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Barbara Plank

@barbaraplank.bsky.social

Prof, Chair for AI & Computational Linguistics, Head of MaiNLP lab @mainlp.bsky.social, LMU Munich Co-director CIS @cislmu.bsky.social President ACL aclweb.org Visiting Prof ITU Copenhagen @itu.dk ELLIS Fellow @ellis.eu PI MCML @munichcenterml.bsky.social

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Barbara Plank@barbaraplank.bsky.social · 3w ago

At this year's ACL business meeting, it was wonderful to see so many attendees - a sign that this community cares. As president, I wanted to use the occasion to give some insights into ACL - the premier organization for computational linguistics, founded in 1962. (1/5)

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ACL@aclmeeting.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📜 Some of you may have heard about the desk-rejected papers from the ACL'26/ARR Jan 2026 or October 2025 cycles because of hallucinated references. These cases were detected post-commitment. ACL Program chairs have an official statement on this: 2026.aclweb.org/acl_statement/ #ACL2026NLP #NLProc

ACL Statement on Desk Rejecting Papers with Hallucinated References

Official website for the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Ryan Soh-Eun Shim@soheunshim.bsky.social · 7mo ago

✨New paper✨ We find script (e.g. Cyrillic, Latin) to be a linear direction in the activation space of Whisper, enabling transliteration at test-time by adding such script directions to the activations — producing e.g. Cyrillic Japanese transcriptions.

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ACL@aclmeeting.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢 Statement from ACL and EACL 2026 Organizers On Nov 27, OpenReview was notified of a software bug that allowed unauthorized access to authors, reviewers, and area chairs. We are grateful to the OpenReview team for fixing the issue quickly. (🧵 1/3)

openreview.net

Barbara Plank@barbaraplank.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I visited @uni-bamberg.de this week to give a Bamberg Center for AI lecture, and had the opportunity to meet many brilliant researchers, thanks for the invitation @bamnlp.de, @bamdial.bsky.social and BaCAI committee

Roman Klinger@romanklinger.de · 9mo ago

.@barbaraplank.bsky.social visited @uni-bamberg.de to present her perspective on #labelvariation in natural language processing. A very inspiring talk, from which our #NLProc groups @bamnlp.de and @bamdial.bsky.social as well as groups working on other modalities learned a lot. Thanks, Barbara!

photo of Barbara Plank in front of a projection of the time line how human label variation research developed in the last decade
Barbara Plank@barbaraplank.bsky.social · 9mo ago

CIS & MaiNLP Group picture at EMNLP 2025! 🤩 🤗 (1/3) While I sadly 🥲 won't be at EMNLP this year myself, please do reach out to any of our members for a chat if you are interested in our research! We also co-organize and participate in some great workshops at EMNLP:

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Verena Blaschke@verenablaschke.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🎥 @barbaraplank.bsky.social, Hinrich Schütze, and I were featured on tv, talking about how AI tools struggle with dialects! www.ardmediathek.de/video/capric...

Capriccio: Warum KI kein Bairisch versteht - hier anschauen

Künstliche Intelligenz verändert die Sprache, denn sie übernimmt nicht nur unser Vokabular, sondern prägt auch andersherum unsere Ausdrucksweise. Nur mit Dialekten tut sich die KI nachweislich schwer,...

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Verena Blaschke@verenablaschke.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Check out the... - talk on Mon Aug 18, 15:50–16:10 - preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.02894 - suppl. material: github.com/mainlp/betth... Joint work w/ Miriam Winkler & @barbaraplank.bsky.social from @mainlp.bsky.social, and Constantin Förster & Gabriele Wenger-Glemser from Bayerischer Rundfunk!

A Multi-Dialectal Dataset for German Dialect ASR and Dialect-to-Standard Speech Translation

Although Germany has a diverse landscape of dialects, they are underrepresented in current automatic speech recognition (ASR) research. To enable studies of how robust models are towards dialectal var...

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Verena Blaschke@verenablaschke.bsky.social · 12mo ago

At #Interspeech2025 I'm going to present Betthupferl, a dataset for German dialect ASR & dialect-to-standard speech translation! We analyze differences between dialectal & Standard German transcriptions, benchmark ASR models, and examine shortcomings of current ASR models & evaluation metrics.

Piper title ("A multi-dialectal dataset for German dialect ASR and dialect-to-standard speech translation") and a map of the German state Bavaria showing where the Franconian, Bavarian, and Alemannic dialect groups are spoken