What if AI-driven models could help people with language disorders – e.g. with a smartphone app? 🗣️ Researcher Frank Tsiwah (@facultyofartsug.bsky.social) is exploring various ways to make this happen. ‘If it can make a single life better, then it will be worth it.’ 👇 www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

👀 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)

📣 I'm hiring 📣 Post-doc position at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social as part of @rug.nl CIT Innovation Fun "A3i – Artificial Intelligence Innovation Identifier" Full call is available here: lnkd.in/esdQ7YGD 📅 Application deadline: Jan. 15 2026

Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a fantastic friend and researcher, @mdhk.net , who came to visit us in Groningen for a couple of days from Amsterdam! 🎉

✨ It's happening ✨ Curious to meet our new colleague? Stay tuned! #HAICu @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @gronlp.bsky.social #NLProc #LLMs #CulturalHeritage

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!

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

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

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

As part of this year's BabyLM challenge, we (researchers from @gronlp.bsky.social and @clausebielefeld.bsky.social diverged from established pretraining paradigm by training only on dialogue data from CHILDES.

With only a week left for #EMNLP2025, we are happy to announce all the works we 🐮 will present 🥳 - come and say "hi" to our posters and presentations during the Main and the co-located events (*SEM and workshops) See you in Suzhou ✈️

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!