्या कर ली। माँ-बाप ने पोस्टमार्टम के बाद भी शव नहीं लिया क्योंकि उन्हें न्याय चाहिए। न्याय पाने के लिए उन्होंने मोदी एक्ट की धाराएँ लगवा दीं प्रोफेसर पर।

एक लड़का आरक्षण से IIT पहुँचा। कम नंबर न आए, इसलिए चोरी कर रहा था। वह टॉपर बनना चाह रहा था। पर एक मनुवादी शिक्षक ने उसे कॉलेज के कानून बताए, सस्पेंड किया भी नहीं। उसने आत्महत्या कर ली।

क्या एक दलित को फोन ले जाने अनुमति नहीं होनी चाहिए? क्या ऐतिहासिक प्रताड़ना के कारण उसको ओपन मोबाइल परीक्षा देने की अनुमति नहीं होनी चाहिए?

आज एक ब्राइट स्टूडेंट, जो जेट इंजन बना सकता था AI से पूछ कर, हमारे बीच इसलिए नहीं रहा क्योंकि उससे पहले ही चरण में रोक लिया गया। मोदी एक्ट इसीलिए बना ही है।

प्रोफेसर को फाँसी होनी चाहिए।

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

We have reached a dangerous point for India’s education system.

A professor stopping a student from cheating is being treated as caste discrimination and he is being booked under the SC/ST Act.

The downfall is already here!

[Dr. Neha Das @neha_laldas]

Here is the payment schedule of compensation money under SC/ST act:

25%: On filing FIR (within 7 days)
50%: When police chargesheet is sent to court
25%: When accused is convicted by court

Means 75% money is given, before accused are even convicted.

Remember:
1. Conviction rate under this act is very low
2. There is no mechanism to recover 75% compensation money already paid, when the case is proven fake in court

So basically we are distributing free money under this scheme!!
& Destroying lives of many innocent people in this process!!

[Shashank Shekhar Jha @shashank_ssj]

See the misuse of SC-ST Atrocity Act that even a judge is helpless and unable to provide any relief to @ajeetbharti despite finding merit in his case.

Even when custodial interrogation isn’t required, court was forced to dismiss his bail application because law says so.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

At a pro-Palestine rally in Australia, they chant ‘death to Australia’.

In Canada, they chant ‘death to Canada’.

In Germany, they chant ‘death to Germany’.

In the USA, they chant ‘death to America’.

Have you noticed a pattern?

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

General Category attending tomorrow's student protests- use these banners.

Reservation is one of the biggest issues affecting your future. Raise your voice.

Talk to the media. Share photos & videos on social media. Tag me- I will amplify them.

This is your moment. Use it.

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

General Category peacefully demanded Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation for months after UGC guidelines.

Not a single minister came forward to talk.

Today, after street anarchy, JP Nadda met CJP members to discuss the same demand.

The message sent by government is so wrong!

[UmdarTamker @UmdarTamker]

Do you know why Lenskart, TCS and similar issues are understood by companies that it won't matter.

Recently Sunrisers Leeds, the English franchise owned by the Sun Group (which also owns IPL's Sunrisers Hyderabad), purchased Pakistan spinner Abrar Ahmed.

There was a huge backlash from the Indian public to boycott SRH in IPL 2026.

IPL started and everyone forgot about it and cheering shamelessly for SRH.

That's why. That's the reason.

[Tarun Tater @taruntater3]

Thrilled to share our paper "AbsVis - Benchmarking How Humans & Vision-Language Models “See” Abstract Concepts in Images" is accepted at #EMNLP2025 main🎉

We present a dataset of 14k annotations to study how abstract concepts are attributed for 675 images. #EMNLP
Sneak peek 👇

[Randhir Jaiswal @MEAIndia]

Statement by Official Spokesperson⬇️
🔗 https://t.co/O2hJTOZBby

[Xin Eric Wang @xwang_lk]

“Papers don’t matter,” says the one who published hundreds.
“PhDs don’t matter,” says the one whose career was built on theirs.
“Money doesn’t matter,” says the millionaire / billionaire.

Maybe listen to yourself first.

[Rahul @selfawareatom]

People might not realize this, but the translation models are the most important of all the models we build.

[Aswathy Velutharambath @aswathyve]

🚨 Call for Papers – NLPSI 2025 🚨

We invite submissions to the first Workshop on Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI), co-located with ICWSM 2025 @icwsm

📅 Submission Deadline: March 21, 2025

🌍 More Information: https://t.co/G0BJvVuX6i

[IMS at University of Stuttgart @ims_stuttgart]

If you are interested in how factuality & deception are intertwined, catch @aswathyve for a very interesting discussion at #EMNLP2024 on 14th of Nov. (Thursday) 14:00 -15:30 at conference room “Jasmine”. 👩‍🎓 Congratulations again for your paper Aswathy! 🎉 #NLProc #emnlp

[Tarun Tater @taruntater3]

Check out our paper: "Unveiling the Mystery of Visual Attributes of Concrete and Abstract Concepts: Variability, Nearest Neighbors, and Challenging Categories" at EMNLP 2024. 🥳

https://t.co/Olu5jo162r

📍Session 2, Posters- Nov 12 (Tue) 11:00-12:30 at Riverfront Hall.

[IMS at University of Stuttgart @ims_stuttgart]

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉
We're thrilled to share that our lab has 9 papers at #EMNLP2024! 🌍💻🚀🥳
Check out the super interesting work!👇
#NLProc #NLP #AI #EMNLP2024
@Uni_Stuttgart

[Amelie Wuehrl @AmelieWuehrl]

We have two open positions, 1 PhD student and 1 post-doc researcher, in the MULTIVIEW project led by @taniseceron and me. The project focuses on diversifying perspectives in news recommendation.
Deadline for applications: Oct. 6
https://t.co/3OXkToOr4J

[Tarun Tater @taruntater3]

2. Concrete concepts, despite their directly perceivable nature, evoke diff. mental associations that may not translate into visual depictions & vice-versa, similar to abstract concepts. (RQ2)
For more details, please check out our paper and reach out to us for any discussions!

[Tarun Tater @taruntater3]

It was a pleasure to present our work: "Evaluating Semantic Relations in Predicting Textual Labels for Images of Abstract and Concrete Concepts" at the CMCL workshop at ACL 2024 in Bangkok few days back! #CMCL #acl2024nlp #nlproc #acl2024
https://t.co/Qwo7z0eHda

[Tarun Tater @taruntater3]

Our experiments showed some interesting and surprising results and takeaways:
1. Both abstract and concrete concepts had a high percentage of labels where hypernyms or co-hyponyms were predicted but original user tags were not. (From RQ1)