Are you attending NAACL 2025 and are you interested in low-resource languages and dialects? Then don't miss our very own @verenablaschke.bsky.social's keynote talk at the WNUT 2025 workshop on May 3rd: Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data 🌐 ☀️ noisy-text.github.io/2025/

🚀 We are excited to introduce Kaleidoscope, the largest culturally-authentic exam benchmark. 📌 Most VLM benchmarks are English-centric or rely on translations—missing linguistic & cultural nuance. Kaleidoscope expands in-language multilingual 🌎 & multimodal 👀 VLMs evaluation

NoDaLiDa x Baltic-HLT 2025 is a wrap! Thank you all for joining for a fruitful conference! Safe trip home and see you in Copenhagen or Vilnius in 2027!! #nlp #nodalida #baltichlt

NoDaLiDa 2027 will be held at the Center of Language Technology at the University of Copenhagen!! #nodalida #nlp

Welcome to NoDaLiDa / Baltic-HLT 2025! After the opening speech (9:00), we're kicking of with the opening keynote by Prof. @arianna-bis.bsky.social (09:20-10:10): "Not all Language Models need to be Large: Studying Language Evolution and Acquisition with Modern Neural Networks". (in Lääne-Euroopa)

The first day of workshops is almost a wrap! Join us later today at the welcome reception at the Institute of the Estonian Language (maps.app.goo.gl/brzig4jP6ZfZ...) from 18:30 onwards!! #nlp #nodalida #baltichlt

Now conference-approved! #nlp #nlproc #nodalida #baltichlt #tallinn

Morning!!! We're excited to welcome you in Tallinn! On March 2nd (Sunday), we're starting with workshops in the Hestia Hotel Europa: RESOURCEFUL 2025 (9:00-17:00): shorturl.at/HypPv NB-REAL 2025 (9:00-13:00): nbreal.xyz NLP4Ecology 2025 (13:30-17:30): nlp4ecology2025.di.unito.it #nlp #nlproc

Heading to Tallinn for @nodalida.bsky.social! 🇪🇪 We’re presenting our work on: 🇩🇰 Sun, Mar 2: "DaKultur: Evaluating the Cultural Awareness of LLMs for Danish“ (10:30) 🤖 Tue, Mar 4: "SnakModel: Lessons from Training Our Open Danish LLM" (10:45) Finally, networking over some lovely Estonian soup! 🍲

The NoDaLiDa x Baltic-HLT Proceedings are up! See here: www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/proceedings See you also soon in Tallinn! #NLP #NLProc #nodalida #baltichlt

The Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS) 2025 is now open for applications. I’ve done the Covid version myself, and I found the content to be very useful. I went to Lisbon on another occasion, which is also a huge recommendation!! lxmls.it.pt/2025/

The technical report is now out, loads of interesting insights into multilingual LLM pre-training ✍️ arxiv.org/abs/2502.12982 Congrats Longxu, Qian, Fan, Changyu and team! #nlp

This work has now been accepted at #CVPR2025 🤘

🚀 Thank you all for waiting! The full program of NoDaLiDa x Baltic-HLT is online: www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/program #nodalida #baltichlt #nlp #nlproc

NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT is in less than two weeks! Some of the places you can visit: Kalamaja, one of Tallinn's oldest districts, is known for its wooden houses and hipster vibe, with Telliskivi Creative City as its cultural hub. Nearby, Noblessner offers waterfront views and diverse dining options.

Looking for a PhD student to come work with me on the ethical implications of NLP from September! Please share widely and point any interesting students my way! 😊

The NLP group at Aalborg University (*Copenhagen campus*) is hiring a postdoc in NLP Security: (ddl: 15 April) www.vacancies.aau.dk/scientific-p... #nlproc #nlp #aau

Otherwise there is also the Pierre Chocolaterie in the hidden Masters’ Courtyard, or a number of other trendy establishments. When it comes to views, you can’t beat those from the Old Town Wall, its towers and Toompea Hill’s viewing platforms!! See you soon! #nodalida #baltichlt #nlp #nlproc

NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT is less than a month away! Did you know Talllinn is a living UNESCO treasure and also has a café culture? One such example is Maiasmokk, the oldest café in Tallinn dating back to 1864!

Hi folks, in collaboration with @cohereforai.bsky.social, we're looking for contributors to a Multilingual **Multimodal** Exams benchmark in MCQ style. What's in it for you: Submit 1000Qs for high/mid-resource, or for 500 low-resource langs to be eligible for co-authorship.

9.6 million seconds = 1 PhD 🔥 Finally analyzed my PhD time tracking data so you can plan your own research journey more effectively: mxij.me/x/phd-learning-dynamics For current students: I hope this helps put your journey into perspective. Wishing you all the best!

Nice to see @mjjzha.bsky.social presenting our joint collaboration with Aallborg University: SnakModel, a new language model for Danish 🇩🇰 (w/ @mxijme.bsky.social @elisabassignana.bsky.social and Rob van der Goot)

Thanks for the warm invite @dnnslmr.bsky.social !!!

Very happy to have learned about my old @nlpnorth.bsky.social colleague @mjjzha.bsky.social et al.'s work on SnakModel, a new language model for Danish!

NoDaLiDa is now on bsky.app as well!! #NLP #NLProc

🚀 Sailor2 is a multilingual language model built to support 15 Southeast Asian languages, plus English and Chinese. Based on Qwen2.5, it features 1B, 8B, and 20B parameter models for diverse applications. (1/n)

🥳 Excited to have been a part of this novel and timely benchmark, check out this detailed thread by Angelika! Kudos to her and the team for leading this effort!!! #NLP

(Reposting) 🚀 Introducing All Languages Matter (ALM-Bench): A diverse multilingual and multimodal VQA benchmark spanning 100 languages with 22.7K Q&A pairs. Covering 19 generic and culture-specific domains, ALM-Bench features 4 diverse question types to advance inclusivity in LMMs. 🌍

There! I went for it! (Let me know everyone if you want me to add or remove you) go.bsky.app/CUuio7g

📢 NAACL reviews have been released! 🆕 feature alert: ARR now has review issue flagging! Thanks @jkkummerfeld.bsky.social & OR team for help with implementation, and other EiCs for supporting the idea! It'll be live after author response. More details here: aclrollingreview.org/authors#step... /1

I've spent the last two years scouring all available resources on RLHF specifically and post training broadly. Today, with the help of a totally cracked team, we bring you the fruits of that labor — Tülu 3, an entirely open frontier model post training recipe. We beat Llama 3.1 Instruct. Thread.

Work in progress -- suggestions for NLP-ers based in the EU/Europe & already on Bluesky very welcome! go.bsky.app/NZDc31B