We're also back with the lab's seminar! Today we had Eleonora Mancini presenting her doctoral research "Multimodal AI for Human Expression Understanding". #NLP #multimodality #speech

Holidays over, reading group resumes 📖 Today Henning Hoffmann presented the paper "Music for All: Representational Bias and Cross-Cultural Adaptability of Music Generation Models" Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.07328 #NLProc

#MemoryModay #NLProc Countering Hateful and Offensive Speech Online - Open Challenges" by Plaza-Del-Arco, @debora_nozza, Guerini, Sorensen, Zampieri, 2024 is a tutorial on the challenges and solutions for detecting and mitigating hate speech.

#TBT #NLProc #MachineLearning #SafetyFirst 'Safety-Tuned LLaMAs: Improving LLMs Safety' by Bianchi et al. explores training LLMs for safe refusals, warns of over-tuning.

🚀 We’re opening 2 fully funded postdoc positions in #NLP! Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects. 🔗 More details: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio... ⏰ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026

For today's reading group, Serena Pugliese presented the paper “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models" by Piercosma Bisconti et al. (2025). Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2511.15304 #NLProc #LLMs #jailbreaking

Huge thanks to our speakers at last Friday’s lab seminar! 🗣️ @penzo-nicolo.bsky.social on multi-party conversations 🌍 @patriciachiril.bsky.social on NLP for socially grounded research #NLProc

#MemoryModay #NLProc Uma, A. N. et al. examine AI model training in 'Learning from Disagreement: A Survey'. Disagreement-handling methods' performance is shaped by evaluation methods & dataset traits.

#TBT #NLProc 'Respectful or Toxic?' by Plaza-del-Arco, @debora & @dirkhovy.bsky.social (2023) explores zero-shot learning for multilingual hate speech detection. Highlights prompt & model choice for accuracy. #AI #LanguageModels #HateSpeechDetection

At today’s lab reading group @carolin-holtermann.bsky.social presented ‘Fairness through Difference Awareness: Measuring Desired Group Discrimination in LLMs’ by @angelinawang.bsky.social et al. (2025). Lots to think about how we evaluate fairness in language models! #NLProc #fairness #LLMs

For our weekly reading group last week, @a-lauscher.bsky.social presented the paper “Shape it Up! Restoring LLM Safety during Finetuning" by ShengYun Peng et al. (2025) #NLProc

#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Leveraging Social Interactions to Detect Misinformation on Social Media' by Fornaciari et al. (2023) uses combined text and network analysis to spot unreliable threads.

#TBT #NLProc 'Compromesso! Italian Many-Shot Jailbreaks Undermine LLM Safety' by Pernisi, @dirkhovy.bsky.social, @paul-rottger.bsky.social (2024). Paper highlights LLM vulnerability through Italian demos, more demos = more attack chances.

I will be @euripsconf.bsky.social this week to present our paper as non-archival at the PAIG workshop (Beyong Regulation: Private Governance & Oversight Mechanisms for AI). Very much looking forward to the discussions! If you are at #EurIPS and want to chat about LLM's training data. Reach out!

#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Multilingual HateCheck: Functional Tests for Multilingual Hate Speech Detection Models' by @paul-rottger.bsky.social et al. (2022). A suite of tests for 10 languages.

Another exhausting day in the lab… conducting very rigorous panettone analysis. Pandoro was evaluated too, because we believe in fair experimental design.

#TBT #NLProc '@donyarn.bsky.social & @dirkhovy.bsky.social's 2024 paper, 'Conversations as a Source for Teaching Scientific Concepts' turns video dialogues into effective teaching tools.'

We're happy to have @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social at our lab this week! She presented her #EMNLP2025 work "Reading Between the Prompts: How Stereotypes Shape LLM's Implicit Personalization" and shared more of her exciting ongoing work. #NLProc

#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Hey Siri. Ok Google. Alexa: A topic modeling of user reviews for smart speakers,' by Nguyen & @dirkhovy.bsky.social decodes speaker reviews for user preferences using topic models. Domain knowledge needed for market analysis.

What an inspiring week at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou🇨🇳! Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who stopped by our poster/talk!

For our weekly lab seminar, it was a pleasure to have @andersgiovanni.com presenting his research "How AI Affects Us: Controlled Experiments in Human-AI Interaction". #NLProc

#TBT #NLProc ' Attanasio et al. study asks 'Is It Worth the (Environmental) Cost?' analyzing continuous training for language models. Balances benefits, environmental impacts, for responsible use. #Sustainability'

For our weekly reading group, @joachimbaumann.bsky.social presented the upcoming PNAS article "The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research" by @ @seanjwestwood.bsky.social.

#MemoryModay #NLProc ' 'State of Profanity Obfuscation in NLP Scientific Publications' probes bias in non-English papers. @deboranozza.bsky.social & @dirkhovy.bsky.social (2023) propose 'PrOf' to aid authors & improve access.

#TBT #NLProc Hessenthaler et al.'s 2022 work delves into AI's link with fairness & energy reduction in English NLP models, challenging bias reduction theories. #AI #sustainability

#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Measuring Harmful Representations in Scandinavian Language Models' uncovers gender bias, challenging Scandinavia's equity image.

