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Ravi Shekhar

@rshekhar.bsky.social

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Lecture, University of Essex, UK #NLP, #NLProc shekharravi.github.io

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ELOQUENCEAI @eloquenceai.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

ELOQUENCE is running a Europe-wide survey to better understand how people perceive AI – its benefits, risks, ethical concerns, and societal impact. 🔗 Take the survey and share it within your networks and communities: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run... #ELOQUENCEAI #EUsurvey

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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door. But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This @universityofessex.bsky.social, by the way: www.ft.com/content/2cdd.... The university that had been established to transform the region & society, swiftly dropping the programmes for widening participation the moment finances are tight. They were in the middle in 2024, what happened?

three graphs from the FT, one on surplus/deficit one on net operating cash flow and one of international fees. In all, Essex is comfortably in the middle of the pack.

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lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

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Sophie Duroy @sophieduroy.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Since they're not restructuring, they're putting us all at risk because there may be a diminished need for "teaching and research", which are... the university's missions I guess?

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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Sam McLean @sammcleanntcc.bsky.social on Essex Pathways, the University's experts on foundation year provision. "[O]nce that department is gone, it's gone. It would take decades to rebuild the hundreds of years of combined experience that run it."

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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals. Please share widely.

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Ravi Shekhar @rshekhar.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Attending @aclmeeting.bsky.social Check out our work on "Addressing Blind Guessing: Calibration of Selection Bias in Multiple-Choice Question Answering by Video Language Models" (aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...) at Board: D10, Hall 5X, Wednesday, July 30, 11:00-12:30 #ACL2025 #ACL2025NLP #NLProc

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Addressing Blind Guessing: Calibration of Selection Bias in Multiple-Choice Question Answering by Video Language Models

Olga Loginova, Oleksandr Bezrukov, Ravi Shekhar, Alexey Kravets. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2025.

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Ravi Shekhar @rshekhar.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

looking for emergency reviewers for ACL/ARR in text simplification/offensive language/ image captioning, please let me know if you could review 1-2 papers b/w 24-26 March #NLProc

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Ravi Shekhar @rshekhar.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Come work with us to help build better and quicker decisions for law enforcement. Deadline: 12 Feb Detail: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLK931/m... (Note must be a UK residence for last 5 years) #AI #NLP #NLProc

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ML/ NLP Engineer (KTP Associate) at University of Essex

Recruiting now: ML/ NLP Engineer (KTP Associate) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Ravi Shekhar @rshekhar.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Does anyone know the Corpora mailing list moderator? my job posts are going to the moderator but never get any further communication. Any help would be appreciated. #NLP #NLProc

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Ravi Shekhar @rshekhar.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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ML/ NLP Engineer (KTP Associate) at University of Essex

Recruiting now: ML/ NLP Engineer (KTP Associate) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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ELOQUENCEAI @eloquenceai.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

🚀 ELOQUENCE at BlueSky! By redefining the #AI landscape, and advancing safety-critical applications with #multilingual, cross-cultural interactions, and bias-controlled dialogue systems, #ELOQUENCE will make waves in natural language processing, robotics, and more. Stay tuned at 👇 eloquenceai.eu

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