On October 16th, 1 day before #INLG2026, the UU will hold the 4th Dealing with Meaning Variation workshop, led by Massimo Poesio. The program is currently being drafted and will include both Utrecht and invited speakers. More details coming up soon! sites.google.com/view/dealing...

Check out this batch of papers headed straight to Budapest! #EMNLP2026 #NLProc #NLP #ComputationalLinguistics

🆕 Check out our lineup of workshops! Both research and position papers are welcome. 2026.inlgmeeting.org/workshops-tu...

This week the decisions for #COLM are out (8th of July) and the #EMNLP author response period has started (July 7-13). If you're looking for an alternative #NLProc venue: please consider #INLG! (Either via ARR or direct submissions.) Submission deadline is July 15. See: 2026.inlgmeeting.org

As you read this, some of our colleagues and friends are packing their suitcases for #ACL2026, San Diego, and some are updating their Zoom to the latest version. Feel free to connect!

CS-NLP Group, Utrecht University@cs-nlp-uu.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hugh Mee Wong, Rick Nouwen, Albert Gatt When Models Decide and When They Bind: A Two-Stage Computation for Multiple-Choice Question Answering arxiv.org/abs/2601.03914

The 2nd Call for Papers for #INLG2026 is out! Two ways to submit: 📄 Direct submissions, archival and not, by 15 July: openreview.net/group?id=acl... 💍 ARR commitments by 5 August: openreview.net/group?id=acl... ——— 📍Utrecht, NL — Oct 17–21, 2026, right before EMNLP 2026.inlgmeeting.org/calls.html

Our heartfelt congratulations to Eduardo Calò, who successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Automatically Expressing the Meaning of Logical Formulae in Natural Language" on 17 June at the Academiegebouw.

To assess whether multilingual NLP performs well across languages, we need to evaluate it on all world languages.That is not feasible.This paper implements two sampling methods from linguistic typology and provides a Python package to facilitate this: doi.org/10.1162/COLI... @andreashhp.bsky.social

Some more events to look forward to:

Saad Mahamood@saad.me.uk · 5mo ago

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...

Utrecht people on the roof somewhere...

Our team's talks at #LREC2026 are conveniently scheduled on the same day, May 14th. Meet you at the conference!

CS-NLP Group, Utrecht University@cs-nlp-uu.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A humble bundle of submissions by our group & friends to appear in LREC proceedings. Meet you in the merry month of May! #LREC2026 #NLP

🚂 Choo choo! Next stop: Utrecht Maliebaan Part train station, part railway museum, and the future home of #INLG2026. A 1874 station packed with 80+ historic trains, reached via its very own train from Utrecht Centraal. All aboard for October! Call for papers and more updates coming soon

Excited to share that the group (&friends) will present 3 new #NLProc papers at #ACL2026 in San Diego 🌴!

We're glad to be contributing to #INLG2026 organization and hope that we will manage to make the event as nice as ever!

INLG 2026@inlg.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📍It's official! #INLG2026 is coming to Utrecht, Netherlands, Oct 17-21! Hosted with support from Utrecht University and the local NLP community. Follow us here and check 2026.inlgmeeting.org for updates -- hope to see you there!

A humble bundle of submissions by our group & friends to appear in LREC proceedings. Meet you in the merry month of May! #LREC2026 #NLP

In the latest Vision & Language Lab meeting, @akskuchi.bsky.social told us about his new project, which investigates how well multimodal models can identify important moments in videos as well as the effects of including different modalities. Thank you, @akskuchi.bsky.social, for coming to Utrecht!

Join the meeting of the Utrecht NLP Hub on 29.01 in the Science Park library. The programme features talks by Jelle Zuidema and Hosein Mohebbi and focuses on speech model interpretability. 📅 29-01-2026 ⏰ 09:00 utrechtnlphub.sites.uu.nl/2025/11/06/n... #UniversiteitUtrecht #UtrechtUniversity #UU

NLP@U period-2 meeting

The 2025-2026 period-2 meeting of NLP@U will be hosted by the Faculty of Science. There will be presentations by Jelle Zuidema and Hosein Mohebbi. After the talks, there will be a round of short pitch...

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This week, it was our pleasure to welcome @ilkerkesen.bsky.social, who shared some of his and his group's latest findings with our group. It shows how multimodal learning can help models transcend the boundaries of writing systems. We enjoyed İlker's company and look forward to his future work!

This week I’m in Utrecht! I’m visiting Utrecht University to give an invited seminar talk on pixel language models, hosted by the NLP Research Group led by Albert Gatt. Note: Don’t be fooled by the image; the weather is cloudy as expected! #NLProc

New opinion paper out with Esther Ploeger (Aalborg University): We Need to Measure Data Diversity in NLP — Better and Broader at #EMNLP2025 (main) aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...

We Need to Measure Data Diversity in NLP — Better and Broader

Dong Nguyen, Esther Ploeger. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2025.

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I will be attending EMNLP in China to present our paper with @bylinina.bsky.social (who will be in China, too) and Jakub Dotlacil in the BabyLM workshop! Looking forward to meeting people there! ✨ 😊 #EMNLP2025 @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social lnkd.in/e-Bzz6De

I successfully defended my PhD in Dutch fashion and required a PhD certificate in Latin. Thank you to the amazing people that got me here, a.o. @dongng.bsky.social and the ones I blur here.

Check out our group's contributions to #EMNLP2025! All details on Linkedin due to character limit: www.linkedin.com/posts/nlp-gr...