#TBT #NLProc "Explaining Speech Classification Models" by Pastor et al. (2024) makes speech classification more transparent! 🔍 Their research reveals which words matter most and how tone and background noise impact decisions.

LLMs require social knowledge to understand implicit misogyny, yet they mostly fail. If you want to know more, come check my poster from 12.30 to 13.30! Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.finding... #EMNLP2025

Feeling a little sad not to be in Suzhou for #EMNLP2025, but so proud of all the amazing work from our MilaNLP Lab! 💫 Honored to have received the Outstanding Senior Area Chair Award! Check out our papers 👇

#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Universal Joy: A Data Set and Results for Classifying Emotions Across Languages' by Lamprinidis et al. (2021) explores how AI research affects our planet.

For our weekly lab seminar it was a pleasure to have Valerio Capraro talking about The Economics of Language. #NLProc

Proud to present our #EMNLP2025 papers! Catch our team across Main, Findings, Workshops & Demos 👇

#TBT #NLProc Explore 'Wisdom of Instruction-Tuned LLM Crowds' by Plaza et al. LLM labels outperform single models in tasks & languages. But few-shot can't top zero-shot. Supervised models rule.

Great session today in our lab reading group. Thanks to Emanuele Moscato for presenting the article “Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking?” from @naturemagazine.bsky.social. Article: www.nature.com/articles/d41... #NLProc

LLMs are good at simulating human behaviours, but they are not going to be great unless we train them to. We hope SimBench can be the foundation for more specialised development of LLM simulators. I really enjoyed working on this with @tiancheng.bsky.social et al. Many fun results 👇

There’s plenty of evidence for political bias in LLMs, but very few evals reflect realistic LLM use cases — which is where bias actually matters. IssueBench, our attempt to fix this, is accepted at TACL, and I will be at #EMNLP2025 next week to talk about it! New results 🧵

For our last Thursday Reading Group, @taniseceron.bsky.social presented "Helpful, harmless, honest? Sociotechnical limits of AI alignment and safety through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback" by A. D. Lindström et al. (2025) Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #NLProc

#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Dense Node Representation for Geolocation' by Fornaciari & @dirkhovy.bsky.social reveals efficient geolocation methods using node2vec & doc2vec models. Greater network size, less parameters.

Over the past two days, I participated in the @erc.europa.eu Workshop on Data Access under DSA Article 40. An enriching experience that deepened my understanding of the DSA's implications for research and enabled me to connect with exceptional media researchers. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

#TBT #NLProc 'Classist Tools: Social Class Correlates with Performance in NLP' by Curry et al. (2024) explores AI's hidden energy problem, and how machine learning impacts environmental sustainability.

🚀 We are pleased to announce the First Call for Papers for #WASSA2026 This year, we introduce a Special Track on Multilinguality and Social Bridges between High- & Lesser-Resourced Languages/Communities. 🌍 🗓️ Deadlines: Dec 17 (direct) and Jan 2 (ARR). 🔗 workshop-wassa.github.io/2026/call-fo...

#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Benchmarking Post-Hoc Interpretability Approaches for Transformer-based Misogyny Detection' - Attanasio et al. Explores reliability of interpretability in hate speech detection.

It was a pleasure to have @rochellechoenni.bsky.social presenting "Brittle but Steerable: Aligning Cultural Values in Multilingual Language Models" at our lab seminar. #NLProc

We’re delighted to welcome Eve Fleisig to our @milanlp.bsky.social lab as a visiting PhD student! ✨

#TBT #NLProc 'Geolocation with Attention-Based Multitask Learning Models' by Tommaso Fornaciari, @dirkhovy.bsky.social (2019) reveals how online political talks can become one-sided. #SocialMedia

#MemoryModay #NLProc ' 'State of Profanity Obfuscation in NLP Scientific Publications' probes bias in non-English papers. @debora_nozza & Dirk Hovy (2023) propose 'PrOf' to aid authors & improve access. aclanthology.org/2023.finding...

Thanks Clara Meister for presenting "Parity-Aware Byte-Pair Encoding: Improving Cross-lingual Fairness in Tokenization" at our lab seminar. #NLProc #tokenization #fairness

#TBT #NLProc "Explaining Speech Classification Models" by Pastor et al. (2024) makes speech classification more transparent! 🔍 Their research reveals which words matter most and how tone and background noise impact decisions.

📚 For today’s reading group @arimuti.bsky.social presented Emergent Misalignment: Narrow Finetuning Can Produce Broadly Misaligned LLMs (Betley et al., 2025). 🧩 arxiv.org/abs/2502.17424 #NLProc #AIAlignment #LLMs

📢 Are you interested in a PhD in #NLProc to study and improve how AI model emotions and social signals? 🚨Exciting news:🚨 I’m hiring a PhD candidate at LIACS, @unileiden.bsky.social. 📍 Leiden, The Netherlands 📅 Deadline: 17 Nov 2025 👉 Position details and application link: tinyurl.com/5x5v6zsa