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4/ "I look forward to working with leading experts from around the world on this important work."

3/ "At a time when AI is advancing and being adopted at unprecedented speed, the Panel has a significant remit: to provide rigorous, evidence-based analysis of the opportunities, risks and broader impacts of artificial intelligence, helping to inform global dialogue on AI."

2/ "I am honoured to have been appointed to the United Nations International Independent Scientific Panel on AI."

We're thrilled to celebrate our own Martha Palmer, who has been appointed to the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI! Here's what she had to say: 🧵⬇️

Strong showing from Boulder NLP at #EMNLP2025! 🚀 Come find us at these sessions to discuss morphology, semantics, LLMs, cultural analytics, HCI, and more. See you in Suzhou! 🇨🇳

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Measuring Contextual Informativeness in Child-Directed Text To address an important gap in creating children's stories for vocabulary enrichment, we investigate the automatic evaluation of how well stories convey the semantics of target vocabulary words, a tas...

Excited to be presenting my work with @teaywright.bsky.social at #COLING2025 next week in Abu Dhabi! Find us in poster session 6/E on Jan 22nd (11 AM in the atrium).

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.17427

Our paper was accepted to #COLING! If you work on low-resource MT and have ever found yourself limited to bible data, you might find this interesting.

A photo of Boulder, Colorado, shot from above the university campus and looking toward the Flatirons.

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics.

Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎

Apply by December 15th!

Media Framing through the Lens of Event-Centric Narratives Rohan Das, Aditya Chandra, I-Ta Lee, Maria Leonor Pacheco. Proceedings of the The 6th Workshop on Narrative Understanding. 2024.

5️⃣ Media Framing through the Lens of Event-Centric Narratives 

6th Workshop on Narrative Understanding

In-Person Poster Session (Riverfront Hall)  - 15 November 2024 at 15:30 ET

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cc @rohan-das.bsky.social @mlpacheco.bsky.social

Adaptive Question Answering: Enhancing Language Model Proficiency for Addressing Knowledge Conflicts with Source Citations Sagi Shaier, Ari Kobren, Philip V. Ogren. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2024.

4️⃣ Adaptive Question Answering: Enhancing Language Model Proficiency for Addressing Knowledge Conflicts with Source Citations

In-Person Poster Session E (Jasmine) - 13 November 2024 at 16:00 ET

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#EMNLP2024

Can we teach language models to gloss endangered languages? Michael Ginn, Mans Hulden, Alexis Palmer. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024. 2024.

3️⃣ Can we teach language models to gloss endangered languages?

Virtual Poster Session 1 - 12 November 2024 at 15:45 ET

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cc @mginn.bsky.social @alexispalmer.bsky.social

#EMNLP2024

Getting The Most Out of Your Training Data: Exploring Unsupervised Tasks for Morphological Inflection Abhishek Purushothama, Adam Wiemerslage, Katharina Von Der Wense. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2024.

2️⃣ Getting The Most Out of Your Training Data: Exploring Unsupervised Tasks for Morphological Inflection

In-Person Poster Session B (Riverfront Hall) - 12 November 2024 at 14:00 E

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cc @adamwiemerslage.bsky.social

#EMNLP2024

GlossLM: A Massively Multilingual Corpus and Pretrained Model for Interlinear Glossed Text Michael Ginn, Lindia Tjuatja, Taiqi He, Enora Rice, Graham Neubig, Alexis Palmer, Lori Levin. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2024.

1️⃣ GlossLM: A Massively Multilingual Corpus and Pretrained Model for Interlinear Glossed Text

In-Person Poster Session B (Riverfront Hall) - 12 November 2024 at 14:00 ET

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cc @mginn.bsky.social @alexispalmer.bsky.social

#EMNLP2024

Figure 1 from the "Sonnet or Not, Bot?" paper. We show an example of the form classification task, in which a poem is assigned to a form like haiku or sonnet.

Figure 1 from the StoryPerceptions paper. We show an example of the crowd worker task, in which texts are assigned story or not story labels and then workers answer questions contextualizing their decisions.

I won't be at #EMNLP2024, but I have two papers that I'm proud of!

"Sonnet or Not, Bot? Poetry Evaluation for Large Models and Datasets"
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"The Empirical Variability of Narrative Perceptions of Social Media Texts"
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📢 Check out the lineup of papers our students will be showcasing at #EMNLP2024 in Miami next week! 🌴 We'll be presenting new work on morphology, Q&A, and narratives.🔍