Can we get rid of "describe what this paper is about" in ARR meta-reviews?

Alvin Chen will be presenting our work on collaborative interactive theme discovery at the HCI-NLP session right now at Harbor B-C aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon... #ACL2026 #ACL2026NLP

Effects of Collaboration on the Performance of Interactive Theme Discovery Systems

Alvin Po-Chun Chen, Rohan Das, Dananjay Srinivas, Alexandra Barry, Maksim Seniw, Maria Leonor Pacheco. Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1...

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Come talk to @rohandas.net about our work on structured narrative induction at Grand Hall right now! #ACL2026 #ACL2026NLP

I still need one emergency reviewer for a paper on LLM evaluation

Come talk to @obed-junias.bsky.social about our work on logical composition in common sense reasoning at the poster session on the 4th floor right now! #ACL2026 #ACL2026NLP

I need *several* emergency reviewers on on mech interp for NLP. I also need emergency reviewers for papers on neuro-symbolic language reasoning, for a paper extracting symbolic structures from text, and for a paper on knowledge collapse in LLMs. Many missing reviews this cycle

I'll be at #ACL2026 starting this afternoon, let me know if you'd like to catch up. Check out all the work to be presented by our students in the next few days ⬇️

Boulder NLP@bouldernlp.bsky.social · last mo.

Boulder NLP has 19 papers accepted to #ACL2026 across the main conference, findings and workshops! 🚀 We'll be presenting work on morphology, machine translation, narratives, low-resource languages, CSS, HCI, LLMs, fairness/bias, and more. See you in San Diego! 🌊 ☀️ 🌮

Boulder NLP has 19 papers accepted to #ACL2026 across the main conference, findings and workshops! 🚀 We'll be presenting work on morphology, machine translation, narratives, low-resource languages, CSS, HCI, LLMs, fairness/bias, and more. See you in San Diego! 🌊 ☀️ 🌮

Recent earthquakes in northern Venezuela have caused an emergency the country is not equipped to handle. The state has lagged behind and citizens have been self-organizing. @caracaschronicles.tierra-de-gracia.com collected a list of trustworthy organizations to donate to if you are wanting to help:

Help Venezuela From Abroad: Cash Donations Matter Most Right Now | Caracas Chronicles

Supplies are being collected in the US and globally, but monetary transfers are the fastest way to deliver relief

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Welp, doing the AC checklists for ARR was a little depressing. After all the discourse around desk-rejections you'd think authors would double and triple check their references. How can we stop this craziness?

We don’t always know what problems are hard for LLMs. So devs evaluate on tasks HUMANS find hard or on broad benchmarks. What if we could instead anticipate which scenarios a model will fail on—all without evaluating specific input examples? 🧵NEW PAPER by @jenniferlumeng.bsky.social

I'll be presenting my student Chloe's @chloenlp.bsky.social work constructing a dataset of YouTube channels and their historical subscribers counts today at ICWSM. 3:30 pm poster session, 4 pm session. We have a pip package! github.com/blast-cu/tub...

I'll be in LA at ICWSM this week! I've never been to this conference before, so looking forward to it. Let me know if you're around and want to connect :)

Someone should write something more about this because this myth that people are just using models for info retrieval and code generation keeps coming back, fueled by our own discomfort and company reports that omit or downplay erotic usages of chatbots.

Maria Antoniak@mariaa.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There is a *ton* of erotic usage for ChatGPT, plus there are companies that specialize in role play like Character.AI with many, many users. And that’s just text, if we go to images and video... The big companies just don’t like to talk about it.

Did LLMs ruin the em-dash forever?

Computational approaches to media narrative analysis either miss nuanced storytelling patterns through coarse-grained analysis, or require domain-specific taxonomies that limit scalability. We show joint event and character modeling can address this gap. Details in our #ACL2026 (Main) paper. 🧵1/10

The #NLProc reciprocal reviewing policies are killing me as junior faculty with a mid-size group of junior students. At least one of them will submit to every cycle / relevant conference, but most of them are not qualified to review yet, so all of the reviewing burden falls on me 😭

What’s the best way to analyze online discourse on any given topic? Is there a right way to use NLP tools to sift through massive datasets? To find out, we tested several tools across different collaboration settings and report findings in an #ACL2026 (Main) paper: arxiv.org/abs/2408.09030 🧵1/7

Would love to get some colleagues at the intersection of NLP and CogSci. Reach out if you have any questions! Deadline: 31-Jul-2026

Check out the work by my wonderful students, to be presented at #ACL2026 (1/3) - A structured method for inducing media narratives without supervision, grounded in communication theory, led by @rohandas.net: arxiv.org/pdf/2604.10368

The paper acceptance notifications will be out by the 6th of April, AoE. The PCs are working hard throughout the holiday season to finalize the decisions. Apologies for the delay!

Can structured inference improve structured prediction with LLMs? BLAST Lab's Matt Pauk has answers! 💡 Read the paper: aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-lo... Find him at #EACL2026 🇲🇦✨ — Poster Session 6, March 27, 11:00–12:30.

Mapping the Course for Prompt-based Structured Prediction

Matt Pauk, Maria Leonor Pacheco. Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2026.

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We're thrilled to celebrate our own Martha Palmer, who has been appointed to the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI! Here's what she had to say: 🧵⬇️

Thinking about what makes me so mad about people's takes on Venezuela. Something clicked. It's fucking dehumanizing. All your takes on oil, international law, Trump. And our people? Dead, imprisoned, displaced, persecuted, impoverished, silenced. Don't expect us to shed any tears for the dictator.

"For the first time since this tragedy began, it felt like Venezuelans were finally given a voice on the world stage to tell our story without the noise of global electoral politics or distortions of activist ecosystems. Quite simply, our moment to speak."

A Moment of Vindication in Oslo | Caracas Chronicles

The speeches at the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony serve as a capstone rebuttal to those who once fell under the spell of chavismo’s social justice utopia

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Want to be an intern at Microsoft Research in the Computational Social Science group in NYC (Jake Hofman, David Rothschild, Dan Goldstein) Follow this link and do your thing! Deadline approaching soonish! apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...

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I need an emergency reviewer for a paper in semantic similarity and embedding model interpretability, please let me know if you can help! #NLProc

Strong showing from Boulder NLP at #EMNLP2025! 🚀 Come find us at these sessions to discuss morphology, semantics, LLMs, cultural analytics, HCI, and more. See you in Suzhou! 🇨🇳

I'm ded #NAACL25

We have a faculty panel about to start at San Miguel at 10:45am. See you there! Faculty panel: James Martin, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Graham Neubig, Lu Wang #NAACL2025