🕯️❄️Emily M. Bender❄️🕯️ Profile picture
Professor, Linguistics, University of Washington // Faculty Director, Professional MS Program in Computational Linguistics (CLMS) // she/her
Jul 17, 2018 • 100 tweets • 35 min read
Currently* livetweeting: Anton van den Hengel’s keynote “Deep Neural Networks, and some things they’re not very good at"
#ACL2018 (*provided @twitter doesn't lock me out again)
Mar 7, 2018 • 88 tweets • 10 min read
Excited for @katecrawford 's talk "AI Now and the Politics of Classification"

Will try to live tweet, but if I can't keep up, the good news is that @rctatman is sitting right next to me, and I'm sure she'll be on it :) has been studying social implications of large-scale data, machine learning, and AI and sees us now reaching an inflection point where these technologies are now touching many aspects of our lives: health care, immigration, policing.
Nov 2, 2017 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I'm current reading a paper that is claiming lg independence based on a train/test split of the 37 UD 1.2 treebanks. The paper claims that those treebanks represent 37 languages. They don't. It's 33.
Apr 2, 2017 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Time for results of my unscientific poll (thread): In the 48 hours the poll was active, 286 twitter users responded. 2/
Apr 2, 2017 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Time for results of my unscientific poll (thread): In the 48 hours the poll was active, 286 twitter users responded. 2/