✨🎄 Happy Holidays and a successful New Year from the RC Trust team! 🎉 🤝 Thank you to all our partners, collaborators, and supporters for a year of great cooperation and inspiring exchange. 🚀 Looking forward to new projects, encounters, and shared ideas in the year ahead ✨

Daniil from University of Washington, Tacoma joined us through the Internship Program, using the stay to dive deeper into privacy-preserving NLP. 🔐✨ Focused research time, global exchange, and strong mentorship made the experience transformative. #AI #NLP #Internship #Privacy

🎄INCEpTION 39.0 is available. 💫 New activity overview for project managers, export annotations directly from the workload management, improved explorer, bulk-deactivation of accounts, ... and more! github.com/inception-pr... #inceptiontap #opensource #textannotation

- Me: "Oh, I feel so stuffed at the moment, I shouldn't have eaten that hamburger..." - Wikipedia: "I know exactly what your problem is"

And finally here's the proceedings of the first Argument Mining and Empirical Legal Research workshop co-located with ICAIL in Chicago earlier this year! ceur-ws.org/Vol-4089/

🎉 What a day! The RC Trust Grand Opening brought together researchers, industry & policy to champion trustworthy, responsible AI. 🤖🔒 🙏 Thank you to the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for funding & trust, and to all partners, colleagues & friends who helped us reach this milestone. 🤝🏛️

This was one of the coolest gigs ever! Usually we play a couple of fill-ins and then get bored during the speeches... But this time James Green, a NASA chief scientist, talking an hour about his team landing on Mars and searching for life there? What can be more fascinating than that!? 🤩

An academic fact whose importance cannot—absolutely cannot—be overstated: Whoever creates the Overleaf project gets to pick the macros.tex

🎉 Welcome Sabine Wehnert to TrustHLT! She builds practical Legal NLP: textbook-to-law knowledge, robust search & recommenders, and verifiable model outputs for real legal work. What capability should trustworthy legal AI deliver next? #LegalNLP #TrustworthyAI Foto: Foto Fuchs Magdeburg

🌍 “Do the right thing, not just the easy thing.” Prof. Elizabeth Tipton (Northwestern) visited the RC Trust Graduate School to discuss how science can create trustworthy evidence that truly supports policymaking. More: rc-trust.ai/news/news-de... Photo: Julian Welz/TU Dortmund

That's where we'll meet for the 7th edition of the Privacy-Preserving NLP workshop - so save the date :) Until then, have fun doing cool research!

🚨 #NLLP2025 decisions are in! (📩 direct subs + 📑 ARR commits) 🎉 32 papers accepted 🥳 🙏 thx to our reviewers 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️ 🗂️ the final program is now up in the scramble (stay tuned) ☀️✈️ Ready for Suzhou? 🇨🇳🐉🥟 #NLProc #LegalTech #EMNLP2025 @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social

🚨 ARR is looking for a volunteer Co-CTO to help improve tech infrastructure! 🛠️ Preferred: • 5+ years in NLP research • Git, CLI tools, Python, and basic HTML • 2-year role, overlapping with current Co-CTO Interested? DM @fredashi.bsky.social or email [email protected] #ARR #ACL #NLProc

Sorting out some old research ideas, happily seeing someone else else actually did care :)

EMNLP 25 demo decisions are out, angry e-mails are coming in, but if you wonder what it means to run this thing first time in OpenReview, we have been documenting it and making it fully transparent: github.com/habernal/emn... including lessons learned for future chairs (see Issues)

The EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social 2025 demo acceptance notifications are out. 77 out of 212 papers accepted. 31 excellent area chairs, 185 mostly excellent reviewers (some left the marathon in the middle), Joerg and Peter amazing PC co-chairs! 964 orga e-mails sent so far - and we're not over yet.

Updates from EMNLP demo area chairs: We're working hard on finalizing the decisions - partly becuase we're really spend time with quite many papers out of 212 submitted, partly because of the unavoidable troubleshooting of OpenReview. Just give us one more day, thanks!

An excellent (and provoking) position paper from Philip Resnik in the latest issue of Computational Linguistics! doi.org/10.1162/coli...

In the next edition of PrivateNLP '26 workshop, we'd like to include under-represented groups in the organizer team and/or the program committe! If that sparks your interest, please get in touch. Thanks for reposting :)

utm_source=chatgpt.com ?? what's wrong with you, Google Scholar?!

I think all the late reviewers made OpenReview so sad, so it decided to better crash completely 😢

Dear EMNLP'25 demo reviewers - if you make a commitment to review (your community is very thankful for that!!!) then also please deliver :) Looks like we're looking for emergency reviewers, and we need many :/

@aclanthology.org seems like the anthology website has some performance issues these days, so just FYI... Time to reach to the burried pile of printed ACL papers from 10 years ago to **finally** read them! (aka. paper ArChaeoLogy :)

#ACL2025NLP was awesome! But the elevator music at the Vienna airport really hurts - "The Blue Danube" (yeah, that famous waltz) crippled into a 4/4 beat, with stupidified "cool" modal harmony in minor chords only... oh boy... why on earth?!... I mean even GenAI could actually do better that that ;)

Heading to #acl2025 in Vienna after two weeks of digital detox, travels, and hiking. Ready for my head to explode on day 1 :)

Let's bring more transparency to the #EMNLP25 demo track! [Updates] * 220 submissions (last year only 160) 😱 * 147 / 343 reviewers accepted 😘 * 15 reviewers missing papers in profiles, 8 reviewers have no OR account * 31 awesome Area Chairs doing now the dirty work of paper checking 😍 Stay tuned!

