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Announcing—LatinCy Lexicon v0.1, a refactored version of Whitaker's Words that uses LatinCy annotations to disambiguate words/meanings. Can be added as a custom component to any LatinCy pipeline. github.com/latincy/lati... #digiclass #nlproc
Ten days until the #conference abstract deadline (24 Apr). Non-Sheffield PhD students can present their #AI and #ML #speech or #NLProc research too!
#Keynotes: @egrefen.bsky.social (Google DeepMind) & Prof Wenwu Wang (@uniofsurrey.bsky.social)
Find out more: slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annual-confe...
We still need #reviewers for submissions 1 and 3! Pls contact me if you can review. You don’t need to be a speaker of any Turkic language to #review .
Please REPOST!
#NLP #NLProc #socioling #sociolinguistics #punctuation
Can AI be made safe?
In our upcoming #WiAIR_podcast episode, @skgabrie.bsky.social explores how modern AI systems can be broken, manipulated, or used to influence human beliefs.
Trailer out now: youtu.be/_OcCn83iTEY
Full episode soon.
#WiAIR #NLProc
Всё правильно Шнайер говорит:
"When thinking about the characteristics of generative #AI both benefits and harms, it’s critical to separate the inherent properties of the technology from the design decisions of the corporations building and commercializing the technology. There is nothing about […]
We have a 2-year postdoc-level research fellowship in #NLProc available at the University of #Oslo. Part of a cross-disciplinary collab between social science + NLP on changes in moral values and political discourse over time.
Full announcement […]
We have a 2-year postdoc-level research fellowship in #NLProc available at the University of Oslo. Part of a cross-disciplinary collab between social science + NLP on changes in moral values and political discourse over time. Full announcement: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Closing date: 5 May.
Ну все, Стэнфордский университет признали в РФ "нежелательной организацией".
Придется теперь российским программам из всех курсов по #NLProc выпиливать главный в мире учебник по этому самому NLP: "Speech and Language Processing" Журафского и Мартина.
https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/
What has happened to the gender balance in Computational Linguistics / Natural Language Processing with the arrival of LLMs and a veritable army of engineers and their massive machinery? Is CL/NLP becoming a new male-dominated clubhouse? NB: Unlocking the Clubhouse, Fisher & Margolis. #nlproc #nlp
A new doctor, supervisors and opponents
David Samuel and the Head of the Defense
Trial lecture
PhD defense
Today David Samuel brilliantly defended his PhD thesis "Data-Constrained Language Modeling". 🦾
The adjudication committee consisted of David Salinas, Anna Rogers and Ali Ramezani-Kebrya. The thesis was supervised by Andrey Kutuzov, Lilja Øvrelid and Erik […]
[Original post on sigmoid.social]
🥳 Happy to share recent accepted papers at #ACL2026 and #LREC2026.
Looking forward to chatting about these works!
#NLProc #ACL2026 #LREC2026
I’m looking for #reviewers for any of the following journal submissions. Submission length is often similar to #ACL’s (4 or 8 pages for short/long submission type).
Please contact me if you can #review, and BOOST this in any case. Thanks!
#LowResource #NLP #NLProc #review
For today's Reading Group @carolin-holtermann.bsky.social presented "REL-A.I.: An Interaction-Centered Approach To Measuring Human-LM Reliance" by @kaitlynzhou.bsky.social
and colleagues.
Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-l...
#NLProc
🚨Attention!
Our paper “Disco-RAG: Discourse-Aware Retrieval-Augmented Generation” has been accepted to ACL 2026 Main Conference 🚀
📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2601.04377
Camera-ready version coming soon 👀
#NLProc #ACL2026 #ACL2026NLP @aclmeeting.bsky.social
🚨🚨AACL-IJCNLP 2026 will be held in Hengqin, China from November 6th to November 10th, 2026. The CFP is now out!
AACL-IJCNLP 2026 will accept papers via ARR submission deadline (long & short papers) on May 25, 2026! #NLProc #NLP
Important dates and full CFP here:
2026.aaclnet.org/calls/main_c...
🎓 Register now for LxMLS!
Co-organised by @ellisunitlisbon.bsky.social, covering ML topics from theory to practice.
Designed for researchers and grad students in #NLProc & comp. linguistics, computer scientists & industry
📍 Lisbon 🇵🇹
📅 20-25 July
⏰ Register by 29 April
🔗 https://lxmls.it.pt/2026/
Non-Sheffield #PhD student working on #AI #ML #speech or #NLProc research? Present your work at our #conference on 8 June - submit an abstract by 24 Apr!
#Keynotes: @egrefen.bsky.social (Google DeepMind) & Prof Wenwu Wang (@uniofsurrey.bsky.social)
More info slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annual-confe...
Excited to share that two of my long papers are accepted to @aclmeeting.bsky.social ! 🎉
1. Who Gets Which Message? Auditing Demographic Bias in LLM-Generated Targeted Text
2. Reasoning-Based Refinement of Unsupervised Text Clusters with LLMs
#ACL2026 #NLProc #LLMs #ACL26 @purduecs.bsky.social
#MemoryModay #NLProc Uma et al. (2020) highlights 'A Case for Soft Loss Functions' efficacy using soft labels & crowd annotations in AI tasks, outshining top-tier methods.
#TBT #NLProc '[MASK]? Making Sense of Language-Specific BERT Models' by @deboranozza.bsky.social, Bianchi & @dirkhovy.bsky.social (2020), explores language-specific vs universal BERT models.
It was a pleasure to present on LLMs' knowledge conflicts at #ALPS2026!
Slides: isabelleaugenstein.github.io/slides/2026_...
Also really enjoyed the snowshoeing excursion. Warm recommendation if you're looking to attend a #NLProc winter school!
@aicentre.dk @lbesacier.bsky.social
Has anyone used Dirk Hovy's MACE (multi annotator competence evaluation) and knows if it can deal with items that receive multiple labels (by the same annotator)? #nlproc
New blog post on the LatinCy v3.9 XPOS tags now up here:
exploratoryphilology.org/posts/latinc...
#digiclass #nlproc
✨The NLP+CSS workshop is returning to ACL 2026!✨
Our commitment deadline for pre-reviewed ARR submissions has been extended to April 5!
Website/CfP: sites.google.com/site/nlpandc...
#NLProc #CompSocialSci #ComputationalSocialScience #ACL2026NLP
@aclmeeting.bsky.social
Join us on 8 June in #Sheffield to hear about #PhD students’ #AI and #ML #speech and #NLProc research!
#Keynotes from @egrefen.bsky.social (Google DeepMind) & Prof Wenwu Wang (@uniofsurrey.bsky.social).
Find out more and #register (by 31 May) at slt-cdt.sheffield.ac.uk/annual-confe...
#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Hey Siri. Ok Google. Alexa: A topic modeling of user reviews for smart speakers,' by Nguyen & @dirkhovy.bsky.social decodes speaker reviews for user preferences using topic models. Domain knowledge needed for market analysis.
I’m looking for #reviewers for any of the following submissions. Please contact me if you can review, and boost in any case. Thanks!
(Details in next post)
#LowResource #Turkic #NLP #NLProc #review
It's official now -- looking forward to seeing everyone at #EACL2027 in Athens, Greece!
#NLProc #EACL2026 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social
For today’s lab seminar, we had the pleasure of hearing an inspiring talk by Heather Lent on Emerging Ethical Challenges in NLP Research and NLP Security, wherein researchers should strive to uphold the ethical best practices of both NLP and cybersecurity.
#NLProc
