And longer substack post: open.substack.com/pub/trialser...

🚀Last week we announced the launch of a new AI tool in partnership with the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender! AI can empower civil servants and improve public services, and this project provides a blueprint for doing so responsibly. 👇Lots of takeaways, below!

AI-fabricated case citations continue to show up in courts, but can AI also automatically flag hallucinated legal citations to reduce the verification burden? In our new paper (accepted at COLM 2026), we built a benchmark and evaluated several agentic models to find out (1/7)

How can AI support public defense? We have worked on this question for the last two years, and have (1) built an AI retrieval tool for the NJ Office of the Public Defender and (2) conducted qualitative interviews with defenders. Our main insights 👇(1/12)

The future of oral argument or trial prep will obviously involve AI. But how can we measure quality of simulations? We build out an eval suite and run some studies! Sycophancy & issue coverage are clear areas of improvement, but models are surprisingly useful! 👇👇

@skyien-z.bsky.social and @nimranadeem.bsky.social evaluated LLMs for oral argument preparation -- before the hype around Katyal's TED Talk and Harvey's AI system. Findings are more nuanced: while some generations are great, there's sycophancy, limited diversity, and barely any hypotheticals

📢 I'm organizing two venues for papers at the intersection of NLP/AI and climate with deadlines approaching - A special issue in Climatic Change: “NLP and AI as Climate Solutions" (deadline June 30th), t.co/JYY3dUogVn - The 3rd ClimateNLP Workshop at EMNLP 2026 (deadline July 15th), details 👇

Excited to announce the fourth Climate Change AI Summer School (virtual, July 19–August 22, 2026)! 🎉 Are you an #AI or #DataScience expert who wants to tackle #ClimateChange? Are you a #climate expert trying to use #ML in your work? Register here 👉 www.climatechange.ai/events/summe...

Really exciting work led by Patty Liu on LLM-generated hallucinated legal citations! We also put out a more technical draft describing a dataset and methods for benchmarking legal citation verification princeton-polaris-lab.github.io/legal-halluc...

Update: semantic search is now live across all of CourtListener, not just the API 🚀 You can search case law in natural language directly on CourtListener! free.law/2026/05/04/s...

📢📢 Second Call for Papers for the 3rd ClimateNLP Workshop at EMNLP 2026 📢📢 🗓️ Updated Submission Deadline: July 15 (AOE) 🚀 We invite short and long papers at the intersection of climate change and NLP 🌍 🔗 Details in the original call

🚨 Call for Papers: AI for Law Workshop @icmlconf.bsky.social (July 10, Seoul 🇰🇷), welcomes submissions across three themes: ⚖️ AI for Legal Reasoning 📊 AI Evaluation for Law 🌍 AI for Access to Justice 📄 Full papers (≤8 pages) ⏰ Deadline: May 22 (AoE) 📄Submission via: openreview.net/group?id=ICM...

I’m organizing two tracks for papers at the intersection of NLP/AI and climate: (1) A special issue in Climatic Change: “NLP and AI as Climate Solutions: Opportunities and Challenges” (2) The 3rd ClimateNLP Workshop at EMNLP 2026 Consider submitting if you have relevant work!

📣 Call for Contributions: LEXam-v2 – A Benchmark for Legal Reasoning in AI How well do today’s AI systems really reason about law? We’re building a global benchmark based on real law school & bar exams. 🧵 Full details, scope, and how to contribute in the thread 👇

🚨🌍 We are organizing a Special Issue with the Climatic Change journal! Scope: NLP and AI as Climate Solutions: Opportunities and Challenges More details: link.springer.com/collections/...

We’ve been pushing hard on AI for public good. One example: partnering with Courtlistener to launch accessible legal semantic search! Many more cool AI projects coming soon from my group aimed at improving access to justice, often spearheaded by @dominsta.bsky.social !

📣 New Preprint! Have you ever wondered what the political content in LLM's training data is? What are the political opinions expressed? What is the proportion of left- vs right-leaning documents in the pre- and post-training data? Do they correlate with the political biases reflected in models?

📢 Exciting News: Announcing our fantastic line up of keynote speakers for ClimateNLP 2025! 🎙 @naomioreskes.bsky.social , Harvard University 🌱 @klimatfrida.bsky.social , Klimatkollen 📊 Emily Kormanyos, Deutsche Bundesbank 🌿 Ruth Schmidt, GIZ

“In the U.S., unfortunately, most people cannot afford a lawyer. What I'm currently working on is legal natural language processing + #NLP tech, which would increase access to justice.” A new Meet the Researcher w/ @dominsta.bsky.social is up ➡️ #CITP Blog: blog.citp.princeton.edu/2025/04/16/m...

🚨 We're looking for a few emergency reviewers! If you have time to review 1 paper in the next 1-3 days, please reach out via email!

🚨 We're interviewing public defenders about AI in their work. Know any? Point them our way! 🙌

📌 Do you have a paper about climate change, submitted to ARR and got reviews, but don't know where to submit? Submit to the ClimateNLP workshop! 📖 More infos in thread

📢📢 Third and last Call for Papers for the 2nd ClimateNLP Workshop at ACL 2025 📢📢 🗓️ Submission Deadline: March 1st AOE 🚀 We invite short and long papers at the intersection of climate change and NLP 🌍 More info: nlp4climate.github.io

#TechTakes - Brand new CITP Blog post just dropped 👀 "It Wasn't Me: #DeepSeek denies they stole anything, but is their model still a cost revolution?" 📢 This is part of a new series called #TechTakes, where CITP researchers comment on tech news & tech policy. freedom-to-tinker.com/2025/02/07/i...

📢📢 Second Call for Papers for the 2nd ClimateNLP Workshop at ACL 2025 📢📢 🗓️ Submission Deadline: March 1st AOE 🚀 We invite short and long papers at the intersection of climate change and NLP 🌍 More info: nlp4climate.github.io

📢📢 Call for Papers is out for the Second ClimateNLP Workshop at ACL 2025 📢📢 🚀 We invite short and long papers at the intersection of climate change and NLP 🌍 🗓️ Submission Deadline: March 1st AOE more info: nlp4climate.github.io/callforpapers/

📢 Excited to announce that we're going into the second iteration of ClimateNLP at #ACL2025 in Vienna! 🚀 We invite short and long papers at the intersection of climate change and NLP 🌍 Official call for papers later in December, submission deadline approx March. More info: nlp4climate.github.io

Excited to announce that we're running the Second NLP for Climate Workshop at #ACL2025! Follow along at @climate-nlp.bsky.social. We're keen to see submissions from NGOs and industry as well as academia: I'm personally *very* interested in research that considers closely its real-world application

Dominik @dominsta.bsky.social talks about how to evaluate topic models, particularly with LLMs. 📄🧾📑🗞️📰📜 Joint work with Alexander @alexanderhoyle.bsky.social, Mrinmaya Sachan, and Elliott @elliottash.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIDj...