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Marcel Bollmann

@marcel.bollmann.me

Associate professor at @liu.se 🇸🇪, site development lead for @aclanthology.org, editor-in-chief at @nejlt.bsky.social. Mildly obscure #NLP researcher. I like coffee and board games. 🏠 https://marcel.bollmann.me/

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Marcel Bollmann@marcel.bollmann.me · 4d ago

TFW your emergency reviewer finds that the abstract is 49 words too long and some sections are in the slightly wrong place, and make this their entire review 🤡 ... god, I hate this circus sometimes

David Picard@davidpicard.eurosky.social · 6d ago

My prediction is that "a substantial part of humanity will die within the next 50 years" has a high probability. It has absolutely nothing to do with rogue AI. It's climate change. Because this species is too greedy to understand the tragedy of the commons.

Sean Carroll@seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 6d ago

My thoughts on existential risk: * Humanity isn't going to be wiped out any time soon. * Negligible chance that AI by itself causes catastrophic damage to humanity (millions dead). * Some nontrivial chance that human beings will leverage AI to help them do something catastrophically harmful.

LAGoM NLP@lagom-nlp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This Sunday at 5pm at #ACL2026 in the multilingual session, Kushal Tatariya and Artur Kulmizev will present our work on auditing the quality of Wikipedia for low-resource NLP, see the paper here: aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon...

How Good is Your Wikipedia? Auditing Data Quality for Low-resource and Multilingual NLP

Kushal Tatariya, Artur Kulmizev, Wessel Poelman, Esther Ploeger, Marcel Bollmann, Johannes Bjerva, Jiaming Luo, Heather Lent, Miryam de Lhoneux. Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Associati...

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Jelle Zuidema 🟥@wzuidema.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I don't understand why the ACL/ARR organizers think this is an appropriate way to communicate with area chairs... The peer review system is collapsing, and the whole system of science as we know it requires a rethink. But let's be kind to eachother in the process and not forget what we are here for.

This is a reminder that the meta-reviews are due TODAY 4 March AoE. Please remember that if you don't sumit your meta-reviews on time you might be considered highly irresponsible, which means your co-authored papers may be desk rejected and you may become ineligible from committing to *CL conferences or (re-)submitting any work on the the next ARR cycle.
Djamé 🟥@zehavoc.bsky.social · 7mo ago

God, something is wrong in the way ARR is handling stuff, I keep receiving message from pp almost begging to be removed from the author list bc they can't keep up with the reviewing load, especially on a paper outside their area of expertise, and they don't want their student to be desk rejected

ACL Anthology@aclanthology.org · 8mo ago

Today, the ACL Anthology switched to a new system for how author pages work. From now on, ORCID iDs will be the main mechanism for matching papers to the correct author. 🧵⤵️

John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This is terrifying. "[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them." ... "We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" -@seanjwestwood.bsky.social

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Marcel Bollmann@marcel.bollmann.me · 12mo ago

I often long for a place to just post whimsical personal updates for friends, but that kind of place doesn’t exist anymore. In my personal bubble, social media has long become too fragmented and/or abandoned for that purpose.

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Djamé 🟥@zehavoc.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Just found out that yet another paper on North African Arabizi didn't find our work worth citing. they even wrote "No Arabizi-specific metric or resource exists for our dialect selection ». We were the first to release an annotated dataset for this dialect, published at acl and shit. Discouraging.

Your dataset looks very cool, but I don't understand why you say “no Arabizi-specific metric or resource exists for our dialect selection”? When you contacted me, it seemed to me that you were aware of my work on Arabizi (e.g., [1,2], not to mention the cross-lingual work with Maltese [2] or character-based language models for Arabizi [4]). One of the crucial points of this work was also to propose translations into French from Algerian Arabizi, which could have helped you use a ground truth for your translation models. I'll be honest with you, I find it extremely discouraging to see that pioneering work in the processing of a language with such limited resources as Algerian Arabic dialect is not cited, even though it has been published in the major conference in the field and the data is freely available (unlike the vast majority of dialectal resources for Arabic). If even colleagues working on the same language don't find it necessary to cite us, what's the point of investing so much time and money in this type of work? In short, I hope your work doesn't encounter the same pitfalls. [1] https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.acl-main.107.pdf [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14866 [3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00318 [4] https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.13658 (deepL translated, from French)