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

For today's reading group, @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social presented "Old Habits Die Hard: How Conversational History Geometrically Traps LLMs" by Simhi et al. (2026) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.03308 #NLProc

🧠🤖 It was a pleasure to host @andreadevarda.bsky.social for his talk, "Large Language Models as Models of Human Language(s) and Higher-Level Cognition." A truly inspiring talk! #NLProc

🏆 Congrats to @zeerak.bsky.social and @dirkhovy.bsky.social on the 2016 Test of Time Award! 🎉 "Hateful Symbols or Hateful People? Predictive Features for Hate Speech Detection on Twitter" has shaped research on #hatespeech! Paper: aclanthology.org/N16-2013/ #NLProc

We welcome work on gender bias detection, mitigation, LLMs, intersectionality & more. Join us virtually on November 9! 🌐 Submit: openreview.net/group?id=acl... #NLProc #AACL2026

🚨 Some deadlines have been updated, so please check all dates on the CFP: gebnlp-workshop.github.io/cfp.html 📅 Direct submission: Sept 2, 2026 📅Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: Sep 29, 2026

📢 Second Call for Papers! The 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP #GeBNLP returns, co-located with AACL 2026. This time fully remote! 🚀 Still time to submit! 🗓️

For our last reading group, @pranav-nlp.bsky.social presented "Enhancing University Curricula with Integrated AI Ethics Education: A Comprehensive Approach" by Deb et al. (2025) Link: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #AIEthics #NLProc

We were honored to welcome Giulia Barbareschi to our lab for an inspiring conversation on inclusive technology and what NLP should learn from it. Thank you for sharing your insights and vision! #InclusiveTech #Accessibility #NLProc

🚨 Final Call for Papers: CPSS @ #KONVENS2026 🚨 Join us in Hamburg on September 14 (14.00-17.00) and 15 (9.00-12.00) to share your research at the intersection of NLP and social/political science. ⏳ Deadline: July 3, 2026 (23:59 CET) 🌐 sites.google.com/view/cpss202... #CompSocSci #NLP #CFP (1/3)

CPSS 2026 @ KONVENS

This is the 6th edition of the workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS), co-located with the KONVENS conference. Our main goal is to bring together researcher...

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What Makes Linguistic Representations Good Models of High-Level Visual Perception in the Human Brain? This question underlies the study presented in our new preprint. We trained brain-encoding models to predict fMRI responses to naturalistic images from LLM-derived embeddings of image captions.

@taniseceron.bsky.social is presenting her work about political content in pre-training and post-training data at the AI & Society conference. #AIandSociety #NLProc

Our call for papers is live!! The 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP will be co-located with AACL and will be remote-only. Deadline for direct submissions is September 2.

Gender Bias in NLP Workshop@genderbiasnlp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 Call for Papers! 📢 Submissions are open for the 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP #GeBNLP, co-located with AACL 2026! 🌐 GeBNLP 2026 will be held in remote-only mode 🗓️ Deadline: September 2, 2026

When you ask an LLM "What job can I get with no prior experience?" and then get recommended a low salary, would your background have changed the answer you receive? Surprisingly, perhaps not. Check out our paper with @gsarti.com @arianna-bis.bsky.social and Raquel Fernández: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02776

🎉 Excited to welcome Lorena Calvo Bartolomé to our lab! Her expertise in NLP and signal processing will bring fresh perspectives to our research. She will be working on TOLD, a project exploring voice-based data collection as a richer alternative to written annotation. #NLProc

Welcome @esradonmez.bsky.social! We’re excited to have her with us over the next few months, where she’ll be working on pluralistic alignment.

We had the pleasure of hosting @tresiwald.bsky.social and Alireza Salemi at our latest seminar. Andreas spoke about the reliability of language models through computational argumentation, while Alireza presented his work on personalizing LLMs. Thank you both for the inspiring talks! #NLProc

🍃2nd Call for Papers!😊 EMNLP 2026 Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue (MINT) welcomes work on multimodal communication, speech, gesture, gaze, facial expressions, datasets, eval methods, and applications! @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social mintworkshop.github.io

Heads up, #NLProc community! The 7th GeBNLP workshop is heading to AACL! 🌏 (and it'll be remote-friendly! 💻) While we’re still finalizing the details, we're putting this on your radar! 🚨 ✨ Start brainstorming those submissions now and stay tuned for the updates! #GeBNLP #AACL2026

It was a pleasure to host @marcostranisci.bsky.social and hear about his newly awarded Marie Curie project “DISHARM” - inspiring work and a great discussion! #NLProc

New paper at #LREC2026 🎉 We introduce ACID, a cross-cultural dataset to study classism in NLP. 🔍 Key findings: pervasive negative stereotypes especially concerning morality, frequent offensiveness, and strong individual blame. 🔗 lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-mai...

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

Can you boost your AI review scores by asking an LLM to rewrite your paper? Yes! We call it paper laundering Our @icmlconf.bsky.social spotlight paper argues current AI reviewers aren't ready to automate peer review, and outlines what a science of peer review automation should look like 🧵👇 #ICML2026

📚 For today's reading group Yujie Ren presented "Safe + Safe = Unsafe? Exploring How Safe Images Can Be Exploited to Jailbreak Large Vision-Language Models" by Cui et al. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.11496 #NLProc

New paper w/ UK AISI: Millions of people now use AI to help them write and communicate. In three experiments (14k participants, 3m+ human ratings) we show that AI writing assistance systematically distorts writer personas – their perceived beliefs, personality, and identity. 🧵

We are delighted to welcome @marlutz.bsky.social to our lab over the next few months! 🎉 She'll work on the representation of different demographic groups in LLMs. #NLProc

Excited to share that our paper "One Persona, Many Cues, Different Results: How Sociodemographic Cues Impact LLM Personalization" (joint work with @franziweeber.bsky.social, Jan Batzner and Sebastian Padó) got accepted to the main conference of #ACL 🎉

Vera Neplenbroek@veraneplenbroek.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Does it matter how you prompt an LLM with a persona? Do LLMs respond differently to natural conversation history compared to names and explicit mentions? Go check out our new preprint! 👀

The submission deadline for CMCL is coming up in less than a month! (Feb 25) CMCL will be co-located with LREC and take place on May 16!🌴https://sites.google.com/view/cmclworkshop/cfp

Ece Takmaz@ecekt.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) workshop will be co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma, Mallorca!🌴Stay tuned for more details!✨ @byungdoh.bsky.social Tatsuki Kuribayashi @grambelli.bsky.social Philipp Wicke, Jixing Li, Ryo Yoshida @cmclworkshop.bsky.social

Paper accepted to #EACL2026 main conference 🎉 @taniseceron.bsky.social, Sebastian Padó and I test multilingual LLMs before and after English-only fine-tuning and find strong cross-lingual political opinion transfer across five Western languages. www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.05553

Does it matter how you prompt an LLM with a persona? Do LLMs respond differently to natural conversation history compared to names and explicit mentions? Go check out our new preprint! 👀

Franzi Weeber@franziweeber.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Even with identical sociodemographic info, how LLMs are given it changes downstream bias results. Our new preprint (w/ @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social, Jan Batzner & Sebastian Padó) tests cues with varying external validity across 10 personas, 4 tasks & 7 LLMs: arxiv.org/abs/2601.18572