With Count Binface in the news this week, I'm reminded of his cameo appearance in my PhD thesis
Gavin Abercrombie
@gavina.bsky.social
natural language things @ https://sites.google.com/site/hwinteractionlab/ gavinabercrombie.github.io Euskaldun berria Tha beagan Gàidhlig agam
Today at LREC, Tanvi Dinkar presented our counterspeech paper "Can NLP Tackle Hate Speech in the Real World?" www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/...
On Tuesday I had a poster at @nlperspectives.bsky.social workshop. Paper is available at lrec-conf.org/proceedings/...
We have arrived at the Palau de Congressos for NLPerspectives 5, which starts in less than an hour!
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! 🏝️
WOAH is piloting its very first mentorship programme, please consider volunteering as a mentor 👩🏻🏫
🚨 CFP: WOAH @ #EMNLP2026 🚨 The 10th Workshop on Online Abuse & Harms is here! ✨ Theme: Ten Years of WOAH: Progress & New Frontiers 🆕 Mentorship programme (apply by April 10!) 📅 Submission: June 26 📍 Workshop: Oct 24–29 🔗 workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Join us! 🌍 #NLP #WOAH
Anyone else having trouble submitting FAccT re-reviews?
📢 Join our team in Hamburg! The Trustworthy AI lab 🤝 is looking for a Research Associate for a novel DFG-funded project on ethical multi-agent systems of LLMs. 🤖 Full-time | EGR. 13 TV-L | Apply by 8 April 2026 🔗 www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan... #TrustworthyAI #LLM #AcademicJobs #Hamburg
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Spring is right around the corner and so does our 2026 NLPerspectives workshop! We got you extra days to submit your paper 🤩 having March 2nd as the new deadline. Hope to see you in Palma De Mallorca 🏝️ nlperspectives.di.unito.it/workshops/w2...
Highly recommend reading: "Big AI is Accelerating the Metacrisis: What Can We Do?" arxiv.org/pdf/2512.24863
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📢 2nd Call for Papers! Submit your original work, non-archival papers, and research communications on perspectivist data, modelling, and evaluation to our workshop co-located with LREC in Palma de Mallorca. Deadline: February 27 nlperspectives.di.unito.it/workshops/w2...
📣 CFP now open! NLPerspectives @ LREC2026 is calling for papers. Join us in Palma de Mallorca (May 11–16) to explore fresh approaches to perspectives in NLP. 🗓️ Deadline: Feb 27, 2026 Let’s rethink how we represent, evaluate, and hear, viewpoints in NLP research. #NLPerspectives #LREC2026
📢 PhD & postdoc call for start in autumn 2026 📢 Join a new interdisciplinary project on Human-Centered Explainable LLMs @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk ⏳ 1 Feb 2026 ℹ️ www.copenlu.com/news/funded-... 🗒️ employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=15... (PhD); employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... (Postdoc)
⏳ Only 5 days left to apply! Please note the updated application link (due to a recent university webpage update): 👉 PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Cand...
PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing
PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing
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📢 Are you interested in a PhD in #NLProc to study and improve how AI model emotions and social signals? 🚨Exciting news:🚨 I’m hiring a PhD candidate at LIACS, @unileiden.bsky.social. 📍 Leiden, The Netherlands 📅 Deadline: 17 Nov 2025 👉 Position details and application link: tinyurl.com/5x5v6zsa
Do annotators agree with each other? No But they agree with themselves, right? Also no
🚨I'm recruiting a fully funded EPSRC PhD student (start 2026/27) to work with me and Mohammad Taher Pilehvar on multilingual misinformation and online harms in #NLP. (the position is open to UK and international students.) Details and contact information 👇: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Designing Reliable NLP Systems for Cross-Lingual Information Environments at Cardiff University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Designing Reliable NLP Systems for Cross-Lingual Information Environments at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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I'll be at the NLPerspectives workshop tomorrow, giving a talk on "Cultural Awareness in Multilingual LLMs" in the morning and then being part of a panel discussion in the afternoon. Come join and share your perspectives on the topic!
Detailed programme now up on website. Looking forward to 14 research papers, results of the 3rd Shared Task on Learning with Disagreements (LeWiDi), a talk from @camachocollados.bsky.social, and a panel discussion feat. Jose, Eve Fleisig, and @beiduo.bsky.social. See you in Room A305 or online!
Tomorrow in Suzhou
Detailed programme now up on website. Looking forward to 14 research papers, results of the 3rd Shared Task on Learning with Disagreements (LeWiDi), a talk from @camachocollados.bsky.social, and a panel discussion feat. Jose, Eve Fleisig, and @beiduo.bsky.social. See you in Room A305 or online!
I finally got my visa for China. Who do I know that will be at EMNLP?
New blog: Good diagrams for research papers Ive seen a number of diagrams recently which are too complicated and difficult to understand. I explain some of the problems I see and give advice. ehudreiter.com/2025/10/08/g...
Good diagrams for research papers
Ive seen a number of diagrams recently which are too complicated and difficult to understand. I explain some of the problems I see and give advice.
ehudreiter.com
📢 Are you interested in a PhD in #NLProc to study and improve how AI model emotions and social signals? 🚨Exciting news:🚨 I’m hiring a PhD candidate at LIACS, @unileiden.bsky.social. 📍 Leiden, The Netherlands 📅 Deadline: 17 Nov 2025 👉 Position details and application link: tinyurl.com/5x5v6zsa
PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing
The Faculty of Science and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) are looking for a:PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing (1.0fte)Project descr...
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Applications open for PhD entry September 2026: www.cdt-d2air.uk Get in touch if you're interested in applying
Has anybody managed to get a letter of invitation from @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social for visa purposes? I am not getting replies to emails
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🌈 Help with my LGBTQIA+ research! 🌈 I'm building a dataset to fight harmful LGBTQIA+ stereotypes in AI. Take my quick survey: 👉 IT: lnkd.in/dfPuyT6j 👉 NL: lnkd.in/d-3Di7WY 👉 FA: lnkd.in/dfvWzWCu Everybody is welcome! 📤 Share if you can!
📢 The slides from the CSHAM tutorial are now available on our website! 🔗 Check it out: sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
CSHAM - Slides
IntroductionMarco Guerini
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I have two fully funded PhD positions in my group. If you want to work on persona based dialogical models or using LLMs to fight online harms then consider applying!
📢 Do you want to join our group? We opened **two** calls for a fully funded PhD. Details are in the image and at the following links. Calls: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad... PhD Details: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad... Deadline: August 22nd, 2025, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST)
Today 14:00-17:30 in Hall N.1-N.2
Last but not least, we present the CSHAM organisers. Daniel Russo (@daniel-russo.bsky.social), Helena Bonaldi (@helenabon.bsky.social), Yi-Ling Chung, Gavin Abercrombie (@gavina.bsky.social), Marco Guerini (@marcoguerini.bsky.social). We are excited to see you all tomorrow at 2 pm at #ACL2025NLP 👀
Delighted to introduce Cathy Buerger, our first invited speaker for the "NLP for Counterspeech against Hate and Misinformation" tutorial. Join us to hear her insightful work on "Co-designing Counterspeech: Rethinking AI's Role" #ACL2025NLP More details ⤵️ sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
CSHAM - Program
Sunday, July 27 (UTC+1)
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