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@dirkhovy.bsky.socialReposted by @milanlp.bsky.socialBocconi arranged for an interview with a student (Milek Anilkumar) on studying in the age of AI. It was a lot of fun, and could have easily been 4x longer.
TLDR: still worth it…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kclp...
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'Classist Tools: Social Class Correlates with Performance in NLP' by Curry et al. (2024) finds NLP tools perform worse on lower-SES speech - higher perplexity, more ASR errors, dialect flagged as "wrong" by grammar checkers.
arxiv.org/pdf/2403.04445
@milanlp.bsky.socialWhat if AI systems weren’t chatbots? 💬
@elisabassignana.bsky.social sparked a lively discussion at our reading group with Ghosh et al.’s FAccT paper (2026).
Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Countering Hateful and Offensive Speech Online - Open Challenges" (Flor Miriam Plaza-Del-Arco, @deboranozza.bsky.social, et al. 2024) presented a tutorial on the challenges and solutions for detecting and mitigating hate speech online. aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-t...
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'Welcome to the Modern World of Pronouns: Identity-Inclusive Natural Language Processing beyond Gender' by Anne Lauscher, Archie Crowley, Dirk Hovy (2022) discusses non-binary representation in tech and NLP's pronouns issue. aclanthology.org/2022.coling-...
@milanlp.bsky.socialFor last week's @milanlp.bsky.social seminar, we had the pleasure to host Hongyu Chen. She presented her upcoming EMNLP paper "Contrast Comes at a Cost: Prompting Large Language Models for Perception-Centered Gendered Style Transfer".
@milanlp.bsky.socialWe're excited to welcome Maite Heredia to our lab! 👋
She will be visiting us for the upcoming months.
She works on developing resources and evaluating models for code-switching and non-standard language varieties.
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'Two Contrasting Data Annotation Paradigms for Subjective NLP Tasks' by @paul-rottger.bsky.social et al. (2022) explores descriptive and prescriptive data labeling paradigms.
aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-m...
@milanlp.bsky.socialFor today's reading group, @deboranozza.bsky.social presented "LLMs as Oracles: Reliance on LLMs for Subjective Personal Questions" by @myra.bsky.social et al. (2026)
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2609.14849
@milanlp.bsky.social#TBT #NLProc 'Data-Efficient Strategies for Expanding Hate Speech Detection into Under-Resourced Languages' funnels limited target-language data to fine-tune models & enhance effectiveness. By @paul-rottger.bsky.social et al. aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-m...
@arimuti.bsky.socialReposted by @milanlp.bsky.socialI’d like to share my experience with TACL: a process estimated at 35 business days took 6 months. We emailed 10 times for updates and received no reply. We also couldn’t present at EMNLP because of a deadline that was never communicated to us. What an experience. 🫠
@arimuti.bsky.socialReposted by @milanlp.bsky.socialOur TACL paper "Let Guidelines Guide You: A Prescriptive Guideline-Centered Data Annotation Methodology" is finally out, only six months after acceptance! 😅🎉
direct.mit.edu/tacl/article...
@milanlp.bsky.social👋 We’re delighted to welcome @celianri.bsky.social, who’ll be visiting our lab over the next few months! Her research explores moderation practices on Reddit, combining social-graph signals with NLP to predict moderation outcomes. Great to have you with us, Célia!
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'SocioProbe: What, When, and Where Language Models Learn about Sociodemographics' - Lauscher et al. delve into language models' grasp of sociodemographics. Their findings? Models learn, but don't apply it.
aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-m...
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'Detecting Misogynous Memes with Text & Image Modalities' by Attanasio, @deboranozza.bsky.social, Bianchi. Their novel system uses Perceiver IO, surpassing all previous benchmarks.
#AI #ScienceUpdate
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'Safety-Tuned LLaMAs: Improving LLMs Safety' by Bianchi et al. explores training LLMs for safe refusals, warns of over-tuning.
arxiv.org/pdf/2309.07875
@milanlp.bsky.socialWe're back with the reading group!
Today Lorena Calvo-Bartolomé presented "The Alternative Annotator Test for LLM-as-a-Judge: How to Statistically Justify Replacing Human Annotators with LLMs"
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'Understanding Political Discourse on Twitter through Election Manifestos' Maurer et al. (2024) present a method for predicting party positioning from tweets aclanthology.org/2024.finding...
@milanlp.bsky.social#MemoryModay #NLProc Outstanding Paper at ACL 2024! @paul-rottger.bsky.social et al. evaluate LLM values and opinions in 'Political Compass or Spinning Arrow?'
aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lon...
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#NLProc Best Paper at NeurIPS D&B 2024: Hanna Rose Kirk,
@paul-rottger.bsky.social et al. introduce 'The PRISM Alignment Dataset'
arxiv.org/pdf/2404.16019