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Alan Ramponi
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Senior researcher at DH@FBK. Natural language processing, language variation and diversity, social impact of NLP. Prev: ITU Cph, Unitn.

🇮🇹, he/him. #NLP #NLProc
Website: alanramponi.github.io
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Keynote talk 2️⃣

🗣️ Su Lin Blodgett (Microsoft Research Montréal)
🕤 May 3rd, 16:00 (UTC-6 time)
✨ What Can We Learn from Perspectives on Noisy
User-Generated Text?
Abstract of Su Lin Blodgett's keynote talk
May 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Keynote talk 1️⃣

🗣️ Verena Blaschke (LMU Munich & MCML)
🕤 May 3rd, 09:30 (UTC-6 time)
✨ Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data
Abstract of Verena Blaschke's keynote talk
May 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Due to the complexity of the task, we avoided crowdsourcing and instead devised multiple rounds of annotation and discussion among two expert annotators. We minimize annotation errors whilst keeping signals of human label variation on the whole dataset

⚠️ Natural disagreement is not noise!

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Image showing inter-annotator agreement (IAA) scores for both span identification (gamma) and classification (gamma-cat) at each annotation round, before and after discussion
February 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Happy to share that “Fine-grained Fallacy Detection with Human Label Variation” with @agnesedaff.bsky.social and @satonelli.bsky.social was accepted to #NAACL2025 main conference 🎉

📝 arxiv.org/abs/2502.13853

#NLProc #NLP #NAACL

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Example showing multiple plausible span annotations provided by annotators A1 and A2 due to different interpretations for the text "American study: mutation spreads four times faster, but 💉 are needed" in Italian
February 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM