Esra Dönmez

@esradonmez.bsky.social

PhD candidate at the IMS (University of Stuttgart). Working toward pluralistic AI alignment and the development of trustworthy, safe, fair language technologies.

I'm looking for a new PhD student to come join me at UAlberta & Amii to study trans perspectives on AI policy & the future of AI as part of my new lab. The position is fully funded and offers access to a range of supports - more details in the poster below!

Flyer with qualifications and details for the PhD position.

NLPerspectives workshop is less than a week! Are you ready? We'll have 🎤 Federico Cabitza keynote 📜 Posters ⭕ Participatory session 🚣 Panel 🧑‍🍳 Dinner (check in with us where we plan to go) Looking forward to seeing everyone on May 12, room 4 #LREC! 🏝️

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I’m organizing two tracks for papers at the intersection of NLP/AI and climate: (1) A special issue in Climatic Change: “NLP and AI as Climate Solutions: Opportunities and Challenges” (2) The 3rd ClimateNLP Workshop at EMNLP 2026 Consider submitting if you have relevant work!

@climate-nlp.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢📢 Call for Papers is out for the Third ClimateNLP Workshop at EMNLP 2026 📢📢 🚀 We invite short and long papers at the intersection of climate change and NLP 🌍 🗓️ Submission Deadline (preliminary): May 10th, 2026 more info: nlp4climate.github.io/callforpapers/

Extracting structural/linguistic properties for large text datasets can be annoying. Existing tools either are not maintained, do not scale, or do not cover extensive sets of linguistic features. For this reason, I implemented 🧝elfen, a Python package for efficient linguistic feature extraction

Code examples for the Python package elfen:

# initializing extractor
extractor = elfen.Extractor(
data = df,
language = "en",
text_column = "text")
# extracting a single feature: ttr
extractor.extract("ttr")
# extracting a feature area/group: readability
extractor.extract_feature_group("readability")
# extracting all available features
extractor.extract_features()

I'm excited to announce the Call for Papers for the Social Context (SoCon) and Integrating NLP and Psychology to Study Social Interactions (NLPSI) workshop, @ LREC '26 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain! 🗓Deadline: February 16, 2026 🌐Website: socon-nlpsi.github.io 🗓Workshop: May 12, 2026

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Natural Language Processing (NLP) has undergone a significant evolution, opening up the possibility of capturing high-level aspects of human communication. Key areas of interest include the pragmatics...

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🚨 Are you looking for a PhD in #NLProc dealing with #LLMs? 🎉 Good news: I am hiring! 🎉 The position is part of the “Contested Climate Futures" project. 🌱🌍 You will focus on developing next-generation AI methods🤖 to analyze climate-related concepts in content—including texts, images, and videos.

Crowdsourcing datasets is very common, but how much of those results come from LLMs these days? How can we prevent it? Much of it is unclear. This is why we’re conducing a survey (~10 min) to gather community experiences, challenges, and solutions. Share your thoughts 👉https://tinyurl.com/39ab55wf

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#CallforProposals for the 1st funding period in the new established #PriorityProgramme "Robust Assessment & Safe Applicability of Language Modelling", adressing researchers in the interdisciplinary field of the cognitive and computational language sciences. More details ⬇️ www.dfg.de/en/news/news...

Priority Programme “Robust Assessment & Safe Applicability of Language Modelling: Foundations for a New Field of Language Science & Technology (LaSTing)” (SPP 2556)

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How does the public conceptualize AI? Rather than self-reported measures, we use metaphors to understand the nuance and complexity of people’s mental models. In our #FAccT2025 paper, we analyzed 12,000 metaphors collected over 12 months to track shifts in public perceptions.

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