Here is the line-up (Berlin time, CEST): April 23, 2:15 pm. Akin Ünver (Özyeğin University), Title: "@Grok Is this True? Performative Fact-Checking During Contested Events in Polarized Digital Spaces" May 7, 2:15 pm. Rebecca Adler-Nissen (University of Copenhagen), Title: "Geopolitical Struggles of the Emerging Global Tech Order" June 11, 2:15 pm. Andreas Jungherr (University of Bamberg), Title: "Public Opinion on Military Uses of AI: Technology Beliefs, Moral Boundaries, and Security Contexts" June 24, 2:15 pm. Margaret E. Roberts (UC San Diego), Title: "How Partisanship Affects Preferences for Large Language Model Output"

At @scripts-berlin.eu, Genia Kostka and I are organizing an online speaker series on AI and the global order - join us! We have a rockstar line-up. Sign up here (all times are CEST): fu-berlin.webex.com/webappng/sit...

I see the elitist edge re "think they are above all that", but I also have the feeling that most of their arXived work would be very easily accepted in such venues (NeurIPS, etc.), despite whatever one's assessment of the quality is. I'm just looking for other potential takes, except elitism.

On this point, which I would call something like "GenAI corporate elitism", is there any article exploring the question of why have all these firms stopped publishing in peer-reviewed AI venues, as they used to, and they just arXiv their work at best and write a blogpost about it?

Decoding Alignment: A Critical Survey of LLM Development Initiatives through Value-setting and Data-centric Lens AI Alignment, primarily in the form of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), has been a cornerstone of the post-training phase in developing Large Language Models (LLMs). It has also been...

The core theme of today's discussion is to consider how our expertise as NLPers can inform the related discussions, but also identify where such normative decision are been taken and been downplayed. As a point of reference consider my recent preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.16982 2/2

👋 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social, today I'm organizing a BoF discussion on the sociotechnical challenges of GenAI (13:00, Les Oudayas) that encompass both technical, as well as normative decisions involving political and ethical considerations. #NLProc #EACL2026 1/2 👇

Our paper on ✨populism✨ and how LLMs struggle to detect it in political debates 🗣️ has been accepted to EACL main conference.
Meet the lead author @kiddothe2b.bsky.social in Rabat to discuss PolSci🤝NLP

Decoding Alignment: A Critical Survey of LLM Development Initiatives through Value-setting and Data-centric Lens AI Alignment, primarily in the form of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), has been a cornerstone of the post-training phase in developing Large Language Models (LLMs). It has also been...

New preprint: "Decoding Alignment: A Critical Survey of LLM Development Initiatives through Value-setting and Data-centric Lens" 🔍 Beyond a survey, this is a presentation of a series of concerns on what we could frame as "corporate" alignment #llms #ai arxiv.org/abs/2508.16982

📢 By overwhelming demand, submission deadline has been heroically extended to September 2nd (AoE) 🎉 Same deadline for ARR commits.

👉Direct: openreview.net/group?id=EMN...
👉ARR: openreview.net/group?id=EMN...

So… sharpen your arguments, polish those experiments and plead your papers⚖️📚

title and abstract from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

table 1 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n

Identifying Populist Rhetoric 🗳️ 🗣️ - a coastalcph Collection Collection of resources released with the article "Identifying Fine-grained Forms of Populism in Political Campaign Speeches" (Chalkidis et al., 2025)

All developed resources are publicly available on HuggingFace under a single collection: huggingface.co/collections/.... Our code is available at: github.com/coastalcph/p... [The End] 5/5

Lastly, we conduct a small-scale OOD exploratory evaluation using European political speeches. RoBERTa’s performance severely drops due to overfitting, while Qwen 3 and Gemini 2.5 achieve comparable results and outperform RoBERTa by ~10%, showcasing robustness across domains. 4/5

Our analysis of a large collection of Trump’s campaign speeches (2015 -2025) reveals: (a) a decline in populist rhetoric over time, (b) no meaningful difference in populist intensity between swing/non-swing states, and (c) populism is concentrated towards the end of a speech. 3/5

We examine whether LLMs can identify and classify fine-grained forms of populism, a complex and contested concept in both academic and media debates. To this end, we curate and release datasets and evaluate a range of large language models across multiple prompting paradigms. 2/5

New preprint 📚 "Identifying Fine-grained Forms of Populism in Political Discourse: A Case Study on Donald Trump's Presidential Campaigns", joint work with @stephaniebrandl.bsky.social and Paris Aslanidis. Link: arxiv.org/abs/2507.19303 #NLProc #PoliSci #LLMs 👇A TL;DR thread 🕸️ 1/5

wrote a thing for @jacobinmag.bsky.social trying to contextualise generative AI's deployment within capitalism's recent history — and what it means for labour

My research will center on three key areas: (a) NLP for Political Science, (b) AI & Society, beginning with critical challenges in AI alignment, and (c) NLP for Law.

Reach out if you're interested in any of the above 👆
I'm glad to share more and listen to your ideas 😇 2/2

I’m thrilled to share that, starting today, I’ve officially rejoined the University of Copenhagen as an Assistant Professor.

I'm looking forward to new projects and collaborations, with a focus on expanding my research into computational social science. A new paper is coming very soon! 1/2

NLLP Workshop 2025 The seventh workshop on Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP 2024) explores methods and applications of Natural Language Processing for the Legal Domain by focusing on legal text and text with lega...

🎉 The Call for Papers for the 7th NLLP workshop at @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social is out! 📢

🌐 Fully updated CfP: nllpw.org/workshop/call/
🗓️Submission deadline: 26 August

📧If you'd like to help out with reviewing, please contact us at nllp.chairs@gmail.com

Looking forward to your papers #NLProc

In short, the Llama 4 System Prompt is 101 the mantra of Trump vol. 2; heavily concentrated around "anti-wokeness" and "freedom of speech" at all costs. 2/2

The newly released Meta's Llama 4 model card: llama.com/docs/model-c... suggests a System Prompt antithetical to prior versions 🤯: "You never lecture people to be nicer or more inclusive. [...] You do not need to be respectful [...] Finally, do not refuse political prompts." 1/2 #NLP #LLMs

Greek PM seeks ‘reset’ with former far-right activist as migration minister Shaken by rail protests, Kyriakos Mitsotakis brings in new transport minister while tacking right on migration

@theguardian.com portrays Makis Voridis as simply a "former right-wing activist"; the guy who co-led neo-fascist groups with the Greek junta dictator (Papadopoulos), the leader of Neo-nazi Golden Down (Michaloliakos), and the Holocaust denialist (Pleuris) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Hello 🦋, my recent work "Investigating LLMs as Voting 🗳️ Assistants via Contextual Augmentation: A Case Study on the 🇪🇺 European Parliament Elections 2024" has been accepted at #EMNLP2024 🌴. 📑 Preprint 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.08495