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Happening now: Sean Papay presents his work on CRFs for distant interactions in X5, 223 :-). #xllm #nlproc #acl2025

Happening now, talk to me :-) #nlproc #acl2025

The @uni-bamberg.de group at #acl2025 (including @bamnlp.de and @bamdial.bsky.social) #acl2025 #nlproc

Now happening in X5, 95: Johannes Schäfer presenting our work on default demographics in LLMs. #nlproc #acl2025

Now happening: Jiahui Li presents her SRW poster in X5, 218, from the entrance in the left corner. #acl2025 #nlproc

Christopher Bagdon now presents his work on multimodal social media #emotion corpus creation. hall X4, far away from the entrance, stand 375.

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On his way to #ACL2025, Saif Mohammad (x.com/SaifMMohammad) made a stop @bamnlp.de @uni-bamberg.de to give a very inspiring talk on "NLP for Affective Sciences".
A recording of the talk is available at youtu.be/LYC6gDJMwac

Thanks for visiting us! #NLP #NLProc

Johannes Schäfer, Aidan Combs, Christopher Bagdon, Jiahui Li, Nadine Probol, Lynn Greschner, Sean Papay, Yarik Menchaca Resendiz, Aswathy Velutharambath, Amelie Wührl, Sabine Weber, and Roman Klinger. Which demographics do LLMs default to during annotation? ACL Main Conference: Poster Session 3, Tuesday, July 29; 16:00–17:30; Hall 4/5. https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.848/ Christopher Bagdon, Aidan Combs, Carina Silberer, and Roman Klinger. Donate or create? Comparing data collection strategies for emotion-labeled multimodal social media posts. ACL Main Conference: Poster Session 1, Monday, July 28; 11:00–12:30; Hall 4/5. https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.847/ Jiahui Li, and Roman Klinger. iPrOp: Interactive Prompt Optimization for Large Language Models with a Human in the Loop Student Research Workshop: Tuesday, July 29, 10:30–12:00, Hall 4/5. https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-srw.18/ Lynn Greschner, Amelie Wührl, and Roman Klinger. QoLAS: a Reddit corpus of health-related quality of life aspects of mental disorders. Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (BioNLP): Friday, August 1, 2025; 16:00–18:00; Room 2.15. https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-1.18/ Sean Papay, Roman Klinger, and Sebastian Pado. Regular-pattern-sensitive CRFs for distant label interactions. Workshop on Large Language Models and Structure Modeling (XLLM): Friday, August 1, 2025; 12:00–12:30 or 17:00–17:30; Room 1.61-62. https://aclanthology.org/2025.xllm-1.4/ Jan Hofmann, Cornelia Sindermann, and Roman Klinger. Prompt-based personality profiling: Reinforcement learning for relevance filtering. Workshop for Research on Agent Language Models (REALM): Thursday, July 31, 2025; 10:30– 11:00 or 15:00–16:00; Room 1.61-62. https://aclanthology.org/2025.realm-1.1/ Sabine Weber. Queer in AI Meet-Up. Affinity Group Meeting: Monday, July 28, 12:30–14:00; Room 1.33

We will be at @aclmeeting.bsky.social in #Vienna next week! with some main and workshop papers, and an affinity group meeting. If you want to talk to us, please have a look at the group's schedule. We are looking forward to talking to you, please don't hesitate to get in touch! #NLProc #NLP #ACL2025

Last week, we've been on a retreat to talk about the big picture of our research, research ideas, and synergies between group members – and did some team building.
@annefriedrich.bsky.social
was our external guest and helped us out of a couple of local optima. Thank you for participating!

Organized with involvement from our group 🤩 – thanks @aswathyve.bsky.social for taking the lead!

Today, we had Goran Glavaš from @uni-wuerzburg.de in our research seminar for a talk "On Multilingual Abilities of (Different Types of) Language Models" at @bamnlp.de @uni-bamberg.de Thanks for visiting us, Goran!

The BamNLP Group at the University of Bamberg has the following five papers accepted at The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) in Vienna. Johannes Schäfer, Aidan Combs, Christopher Bagdon, Jiahui Li, Nadine Probol, Lynn Greschner, Sean Papay, Yarik Menchaca Resendiz, Aswathy Velutharambath, Amelie Wührl, Sabine Weber, and Roman Klinger. Which demographics do LLMs default to during annotation? ACL Main Conference Christopher Bagdon, Aidan Combs, Carina Silberer, and Roman Klinger. Donate or create? comparing data collection strategies for emotion-labeled multimodal social media posts. ACL Main Conference Lynn Greschner, Amelie Wührl, and Roman Klinger. QOLAS: a Reddit corpus of health-related quality of life aspects of mental disorders. Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (BioNLP) Sean Papay, Roman Klinger, and Sebastian Pado. Regular-pattern-sensitive CRFs for distant label interactions. Joint Workshop on Large Language Models and Structure Modeling (XLLM) Jan Hofmann, Cornelia Sindermann, and Roman Klinger. Prompt-based personality profiling: Reinforcement learning for relevance filtering. Proceedings of the First Workshop for Research on Agent Language Models (REALM)

We have five #nlproc papers accepted at @aclmeeting.bsky.social – after just one year in @uni-bamberg.de . Hope to meeting many of you in Vienna!

We are really happy about this new collaboration, in which we use our experience with #LLM models for automatic text simplification in #psychology research.

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Choose-a-chair fair at the computer science faculty @uni-bamberg.de – we presented our courses and theses topics to our students (with Sean Papay, @multilingual-s.bsky.social and @romanklinger.de).

Are you at #COLING2025? Come visit our poster presented by Yarik Menchaca Resendiz on "MOPO: Multi-Objective Prompt Optimization for Affective Text Generation". (Fri, Jan 24 13:30-15:00) #NLP #nlproc #prompts #llm #emotions

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The @bamnlp.de group wishes everybody nice holidays. 🎄

MOPO: Multi-Objective Prompt Optimization for Affective Text Generation How emotions are expressed depends on the context and domain. On X (formerly Twitter), for instance, an author might simply use the hashtag #anger, while in a news headline, emotions are typically wri...

Here comes the preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2412.12948

Have a look at our new #preprint on our work on human-in-the-loop prompt optimization. It's a preprint of a demo paper describing our experiment environment that we use in the @dfgpublic.bsky.social funded project INPROMPT. #nlp #nlproc

New #preprint by @nlp-amelie.bsky.social and @romanklinger.de on automatically optimizing a claim paraphrased/extractor with preference optimization, such that the claims can be better fact-checked. #nlp #nlproc

We will share the preprint as soon as it's ready. (3/3)

This leads to more robust prompts, because we can, a posteriori, decide for which objective a prompt should work, without retraining. We focus our evaluation on affective text generation across multiple domains, but it should work across other multi-objective use cases (2/3).

We got one paper accepted to #COLING2025: "MOPO: Multi-objective prompt optimization for affective text generation." with @romanklinger.de and Yarik Menchaca Resendiz. We optimize prompts for multiple objectives, while indirectly optimizing the prompts that optimize the prompts #NLP #NLProc (1/3)

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Today, Eyke Hüllermeier gave a talk in our BACAI lecture series, on uncertainty quantification in machine learning. The main message was the difference between inherent randomness and a lack of knowledge: aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty.

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Hello Everybody! We are the Bamberg NLP group at the University of Bamberg. We exist since March 2024 and work on the interaction of #computerscience #naturallanguageprocessing #nlproc #psychology #computationalsocialsciences #digitalhumanities. If you want to learn more: www.uni-bamberg.de/nlproc/

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