Haven't checked out our programme yet? You can find an online version at conferences.uni-bielefeld.de/frontend/ind... where you can now also download the book of abstracts! 📖 #DGKL2026 #BLinguistik #linguistics #CognitiveLinguistics

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Golden Gate Claude was actually the peak of human civilization and it has all been downhill since then simonwillison.net/2024/May/24/...

New paper by Alvin W. M. Tan, Kirsten Read, Sophia Gamboa, Janet Bang, and @vmarchman.bsky.social showing text in children's books is lexically and grammatically richer than spontaneous child-directed speech. ldr.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/9...

Honestly we would be better off if the social movement that organized around Stochastic Parrots had said the same thing in late 2022: “We meant *base models* had no communicative intent and no access to meaning; instruction tuning changes that by creating a communicative situation!”

Human social interaction relies on a universal, biologically rooted engine that enables rapid communication long before children master the… The Interaction Engine by Stephen C. Levinson https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.e3df24b2 #CognitiveScience

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Open models, narrow interests, hard questions

The discussion around open models has been largely co-opted by self interests, from all sides, masking over critical complexities. This drains this debate from impact, beyond opportunistic signaling d...

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Claude has had enough

Everyone who knows how to use a computer is now saying “well, why shouldn’t I use AI to write a paper and send it to a conference? Worst case it’s rejected.” The wave is coming.

honestly those people don't know anything

"LLMs mean you don't have to know things, you can just do things" assumes a clean separation that probably doesn't exist. You know what you want to do in part because of what you know / understand

This week we are in Rio 🌴 🦜🩴, Brazil 🇧🇷 for CogSci 😍 @frap98.bsky.social will present on a computational study of verb meaning acquisition in children co-authors: @jumelet.bsky.social @yevgenm.bsky.social @arianna-bis.bsky.social 🏛️ Session T.04 🗓️ July 24, 10:45 @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

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

Congratulations to Brian MacWhinney, IASCL Assistant Secretary, on receiving the Yuen Ren Chao Prize in Language Science (Lifetime Achievement Award). Read more about Brian on our website: www.childlanguage.org/brian-macwhi...

It was a pleasure to moderate the panel at the ACL 2026 SRW: "The next big questions in NLP: What should students work on?" Huge thanks to our panelists, @boydgraber.bsky.social, @igurevych.bsky.social, Preslav Nakov and Yulia Tsvetkov for their thoughtful answers and helpful advice! Takeaways 👇

Really excited about this new preprint spearheaded by @vboyce.bsky.social w/ @mcxfrank.bsky.social and the Peekbank team. It's a deep-dive into a large looking-while-listening dataset (>3000 children!), evaluating what analytic and design choices really matter for measurement osf.io/preprints/ps...

Periodic reminder that you should try to finish projects rather than start new ones

⏳ The BlackboxNLP 2026 Reproducibility Challenge deadline has been extended to July 24 (AoE) ⏳ If you've been working on a robustness check, ablation, or replication of recent NLP interpretability work, you have a bit more time to get your submission in.

For everyone interested in computational psycholinguistics, please feel encouraged to submit your work to the 2nd edition of the Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting, co-organized by our lenajaeger.bsky.social, to be held in Utrecht, NL. cpl2026.sites.uu.nl/2026/05/19/c...

Call for Abstracts open! | Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2026

The call for abstracts for CPL 2026 is now open! We welcome contributions on any topic related to computational psycholinguistics, including both novel work and recently published research. Check the ...

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We must reduce the reviewing load, and we DO NOT have an obligation to accept all free-loaders (but we can decide to accept some, in manageable numbers). #NLP #ACL #ARR #EMNLP2026

Children master language either by internalizing innate grammatical rules or by building complex systems from stored examples of phrases they hear. Language Acquisition by Ben Ambridge https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.b4a2349c #CognitiveScience

Language models and coding agents are great, but there is more to life, and more to AI, than just LLM agents.

With my ACL PC abilities, I wanted to characterize who these folks are, whether they're actually "outsiders", whether their papers are much less likely to be accepted, is this growth just LLM slop? The whole analsis is here medium.com/@jurgens_245...

Is the ACL Rolling Review actually broken?

ARR is broken! ARR is being overwhelmed with papers from outsiders! LLM-generated slop is ruining our peer review! There are not enough…

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There is something endearing about the excessive usage of em dashes in review responses. These authors are clearly outside of the Western conversation-sphere where em dashes have become taboo.

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)