Matthias Orlikowski

Seems to be a common situation for ACs this round, but I'm also looking for two emergency reviewers for the January #ARR Evaluation and Resources track. I'd appreciate any help (reposts, encouragement, black magic...)

Brave New Data Access World: What the Digital Services Act (DSA) Means for Researcher Access to Digital Platforms The Digital Services Act (DSA) is reshaping how researchers access social media data. From new legal rights to platform transparency obligations, this blog explores what the DSA means for research and why it marks the beginning of a new era in studying online platforms.

#DigitalServicesAct #DigitalPlatform
Check out this interesting #blog post by von Johannes Gruber, Yannik Peters, and Katrin Weller: Brave New Data Access World: What the Digital Services Act (#DSA) Means for Researcher Access to Digital Platforms

I am delighted to announce the 1st call for papers for "Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache" (#KONVENS) 2026, the conference for #NLProc and computational linguistics organized under the auspices of the GSCL, the GfS-CL, the ÖGAI, and SwissNLP. @uni-hamburg.de

Exciting postdoc opportunity in Trustworthy AI & NLP with @a-lauscher.bsky.social!

Work on cutting-edge generative AI while addressing ethics, fairness, multilingualism & sustainability. 3-year position, teaching included.

Deadline: March 2
Start: June 1, 2026

Pastries and snacks from Mallorca

📢 2nd Call for Papers! Submit your original work, non-archival papers, and research communications on perspectivist data, modelling, and evaluation to our workshop co-located with LREC in Palma de Mallorca. Deadline: February 27
nlperspectives.di.unito.it/workshops/w2...

The second new class I'm teaching is a very experimental graduate level seminar in CSE: "Building Small Language Models". I taught the grad level NLP class last semester (so fun!) but students wanted more—which of these new ideas work, and which work for SLMs? jurgens.people.si.umich.edu/CSE598-004/

New year, new job? If that is your current mantra, check the open postdoc positions with Debora Nozza and me at our lab. Deadline is January 31st.

milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...

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

🚨 New main paper out at #EMNLP2025! 🚨

⚡ We show that personalization of content moderation models can be harmful and perpetuate hate speech, defeating the purpose of the system and hurting the community.

We argue that personalized moderation needs boundaries, and we show how to build them.

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 🧵

My lab is looking for a Senior Scientist (= PostDoc with option of permanency)!

We are looking for someone interested in doing cutting-edge computational social science + helping us with data & software engineering 🤓.

See job ad for details jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/7d14...

Planning on printing your #EMNLP2025 poster in Suzhou? There is an easy option available through the conference website: 2025.emnlp.org/poster-print...

“You speak Bavarian? Then you must be uneducated + closed-minded.”

🤯 Not your opinion? Good. But it might be your LLM’s!!

🧵 Check out our #EMNLP2025 paper, where we uncover concerning dialect bias in recent LLMs - including GPT-5.

#AI #Bias #Dialect #Fairness #LLM #NLProc #Safety

I have two fully funded PhD positions in my group. If you want to work on persona based dialogical models or using LLMs to fight online harms then consider applying!

Super excited to see the growing interest and awareness in diversity, variation, and pluralistic alignment in the NLP community! ✨ 🪩

Below 🧵 are some keynote talks and workshops that highlight this important direction 🤸

We’re incredibly proud to announce that our lab received two #ACL2025 awards: Best Social Impact Paper for @elisabassignana.bsky.social and @dirkhovy.bsky.social , and Outstanding Paper for @paul-rottger.bsky.social.

Congratulations to them and to all collaborators who made this possible!

Just arrived in Vienna for ACL 2025 🇦🇹 Excited to be here and to finally meet so many people in person!

We have several papers this year and many from @milanlp.bsky.social are around, come say hi!

Here are all the works I'm involved in ⤵️

#ACL2025 #ACL2025NLP

*pluralism* in human values & preferences (e.g. with personalisation) will also just
grow more important for a global diversity of users.

