Group photo at NeurIPS 2025 San Diego

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I visited @uni-bamberg.de this week to give a Bamberg Center for AI lecture, and had the opportunity to meet many brilliant researchers, thanks for the invitation @bamnlp.de, @bamdial.bsky.social and BaCAI committee

Congrats to MaiNLP lab members!

Congrats to MaiNLP lab members!

CIS & MaiNLP Group picture at EMNLP 2025! 🤩 🤗 (1/3) While I sadly 🥲 won't be at EMNLP this year myself, please do reach out to any of our members for a chat if you are interested in our research! We also co-organize and participate in some great workshops at EMNLP:

📑 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

How do language models memorize noise while reason impressively well? Our #EMNLP2025 (poster, Nov 5, 11:00-12:30, Hall C) paper shows that memorization reuses internal mechanisms of generalization, even when they are not related to each other! arxiv.org/abs/2507.04782

🎥 @barbaraplank.bsky.social, Hinrich Schütze, and I were featured on tv, talking about how AI tools struggle with dialects! www.ardmediathek.de/video/capric...

VarDial 2026 will be colocated with @eaclmeeting.bsky.social! We're looking forward to your papers on NLP for similar languages, varieties and dialects :) Deadline: Dec 19 (Jan 2 for pre-reviewed ARR papers) sites.google.com/view/vardial...

🌞 The list of workshops for #EACL2026 is out! 🇲🇦 👇 Follow the thread for the full list! (no specific order) #NLProc

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...

Check out the... - talk on Mon Aug 18, 15:50–16:10 - preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.02894 - suppl. material: github.com/mainlp/betth... Joint work w/ Miriam Winkler & @barbaraplank.bsky.social from @mainlp.bsky.social, and Constantin Förster & Gabriele Wenger-Glemser from Bayerischer Rundfunk!

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.

So well-deserved, and such a great, supportive talk, especially kudos for including her students in the Lifetime Achievement Award! Thank you, Kathy ☀️

This year ACL inaugurates the ✨🎓ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award! 🎓✨ Instrumental for launching this inaugural prize is the Computational Linguistics Journal @CompLingJournal, with support of the ACL Exec. #CLJournal #ComputationalLinguistics #ACL2025NLP @CompLingJournal

1/3 📣 Social event at Day2 at #ACL2025NLP 🇦🇹 Get ready to experience the vibrant culture of Vienna at the ACL 2025 Social Event this Tuesday night at the ACV! 🎉 We've got an unforgettable evening planned!

Sewon Min 🏆 presenting the essence of her thesis: Rethinking Data Use in Large Language Models -- It won the first ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award 🎓✨ #ACL2025NLP #CLJournal @complingjournal.bsky.social

Get ready, ACL 2025 attendees! 🎉 The Opening Ceremony kicks off Monday, July 28 at 9 AM CEST in Hall A of the Austria Center Vienna. Don't miss it! 📍 #ACL2025NLP #Vienna

Thanks for the invitation to the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) to give this year's Hermann-Paul-Center Lecture lnkd.in/d_wUeDfY I enjoyed the visit, the great audience, and the stay in this lovely city. Thank you #blackforest #freiburg #breisgau

My ACL 2024 keynote talk on "Are LLMs Narrowing Our Horizon? Let’s Embrace Variation in NLP!" is online now: underline.io/events/466/s... 2024.aclweb.org/program/keyn... It was a huge honor to me to give last year's flagship-in-NLP-conference keynote in Bangkok 🇹🇭

Do you speak Bavarian? Then please consider helping in a thesis research project👇

MaiNLP/CIS participates in #stadradeln 🚴☀️

Just submitted your EMNLP paper? Congrats! An update on paper awards: the ACL award policy has been updated - in future the non-publicized awards won't have that info any longer in its title. Read more below: 🏆

Are you working with LLMs and survey data or generally care about high-quality data and reliable evaluation? Then this might be for you! Very excited to share the news about our upcoming COLM 2025 workshop #NLPOR Thanks for helping spread the word ☺️

