Our new paper in #PNAS (bit.ly/4fcWfma) presents a surprising finding—when words change meaning, older speakers rapidly adopt the new usage; inter-generational differences are often minor. w/ Michelle Yang, ‪@sivareddyg.bsky.social‬ , @msonderegger.bsky.social‬ and @dallascard.bsky.social‬👇(1/12)

Huge congratulations to Dr. @vernadankers.bsky.social for passing her viva today! 🥳🎓 It's truly been an honour sharing the PhD journey with you. I wasn’t ready for the void your sudden departure left (in the office and in my life!). Your new colleagues are lucky to have you! 🥺🥰

A blizzard is raging through Montreal when your friend says “Looks like Florida out there!” Humans easily interpret irony, while LLMs struggle with it. We propose a 𝘳𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭-𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘺-𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 probabilistic framework as a solution. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.09301 to appear @ #ACL2025 (Main)

I guess that now that I have 1% of my Twitter followers follow me here 😅, I should announce it here too for those of you no longer checking Twitter: my nonfiction book, "Lost in Automatic Translation" is coming out this July: lostinautomatictranslation.com. I'm very excited to share it with you!

Congratulations to Mila members @adadtur.bsky.social , Gaurav Kamath and @sivareddyg.bsky.social for their SAC award at NAACL! Check out Ada's talk in Session I: Oral/Poster 6. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05670

🔔 Reminder & Call for #VLMs4All @ #CVPR2025! Help shape the future of culturally aware & geo-diverse VLMs: ⚔️ Challenges: Deadline: Apr 15 🔗https://sites.google.com/view/vlms4all/challenges 📄 Papers (4pg): Deadline: Apr 22 🔗https://sites.google.com/view/vlms4all/call-for-papers Join us!

Our DeepSeek-R1 'Thoughtology' paper 🧠💡brings a wealth of interesting insights into analyzing reasoning chains and across a variety of tasks. Check it out! mcgill-nlp.github.io/thoughtology/

🚀 Diversity in AI matters! Excited to be part of the VLMs-4-All @CVPR 2025 Workshop, where we push for geo-diverse & culturally aware Vision-Language Models! Submit your papers now, join the challenges & engage in vital discussions. 🌍🔥 #CVPR2025 #VLMs4All2025

Instruction-following retrievers can efficiently and accurately search for harmful and sensitive information on the internet! 🌐💣 Retrievers need to be aligned too! 🚨🚨🚨 Work done with the wonderful Nick and @sivareddyg.bsky.social 🔗 mcgill-nlp.github.io/malicious-ir/ Thread: 🧵👇

🚨🚨🚨 Checkout our new position paper on rethinking LLM alignment through social, economic, and contractual frameworks! 🌍💼⚖️ Full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.00069 How should AI align with society? Let’s discuss!👇

Presented the AURORA paper together with some of the awesome co-authors Chris Pal @sivareddyg.bsky.social and @ludolara.bsky.social from @Mila_Quebec Tons of fun, 3h of non-stop chatting and exchange of ideas, now pretty exhausted 😅