@morlikow.bsky.social is presenting our poster today at 1100. Also hyped for @michaelryan207.bsky.social's work and @verenarieser.bsky.social's keynote!

Very excited about all these papers on sociotechnical alignment & the societal impacts of AI at #ACL2025.

As is now tradition, I made some timetables to help me find my way around. Sharing here in case others find them useful too :) 🧵

📢 ACL 2025 this is a reminder of 🎤 #InvitedTalk by Verena Rieser from Google DeepMind "Whose Gold? Re-imagining Alignment for Truly Beneficial AI." on the technical & ethical challenges of building beneficial AI! 🤝 ⚖️ #ACL2025NLP #NLProc
Find out more: 2025.aclweb.org/program/keyn...

Looking forward to #acl2025 in Vienna! Excited to catch up. I am also hiring, one fully paid (100% E13) position for either a PhD student or a PostDoc in computational linguistics / digital humanities / corpus linguistics (earliest start date: October 2025). Who is interested?

Aaahhh I knew about this one but it didn’t show up with the keywords I was using on the accepted papers list! Thanks for reminding me 💖

[ACL'25] Subjectivity in Annotation Paper List Subjectivity in Annotation @ ACL 2025 Matthias Orlikowski What is this? Below you’ll find a list of papers that are relevant to subjectivity in annotation (human label variation, learning from disagre...

Here's a list of presentations at #acl2025 relevant to human label variation, learning from disagreement, perspectivism: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Who's presenting on subjectivity in annotation (human label variation, learning from disagreement, perspectivism) at #ACL2025?

papers by e.g. @liweijiang.bsky.social @tiancheng.bsky.social @gabriellalapesa.bsky.social @romanklinger.de

keynote @verenarieser.bsky.social

link to full list below ⤵️

Just Put a Human in the Loop? Investigating LLM-Assisted Annotation for Subjective Tasks LLM use in annotation is becoming widespread, and given LLMs' overall promising performance and speed, simply "reviewing" LLM annotations in interpretive tasks can be tempting. In subjective annotatio...

🗣️ Excited to share our new #ACL2025 Findings paper: “Just Put a Human in the Loop? Investigating LLM-Assisted Annotation for Subjective Tasks” with Jad Kabbara and Deb Roy. Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2507.15821
Read about our findings ⤵️

More info on the paper in this thread: bsky.app/profile/morl...

Beyond Demographics: Fine-tuning Large Language Models to Predict Individuals' Subjective Text Perceptions People naturally vary in their annotations for subjective questions and some of this variation is thought to be due to the person's sociodemographic characteristics. LLMs have also been used to label ...

I will present the poster on Monday July 28 during Poster Session 1 in the Human-Centered NLP track.

The session runs 11:00-12:30 in Hall 4 and 5, looking forward to discuss our work!

arxiv.org/abs/2502.20897

Picture of Matthias Orlikowski presenting a poster on the paper titled "Beyond Demographics: Fine-tuning Large Language Models to Predict Individuals’ Subjective Text Perceptions". The poster is similar to the one that will be presented at ACL 2025, showing a number of figures about the key results.

I will be at #acl2025 to present "Beyond Demographics: Fine-tuning Large Language Models to Predict Individuals’ Subjective Text Perceptions" ✨

Huge thank you to my collaborators Jiaxin Pei @paul-rottger.bsky.social Philipp Cimiano @davidjurgens.bsky.social @dirkhovy.bsky.social 🍰

more below

🎉 The @milanlp.bsky.social lab is excited to present 15 papers and 1 tutorial at #ACL2025 & workshops! Grateful to all our amazing collaborators, see everyone in Vienna! 🚀

I'll be presenting this tutorial in Vienna with co-organisers @daniel-russo.bsky.social, @helenabon.bsky.social, Yi-Ling Chung, @marcoguerini.bsky.social and invited civil society speakers Cathy Buerger (@dangerousspeech.org) and ‪@simofons.bsky.social‬ (Facta). Come along or join online!