[tales from chairing EMNLP25 demos, part 1] Difficult tasks in research & academia, sorted: Difficulty 1: Write a research grant proposal Difficulty 2: Buy stuff at the university ... Difficulty 10: Solve Fermat's last theorem ... Difficulty infinity: Configure OpenReview for paper matching 😭😭😭

Me right now, trying to fix some OpenReview configuration just hours before the deadline for EMNLP demo papers

Getting my lecture ready for casa.rub.de/en/events/ca... - realizing that 253 slides might not be "a concise introduction"... 🤦‍♂️😅

Thanks to Prof. Michał Jackowski for inviting me to his awesome podcast. Surprisingly, the toughest questions were not about AI & law but about music and creativity. Hope you'll enjoy it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3dn...

TIL a very neat trick to add a paper (without DOI) from the ACL Anthology to Zotero 1) go to paper's detail page at ACL Anth. 2) "Copy Citation" -> click "MODS XML" (goes to the clipboard) 3) in Zotero, Ctrl+Shift+Alt+I (imports the fully bib entry correctly!) (but the PDF must be added manually)

@lmumuenchen.bsky.social Why on earth has LMU two working domains - lmu.de and uni-muenchen.de such that some people have e-mails on the first one, but others have e-mails on the other one? :) (well, my @ruhr-uni-bochum.de has the same issue, we have both ruhr-uni-bochum.de and rub.de ..just why? :)

Wanna read great demo papers at EMNLP 2025? You can, because remember: It's *YOUR* community too! So roll up your sleeves and join our program committee as a reviewer. [Thanks for re-posting] docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If you need the court decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, no need to crawl, get them here github.com/trusthlt/ech... (132k cases until 2022 extracted, 170k raw + metadata, and the script should be easy to run for newer ones - all code in the repo)

Rediscovering my old music collection... omg, listen to this, such an amazing song (and album). Around 3:10 one of the best piano counterpoint, its polyrhythm "hesitation", before the climax, happening in an unexpected 7/4 bar... everytime I hear, it hits me... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nj8...

Hosted at RUB, with people attending from Frankfurt, Darmstadt, Regensburg, Magdeburg, and Prague, I think our AI & Law Seminars is growing pretty well! Thanks @d4br4.bsky.social for coming over and giving a super inspiring talk on "disagreement (?)" in legal NLP

Looking forward to our next AI & Law Seminar later today with Daniel Braun. Interested in joining vitually? Here's the zoom link: ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/6645491155... Meeting ID: 664 5491 1552 Passcode: 462718

Sunday May 4th at Tacoma-room #NAACL + hybrid - see you all at the Sixth Workshop on Privacy in NLP! We're kicking-off with @cocoweixu.bsky.social invited talk at 09:00 AM! sites.google.com/view/private...

UKP and TrustHLT are at #NAACL2025 in Albuquerque 🌵 Meet Sebastian Ochs, @lukethedukebates.bsky.social, @maxglockner.bsky.social, @tongletj.bsky.social, Haritz Puerto, and @timbmg.bsky.social and be sure to check out their posters

Drop by at our poster tomorrow (Wed) at 11.00 #NAACL -time and chat with Sebastian Ochs about the difficulties of synthetic text generation with differential privacy guarantees!

The worst thing is not "oh f**k, someone else wrote my next paper already", that happens... The worst thing is "oh f**k, someone else wrote my next paper already __in 2011__ (!!!)" :)

- "Oh no, who could have expected that?! 😱" - "AI will not replace musicians, it is just a tool 😇" - ... add your favorite BS quote ;)

We kicked off a new series of research seminars "AI & Law"! With our first guest Sabine Wehnert on how to win a COLIEE competition, RAGs and graphs in German legal NLP, and much more. Next edition (hybrid again) on May 7, stay tuned

"Scale is all you need" 🥲 (Llama 4 Behemoth training)

Amazon recommendation system on steroids today :)

📢 #ACL2025NLP Dear community! The reviewing deadline for ACL 2025 is imminently approaching -- 23 March. We received over 8000 submissions, the highest number in ACL history. It is particularly important that you submit your reviews on time. A big thank you in advance for all your efforts! #nlproc

Have a paper about privacy in NLP accepted to Findings? Join the PrivateNLP workshop at NAACL and present your paper there! 🔐🔍 We'll be considering Findings paper submissions for our poster session until March 27th (AoE): sites.google.com/view/private...

"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Give a man an input textfield, and things will quickly get out of control" -- me, grading university exams 🤦‍♂️😂

Yeah, the next exam is coming... :) (views of lecture videos on YouTube)

Area chairing this Feb @aclmeeting.bsky.social Rolling Review cycle, I see way too many PhD students with 15 (!!!) assigned reviews. This makes me a bit worried :(