Detecting and explaining implicit misogyny, especially in Italian, is still challenging. Also, if you are looking for a truly implicit misogynistic dataset, here's one! 🚀

MilaNLP Lab@milanlp.bsky.social · 2w ago

#TBT #NLProc 'Language is Scary when Over-Analyzed...' by @arimuti.bsky.social et al. explores argumentative reasoning in misogyny detection (2024). Detecting implicit misogyny proves challenging for language models. aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-m...

For today's reading group, @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social presented "Old Habits Die Hard: How Conversational History Geometrically Traps LLMs" by Simhi et al. (2026) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.03308 #NLProc

@milanlp.bsky.social x #WomeninAI

🏆 Congrats to @zeerak.bsky.social and @dirkhovy.bsky.social on the 2016 Test of Time Award! 🎉 "Hateful Symbols or Hateful People? Predictive Features for Hate Speech Detection on Twitter" has shaped research on #hatespeech! Paper: aclanthology.org/N16-2013/ #NLProc

For today's reading group, @marlutz.bsky.social presented "State media control influences large language models" by Waight et al. (2026) Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #NLProc

We were honored to welcome Giulia Barbareschi to our lab for an inspiring conversation on inclusive technology and what NLP should learn from it. Thank you for sharing your insights and vision! #InclusiveTech #Accessibility #NLProc

@taniseceron.bsky.social is presenting her work about political content in pre-training and post-training data at the AI & Society conference. #AIandSociety #NLProc

📄 Rethinking Identity in NLP 👥 @arimuti.bsky.social @elisabassignana.bsky.social @deboranozza.bsky.social 🎯 Identity ≠ Demographics!

It was a pleasure to host @marcostranisci.bsky.social and hear about his newly awarded Marie Curie project “DISHARM” - inspiring work and a great discussion! #NLProc

New paper at #LREC2026 🎉 We introduce ACID, a cross-cultural dataset to study classism in NLP. 🔍 Key findings: pervasive negative stereotypes especially concerning morality, frequent offensiveness, and strong individual blame. 🔗 lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-mai...

We were thrilled to host @alexanderhoyle.bsky.social at our lab! His insightful talk on topic modeling sparked great discussions and fresh perspectives across the team. Thanks for the visit, we hope to welcome you back soon! #NLProc

We are delighted to welcome @marlutz.bsky.social to our lab over the next few months! 🎉 She'll work on the representation of different demographic groups in LLMs. #NLProc

We're excited to welcome @pia-p.bsky.social who will be visiting our lab for the upcoming months! She is working on personalizing content moderation beyond sociodemographics. #NLProc

Thinking of applying for an #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2026? I’m open to supervising at Bocconi! Feel free to reach out. By submitting an expression of interest to Bocconi, selected applicants will receive full proposal support. 🗓️ Deadline: April 15 👉 www.unibocconi.it/en/horizon-e...

Excited to share that @milanlp.bsky.social will be presenting 5 new papers at #EACL2026 and workshops in Rabat 🇲🇦!

Only 3 days to go until the deadline!

MilaNLP Lab@milanlp.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 Call for Abstracts! Towards a Safer Web for Women (co-located with #WebSci26) 📍 Braunschweig 🇩🇪 | 26 May 2026 Theme: Preventive approaches to women’s online safety 🗓 Deadline: 27 March 2026 🔗 forms.gle/tYheEgSwGecf... 🌐 tsww26.github.io

🗣️ Last Friday, we had the pleasure of hosting @dustinbwright.com for an insightful talk on “LLMs Lack Perspective and Epistemic Diversity.” The talk explored how diverse are the information and perspectives that people are being exposed to in this new era. #NLProc

📚Yesterday in our reading group, Mareike Lisker presented "Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models (and Beyond)" by Liwei Jiang et al. (2025) Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.22954 #NLProc

📢 Call for Abstracts! Towards a Safer Web for Women (co-located with #WebSci26) 📍 Braunschweig 🇩🇪 | 26 May 2026 Theme: Preventive approaches to women’s online safety 🗓 Deadline: 27 March 2026 🔗 forms.gle/tYheEgSwGecf... 🌐 tsww26.github.io

For today's reading group @arimuti.bsky.social presented "SPeCtrum: A Grounded Framework for Multidimensional Identity Representation in LLM-Based Agent" by @keyeun.bsky.social. #NLProc #identity

This year’s workshop places a strong emphasis on preventive rather than reactive approaches to women’s online safety. We invite submissions presenting new findings, recent work, new ideas or previously published research (non-archival) that fits the workshop theme.

Call for abstracts! (Deadline: 17 March) Submissions are now open for the second edition of Towards a Safer Web for Women Workshop, taking place on 26 May at the Web Science Conference 2026 in Braunschweig 🇩🇪. 👉 More info & submission details: tsww26.github.io

For our weekly reading group, Afshin Karimi presented "What Social Media Use Do People Regret? An Analysis of 34K Smartphone Screenshots with Multimodal LLM". Super interesting discussion! Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #NLProc

In academia, class background strongly shapes who advances and who stalls.

#MemoryModay #NLProc @gattanasio.cc et al. study asks 'Is It Worth the (Environmental) Cost?' analyzing continuous training for language models. Balances benefits, environmental impacts, for responsible use. #AI #Sustainability arxiv.org/pdf/2210.07365

Women's health information is increasingly being censored by anti-adult filters, which tag words like "vagina" as porn. This isn't a new issue, but in an increasingly age-gated internet world, it's about to get a lot worse. www.forbes.com/sites/gerist...

🎉 MilaNLP 2025 Wrapped 🎉 Lots of learning, building , sharing, and growing together 🌱 #NLProc

The deadline is approaching! Join the team :)

MilaNLP Lab@milanlp.bsky.social · 7mo ago

⏳ Deadline approaching! We’re hiring 2 fully funded postdocs in #NLP. Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects (SALMON & TOLD) 🔗 Details + how to apply: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio... ⏰ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026

We're also back with the lab's seminar! Today we had Eleonora Mancini presenting her doctoral research "Multimodal AI for Human Expression Understanding". #NLP #multimodality #speech

🚀 We’re opening 2 fully funded postdoc positions in #NLP! Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects. 🔗 More details: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio... ⏰ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026