LeWiDi: Shared task on Learning With Disagreement Website: le-wi-di.github.io We'd like to invite researchers in disagreement & variation to participate in the third edition of the LeWidi shared tasks held in conjunction with the NLPerspectives workshop at EMNLP 2025 nlperspectives.di.unito.it

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

Reunion in Singapore!🇸🇬 @barbaraplank.bsky.social, @xinpeng.bsky.social, who's currently on a research stay at NYU, and Chengzhi are presenting their work at @iclr-conf.bsky.social

💬 Find us today at Poster Session 1, happening this morning right after the keynote talk (poster #531) @xinpeng.bsky.social

😍 MaiNLP 3rd anniversary

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/

Upcoming ICLR 2025 paper: ✂️ Surgical, Cheap, and Flexible: Mitigating False Refusal in Language Models via Single Vector Ablation We propose a surgical & flexible approach to mitigate false refusal in LLMs with minimal effect on performance and inference cost led by @xinpeng.bsky.social (1/2)

The PhD call is out! Apply by 24 April here: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Celebration day 🎉- it all started exactly 3 years ago in Munich, on a very empty corridor... with snow in the April weekend 🚴🏔️🏄🥨🌤️ Happy and grateful for all the amazing people who are/were/will be part of the MaiNLP @mainlp.bsky.social @cislmu.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social journey☀️

Congratulations to Dr. Erik Arakelyan for successfully defending his PhD thesis on "Reasoning Inconsistencies and How to Mitigate Them in Deep Learning" at the University of Copenhagen @copenlu.bsky.social today 🇩🇰 🎉

Congratulations to Dr. Jón Friðrik Daðason for successfully defending his PhD thesis on "Language Representation Models for Low and Medium-Resource Languages" at Reykjavik University today 🇮🇸 🎉

Professor Barbara Plank (@barbaraplank.bsky.social) will deliver Keynote Presentation during FedCSIS 2025; presentation title to be announced soon. 2025.fedcsis.org/keynotes/bar...

Great theme-track at EMNLP: Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP - "The goal is to increase our awareness of how advances in NLP can impact other fields, and design better strategies to measure that impact both within and across disciplines."

What a grand opening of the new AI-HUB at LMU Munich. I had the honor to give the keynote on "Foundations of AI". It was great to see the breadth of AI research at LMU, looking forward to see all exciting work coming out of the AI-HUB

Yesterday @haldaume3.bsky.social visited us at LMU Munich! Wonderful talk in the afternoon @mainlp.bsky.social and fireside chat at the grand AI-hub opening in the evening! Great having you here, Hal, thanks for the visit

Talk today on "AI Interacting with People (through Language)" at LMU Munich by Hal Daumé III, 16.00, main building room M105 mcml.ai/events/2025-... - mainlp.github.io/events/#2024...

Over the last few years, several people from the @milanlp.bsky.social lab went onto the academic job market in #NLP. Based on the conversations with them, I collected some observations we shared internally. In case they are useful for others, though, here they are: dirkhovy.com/post/2025_01...

Great talk on Human-Centered NLP for Cross-Lingual Communication by @marinecarpuat.bsky.social at @mainlp.bsky.social with so many good points: centering usefulness of MT for users, nuanced differences in translation and how to make them explicit, in broad: rethinking MT. Thank you for the visit! ☀️

Don't forget to nominate that outstanding PhD thesis that should receive an award. Deadline in a few days 👇 #NLP #NLproc

I’m thrilled to share that our paper on mitigating false refusal in language models has been accepted to ICLR 2025 @iclr-conf.bsky.social! arxiv.org/abs/2410.03415 Joint work with chengzhi, @paul-rottger.bsky.social, @barbaraplank.bsky.social.

I'll be Germany next week to visit TUM Heilbronn and LMU Munich. Looking forward to learning from NLP researchers there and sharing recent work on human centered-machine translation! (And to discovering how much German I can actually understand after 2 weeks on duolingo 😅)

MaiNLP team at COLING 2025 @mainlp.bsky.social

Alberto presenting our work on evaluating pixel-based models for dialects

Safety of LLMs? Let's not forget vision - a new language & vision benchmark is out! MSTS 👇🎉

Hello on the new sky!