Erik Velldal (@erikve) profile picture

Professor in #NLProc at @LTGOslo University of Oslo

Oslo, Norway
Joined April 2008
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📣 We are hiring! 📣 3-year postdoc position in @SFIMediaFutures located at LTG - Language Technology Group University of Oslo. Application deadline is December 13th, more info here: jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo…
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This week LTG members will be presenting several papers at the ACL 2024 and co-located workshops! Check them out 👇
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We are looking for a PhD candidate to work on language generation in the news domain. Proficiency in Norwegian is not a requirement! Check the details here: jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo… Contact me if you have any questions 😊 @SFIMediaFutures @infomedia_uib @LiljaOvrelid @erikve
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Erik Velldal retweeted
Fredagens lansering av LTGs store språkmodeller for norsk trakk fullt hus!🤩🙌🏛️ Om du gikk glipp av arrangementet: Opptak av alle innlegg er nå lagt ut på NORA's YouTube-kanal: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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This week several of us are attending @eaclmeeting in lovely Malta ☀️ Check out our presentations at the @caseworkshop and LAW workshop!
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Looking for a postdoc-level researcher position in #NLProc and want to work on event extraction in the domain of armed conflict? Come join us at @ltgoslo with @PRIOresearch! Full posting here: jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo… #researchjobs #postdocposition
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If you're at @eaclmeeting or @caseworkshop in Malta next week and would like to know more, come talk to us (@LiljaOvrelid & @erikve) 👋
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Fin sak i Titan i dag om de nye norske og åpne språkmodellene vi har utviklet ved @ltgoslo, i samarbeid med @Nasjonalbibl og @NORAdotAI 🤖 🇳🇴 titan.uio.no/teknologi/2024/…
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13 fully funded PhD fellowships available at Integreat, the Norwegian centre for knowledge-driven machine learning! With cross-disciplinary projects across machine learning, statistics, logic, language technology, and ethics. 🧵1/5
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Project 8: Knowledge and bias extraction from Large Language Models: wwwi.ntegreat.no/about/vacan… 4/5
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Closing date 4 March 2024. Integreat is a Centre of Excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway (2023–2033), hosted by @UniOslo, @UiTNorgesarktis, and @NRegnesentral. Come join us in Oslo or Tromsø! 5/5
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The @hplt_eu winter school hosted a panel discussion on Large 🦣 vs. Small 🤏 language models with @HajicJan from @matfyz among the panelists.
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Several LLMs for Norwegian now released by @ltgoslo; 7B versions of both Mistral and BLOOM 🤗@NORAdotAI So far only pre-trained; improved versions with instruction-tuning will follow 👩‍🏭 Great work by @davidsamuelcz and Vladislav Mikhailov in particular! huggingface.co/norallm
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Right now at Skeikampen, Norway: the HPLT&NLPL Winter School on Large Language Models: Creation, Customization, Evaluation, and Use wiki.nlpl.eu/Community/train… is starting! @ufal_cuni @oepen @ltgoslo @unioslo #NLProc #LLM @EuropeanCommiss @digitaleu hplt-project.org/
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Our new Center of Excellence Integreat announces 13 PhD and 2 postdoc positions! 🔥 More info below (but check out PhD projects 6 and 8 and one of the postdoc projects if you are interested in NLP and LLMs 🤗) @ltgoslo @erikve @northernkender @freeges integreat.no/news/join-integ…
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We again have a research fellowship in #NLProc available at the University of Oslo, focused on armed conflict event extraction. Come join our newly started cross-disciplinary collaboration between @ltgoslo and @PRIOresearch – closing date Nov. 2nd. jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo…
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We are hiring in Oslo! In case you are at @eaclmeeting and want to have a chat, both @erikve and I are here 🤗
We have an opening for *two* #NLProc post-doctoral researchers in an exciting new cross-disciplinary project on event extraction of armed conflicts! @ltgoslo @PRIOresearch jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo…
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Don’t miss this poster tomorrow morning @eaclmeeting presented by @SamiaTouileb ✨ «Measuring Normative and Descriptive Biases in Language Models Using Census Data» @erikve @SFIMediaFutures
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