Wasn't super intentional, i guess none of my work lined up with the ACL/EMNLP deadlines
Someone told me not to submit to NAACL lol
@_jasonwei
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Unintentional timing: missing major NLP conference deadlines
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ACL Conference Decline in Influential NLP Papers 2022
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Can't help but notice that approximately 0 of this list of 20+ influential papers was submitted to *ACL/EMNLP in 2022. What happened? Back in the late 2010's, *ACL had some of the best work (BERT, etc)
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Appreciation for Yi Tay’s Research Papers Backstory
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Improved prediction function for broader interest and impact
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I think i have developed a better prediction function of what is likely to be of broader interest or higher impact, but I can't be 100% sure obviously
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Self-Review of Research Work: Fulfilling Projects and Limitations
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New blog post, self-reviewing my research over the past few years: https://
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Language Models Achieve State of the Art on Medical QA
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Language models achieve state of the art on medical QA, demonstrating the power of scaling + prompting. Excited to see the emergent use of language models in domain-specific applications in the next few years!
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Navigate Tasks Fail with Incorrect Explanations
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Oh yeah. There is no way the navigate tasks works if the explanations are wrong i feel like…
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Extending arithmetic findings to unseen pre-training tasks
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Cool work! In addition to arithmetic, I wonder how much these findings apply to a task that is not seen much in pre-training, such as last letter concatenation or coin flip
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BLOOM+1 Performance on Multilingual Prompting Benchmarks
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I wonder how well BLOOM+1 would do on the multilingual prompting benchmarks proposed here: