With my ACL PC abilities, I wanted to characterize who these folks are, whether they're actually "outsiders", whether their papers are much less likely to be accepted, is this growth just LLM slop? The whole analsis is here medium.com/@jurgens_245...

Is the ACL Rolling Review actually broken?

ARR is broken! ARR is being overwhelmed with papers from outsiders! LLM-generated slop is ruining our peer review! There are not enough…

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At this year's ACL business meeting, it was wonderful to see so many attendees - a sign that this community cares. As president, I wanted to use the occasion to give some insights into ACL - the premier organization for computational linguistics, founded in 1962. (1/5)

I'm at #ACL2026 where I'll present work on comparing text- vs. speech-based classification performance on standard-language vs. dialectal data, finding different trends for different varieties! (Talk @ Harbor A, July 5, 14:20-14:30) [1/3]

Not attending ACL in person? Follow along via my new NLP feed! It should match all mentions of #ACL2026, #EMNLP2026, #COLM2026, #NLProc, #NLP, and more.

MaiNLP will be at #ACL2026 with a number of talks & posters, plus the ACL presidential address! See you in San Diego 🌊

I'm happy to share that I successfully defended my PhD two days ago! Thank you very much to @barbaraplank.bsky.social & Hinrich Schütze for supervising me, to @dirkhovy.bsky.social for joining the committee, and to the many, many people who have been part of my PhD journey :)

MaiNLP will be at #LREC2026 to present multiple conference & workshop papers, as well as a workshop keynote! See you in Palma ☀️

MaiNLP is happy to be part of @eaclmeeting.bsky.social with several papers, talks, a panel, and a workshop ☀️ Looking forward to seeing you in Rabat! #EACL2026

Interested in developing LLMs that work for dialectal Arabic? Introducing the AMIYA shared task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent, just accepted to VarDial 2026. Please consider submitting and joining us in Morocco if you do! sites.google.com/view/vardial...

VarDial 2026 - Shared Tasks

AMIYA (عامية) Shared Task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent The AMIYA shared task will offer a chance for researchers to demonstrate innovations and improvements in language modeling of dialectal Arabic...

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📄DistaLs: A Comprehensive Collection of Language Distance Measures 👥 Rob van der Goot, Esther Ploeger, @verenablaschke.bsky.social Tanja Samardžic 🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-d... 🎯A convenient toolkit for obtaining distance measures across languages ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSk9...

🎥 @barbaraplank.bsky.social, Hinrich Schütze, and I were featured on tv, talking about how AI tools struggle with dialects! www.ardmediathek.de/video/capric...

Capriccio: Warum KI kein Bairisch versteht - hier anschauen

Künstliche Intelligenz verändert die Sprache, denn sie übernimmt nicht nur unser Vokabular, sondern prägt auch andersherum unsere Ausdrucksweise. Nur mit Dialekten tut sich die KI nachweislich schwer,...

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We're surveying researchers about name changes in academic publishing. If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc. forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP

VarDial 2026 will be colocated with @eaclmeeting.bsky.social! We're looking forward to your papers on NLP for similar languages, varieties and dialects :) Deadline: Dec 19 (Jan 2 for pre-reviewed ARR papers) sites.google.com/view/vardial...

Moin! I'm on my way to Hamburg to meet the @ds-hamburg.bsky.social group and give a talk about dialect NLP! ⚓

#Interspeech2025 had a science fair today with lots of interactive speech tech demos, not just for conference attendees but also/especially for curious laypeople! The demos were fun, and I like the idea of combining a conference w/ a bit of scicomm for the local public

Interspeech 2026@interspeech.bsky.social · last yr.

NL: Ben je nieuwsgierig naar taal, technologie en wetenschap? Op 17/8 ben je van harte welkom op het Speech Science Festival in Ahoy Rotterdam! ---- EN: Are you curious about language, technology, and science? Join us on Aug 17 at the Speech Science Festival in Ahoy Rotterdam!

