Currently visiting PhD student at the University of Alberta, trying to link neuroscience and Natural Language Processing
Edmonton, Canada
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In case you have been wondering what I have been up to these past years: Our study on connected speech in early Alzheimer's disease is finally out in Alzheimer's & Dementia! 📰🥂
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Had a wonderful time presenting my work on the role of scene graphs in neural encoding @CogCompNeuro in sunny Amsterdam! 🇳🇱☀️
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In case you have been wondering what I have been up to these past years: Our study on connected speech in early Alzheimer's disease is finally out in Alzheimer's & Dementia! 📰🥂
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(1) Based on using five different types of connected speech as input for a RobBERT-based classification setup, we found that autobiographical interviews📜consistently outperformed the commonly used Cookie Theft scene descriptions🍪
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Couldn’t have done it without these two 👯♀️
This week, our lab members @HBalabin, @SteffiDeMeyer & @LaureSpruyt had the opportunity to present their research at #AAIC24 in Philadelphia 🧠🩸🤖⚡🦅🇺🇲
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Speech-based detection of Alzheimer’s disease is neat, but (1) how is the performance affected by different types of connected speech? 🗣️ and (2) do speech biomarkers relate to structural MRIs? 🧠
Feel free to stop by poster 496 at #AAIC today to find out more 💬
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Helena Balabin retweeted
Attending #NeurIPS2023 ?
Come and check our paper which reconstructs high resolution viewed images from human brain activities! Our work significantly outperform previous SOTA in decoding accuracy by 39.34%. ID is 431!
#NeuroAI #BCI #NeurIPS
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Super grateful to all the kind people who stopped by at my poster at #SNL2023 today, it‘s been very encouraging ☺️ (+bonus view of the old port of Marseille right outside of where I’ve had my poster session)
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Excited for #ECAI next week (my first in-person conference!), where I will present our accepted paper on neural fits between fMRI data and sentence embeddings 🧠🤖
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Helena Balabin retweeted
I am hiring two PhD students in multilingual #nlproc based @CW_KULeuven! Info and application link: kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsit… Deadline 8/09. RTs and sharing on other social media appreciated! Note that I am on parental leave and therefore slow at answering emails/DMs etc.
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Helena Balabin retweeted
Excited to share that the preprint of our survey paper on Neurosymbolic AI for reasoning on Graph Structures is now up: arxiv.org/abs/2302.07200 .
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Today is officially the first day of my @FWOVlaanderen fundamental research PhD fellowship 👩🎓 I’m very grateful for this opportunity and excited to link sentence understanding in language models 🤖 and in the human brain 🧠
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Helena Balabin retweeted
Today at #kinderuniversiteit, our postdoc Jolien and PhD students Laure and Helena organized a journey through the past and present of brain imaging for kids together with the lab for Neuropathology @KU_Leuven 🧠🧲🧭
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Had a great time socializing, practicing my Dutch and presenting my poster at @clinmeeting in Tilburg!🇳🇱
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1/2 I am pleased to announce that our paper, STonKGs, got published in Bioinformatics!📈Again, I would like to thank all of the collaborators for making this possible. academic.oup.com/bioinformat…
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2/2 Moreover, I am looking forward to present ProtSTonKGs at the @SWAT4HCLS conference next week. In short, ProtSTonKGs is an extension of STonKGs that further incorporates protein sequence data into a shared input sequence that is fed into a joint cross encoder.
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1/6 Happy to present our new preprint, STonKGs. STonKGs is a novel multimodal Transformer that combines information from both biomedical text and Knowledge Graphs (KGs). biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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5/6 The code and pre-trained models are available at github.com/stonkgs/stonkgs and huggingface.co/stonkgs so that you can fine-tune STonKGs on your own biological use-case.
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6/6 Lastly, I want to thank all my collaborators for making this happen: @cthoyt, @johnabachman, @benjamingyori (from @Harvard), @BirkenbihlC, @AKodamullil, Prof. Plöger, @ApitiusHofmann, and finally, my awesome supervisor @ddomingof.
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