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Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Jan 17

Wicked, the movie. Ovvero l'Amica Geniale versione Il Mago di Oz. C'è Sarratore, c'è l'amica bionda, c'è la maestra, c'è la smarginatura, c'è Oz che non sa fare le magie e gli serve una brava, e Napoli è una Emerald City che non ci ha creduto abbastanza. #wicked #lamicageniale #sarratoremerda

Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Dec 13

Advent, advent
eine Einreichungsfrist brennt...

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Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Dec 13

My love language is LOIs supporting my project proposals.

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Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 24

This story marked my childhood. I was a few years younger than this kid and I remember the photo of him on the horse on every newspaper and on tv. It is indeed one of the stories that clearly marks the abyss between the romanticized Mafia fiction and the horrific reality

Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · Nov 23

This thread recounts one of the most heinous crimes ever committed by Cosa Nostra in Sicily. It should be read as a counterbalance to any romantic images of mafia or any notions of honour instilled by Hollywood films or TV shows.
WARNING: contains graphic descriptions of violence
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Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 24

"and the people bowed and prayed / to the neon god they made"

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Nov 24

Well, that's creepy.

Swiss Church Sparks Debate After Introducing Bizarre AI Jesus Hologram To Take Confessions

Well, that's creepy.

buff.ly

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Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 24

The few reasonable contacts I have knew better than engaging with these guys, but their silence made it look like these anti-peer-review takes were indeed the mainstream opinion... (also, this post reached way more people outside my bubble)

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Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 24

I wrote a half-joking remark that "Every time you use non-peer-reviewed papers as evidence for a claim in your scientific work, a reviewer dies" on LinkedIn and all I got was a huge flood of anti-peer-review takes

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Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 22

Hello, world

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Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 23

Questa cosa della sovranità alimentare ti fa venire improvvisamente una forte voglia di tradire i tuoi principi e mettere dell'ananas sulla pizza. Così, per protesta. #sovranitàalimentare

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Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 23

Italy mourns the loss of Piero Angela today. He was a fantastic man who brilliantly used tv to make science accessible to everyone. His humbleness and his communication skills inspired all of us to be curious about history, biology, cognitive science, and more #PieroAngela

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Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 23

The wizard who during his kids show sprinkles a bit of "magic" (Magie) on his gadgets by using Maggi condiment, he is my new hero #itsakindofMaggi

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Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 23

Had a great time at CLASP yesterday! It's always fun to find "your people" who just happen to work in another town 😉 https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce2yayBKXut/?igshid=YTgzYjQ4ZTY=

Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 23

Not even 24h in #Sweden and I can already see how #PippiLongstocking challenges Swedish society. She doesn't conform, she has no respect for authority, she has people over for meals all the time ( #Swedengate) and she carries a big chunk of #cash wherever she goes

Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 23

The "stone of wickedness" - up to 180 lbs - quarrelsome women were made to carry them through the city as punishment. Today we call it "strength training" #stoneofwickedness #quarrelsomewomen #strengthtraining https://www.instagram.com/p/CeeE43eqkfj/?igshid=YTgzYjQ4ZTY=

Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 23

The little non-artificial intelligence in the house expressed some interest in learning go, so I had to oblige and try to teach him. Although I am rather rusty myself... #35kyu #9x9go #goban https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd57hUcKn3E/?igshid=YTgzYjQ4ZTY=

Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 23

"Ich finde es gut und wichtig, dass über die Ethik bei der Sprachverarbeitung ebenfalls gesprochen wird.[...] Leider wird die Ethik bei KI-Themen oft nur als Randerscheinung/Nebeneffekt erwähnt und behandelt." Anonymous student feedback

Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 23

How early can you assign an intent label to a query? What does it mean for the evaluation of incremental intent classification models?
Check out our paper at #NLP4ConvAI! @emnlpmeeting #EMNLP2021
p.s. it comes with data!

https://aclanthology.org/2021.nlp4convai-1.6/

Not So Fast, Classifier – Accuracy and Entropy Reduction ...

Lianna Hrycyk, Alessandra Zarcone, Luzian Hahn. Proceedin...

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Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 23

1-to-1 German classes have been incredibly helpful. I've gone from "so blissfully unaware of gender and agreement I don't let it affect my fluency" to "painfully aware of every mistake as soon as it comes out of my mouth, paralizing my ability to speak fluently" in no time

Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 23

"So there's people who study computer science..."
"and computer manners?"
"computer manners? Well you could say that's what mommy does"

#HCI #humancomputermanners #AI #whatmommydoes

Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 23

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3w6451rz

A bathtub by any other name: the reduction of German comp...

Author(s): Zarcone, Alessandra; Demberg, Vera | Abstract:...

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Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 23

Are German speakers information-theoretically efficient when they choose to use the base form of a compound (Wanne) rather than the full form (Badewanne)? I'll present this paper coauthored with Vera Demberg at #CogSci2021 tomorrow! (IP24: Pragmatics 1)...

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Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 23

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163853X.2021.1930807

Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 23

"Nach dem Spiel ist vor dem Spiel" - but is it true? Vera Demberg and I have tried to tease apart the influence of temporal cues and script knowledge on predictive eye gaze - our paper is now out on Discourse Processes! (open...

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Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 23

https://iwcs2021.github.io/proceedings/iwcs/pdf/2021.iwcs-1.14.pdf

Alessandra Zarcone @elektrischewoerter.bsky.social · Nov 23

The Proceedings of @iwcs2021 are out! And so is our paper on adapting a #temporaltagger to the voice assistant domain using a small amount of data, which we will present tomorrow. Looking forward to it! #SPEAKERProjekt @FraunhoferIIS #conversationalAI...

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