At #Interspeech2025 I'm going to present Betthupferl, a dataset for German dialect ASR & dialect-to-standard speech translation! We analyze differences between dialectal & Standard German transcriptions, benchmark ASR models, and examine shortcomings of current ASR models & evaluation metrics.

UPDATE: Our poster presentation got moved to Tuesday, 16:00–17:30 (session 10)! #ACL2025NLP

Verena Blaschke@verenablaschke.bsky.social · last yr.

At #ACL2025NLP I'll present our analysis of the effect of linguistic similarity on cross-lingual transfer! We looked at how 10 similarity measures correlate w/ transfer results btwn 263 languages across 3 NLP tasks. Different similarity measures matter for diff. experiments (no one-size-fits-all)!

At #ACL2025NLP I'll present our analysis of the effect of linguistic similarity on cross-lingual transfer! We looked at how 10 similarity measures correlate w/ transfer results btwn 263 languages across 3 NLP tasks. Different similarity measures matter for diff. experiments (no one-size-fits-all)!

My ACL 2024 keynote talk on "Are LLMs Narrowing Our Horizon? Let’s Embrace Variation in NLP!" is online now: underline.io/events/466/s... 2024.aclweb.org/program/keyn... It was a huge honor to me to give last year's flagship-in-NLP-conference keynote in Bangkok 🇹🇭

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Dei Boarisch heard ned bei "Servus" und "Pfiade" auf? Dann suach ma genau Di! Wir suachan Bairischsprecher:innen, de a kurze Umfrage über KI-generierds Boarisch für a Masterarbeit beantwortn mechadn. Mid jeder Teilnahme bring ma den boarischn Dialekt a Stickal weida in de digitale Weyd!

Verena Blaschke@verenablaschke.bsky.social · last yr.

Bavarian dialect speakers needed! Our MSc student Miriam wants to find out 1. how good/bad LLM-generated "Bavarian" is, and 2. whether dialect speakers agree with each other on this. The survey takes <5 min: survey.ifkw.lmu.de/dialquali25/ Thank you for sharing/participating!

Bavarian dialect speakers needed! Our MSc student Miriam wants to find out 1. how good/bad LLM-generated "Bavarian" is, and 2. whether dialect speakers agree with each other on this. The survey takes <5 min: survey.ifkw.lmu.de/dialquali25/ Thank you for sharing/participating!

The first archival *CL Queer in AI workshop will kick off in about 15 min! Join us in-person if you're at NAACL or virtually 💜 We will have presentations from our amazing contributors and invited speakers. Read on for more details 🧵

Happening now at #NAACL2025 in room Pecos. Kicking off with amazing talks and a panel by Monojit Choudhury, Isabelle Augenstein, and Katia Shutova

C3NLP@c3nlp.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 Excited that our C3NLP 2025 Workshop program is finalized — just one week to go! 🎉 Full program: c3nlp.github.io Co-organized with @vinodkpg.bsky.social @sunipadev.bsky.social @lucianabenotti.bsky.social @yongcao.bsky.social @danielhers.bsky.social Laura Cabello, Ife Adebara, and Li Zhou. ❤️

Happening now at @americasnlp.bsky.social 2025. Telegram in Aymara and how to translate tech terminology. #NAACL2025

📣 Join us tomorrow May 3rd for the 10th Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text #W-NUT at #NAACL2025 (📍 Room Navajo/Nambe)! The workshop features 16 paper presentations and 2 exciting keynote talks by @verenablaschke.bsky.social and Su Lin Blodgett (titles+abstracts below)! #NLProc #NAACL 👇

On my way to #NAACL2025 where I'll give a keynote at the noisy text workshop (WNUT), presenting some of the challenges & methods for dialect NLP + also discussing dialect speakers' perspectives! 🗨️ Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data 🗓️ Saturday, May 3, 9:30–10:30

Are you attending NAACL 2025 and are you interested in low-resource languages and dialects? Then don't miss our very own @verenablaschke.bsky.social's keynote talk at the WNUT 2025 workshop on May 3rd: Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data 🌐 ☀️ noisy-text.github.io/2025/