The purpose of this blog post depends on the reaction you had while reading the question in the title. If you hesitated, I want to convince you that maybe you should be doing research about YouTube. If you are already interested, and I hope you are (always easier to preach...
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Crosslingual Topic Modeling with WikiPDA
Wikipedia-based Polyglot Dirichlet Allocation
[This post describes research from the paper Crosslingual Topic Modeling with WikiPDA, published at The Web Conference 2021. Code and data are available on GitHub. A technical talk is available on YouTube.]
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Postdoc position on neuro-symbolic AI available at EPFL
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position at EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne), to be hosted jointly by the Artificial Intelligence Lab (headed by Prof. Boi Faltings) and the Data Science Lab (headed by Prof. Robert West).
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Arguing with Strangers on the Internet
How Convincing Others of Your Opinions Is Difficult, Even if They Already Like or Respect You
[This post describes research from two papers: Interventions for Softening Can Lead to Hardening of Opinions: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial, published at The Web Conference 2021, and The Effect of Spokesperson Attribution on Public Health Message Sharing During the COVID-19 Pandemic, published in PLOS ONE.]
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Student assistant position available at EPFL Data Science Lab
[Note: this position has been filled, and the call is closed]
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