grad-school me was always curious about the behind-the-scenes 🫣 i learned some from social media, chats, & volunteering at confs. love seeing it laid out transparently. ACL venues are my home base (lang/discourse ♥️) and i’ve met many wonderful people there 🤗 🛎️ here’s to making them better & better

Today at #acl2026nlp: Check out the panel on "Linguistics and NLP in the LLM Era", featuring Allyson Ettinger, @futrell.bsky.social, Zoey Liu, and me! 2:00 - 3:30 in Gaslamp C&D

find me at #ACL2026 & #ICML2026, or at a few world cup watch parties 🧤⚽ 🥅 come say 👋🏼 at the 20th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, which I’m co-organizing with @lukegessler.bsky.social @aclmeeting.bsky.social 🛎️ join us for two amazing keynotes, a great lineup of papers, and a roundtable discussion!

The New England Mechanistic Interpretability (NEMI) workshop is coming to BU on Aug. 14! Join us for talks, a panel, food, and plenty of opportunities to connect with the many great researchers in the area. Register and help spread the word!

SCiL is co-located with ACL as a workshop this year: we're welcoming ACL authors of papers with strong linguistic relevance to join us for an additional non-archival poster presentation to share their work with the linguistically-minded SCiL audience. If this is you, consider submitting here!

Is there a relationship between bias and fundamental properties of LLMs? While LLMs are powerful, they contain harmful biases that can emerge unpredictably in their behavior. Read more on this in this thought-provoking position paper: doi.org/10.1162/coli... #NLProc #NLP

🚨 Emergency reviewer needed for ARR Resources and Evaluation track! Please ping me if you could review one paper by Friday. Topic is AI hallucinations, broadly speaking.

I could use an emergency reviewer for an ACL submission involving interpretability and syntax. Please DM me if you might be able to provide an emergency review before February 15!

Nearly 2 years ago, @jessyjli.bsky.social, @janetlauyeung.bsky.social, @valentinapy.bsky.social, and I decided that it's time to bring discourse structure to the center of NLP teaching.

🧑‍🔬I’m recruiting PhD students in Natural Language Processing @unileipzig.bsky.social Computer Science, together with @scadsai.bsky.social! Topics include, but aren’t limited to: 🔎Linguistic Interpretability 🌍Multilingual Evaluation 📖Computational Typology Please share! #NLProc #NLP

🛎️ first cfp is out special theme: errors in annotation and we’ve got two fantastic invited speakers: Marie-Catherine de Marneffe & Rachel Rudinger, to highlight the enduring importance of consideration for annotation errors direction submission by Mar 5, 2026 #ACL2026NLP 🌴 see y’all in san diego

For everyone working on the intersections between linguistic and computational research, consider submitting to the upcoming SCiL! We're very excited that it will be co-located with ACL 2026 as a workshop, and we've also received NSF funding to help cover costs. sites.google.com/view/scil2026

📑 Our CoT2EL paper will be presented as an oral at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou! Humans often disagree on labels. Can a model's own reasoning (CoT) help us understand why? We developed a new method to extract these insights. Come join us! 🗓️ Friday, Nov 7, 14:00 - 15:30 📍 Room: A110

𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕! A rundown of some cool papers I got to chat about at #COLM2025 and some scattered thoughts saxon.me/blog/2025/co...

are you attending @colmweb.org 🦙 psst, don't miss our First Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research tomorrow #COLM2025 🛎️ we have a great line up of keynotes, presentation, and panel discussion, followed by a happy hour 📍 room 518B schedule and info: sites.google.com/view/nlpor20...

At #Interspeech2025 I'm going to present Betthupferl, a dataset for German dialect ASR & dialect-to-standard speech translation! We analyze differences between dialectal & Standard German transcriptions, benchmark ASR models, and examine shortcomings of current ASR models & evaluation metrics.

Unsure which presentations to attend at #ACL2025? 🛎️🗣️

🕺🏼swing by our poster in Hall 4/5 on Wednesday, July 30 at 11:00 to chat with @florian-eichin.com and I to find out the answers to these questions 🛎️ bonus: to see the full poster 🫣🧩 #ACL2025 #NLProc

Some recommendations for #ACL2025 👇 (join me and @janetlauyeung.bsky.social to talk about discourse generalization and probing!)

