📢 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

Comprehensive preprint out now, check it out (feedback welcome!).

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

Excited for WOAH’s 10th anniversary? 😍 We're launching an open call for new organisers! Our goal: diversify the team and bring in fresh perspectives. 🗓️ Apply by September 12 🔗 forms.gle/aiFs35vwDXnt...

#TBT #NLProc Plaza-del-Arco et al.'s 'Divine LLaMAs..' (2024) addresses stereotypes on religion in Large Language Models and their social impact. Tech for all! #DigitalEquity

🗓️ Fri 01/08, I’ll be presenting two papers at # WOAH2025 “Learning from Disagreement: Entropy-Guided Few-Shot Selection for Toxic Language Detection” with @florplaza.bsky.social 💻 github.com/tommasoc80/w... 📝 aclanthology.org/2025.woah-1....

"Blue-haired, misandriche, rabiata: Tracing the Connotation of 'Feminist(s)' Across Time, Languages and Domains" With @arimuti.bsky.social, @saragemelli.bsky.social, Emanuele Moscato, Emilie Francis, Amanda Cercas Curry, @florplaza.bsky.social #WOAH2025

The #ACL2025 #ACL2025NLP feed is up and running! It matches both hashtags and any posts from or mentions of @aclmeeting.bsky.social Pin it to your home 📌 and enjoy! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Stiamo vivendo una rivoluzione tecnologica, ma quanto conosciamo realmente l'uso dell'IA nella nostra quotidianità? Aiuta a scoprirlo compilando questo breve questionario (10 min): bit.ly/sondaggio_ai...

(totally unbiased opinion): Cool paper!

🎉 The @milanlp.bsky.social lab is excited to present 15 papers and 1 tutorial at #ACL2025 & workshops! Grateful to all our amazing collaborators, see everyone in Vienna! 🚀

🥁 #WOAH2025 Speakers🥁 We are excited to announce an amazing panel of 3 speakers who will discuss our theme "Harms Beyond Hate Speech" 🗣️ @cordeliamoore.bsky.social 🗣️ @fvancesco.bsky.social 🗣️ @katejsim.bsky.social Full details: www.workshopononlineabuse.com/keynotes.html 🤩 See you on August 1!

✨ The First NLPSI Workshop @ ICWSM 2025 is a wrap! Huge thanks to the speaker (Bennett Kleinberg), authors, reviewers, attendees, and co-organizers (Sofie Labat, Neele Falk, @florplaza.bsky.social, @romanklinger.de & Veronique Hoste) who made it a success. nlpsi-workshop.github.io/highlights/

Had the chance to revamp a PhD class on CSS. We're now using Colab notebooks to use Python for data analysis. Check out the new syllabus (w/ reading, slides, background notebooks, and exercises plus solutions). 📚👇 bit.ly/438R6Hk #ComputationalSocialScience #PhD

📢 #WOAH2025 invites non-archival submissions of relevant papers accepted to the ✨Findings of @aclmeeting.bsky.social✨ To present your Findings paper at #WOAH2025, complete the form by 📆June 10, 2025. 📝Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It was a pleasure to speak at the #SSaLM workshop at the Weizenbaum Institute, where I gave my invited talk, "The Heart of Language Models: Decoding Emotion Biases and Societal Stereotypes." Thank you, Fatma Elsafoury and Jan Batzner, for inviting me and for the fantastic organization!

👥 Join us for the 1st Workshop on Protecting Women Online at TheWebConf! 📅 April 28, 2025 | 📍Sydney, Australia 🌐 Program & details: tsww25.github.io Featuring amazing invited talks & discussions on tackling #VAWG — don’t miss it! #TheWebConf25 #NLProc

Don't miss the #WOAH2025 deadline!

This week, I had the pleasure of giving an invited talk at the #HumanCLAIM workshop in Göttingen on hate speech and pluralism in subjective NLP 🗣️✨ Big thanks to Lisa Beinborn for the invitation and the organization! #NLProc

3 days left to respond to this PhD vacancy with Niki van Stein: PhD Candidate in Explainable NLP for Regulatory Compliance Detection www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies... Part of the ICAI lab AI4Oversight, collaboration with TNO and 4 inspectorates, together with 5 other PhD students

🗣️ Esta tarde a las 🕔 17:00 (CEST), tendré el placer de hablar sobre ✨"Análisis de emociones en PLN: Desafíos, Aplicaciones y Consideraciones Éticas"✨en las Charlas de la SEPLN. ¿Te gustaría unirte? ➡ Regístrate aquí: www.sepln.org/actualidad/e... (online)

Thrilled for Flor and her new position! 🌟 Congrats on this exciting chapter—you're going to be amazing!

New chapter ahead! 🚀 I’ve joined as an Assistant Professor at LIACS, Leiden University @unileiden.bsky.social! 🇳🇱🌷 The past two years at @milanlp.bsky.social have been incredibly rewarding and fun. Thanks to the fantastic MilaNLP crew for making it unforgettable!

🚨 𝗡𝗟𝗣𝗦𝗜 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: The first Workshop on NLP & Psychology for Social Interactions, co-located with 𝗜𝗖𝗪𝗦𝗠 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱! We invite submissions from NLP, psychology, and related fields on integrating NLP with psychological theories for studying communication and human behavior. 📌 Submission deadline: March 21

Wanna keep up with our @milanlp.bsky.social lab? Here is a starter pack of current and former members: bsky.app/starter-pack...

🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨 We've extended the submission deadline to Friday, April 18, 2025 (AoE)! Please share widely! www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html

The EMNLP 2025 conference website and CfP are now live! 2025.emnlp.org/calls/main-c... Conference dates: November 5-9 in Suzhou, China Submissions will be through ARR, and this year's theme is Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP

Are LLMs biased when they write about political issues? We just released IssueBench – the largest, most realistic benchmark of its kind – to answer this question more robustly than ever before. Long 🧵with spicy results 👇

It's Safer Internet Day in the UK. For the Equally Safe Online project, we're using participatory design and engaging with experts to develop resources for mitigation of online Gender-Based Violence. You can see our work so far at sites.google.com/view/equally...

For this week's @milanlp.bsky.social reading group, Emanuele Moscato presented "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning" by @deepseek.bsky.social Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12948 #NLProc

#MemoryMonday #NLProc "Exposing the limits of Zero-shot Cross-lingual Hate Speech Detection" by Debora Nozza explores the use of transfer learning for hate speech detection in different languages and uncovers potential flaws.

This is a must-read for anyone thinking about applying for an academic position! 👇🏻

🎉 First paper acceptance of the year at @naaclmeeting.bsky.social (Main)! #NAACL2025 ✨"Language Model Council: Democratically Benchmarking Foundation Models on Highly Subjective Tasks."✨ with my amazing [email protected], Benjie Genchel and @amandacurry.bsky.social. 🧵👇

For this week's @milanlp.bsky.social reading group, Tanise Ceron presented "WHAT’S IN MY BIG DATA?" by Yanai Elazar et al. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2310.20707 #NLProc

Excited to share that our paper "Untangling Hate Speech Definitions: A Semantic Componential Analysis Across Cultures and Domains" has been accepted in NAACL Findings 🥳 arxiv.org/pdf/2411.07417

Today, we are releasing MSTS, a new Multimodal Safety Test Suite for vision-language models! MSTS is exciting because it tests for safety risks *created by multimodality*. Each prompt consists of a text + image that *only in combination* reveal their full unsafe meaning. 🧵

📆Reminder📆: 📭 The #WOAH2025 submission deadline is March 7, 2025, anywhere on Earth! See CfP: workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Looking forward to your submissions! 🤩 #ACL2025 #NLProc

🎉📖The 2025 edition of the @milanlp.bsky.social reading group has officially begun with @elisabassignana.bsky.social, who presented "All Too Human? Mapping and Mitigating the Risks from Anthropomorphic AI" by Canfer Akbulut et al. Paper: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI... #NLProc

For this week's @milanlp.bsky.social reading group, @dirkhovy.bsky.social presented "The Curious Decline of Linguistic Diversity: Training Language Models on Synthetic Text" by Yanzhu GUO et al. Paper: aclanthology.org/2024.finding... #NLProc

🚨 The CfP of #WOAH2025 (@woahworkshop.bsky.social) is now OPEN! 🎉 👉🏻 Submission deadline: March 7, 2025! 👉🏻 See CfP here: workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html

For this week's @milanlp.bsky.social reading group, @arimuti.bsky.social presented "OATH-Frames: Characterizing Online Attitudes Towards Homelessness with LLM Assistants" by Jaspreet Ranjit et al. Paper: aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-m... #NLProc

Our @nlp group, @milanlp.bsky.social is now correctly indexed here! If you followed the old account (milanlpLAB), please make sure to update. You can also find the right one by clicking on the link in my profile

🚨 New Account Alert! This is the official account of the *MilaNLP group*. We had to recreate it because it was not indexed. If you were following us before, please follow us again. If not, now’s the perfect time to start!

MilaNLP has arrived in Pisa for CLiC-it 2024! 🇮🇹✨ Catch up with @deboranozza.bsky.social and @arimuti.bsky.social while you’re there! #CLiCit2024 #NLP

📖 For our weekly MilaNLP lab seminar, it was a pleasure to have @gavina.bsky.social, introducing his research on tackling online gender-based violence, and Mikel K. Ngueajio who presented "Can Explainable AI help mitigate the toxic synergy between hate speech and fake news?"

I kinda think this #NLP starter pack has served and now outlived its original purpose, but I'm not sure what to do with it. Delete? Rename? What do you all think? Also, if anyone wants to be removed now, just let me know! go.bsky.app/SngwGeS

Thrilled to share I’m organizing the 1st International Workshop on Protecting Women Online, co-located with @TheWebConf 2025! We accept research, idea/position papers & non-archival submissions. 🗓 Deadline: Dec 18 📋 CfP: tsww25.github.io/cfp.html DM me if you have questions!

Snark-less post: The workshop on online abuse and harms (woahworkshop.bsky.social) is now here! Follow along for online abuse related notifications and announcements!

EPFL's new AI Center has a Call for applications for postdoc fellowships in all AI-related areas. Come join if you're interested in working with me and fantastic AI colleagues! Extra Perk: We actually do have lots of GPUs ! Deadline: November 29th More info at: www.epfl.ch/research/fun...

Hot take: Working another weekend this semester, I am left wondering: Why does the #NLProc publication process have so much artificial urgency baked into it? Requiring responses within 24h, emergency reviewers, everything urgent. Like, why? Slow science can also be a community goal.