Great tips from @jiruiqi.bsky.social about how to choose your reinforcement learning strategy. @gronlp.bsky.social

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐂 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 (𝐄𝐑𝐂 𝐂𝐨𝐆, 𝐏𝐈 𝐀𝐧𝐚 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐟) 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫! ⁣🎉 ⁣ We have an opening for a 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 in 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 for a starting duration of 12 months extendible to 30 months.⁣ For further details -> www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀’ 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻! 😍 Here are some photos of our GroNLP station at the Forum, where we welcomed high school classes and potential future researchers. 🧑‍🔬🤖 Quizzes, puzzles, demos, card games, and of course, lots of chocolate! 🍫

Today we were at #CLIN35 hosted by @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social - as always: great interactions, meeting old friends/colleagues, and lots of presentations from us @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

We recharged our batteries with a wonderful weekend together in the province of Drenthe! 🌳🍃 As per tradition, we kick off the academic year with plenty of sharing, smiles, and sports 💘 We wish everyone a wonderful start of the academic year <3 may it be inspiring and exciting 🎓

#INCREC is looking for a new team member: Postdoc in #Creativity, #Translation and #Technology. Come an join the team at University of Groningen! Applications until 12 October 11:59pm, 2025 Dutch local time (CET) . All information 👇 www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

𝗔 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗖 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺'𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻” 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁! 😍 #creativity #xl8n #MT #literature #INCREC @gronlp.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

#ACL2025 has just finished and it was great to meet with old friends and connect with new colleagus. In case you missed our papers/presentations, this was us 🐮👇 @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

We’re excited to share a new addition from our lab to the family of language-specific BLiMPs, this time the morphologically rich Turkish language is in the spotlight! 🎊✨

And once again 🎊 a little read for you all to enjoy :) Check it out !!

“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

🎊 New work out from our brilliant PhDs 🎊

A recent @anthropic.com publication has a section on how LLMs plan rhymes when generating poems. Thanks @gsarti.com @gronlp.bsky.social for the tip! transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...

Tomorrow, Friday 16th May, I will present the GOLEM project at KAIST in South Korea. Online too. 2025-05-16 13:30~15:00 KST (15th May, 21:30 Pacific time) The GOLEM Project: Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models DM me for Zoom link #DigitalHumanities @gronlp.bsky.social

Few days back 🍦 celebrating spring, sunshine, and one of our most cherished lab member! Nothing like ice cream and an indulgent break to mark a birthday the Computational Linguistics way ☀️🎉 #GroNLP #ComputationalLinguistics #SpringVibes

🎓Already 3 weeks at @rug.nl Today I joined my first @gronlp.bsky.social reading group, where prithamajumdar.bsky.social shared her NAACL paper on comparisons & similes - couldn’t help but think of @abstractionerc.bsky.social when seeing this slide❤️ 📢 Next week it’s my turn to present—stay tuned!

@grambelli.bsky.social these weeks is hosted by @gronlp.bsky.social for a postdoctoral visiting sponsored by @abstractionerc.bsky.social for a collaboration with @tommasoc80.bsky.social and @piasommerauer.bsky.social on the emergence of language-mediated stereotypes, a form of overgeneralization.

📢 Excited to present my postdoc research within @abstractionerc.bsky.social at the @gronlp.bsky.social reading group (@facultyofartsug.bsky.social) TODAY! 🤖🧠 I'll explore how LLMs interpret generics and compounds —and what this tells us about their #generalization abilities. #NLP #LLMs #linguistics

✨New paper ✨ Introducing 🌍MultiBLiMP 1.0: A Massively Multilingual Benchmark of Minimal Pairs for Subject-Verb Agreement, covering 101 languages! We present over 125,000 minimal pairs and evaluate 17 LLMs, finding that support is still lacking for many languages. 🧵⬇️

​Thrilled to announce the release of MultiBLiMP 1.0 by our team at GroNLP Lab! 🙆‍♀️

🎉 I'm ready for a new adventure! I'll be in Groningen @unigroningen.bsky.social one month for a research visiting at @gronlp.bsky.social 🇳🇱 Many thanks to @tommasoc80.bsky.social who organized my staying. Let's promote @abstractionerc.bsky.social research around the globe! 🎆

Thanks to Karl Berglund for mentioning my book on Digital Social Reading in this newspaper article. Coincidentally, it was published today that I'm in Sweden to set up long-term collaboration between Uppsala and @gronlp.bsky.social www.svd.se/a/73gdE3/boo...

