Sorry, when you say "associated contexts" do you mean it's showing you the region of the document that the string was found in? If so, fine. If not: don't use synthetic text in journalism. It is not factual. It is not information. And it undermines everything you are doing.
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GenAI as Band-Aid: Risks to Education, Healthcare, Journalism
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But patching holes in lack of resources for education, medical care, journalism, etc with "genAI" is like treating morning sickness with thalidomide. Damaging, and especially damaging to another entity the person receiving the treatment cares deeply about.
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NER is Machine Learning, Not GenAI: Cut the Hype
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Are you doing ML for NER? That's. Not. "GenAI". Are you doing ML for NER? Have you carefully evaluated how well it works in your use case? If so, proceed with caution. Either way: cut the hype.
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Critiquing Hype: GenAI Limitations and Technochauvinism
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So much of the #AIhype I'm seeing these days is 2nd-hand hype, where someone has identified a legitimate need and then fallen for the technochauvanist line that "genAI" (synthetic media extruding machines) will meet that need. >>
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BERT Enhanced Versions: Techno-Babble Without Real Solutions
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Again: obvious need does not mean that synthetic text extruding machines provide a solution. "Enhanced versions of BERT" is so much techno-babble.
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ChatGPT Impact on Language Technologist Training Programs
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What does #ChatGPT mean to someone engaged in training language technologists? Here's a short interview I did in the context of our MS program. https://
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Wikipedia Data Usage in NLP Research Papers Analysis
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Asking again since I'm still curious. Has anyone looked into this? (E.g. what % of papers in the @aclanthology use Wikipedia as a data source…)
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 12 Analysis
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This one was especially cathartic to record as @alexhanna and I cleared a backlog of "Fresh AI Hell" entrants: Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 episode 12: "It's All Hell" https://
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Supporting Open Access Peer Review in Academic Publishing
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Open access peer reviewed venues exist. We should support them and stand up for peer review by citing peer reviewed versions.
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ArXiv Culture Problem Junk Science Dissemination
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arXiv is a cancer that promotes the dissemination of junk "science" in a format that is indistinguishable from real publications. And promotes the hectic "can't keep up" + "anything older than 6 months is irrelevant" CS culture. >>