👀 Look what 🎅 has broght just before Christmas 🎁: a brand new Research Master in Natural Language Processing at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu... Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)

Natural Language Processing

How do you build Large Language Models? How do humans experience Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications in their daily lives? And how can we...

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🚨 Exciting news from #EVALITA2026 (@ailc-nlp.bsky.social)! I'm co-organizing Cruciverb-IT, the first shared task on crossword solving 🧩✍️ together with Ciaccio C., @gsarti.com, Dell'Orletta F. and @malvinanissim.bsky.social! If you love cracking crosswords (or cracking models that do), join us! 🎉

Today we were at #CLIN35 hosted by @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social - as always: great interactions, meeting old friends/colleagues, and lots of presentations from us @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

We recharged our batteries with a wonderful weekend together in the province of Drenthe! 🌳🍃 As per tradition, we kick off the academic year with plenty of sharing, smiles, and sports 💘 We wish everyone a wonderful start of the academic year <3 may it be inspiring and exciting 🎓

In the run-up to #WorldPressFreedomDay, we are reminded of the importance of press freedom and our duty to uphold freedom of expression. @malvinanissim.bsky.social agrues that #AIliteracy should be central to the discussion. Read more 👇 www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

It was great being at #COLING2025 in Abu Dhabi last week! There, I presented our work with @malvinanissim.bsky.social and @van-rijn.org on evaluating the confidence of LLMs as proxy for the difficulty of Multiple-Choice Questions. You can check out our work here: aclanthology.org/2025.coling-...