📣 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.

This 4-year salaried position will soon open to candidates with proved expertise and interest in the areas of computational linguistics/NLP and computational cognitive modeling. Here's a preview: yevgen.web.rug.nl/phd.pdf

Unique opportunity to join our lab and be part of our wonderful community of researchers. 🎊 Check it out!!! 👇

Critical Language Awareness, Democratic Engagement, and Sustainability A few days ago, I had the opportunity to present my PhD project and some preliminary research findings at the first edition of CLADES 🚀

🎊🫢 We are very proud to announce that our own @gossminn.bsky.social (supervised by Malvina Nissim and @tommasoc80.bsky.social) has won the 2024 AVT/Anéla PhD dissertation prize (best linguistic dissertation) !! 🥰

🚀 Fully Funded Joint PhD Opportunity – Macquarie University & University of Groningen 🔍 Detecting, Verifying, and Countering Vaccine Hesitancy with AI 📅 Deadline: 28 Feb 2025 - see flyer for more info! @gronlp.bsky.social @unigroningen.bsky.social

What are the possibilities and limitations of Large Language Models like #ChatGPT? How will they impact society? And what about their biases? Prof Malvina Nissim talks about it in the latest In Science podcast ep. with hosts @doctinak.bsky.social and @wimbrons.nl 🎧 👇 www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

🎙️ Happy to see a new episode of our INCREC’s group’s podcast is out! 🎙️ This time, we interview Sarah Timmer Harvey about her work as a translator, her focus on style & dialect in translation and the importance of human connection. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! 🎊

It was great being at #COLING2025 in Abu Dhabi last week! There, I presented our work with @malvinanissim.bsky.social and @van-rijn.org on evaluating the confidence of LLMs as proxy for the difficulty of Multiple-Choice Questions. You can check out our work here: aclanthology.org/2025.coling-...

🎊 Out 21 January 2025 in Open Access 🎊 Using a combination of qualitative and computational methods, Pianzola offers fresh insight into the reading experience on the scale of big data. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255091... @unigroningen.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social

Language and AI Colloquium Act III 🤖 Today we had the pleasure of welcoming Tim van de Cruys from @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social with: "Shall AI Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? An Exploration of Creative Mechanisms in Large Language Models.”

Our piece is finally out in the Imminent blog! 🎉It presents preliminary findings of our recent study evaluating the usefulness of word-level quality estimation in real-world post-editing settings (paper forthcoming)! 🧵1/ imminent.translated.com/can-word-lev...

Yesterday, we were thrilled to see two of our colleagues (co-)host workshops at the Computational Humanities Research Conference in Aarhus! 🎉

Last Friday I had the pleasure to host @irholtman.bsky.social as part of the Language and AI colloquia. Yesterday, I was at the #HAICu workshop, and now on my way to #CLIC-it where I have two contributions (with amazing collaborators) and two tasks at #CALAMITA. Want to know more, say less 👇🏻👇🏻

Super excited to be in Pisa to attend #CLiCit2024 after many years! 🥳 I will present our work "Non Verbis, Sed Rebus: LLMs are Weak Solvers of Italian Rebuses" w/ @gronlp.bsky.social colleagues We show that SOTA LLMs are bad at sequential reasoning for 🇮🇹 language puzzles. arxiv.org/abs/2408.00584

The INCREC project released a new episode of the podcast, the Visible Art of Translation, about translation, creativity & technology! This time they talk to Michele Hutchison, literary translator and International Booker Prize winner! Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts tinyurl.com/5hcnh5uz

Today we had the pleasure to host @michaelwhanna.bsky.social from @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social for a seminar on his work w/ @amuuueller.bsky.social to interpret incremental sentence processing in language models. Thank you for joining us Michael!

Hallo wereld 🐮! We are the Computational Linguistics group at the University of Groningen, follow us for updates about our research in natural language processing, machine learning, speech technology, digital humanities and more! go.bsky.app/UDf92a2