My very first book review is out now 📚 Muchas gracias to @stefanhartmann.bsky.social for inviting me, looking forward to our next project(s) 😇

I'm conducting research on how ACL's peer review policies impact NLP research quality, career trajectories, and inclusivity within our community. I am running a survey, which would take around 7-10 mins to complete: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/j2jr9nH3X0 I would really appreciate insights from y'all!

🚨 Are you looking for a PhD in #NLProc dealing with #LLMs? 🎉 Good news: I am hiring! 🎉 The position is part of the “Contested Climate Futures" project. 🌱🌍 You will focus on developing next-generation AI methods🤖 to analyze climate-related concepts in content—including texts, images, and videos.

Attending the The Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP 2025) in Düsseldorf, Germany? Check out the poster “Do Construction Distributions Shape Formal Language Learning In German BabyLMs?” by Bastian Bunzeck and colleagues! @bbunzeck.bsky.social #CRC1646 #LINCC

From conference to conference: September ends with a trip to #IWCS in beautiful Düsseldorf. Hyped for two days of semantics (and two more days of construction grammar and NLP). 🥳

The first of the three corpora of German-English bilingual children's early speech that we've been working on for the last few years is finally publicly available! 🥳 🎉 talkbank.org/childes/acce...

“Developmentally plausible pretraining, now also auf Deutsch: a BabyLM Dataset for German” — Today I had the pleasure to present our German BabyLM dataset together with the first author Bastian Bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social‬ to an interested and engaging audience at #KONVENS2025 in Hildesheim.

Our BabyLMs at #konvens 🥳

From conference to conference — after last week’s #semdial I am at #konvens in Hildesheim this week. I will be presenting out German BabyLM Corpus (with @simphon.bsky.social) and our PI Sina Zarrieß will give a Keynote on BabyLMs tomorrow. 🥳

Children are not the main agents of language change. New paper by @limorraviv.bsky.social @damianblasi.bsky.social & @vkempe.bsky.social. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/... www.mpi.nl/publications...

Abstract deadline changed to *December 1, 2025*

It's a wrap! Thanks to the organizers, presenters and all participants for an inspiring and engaging #semdial2025 #bialogue conference at Bielefeld University! I had fun. In case you missed it, proceedings can be found on the website: semdial2025.github.io

“Child-directed speech is fine-tuned to children’s developmental needs” — @bbunzeck.bsky.social from the A02 project of #CRC1646 #LINCC, presented a great poster today at #semdial2025 #bialogue based on earlier work in collaboration with Holger Diessel.

I will present a poster on the First Language article I wrote with Holger Diessel now at #semdial 😁💬

Leonie Schade asks whether it takes two to do an articulatory tango 😁

Now coming up: session 1 on naturalistic dialogue 👌

First keynote by Arabella Sinclair from the University of Aberdeen on “The many reasons for repetition in Dialogue”.

#semdial is about to begin 🥳

I will try my best to give some live updates on #semdial2025 over the next three days, so watch this space and our group’s account. #semdial #bialogue

✨ Do self-supervised speech models learn to encode language-specific linguistic features from their training data, or only more language-general acoustic correlates? At #Interspeech2025 we presented our new Wav2Vec2-NL model and SSL-NL evaluation dataset to test this! 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2506.00981 ⬇️

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

I rarely wish I would’ve attended a tutorial, but this time I do!

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Excited to announce the first-ever Workshop for Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation (YNLG), supported by @siggen.bsky.social, taking place on October 29, 2025 in Hanoi, Vietnam, co-located with INLG 2025. Call for Submissions is out now! ynlg-workshop.github.io

Can LLMs reason by analogy like humans? We investigate this question in a new paper published in the Journal of Memory and Language (link below). This was a long-running but very rewarding project. Here are a few thoughts on our methodology and main findings. 1/9

this site is so ridiculous about AI. “a robot just interpreted the themes in a story at my request. a story it has never seen before. yawn, basically just autocomplete”

Tussen Mönchengladbach en Venlo rijden geen treinen. De dienstregeling wordt gehandhaafd door een bus. De bus codeswitcht

Starting now!

