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ACL is not an AI Conference (?)

Yoav Goldberg, August 2024

In her "Presidential Address" at the ACL 2024, Emily Bender gave a talk called "ACL is not an AI Conference". For those who did not attend (or were not paying close attention), you can find the slides in the following link: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/papers/ACL_2024_Presidential_Address.pdf

Somewhat surprisingly, I found myself agreeing with some core aspects of her argument. Perhaps less surprisingly, there is also a substantial part which I strongly disagree with. This text is a response to this address, and, beyond just responding, may also shed some light on what is ACL, and what is NLP. I of course welcome discussion on these topics, either on the comments section here (unfortunately not very convenient) or on Twitter (not convenient in a different way). Ok, Let's go.

ACL is not a Computational Linguistics Conference

hasithsura

def spec_to_image(spec, eps=1e-6):
  mean = spec.mean()
  std = spec.std()
  spec_norm = (spec - mean) / (std + eps)
  spec_min, spec_max = spec_norm.min(), spec_norm.max()
  spec_scaled = 255 * (spec_norm - spec_min) / (spec_max - spec_min)
  spec_scaled = spec_scaled.astype(np.uint8)
  return spec_scaled

dolaameng

import torch
import torch.nn as nn
from torch.autograd import Variable

batch_size = 3
max_length = 3
hidden_size = 2
n_layers =1

# container

sedouard

import urllib
import time
import hmac
import hashlib
import base64
def _sign_string(uri, key, key_name):

    '''
    100000 = milsecond expiry
    '''