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Success at ACL 2024: Area Chair Award for Barbara Plank and Her Team

Recognized for Exceptional Contribution to NLP at ACL 2024

At ACL 2024, the premier conference in computational linguistics, the Senior Area Chairs of each track selected exceptional papers for the Area Chair Awards.

We are proud to announce that our PI Barbara Plank, together with Junior Members Leon Weber‑Genzel and Siyao Peng, and collaborator Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, received an ACL 2024 Area Chair Award for their paper: “VariErr NLI: Separating Annotation Error from Human Label Variation.”

Congratulations from us!

Check out the full paper:

A* Conference
L. Weber-GenzelS. Peng • M.-C. De Marneffe • B. Plank
VariErr NLI: Separating Annotation Error from Human Label Variation.
ACL 2024 - 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 11-16, 2024. DOI
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