Headed to ACL? MaiNLP & our most recent work will be there too👥📄 Come see what we’ve been working on!

🦙 how well do LLMs encode discourse knowledge? does that generalize across languages? 🛎️ in our #ACL2025 paper, we uncover fascinating trends about multilingual discourse representations! joint work w/ @florian-eichin.com @barbaraplank.bsky.social @mhedderich.bsky.social 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2503.10515

I'm looking for a reviewer for a paper on measuring syntactic productivity (lots of maths!) due a week from now. Please shoot me an email if you could review!

Bavarian dialect speakers needed! Our MSc student Miriam wants to find out 1. how good/bad LLM-generated "Bavarian" is, and 2. whether dialect speakers agree with each other on this. The survey takes <5 min: survey.ifkw.lmu.de/dialquali25/ Thank you for sharing/participating!

🛎️ Excited to announce the 1st Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research at COLM 2025, Oct 10th in Montreal 🇨🇦 As LLMs reshape public discourse and research, collaboration between NLP and Public Opinion Research (POR) is more vital than ever #NLPOR Submit by June 23📄 🔗 tinyurl.com/nlpor25

BlackboxNLP, the leading workshop on interpretability and analysis of language models, will be co-located with EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou this November! 📆 This edition will feature a new shared task on circuits/causal variable localization in LMs, details here: blackboxnlp.github.io/2025/task

On my way to #NAACL2025 where I'll give a keynote at the noisy text workshop (WNUT), presenting some of the challenges & methods for dialect NLP + also discussing dialect speakers' perspectives! 🗨️ Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data 🗓️ Saturday, May 3, 9:30–10:30

Lots of progress in mech interp (MI) lately! But how can we measure when new mech interp methods yield real improvements over prior work? We propose 😎 𝗠𝗜𝗕: a 𝗠echanistic 𝗜nterpretability 𝗕enchmark!

🎉MaiNLP is turning 3 today!🎂🥳 We’ve grown a lot since @barbaraplank.bsky.social started this group with nothing but three aspiring researches and a hand-drawn sign on the door. Huge thanks to all the amazing people who have joined or visited us since. Here’s to many more years of exciting research!🚀

All the ACL chapters are here now: @aaclmeeting.bsky.social @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social @eaclmeeting.bsky.social @naaclmeeting.bsky.social #NLProc

🌴 in Miami for #EMNLP2024 this week 🌴 1st conference {of the year | with @MaiNLP | as a postdoc}: > 2 papers to present, SPF 50 on standby > with my new labmates (who are doing cool work🤩) > reunite with @GUCompLing folks 🙌 > come say hi and catch up 🕺🏻 see 🧵

It's not the first time! A dream team of Eve Fleisig (human eval), @adamlopez.bsky.social (remembers the Stat MT era), Kyunghyun Cho (helped end it), and me (pun in title) are here to teach you the history of scale crises and what lessons we can take from them. arxiv.org/abs/2311.05020 🧵

The thirdUnImplicit workshop on Understanding Implicit and Underspecified Language will be collocated with EACL 2024 in Malta! Co-organized with Alisa Liu, @esteng.bsky.social , Daniel Fried and Sandro Pezzelle. Submission deadline: 18th of Dec Website: unimplicit2024.github.io

Can we use LLMs to help disseminate medical information more broadly? @byron.bsky.social, Mike Mackert, Wei Xu and I are hosting an online panel today at the HARC conference at 4:30 EST/3:30 CST on Simplifying Medical Texts with Large Language Models! harcconf.org/agenda-monda...

Submit your abstracts to *TLS2024*! With a special session on computational methods in linguistics Speakers: @kmahowald.bsky.social Zoey Liu and yours truly tls.ling.utexas.edu Deadline for submission: November 24, 2023

Introducing COLM (colmweb.org) the Conference on Language Modeling. A new research venue dedicated to the theory, practice, and applications of language models. Submissions: March 15 (it's pronounced "collum" )