Vera Dankers wins the 2026 ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award for her PhD research
She completed her award-winning NLP research at the University of Edinburgh.
She completed her award-winning NLP research at the University of Edinburgh.
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Immensely thankful to top-tier supervisor @iatitov, mentorship from magnificent @_dieuwke_, and support from thesis examiners @tallinzen and @PontiEdoardo and co-authors. If the thesis is too much to read😉check out the BigPicture workshop version! https://bigpictureworkshop.com/accepted-papers (2/3)
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Congratulations to @vernadankers on the well deserved ACL dissertation award!! 🎉🎉 Verna's thesis explores connections between memorization and generalisation, and shows it's a symbiotic relation. We are lucky to have you at @McGill_NLP and @Mila_Quebec! https://twitter.com/vernadankers/status/2074273598072836336
