👀 Look what 🎅 has broght just before Christmas 🎁: a brand new Research Master in Natural Language Processing at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu... Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)

Wrapping up my oral presentations today with our TACL paper "QE4PE: Quality Estimation for Human Post-editing" at the Interpretability morning session #EMNLP2025 (Room A104, 11:45 China time)! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.03044 Slides/video/poster: underline.io/lecture/1315...

Interested in agent simulations of language change & pragmatic naming behavior? Come check our poster TODAY (Fri, Nov 7, 12:30 - 13:30) #EMNLP!

Benchmarks of linguistic minimal pairs are key for LM evaluation & help us overcome the English-centric bias in NLP research Come to our poster TODAY (Fr 7 Nov 10.30-12.00) #EMNLP to meet TurBLiMP, a new benchmark for Turkish, revealing how LLMs deal with free-order, morphologically rich languages

I'm in Suzhou to present our work on MultiBLiMP, Friday @ 11:45 in the Multilinguality session (A301)! Come check it out if your interested in multilingual linguistic evaluation of LLMs (there will be parse trees on the slides! There's still use for syntactic structure!) arxiv.org/abs/2504.02768

Interested in developmentally plausible LMs, and the role of child-directed language data? Come to our poster TODAY (Fr 7 Nov, 10.30-12.00) #EMNLP!

There’s more to Neural Nets than big fat LLMs! We’ve built a NN-agent framework to simulate how people choose the best word in a given communication context (i.e. pragmatic naming behavior). With @yuqing0304.bsky.social, @ecesuurker.bsky.social, Tessa Verhoef, @gboleda.bsky.social

Thrilled to be heading to Suzhou with a big team of GroNLP'ers 🐮 Interested in Interpretable, Cognitively inspired, Low-resource LMs? Don't miss our posters & talks #EMNLP2025!

[1/]💡New Paper Large reasoning models (LRMs) are strong in English — but how well do they reason in your language? Our latest work uncovers their limitation and a clear trade-off: Controlling Thinking Trace Language Comes at the Cost of Accuracy 📄Link: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22888

𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞? 🇨🇳🇮🇩🇸🇪 Here’s the proof! 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐋𝐌 is the first Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data available for 45 languages to the NLP community 🎉 arxiv.org/abs/2510.10159

📢 Announcing the First Workshop on Multilingual and Multicultural Evaluation (MME) at #EACL2026 🇲🇦 MME focuses on resources, metrics & methodologies for evaluating multilingual systems! multilingual-multicultural-evaluation.github.io 📅 Workshop Mar 24–29, 2026 🗓️ Submit by Dec 19, 2025

Delighted to share that our paper "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization" (joint work with @arianna-bis.bsky.social and Raquel Fernández) got accepted to the main conference of #EMNLP Can't wait to discuss our work at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou this November!

Proud to introduce TurBLiMP, the 1st benchmark of minimal pairs for free-order, morphologically rich Turkish language! Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2506.13487 Fruit of an almost year-long project by amazing MS student @ezgibasar.bsky.social in collab w/ @frap98.bsky.social and @jumelet.bsky.social

One step further in our quest to bring interpretability techniques to the service of MT end users: Are uncertainty & model-internals based metrics a viable alternative to supervised word-level quality estimation? New paper w/ @gsarti.com @zouharvi.bsky.social @malvinanissim.bsky.social

Large Reasoning Models are raising the bar for answer accuracy & transparency, but how does that work in multilingual settings? Can LRMs reason in your language, and what does that entail? New preprint led by @jiruiqi.bsky.social and @shan23chen.bsky.social!

Following the success story of BabyBERTa, I & many other NLPers have turned to language acquisition for inspiration. In this new paper we show that using Child-Directed Language as training data is unfortunately *not* beneficial for syntax learning, at least not in the traditional LM training regime

Thinking LLM treats you just like an average user? Think again! @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social‘s analysis shows LLMs behave differently according to your gender, race & more. Implicit personalization is always at work & is strongly based on your conversation topics. Great collab w/ Raquel Fernández ⤵️

Happy to be part of this collaboration on personalizing translation style in the literary domain. Besides classical multi-shot prompting, various steering techniques show promising results & bring new insights! See thread ⤵️ W/ @danielsc4.it @gsarti.com ElisabettaFersini, @malvinanissim.bsky.social

Excited to share that "Cross-Lingual Transfer of Debiasing and Detoxification in Multilingual LLMs: An Extensive Investigation" arxiv.org/abs/2412.14050 got accepted to ACL Findings! 🎉 #ACL2025 Big thanks to my supervisors Raquel Fernández and @arianna-bis.bsky.social for their guidance and support!

RAG is a powerful way to improve LLMs' answering abilities across many languages. But how do LLMs deal with multilingual contexts? Do they answer consistently when the retrieved info is provided to them in different languages? Joint work w/ @jiruiqi.bsky.social & Raquel_Fernández See thread! ⤵️

Modern LLMs "speak" hundreds of languages... but do they really? Multilinguality claims are often based on downstream tasks like QA & MT, while *formal* linguistic competence remains hard to gauge in lots of languages Meet MultiBLiMP! (joint work w/ @jumelet.bsky.social & @weissweiler.bsky.social)

Thanks to @haspelmath.bsky.social I just discovered this great collection of hypotheses extracted from evolutionary linguistics and typology papers, represented as a graph where linguistic properties are linked to others via different relations. correlation-machine.com/CHIELD/varia...

The PhD call is out! Apply by 24 April here: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

🚨 The CoNLL deadline is just 2 days away! 🚨 Submit your work by March 14th, 11:59 PM (AoE, UTC-12) Don't miss out! ⏳ 🔗 Submission links: conll.org #CoNLL2025 #NLP #CoNLL

📣 Soon-to-open PhD position @gronlp.bsky.social: Come work with Annemarie van Dooren, @yevgenm.bsky.social and myself on a new project bridging Computational Linguistics methods and Language Acquisition questions, with a focus on the learning of modal verbs.

Excited to be traveling to Estonia for the 1st time to give a keynote @nodalida.bsky.social. I'll talk about using NNs to study language evolution & acquisition. A teaser: It won't be about LLMs 🙃 Also I've just moved from X, so this was my very first post... Pls help out by connecting with me!