Attention Berlin people: On August 10 (next Monday), I'm co-hosting a meetup with Hugo and Jodie @t-redactyl.bsky.social at @jetbrains.com 🚀 Featuring: agents, agentic NLP, coding assistants and lightning talks. See you there! 📆 Mon, Aug 10, 6–9 pm 📍 JetBrains, Berlin ✅ RSVP: luma.com/agmd8ie4

At PyCon Armenia I finally got to meet Anna Vissens, Head of Data Science at @theguardian.com, in person! In her talk, she shared her team's in-depth analysis of sentiment towards immigration in parliament – using Prodigy for data annotation by humans and LLMs and spaCy for training classifiers.

I'm back from PyCon Armenia & PyData Yerevan ✨ This was such a fun and interesting trip and I enjoyed meeting many new people and getting to know Yerevan. Thanks to the organizers for inviting me and for putting on the event! Here are my highlights: www.linkedin.com/posts/inesmo...

I gave a talk on "Build-to-own AI: Agentic Development for Humans" at PyCon Armenia: how coding agents change the way we build ML systems and why code and programmable interfaces matter more than ever, not less. Here's the whole thing as a thread 🧵 (1/18)

In Yerevan, Armenia, for PyCon Armenia & PyData Yerevan! I'm giving the opening keynote on Friday (tomorrow) and will be talking about "build-to-own AI", agentic development for humans, and how to use AI to build better AI. Looking forward to seeing everyone and exploring Yerevan on my day off ✨

Got an incredible delivery in the mail today, the coolest set of tech stickers 😍 I love these, especially “data science” in metal font 🤘 Thank you @explosion.ai, @inesmontani.bsky.social, @honnibal.bsky.social !! #nlp #spacy #python

📣 Attention Prodigy users: If you're already using Prodigy for annotation, we've put together a page on how our new tool and platform Ellf can help you scale up and automate your data development projects. beta.ellf.ai/prodigy

Just published a new blog post ✨ Our recent work got me thinking about Atomic Design by @bradfrost.com, a methodology for building web interfaces & how neatly it maps to how we've been approaching applied NLP: atoms (components) → molecules (pipelines) → organisms (applications) → pages (products)

The video of my talk at @pydatalondon.bsky.social is now live! I discuss the evolution of coding agents, why we should use LLMs to build systems, what's currently holding us back, and how we built a virtual assistant to help developers solve real-world NLP problems. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA3z...

Ines Montani - Vibe NLP for Applied NLP | Pydata London 26

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Spent the weekend in beautiful Pavia, Italy, for Py4AI ☀️ I travelled with @honnibal.bsky.social and together we gave a talk about Vibe NLP and some of the new stuff we've been building. Here are some highlights: www.linkedin.com/posts/inesmo...

“The shortest distance is not necessarily the best one, if you want to go to London you do not start walking there, you go on your computer do buy the tickets; same with llm, ask them to write code to do the thing”

Some thoughts on how to do beta testing well, the importance of building things and using your own tools, and what we're currently doing:

I'm back from @pydatalondon.bsky.social, so here's my obligatory recap with highlights ✨ www.linkedin.com/posts/inesmo...

In London for @pydatalondon.bsky.social! My talk on Vibe NLP and agentic NLP development is on Sunday, and there's a bunch of new stuff we've been working on that I can't wait to share and demo ✨ You'll also find me at the Feminist AI unconference on Saturday. Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Thank you to spaCy devs @explosion.ai (@inesmontani.bsky.social and @honnibal.bsky.social) for demoing their latest project, Ellf! Def an exciting tool to have in an NLP engineer's toolbelt. Ellf is fully private and makes the full model dev lifecycle for NLP projects agentic. Join the beta!👇 (0/2)

It's the second day of #LREC2026! If you're into #multimodality and collaborative annotation, come check out our work on building microtask pipelines for multimodal annotation on top of Prodigy by @explosion.ai. Find us in Session P6.1.2: Corpora and Treebanks V at Poster Area 2. Poster ⤵️

Want to be a beta partner of our upcoming product for agentic NLP? We're looking for teams who need help with their NLP projects, especially around tasks like information extraction. Ellf is a virtual assistant for NLP projects – think Claude Code, but with NLP superpowers, or "Vibe NLP" ✨

I'm back from @pyconde.bsky.social and here are some of my favourite moments and highlights 🖤 www.linkedin.com/posts/inesmo...

In Darmstadt for PyCon DE @pyconde.bsky.social and looking forward to a busy busy conference! If you're attending, come say hi – I'll be co-hosting the Feminist AI lounge on the third floor and giving a talk on Thursday and showing some of the very latest stuff we've been working on (vibe NLP!) 🔮

Super-experimental at this point—but I am now embedding a local LLM inside Prodigy to assist with NER annotations... 1. Using `correct` recipe, LatinCy model tags likely entities 2. Optional "Ask LLM" button queries Mistral based on text/tags 3. Add'l RAG runs over the project's NER guidelines

I've been getting a lot of questions recently about optimizing annotation workflows – many new NLP projects are starting atm! ✨ To share some of our tips, I put together a blog post featuring examples inspired by real use cases and a checklist to help you get started. explosion.ai/blog/optimiz...

The ultimate guide to optimizing annotation workflows · Explosion

This blog post collects tips and advice for how to build efficient human-in-the-loop data development workflows, break down business problems into actionable annotation steps and make the most of auto...

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Back from a great PyCon Ireland #PyConIE in Dublin! 💚 As always, some of my personal highlights: www.linkedin.com/posts/inesmo...

Great wisdom by @inesmontani.bsky.social at #PyConIE

Back from a few days in Amsterdam for PyData! Here are some of my highlights: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

In town for PyData Amsterdam! Who will be there? 🙋‍♀️ Looking forward to chatting about NLP and more, some cool Feminist AI hacking and catching up with everyone. I also have some brand new and exciting dev tooling to demo for those interested ✨

I was interviewed for a German article on it-daily about efficient AI development in industry, the role of open source, and using Generative AI to create systems and data for smaller models. Thanks Silvia for the feature! www.it-daily.net/it-managemen...

What a great meetup! Thanks to everyone who came by yesterday for an evening of real-world AI and bullshit-free strategies for building LLM applications. Recap and highlights: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

I'm back from a busy four days in London! 💜 I had a great time at @pydatalondon.bsky.social‬ and you can read my recap and highlights here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

At #PyData London @inesmontani.bsky.social confirms our suspicions that we should try not to work with PDFs directly. Do the expensive extraction upfront into a unified structured format and build all your analysis and #NLP components yourself so you can better modularise @pydatalondon.bsky.social