I'm recruiting MLEs @ #ACL2025!

Reach out if you know folks interested in legal NLP, structured prediction, and full-time at a startup environment in NYC

I'll also always chat about:
• population-level inference on corpora
• broad-coverage semantics
• which café has the best Sachertorte in Vienna

Bill Labov died this morning. I'm not coherent enough to talk about how important and influential and brilliant he was. I am very sad.

I was so lucky to know him, and I am grateful every day that he (and Gillian, and Walt, etc) built an academic field where kindness is expected.

✨I am on the faculty job market in the 2024-2025 cycle!✨

My research centers on advancing Responsible AI, specifically enhancing factuality, robustness, and transparency in AI systems.

If you have relevant positions, let me know! lasharavichander.github.io Please share/RT!

A photo of Boulder, Colorado, shot from above the university campus and looking toward the Flatirons.

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics.

Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎

Apply by December 15th!

Maria has been a consistent source of excellent insight, advice, and research since I’ve known her—you should apply!

(And now the bluesky is taking off you will be connected to NLP’s #1 influencer ! )

Can confirm—lots of great hallway discussions from #EMNLP2024

After going to NAACL, ACL and #EMNLP2024 this year, here are a few tips I’ve picked up about attending #NLP conferences.

Would love to hear any other tips if you have them!

This proved very popular on another (more evil) social media platform, so sharing here also 🙂

My 10 tips:

Alice Oh describing LLM performance for low-resource languages as "pathetic" is just perfect #EMNLP2024