Happening now: Sina Zarrieß presenting at *SEM! Stop by if you are interested in The Frequency Confound in LM Surprisal and Metaphor Novelty!
CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University
@clausebielefeld.bsky.social
CompLing group (CLAUSE) at Bielefeld U (PI: Sina Zarrieß). We work on: NLG, Language & Vision, Pragmatics & Dialogue, HateSpeech, BabyLMs, DH, and more! clause-bielefeld.github.io
CLAUSE will present eight papers at this year's ACL and workshops in San Diego! Make sure to stop by if you are interested in topics such as pragmatic evaluations, document embeddings, hate-speech detection, child-directed speech or metaphor identification! 🎉🌴🇺🇸
Great work by colleagues from Groningen, Georgetown and our very own @bbunzeck.bsky.social 🪁
Francesca Padovani@frap98.bsky.social · 3mo agoInterested in analyzing 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱-𝗔𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 with computational tools? Then the 𝗖𝗔𝗜𝗧 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗶𝘁 🪁 (pronounced [kaIt]) might be just what you’re looking for! It includes a brand-new i𝗻-𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗿, 𝗣𝗢𝗦 𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿, and 𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿.
At RetroEval 2026 we will have three fantastic keynotes: • Sina Zarrieß (@clausebielefeld.bsky.social) • Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social (@heriotwattuni.bsky.social) • Albert Gatt (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) More details on the keynotes: retroeval.github.io/_pages/keyno...
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And look who’s on the bill for the opening keynote: our PI Sina Zarrieß 🎉
Saad Mahamood@saad.me.uk · 3mo agoI am happy to announce that registration for RetroEval 2026 (retroeval.github.io) is now open! Additionally, the program is now available including keynote speakers and accepted papers: retroeval.github.io/_pages/progr... Looking forward to seeing you at the @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social in June!
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Daniel Duran@simphon.bsky.social · 4mo agoCongratulations to Dr. Simeon Junker, from the CLAUSE group at Bielefeld University, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Visual Context and Communicative Goals in Referring Expression Generation”! 🥳 @clausebielefeld.bsky.social
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Daniel Duran@simphon.bsky.social · 4mo agoCongratulations to Dr. Simeon Junker, from the CLAUSE group at Bielefeld University, who successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Visual Context and Communicative Goals in Referring Expression Generation”! 🥳 @clausebielefeld.bsky.social
And on Friday at 11am, BabyBabelLM (aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-lo...), to which our very own @bbunzeck.bsky.social contributed the German, Polish and various multilingual datasets, will be presented by @jumelet.bsky.social from @gronlp.bsky.social! 🥳
BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data
Jaap Jumelet, Abdellah Fourtassi, Akari Haga, Bastian Bunzeck, Bhargav Shandilya, Diana Galvan-Sosa, Faiz Ghifari Haznitrama, Francesca Padovani, Francois Meyer, Hai Hu, Julen Etxaniz, Laurent Prevot,...
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On Thursday at 11am, Omar Momen will give a talk on "Surprisal and Metaphor Novelty Judgments: Moderate Correlations and Divergent Scaling Effects Revealed by Corpus-Based and Synthetic Datasets" (Omar Momen, Emilie Sitter, Berenike Herrmann, Sina Zarrieß, aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-lo...)!
Surprisal and Metaphor Novelty Judgments: Moderate Correlations and Divergent Scaling Effects Revealed by Corpus-Based and Synthetic Datasets
Omar Momen, Emilie Sitter, Berenike Herrmann, Sina Zarrieß. Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2026.
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Before we forget: of course, CLAUSE Bielefeld is also at @eaclmeeting.bsky.social 2026 in Rabat/Marocco! Our group is involved in a main conference papers:
Happening right now — @stefanhartmann.bsky.social presenting an extremely interesting case study on snowclones like »x is the new y«. 🗣️
I have just returned from a week-long visit to Bielefeld University! Thank you very much for hosting me Sina Zarrieß and @ozgealacam.bsky.social 😊 @clausebielefeld.bsky.social
This week we’re having @ecekt.bsky.social as our guest in Bielefeld. She gave a highly timely talk on language+vision models, how they process images under noise conditions, and about how to train a highly effective multimodal BabyLM with model merging. 🗣️👀💻
For years since the GPT-2 paper, emergent in-context learning (ICL) from 'next-token' training has been treated as something deeply tied to 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞. But … is it?
Am I evil? Am I likeable? Need a 10 minutes break? Like Fantasy? Loath it? Take part in our study and help us by rating images of fictional characters here: bixprag.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/publix/0aSWK...
For this week’s group colloquium, we invited Loulou Kosmala from Paris-Est Créteil University. She gave a talk on multimodal feedback during all types of conversation, from real life to virtual, from learners to adults, from L1 to L2, and more! 🤩
As part of this year's BabyLM challenge, we (researchers from @gronlp.bsky.social and @clausebielefeld.bsky.social diverged from established pretraining paradigm by training only on dialogue data from CHILDES.
Preprint alert! We release BabyBabelLM, a multilingual benchmark of developmentally plausible training data. I was responsible for German and Polish data as well as various child-directed wikis. Immensely rewarding project with exceptionally cool co-authors. 🥳🚀
Francesca Padovani@frap98.bsky.social · 10mo ago𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞? 🇨🇳🇮🇩🇸🇪 Here’s the proof! 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐋𝐌 is the first Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data available for 45 languages to the NLP community 🎉 arxiv.org/abs/2510.10159
𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞? 🇨🇳🇮🇩🇸🇪 Here’s the proof! 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐋𝐌 is the first Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data available for 45 languages to the NLP community 🎉 arxiv.org/abs/2510.10159
Happening in an hour! 🥳
CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University@clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 11mo agoIf you are at #IWCS, then you should not miss Sanne‘s talk ”Not Just Who or What: Modeling the Interaction of Linguistic and Annotator Variation in Hateful Word Interpretation“ (Sanne Hoeken, Özge Alacam, Dong Nguyen, Massimo Poesio, Sina Zarrieß), tomorrow at 16:30! 🕟 @sannehoeken.bsky.social
If you are at #IWCS, then you should not miss Sanne‘s talk ”Not Just Who or What: Modeling the Interaction of Linguistic and Annotator Variation in Hateful Word Interpretation“ (Sanne Hoeken, Özge Alacam, Dong Nguyen, Massimo Poesio, Sina Zarrieß), tomorrow at 16:30! 🕟 @sannehoeken.bsky.social
Happening now: Sina‘s keynote on our BabyLM work. 🥳
Great first day at #KONVENS2015 today. Looking forward to another engaging day with a keynote by Sina Zarrieß tomorrow 🤓 @clausebielefeld.bsky.social
Don’t miss Sina‘s keynote on BabyLMs at #konvens tomorrow!
bastian bunzeck@bbunzeck.bsky.social · 11mo agoFrom conference to conference — after last week’s #semdial I am at #konvens in Hildesheim this week. I will be presenting out German BabyLM Corpus (with @simphon.bsky.social) and our PI Sina Zarrieß will give a Keynote on BabyLMs tomorrow. 🥳
Final day at #semdial2025 #bialogue — four more presentations, one key note and hopefully many engaging discussions. Let's go!