Guess who is asking a question in his Oasis jersey in picture 1. 😎

Neat year #NLP conferences: 📍 #EACL2026: 24–29 March 🇲🇦 Rabat (ARR deadline: 6 Oct) 📍 #LREC2026: 11–16 May 🇪🇸 Palma de Mallorca (deadline: 17 Oct) 📍 #ACL2026: 2–7 July 🇺🇸 San Diego (ARR deadline: 6 Jan) 📍 #COLING2027: 9–14 May 2027 🇲🇴 Macao

Super cool talk by Charlotte Pouw on intonational phrasing, pauses and lengthening in TTS systems. They struggle especially with garden-path sentences, so apparently text-to-speech is not yet solved! @conll-conf.bsky.social #ACL2025NLP

CoNLL has started in Hall M1! 🚨 Excited for our first invited talk at 9:30 - 10:30 by Raquel Fernández! "The Interplay between Gestures and Speech in Face-to-Face Communication" 💬 #CoNLL2025

Excited to see everyone tomorrow in Hall M1! 🎉 We kick off at 09:20 with the Opening. Don’t miss the 17:20 Discussion on: 👉 Handling growing submissions 👉Adapting conference formats 👉 Strengthening our community Join us to shape the future! #CoNLL2025

... And a clear call for action at the end. Work together, serve people in reality. Do it now.

Crowded, popular oral sessions: Down to standing room in bias and fairness. I gave up on getting into the human-centered NLP session, as the crowd extended out the open door and I couldn’t hear the speaker from there. #acl2025

The room for the Linguistic Theories and Cognitive Modeling session is absolutely packed. They’re not letting people in anymore. Incredibly bad organisation 🙄 #ACL2025NLP

Growth in submissions and program size

20000 authors! #acl2025

Excited for this tutorial on synthetic data. The lecture hall is absolutely packed, people are sitting on the stairs…synthetic data really is a hot topic 🔥 #ACL2025NLP

And so it begins! On my way to #ACL2025NLP in Vienna 😮‍💨😁

🥳 🎉 ❤️ The ACL 2025 Proceedings are live on the ACL Anthology 🥰 ! We’re thrilled to pre-celebrate the incredible research 📚 ✨ that will be presented starting Monday next week in Vienna 🇦🇹 ! Start exploring 👉 aclanthology.org/events/acl-2... #NLProc #ACL2025NLP #ACLAnthology

To break the doom scroll, remember the Christmas Tree Cannon, the distilled essence of German engineering

Call for Short Papers (Posters): SemDial 2025 – The 29th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Bialogue), September 3–5, 2025 Submission deadline is July 18th! For more information see semdial2025.github.io #BLinguistik #linguistics

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/ www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

The CLAUSE group from Bielefeld University is looking forward to next month‘s ACL in Vienna, where we will be presenting quite a few papers. 🥳 Feel free to get in touch if you want to know more. 😇

Muchas gracias @stefanhartmann.bsky.social for inviting me! Can’t even tell what I enjoyed more — discussing LLMs with your students or the Ramen we had afterwards. 😁🍜

New paper: "Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective" (D. Krakauer, J. Krakauer, M. Mitchell). We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from the perspective of what emergence means in complexity science. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.11135

New #openaccess paper with Nikolas Koch & Antje Quick in the International Journal of Bilingualism - "Recycling constructional patterns: The role of chunks in early bilingual acquisition" doi.org/10.1177/1367...

Can you train a performant language model using only openly licensed text? We are thrilled to announce the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of openly licensed and public domain text. We train 7B models for 1T and 2T tokens and match the performance similar models like LLaMA 1 & 2

“Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models” I’m happy to share that the preprint of my first PhD project is now online! 🎊 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.23689