From San Diego to Seul for #ICML2026 🇰🇷🏯🍜 We have 2 papers accepted at the main and 1 workshop - come and say "hi" @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl

Summer conference season is starting and it will be busy! First up: #ACL2026 - We have 4 papers accepted (3 Main, 1 Findings) + 1 CoNLL. Congratulations to the authors! See you (virtually) in San Diego 🌊 🌴 🦭 @aclmeeting.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl

🥁 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Registration is now open for 𝗗𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲: 𝗔𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝗿𝗴𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸, which will be held as part of the ArabicNLP 2026 conference, co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest. @gronlp.bsky.social #ArgumentMining #ArabicNLP #EMNLP2026

Colleagues from all over the world, please think about the combination DH2027 in Ireland + CCLS 2027 in the Netherlands. They're only a few days apart. @uniofgalway.bsky.social @rug.nl

🗓️ May 15 📝 Lexical and Discourse Semantics in a Reading-time Corpus of English ⏰ 11:00 - 12:40 🏛️ Auditorium Illes Balears 📝"Oat Milk Vegan Chocolate Taste Great!": Monitoring the Food Transition Debate in Reddit ⏰ 15:00 - 16:40 Session P10.1: Social Media - 🏛️ Poster Area 2

🗓️ May 14 📝 Beyond Fake News Detection: A Community-based Study of the Multicultural Nature of Information Disorder ⏰ 15:20 - 17:00 P6.1.2 🏛️ Poster Area 2 📝 Reading Time in the Wild: An Assessment of Readability Predictors Based on Naturally-Observed Reading Times ⏰ 17:20 - 19:00 🏛️ Menorca 1

🗓️ May 14 📝 Investigating the Role of Synthetic Data Augmentation and Training Strategies on Improving Low-Resource Language ASR ⏰ 11:00 - 12:40 P5.2.1 🏛️ Poster Area 1 📝 Audio-Lyrics Alignment Dataset for Italian Arias ⏰ 11:00 - 12:40 P5.2.1 🏛️ Poster Area 1

🗓️ May 13 📝 Evaluating the Impact of Source Diversity for RAG in Historical Research ⏰ 11:20 - 13:00 P1.3 🏛️ Poster Area 1

🗓️ May 12 📝 Not Everything Is Greenwashing: Limitations of Automatic Analysis of Sustainability Reports, and a Proposal 🏛️ NLP4Ecology WORKSHOP (ROOM 11) 📝 Getting Close to Cloze: Investigating Language Model and Human Cloze-test Performance in Afrikaans 🏛️ RAIL WORKSHOP (ROOM 2)

🗓️ May 11 📝 Improving Low-Resource ASR Using Bilingual Fine-Tuning With Language Identification: A Cross-Linguistic Evaluation 🏛️ SPEAKABLE WORKSHOP (ROOM 11)

Hello #LREC2026! We are coming with 7 papers at the main conference and 3 papers at different workshops! Have a look here 👇 and check papers and presenations slots below! See you in 🌴 Palma 🇪🇸 next week @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl

Tomorrow I'm giving a keynote at the text2story workshop in Delft. "Multilingual Knowledge Extraction from Fiction" Main takeaway: LLMs are more accurate than semantic parsing. But only with human annotated ground knowledge for dynamic few-shots prompts #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalHumanities

🎤 Keynote at #EACL2026 “Arabic and Technology: A 40-Year Perspective” Don’t miss this keynote tomorrow in Session 1: Plenary (10:00–11:00)! Join us right after the opening session for this invited talk by Nizar Habash. 📚✨

Hey there!! #EACL2026 is about to start and we are coming with 7 papers (4 MAIN, 1 DEMO, 2 WORKSHOP) See below 👇 for details when and where you can find us. See you 👋 in Rabat 🇲🇦 @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl

1/ New preprint! 🧵 Can stories make arguments more persuasive? And which narrative features matter most? In ARGUS we build a framework to study this in Reddit's r/ChangeMyView, with @saranabhani.bsky.social , Khalid Al-Khatib, and @malvinanissim.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2602.24109

Post without fear of cancellation. Not from your audience, that's fair. From platforms deciding your content shouldn't be seen. Algorithms suppressing reach. Shadowbans. That's control. UpScrolled: Your followers see ALL your posts. No suppression. Your audience decides. #UpScrolled

👀 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)

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 ✈️

𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞? 🇨🇳🇮🇩🇸🇪 Here’s the proof! 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐋𝐌 is the first Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data available for 45 languages to the NLP community 🎉 arxiv.org/abs/2510.10159

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 🎓

#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