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I'm Elena (Lena) Voita and I work on Natural Language Processing. More details inside! |
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I am Elena (Lena) Voita, a Research Scientist at FAIR working on Analysis and Interpetability for NLP.
Also, NLP Course For You creator and current SIGREP president.
">https://lena-voita.github.io/nlp_course.html).-->Before that, I was Ph.D. student at the University of Edinburgh supervised by Ivan Titov and Rico Sennrich, was awarded Facebook PhD Fellowship, worked as a Research Scientist at Yandex Research side by side with the Yandex Translate team, while enjoying writing blog posts and teaching.
">https://lena-voita.github.io/nlp_course.html).-->2023
- Senior Area Chair: EACL 2024.
- Area Chair: ACL 2023, EMNLP 2023, IJCNLP-AACL 2023.
- Teaching: Oxford-LLMs summer school.
- Invited talks: TTI Chicago, RISE Learning Machines seminar, University of Melbourne, Instituto Superior Técnico, UKP-CIS Joint Invited Talk Series.
2022
- Senior Area Chair: AACL-IJCNLP 2022.
- Area Chair: EMNLP 2022, EACL 2023.
- Keynote: BlackBoxNLP workshop at EMNLP 2022.
- Teaching: SICSS-Oxford, invited lecture at EPFL.
- Job started: Research Scientist at FAIR (November).
- Visiting SARDINE Lab: André Martins's group at Instituto Superior Técnico (February-July).
2021
- Keynotes: DeeLIO workshop at NAACL 2021, RepL4NLP workshop at ACL 2021.
- Invited talks: Stanford NLP Seminar, CornellNLP, MT@UPC, CambridgeNLP, Helsinki LT Seminar, "Shannon meets Turing" Colloquium, "Young Innovators" talks (Austria), Glasgow IR seminar.
- Papers: Source and Target Contributions at ACL, NMT Training through the Lens of SMT at EMNLP.
2020
- Award: I'm awarded Facebook PhD Fellowship.
- Keynote: NLP track at Applied Machine Learning Days at EPFL.
- Invited talks: NLP Highlights podcast, Rasa, Google Research Berlin, Naver Labs Europe, MIT, DeepMind, Grammarly AI, Unbabel, NLP with Friends, CMU, USC ISI, ENS Paris, ML Street Talk.
- Papers: 2 papers at EMNLP, BPE-dropout at ACL.
2019
- Papers: 2 papers at ACL (one is oral), 2 papers at EMNLP, 1 at NeurIPS.