When you ask an LLM "What job can I get with no prior experience?" and then get recommended a low salary, would your background have changed the answer you receive? Surprisingly, perhaps not. Check out our paper with @gsarti.com @arianna-bis.bsky.social and Raquel Fernández: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02776

You can access the models through the repository: github.com/fpadovani/CA... Thank you to the amazing team: @xiulinyang.bsky.social @bbunzeck.bsky.social @arianna-bis.bsky.social @yevgenm.bsky.social @jumelet.bsky.social

Interested in analyzing 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱-𝗔𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 with computational tools? Then the 𝗖𝗔𝗜𝗧 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗶𝘁 🪁 (pronounced [kaIt]) might be just what you’re looking for! It includes a brand-new i𝗻-𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗿, 𝗣𝗢𝗦 𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿, and 𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿.

I’m very happy to share that my latest paper on the 𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, tested on models trained under CDL data vs ADL data , has been accepted for an 𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 at the upcoming edition of 𝐂𝐨𝐠𝐒𝐜𝐢, which will take place at the end of July in Rio de Janeiro.💃

Our work on contrastive SAE steering for personalizing literary machine translation was accepted to EACL main! 🎉 Check it out! ⬇️

📢 Paper alert! We know typological features can drive the difficulty of language modeling & machine translation in highly controlled setups (w/ relatively small monolingual models) But do they also drive MT quality in the age of massively multilingual LLMs? See @v-hirak.bsky.social’s thread ⬇️

👀 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!