Old news (olds?)
2025
- 12 December 2025: I’m giving a talk about dialect text/speech processing at the University of Groningen (GroNLP)
- 23 October 2025: I’m in a tv segment on our dialect ASR work! It was also recently featured in an AI for Media Network post and the press release got picked up by outlets like Der Spiegel.
- October 2025: I’m giving invited talks about dialect NLP at the University of Hamburg (Data Science group) and at MunichNLP
- 17–21 August 2025: I’ll be at Interspeech to present our dialect ASR dataset and analyses
- 27 July–1 August 2025: I’ll be at ACL to discuss the effect of linguistic similarity on cross-lingual transfer
- 20–25 July 2025: I’ll be at the Dagstuhl seminar on linguistics & language models
- 30 April–4 May 2025: I’m at NAACL to give a keynote on dialect NLP at the WNUT workshop
- 26–27 March 2025: I was at the HumanCLAIM workshop
- 19–24 January 2025: I’ll be at COLING where my coauthors and I will present work on dialect NLP in the context of pixel-based models and of information retrieval at the main conference, and work on improving dialectal slot and intent detection with auxiliary tasks and/or other data- or model-centric approaches at VarDial
2024
- 10 December 2024: I’m giving an invited talk at the University of Passau (Chair for Multilingual CL) about dialect NLP
- 23 September 2024: I’m giving an invited talk at ITU Copenhagen (NLPnorth) about dialect NLP
- 11–16 August 2024: I will be at ACL to talk about dialect speakers’ opinions on dialect NLP technologies
- 8–11 July 2024: I’m at ICLaVE to discuss challenges in processing non-standard language varieties
- Jun–Sep 2024: I’m spending the summer in Copenhagen to intern at Apple’s ML research group
- 20–25 May 2024: I will be at LREC-COLING to present two dialectal datasets for dependency parsing and NER with my colleagues
- 17–22 March 2024: I’ll be at EACL to discuss the effect syntactic variation has on slot and intent detection
2023
- 14–20 July 2023: I will be attending LxMLS
- 22–24 May 2023: I will be at NoDaLiDa to present an overview of datasets for Germanic low-resource languages and dialects
- 2–6 May 2023: I’m at EACL to present work on tokenization & transfer to non-standardized language varieties at the VarDial workshop
2022
- 28–30 September 2022: I presented our UI for explainable graphical ML models at ILP
- 1 August 2022: I started my PhD!