Miryam de Lhoneux

@mdlhx.bsky.social

NLP assistant prof at KU Leuven, PI @lagom-nlp.bsky.social. I like syntax more than most people. Also multilingual NLP, interpretability, mountains and beer. (She/her)

The SAC highlight felt particularly sweet after the paper got desk-rejected by TACL, and 6 months later, rejected with a D* based on two reviews, one of which was 70% factually incorrect, meta-reviewed in one sentence. *we had appealed the DR, it was an extensively reworked and rebutted resubmission

LAGoM NLP@lagom-nlp.bsky.social · last wk.

July has been a good month: * Our ACL paper about Wikipedia quality was awarded an SAC highlight (aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon...) * @colemanhaley.bsky.social joined our lab as a postdoc * Coleman's CoNLL paper about impossible languages won the best paper award (aclanthology.org/2026.conll-m...)

SAC highlight award from ACL 2026 in San Diego for our paper "How Good is Your Wikipedia? Auditing Data Quality for Low-resource and Multilingual NLP"

📢⚠️ IMPORTANT DATE CORRECTION: the ARR deadline for EACL 2027 is Aug 3, 2026 (not Aug 6 as previously announced). EACL is earlier than usual in '27, so this is the only viable ARR cycle! 📚 All areas of CL/NLP + related fields welcome. Full CfP coming soon. #NLProc #EACL2027

EACL 2027@eaclmeeting.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Attention #NLProc researchers, the EACL 2027 website is officially LIVE: 2027.eacl.org! 🎉 🇬🇷 Join us in Athens, Greece (Mar 9-13, 2027) at #EACL2027 📅 ARR submission deadline: Aug 6, 2026. Open to all areas of CL/NLP + related fields. Stay tuned for the detailed CfP soon!

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BPE-knockout just got outperformed by an algorithm that modifies BPE tokenisers in a feedback loop to make them absorb more and more constraints. It doesn't even need more data to do that. It uses the tokeniser itself as a dataset. 🧵

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