Barbara Plank

Prof. Vivian Yun-Nung Chen has been appointed as the fourth TACL EiC 🎉

✨New paper✨

We find script (e.g. Cyrillic, Latin) to be a linear direction in the activation space of Whisper, enabling transliteration at test-time by adding such script directions to the activations — producing e.g. Cyrillic Japanese transcriptions.

Congratulations! ☺️ Also to Uni Leipzig for getting Leonie 🤗

Group photo at NeurIPS 2025 San Diego

📢 Statement from ACL and EACL 2026 Organizers

On Nov 27, OpenReview was notified of a software bug that allowed unauthorized access to authors, reviewers, and area chairs. We are grateful to the OpenReview team for fixing the issue quickly. (🧵 1/3)

I visited @uni-bamberg.de this week to give a Bamberg Center for AI lecture, and had the opportunity to meet many brilliant researchers, thanks for the invitation @bamnlp.de, @bamdial.bsky.social and BaCAI committee

Congrats to MaiNLP lab members!

Congrats to MaiNLP lab members!

MCML - MCML at EMNLP 2025 MCML researchers are represented with 37 papers at EMNLP 2025 (17 Main, 13 Findings, and 7 Workshops).

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See more here about accepted EMNLP paper from the greater Munich AI ecosystem / MCML: mcml.ai/news/2025-11...

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- UncertainNLP: 2nd workshop on Uncertainty in NLP uncertainlp.github.io
- NLPerspectives (nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/4th-worksh...) with Le-Wi-Di (learning from disagreement) shared task, 3rd edition: le-wi-di.github.io

CIS & MaiNLP Group picture at EMNLP 2025! 🤩 🤗 (1/3)

While I sadly 🥲 won't be at EMNLP this year myself, please do reach out to any of our members for a chat if you are interested in our research!

We also co-organize and participate in some great workshops at EMNLP:

📑 Our CoT2EL paper will be presented as an oral at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou!

Humans often disagree on labels. Can a model's own reasoning (CoT) help us understand why? We developed a new method to extract these insights. Come join us!

🗓️ Friday, Nov 7, 14:00 - 15:30
📍 Room: A110

How do language models memorize noise while reason impressively well?

Our #EMNLP2025 (poster, Nov 5, 11:00-12:30, Hall C) paper shows that memorization reuses internal mechanisms of generalization, even when they are not related to each other!

arxiv.org/abs/2507.04782

Capriccio: Warum KI kein Bairisch versteht - hier anschauen Künstliche Intelligenz verändert die Sprache, denn sie übernimmt nicht nur unser Vokabular, sondern prägt auch andersherum unsere Ausdrucksweise. Nur mit Dialekten tut sich die KI nachweislich schwer,...

🎥 @barbaraplank.bsky.social, Hinrich Schütze, and I were featured on tv, talking about how AI tools struggle with dialects!
www.ardmediathek.de/video/capric...

VarDial @ EACL 2026, with important dates (see next post for text version). Photo CC-0.

VarDial 2026 will be colocated with @eaclmeeting.bsky.social! We're looking forward to your papers on NLP for similar languages, varieties and dialects :)

Deadline: Dec 19 (Jan 2 for pre-reviewed ARR papers)
sites.google.com/view/vardial...

🌞 The list of workshops for #EACL2026 is out! 🇲🇦

👇 Follow the thread for the full list! (no specific order)
#NLProc

NLPOR workshop at COLM

ChatGPT generated image for the happy hour event after the workshop

are you attending @colmweb.org 🦙 psst, don't miss our First Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research tomorrow #COLM2025

🛎️ we have a great line up of keynotes, presentation, and panel discussion, followed by a happy hour

📍 room 518B

schedule and info: sites.google.com/view/nlpor20...

A Multi-Dialectal Dataset for German Dialect ASR and Dialect-to-Standard Speech Translation Although Germany has a diverse landscape of dialects, they are underrepresented in current automatic speech recognition (ASR) research. To enable studies of how robust models are towards dialectal var...

Check out the...
- talk on Mon Aug 18, 15:50–16:10
- preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.02894
- suppl. material: github.com/mainlp/betth...

Joint work w/ Miriam Winkler & @barbaraplank.bsky.social from @mainlp.bsky.social, and Constantin Förster & Gabriele Wenger-Glemser from Bayerischer Rundfunk!

Piper title ("A multi-dialectal dataset for German dialect ASR and dialect-to-standard speech translation") and a map of the German state Bavaria showing where the Franconian, Bavarian, and Alemannic dialect groups are spoken

At #Interspeech2025 I'm going to present Betthupferl, a dataset for German dialect ASR & dialect-to-standard speech translation! We analyze differences between dialectal & Standard German transcriptions, benchmark ASR models, and examine shortcomings of current ASR models & evaluation metrics.

So well-deserved, and such a great, supportive talk, especially kudos for including her students in the Lifetime Achievement Award! Thank you, Kathy ☀️

This year ACL inaugurates the ✨🎓ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award! 🎓✨
Instrumental for launching this inaugural prize is the Computational Linguistics Journal @CompLingJournal, with support of the ACL Exec.

#CLJournal #ComputationalLinguistics
#ACL2025NLP @CompLingJournal

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📣 Social event at Day2 at #ACL2025NLP 🇦🇹

Get ready to experience the vibrant culture of Vienna at the ACL 2025 Social Event this Tuesday night at the ACV! 🎉

We've got an unforgettable evening planned!

Sewon Min 🏆 presenting the essence of her thesis: Rethinking Data Use in Large Language Models -- It won the first ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award 🎓✨
#ACL2025NLP #CLJournal @complingjournal.bsky.social

Get ready, ACL 2025 attendees! 🎉 The Opening Ceremony kicks off Monday, July 28 at 9 AM CEST in Hall A of the Austria Center Vienna. Don't miss it! 📍 #ACL2025NLP #Vienna

Thanks for the invitation to the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) to give this year's Hermann-Paul-Center Lecture lnkd.in/d_wUeDfY

I enjoyed the visit, the great audience, and the stay in this lovely city.
Thank you
#blackforest #freiburg #breisgau

Thanks again to the ACL 2024 chairs for this invitation! (Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar, Lun-Wei Ku, Claire Gardent)

Special thanks to the European Research Council (ERC) and also Munich Center for Machine Learning for research funding and support

@erc.europa.eu @munichcenterml.bsky.social

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My ACL 2024 keynote talk on "Are LLMs Narrowing Our Horizon? Let’s Embrace Variation in NLP!" is online now:

underline.io/events/466/s...

2024.aclweb.org/program/keyn...

It was a huge honor to me to give last year's flagship-in-NLP-conference keynote in Bangkok 🇹🇭

Do you speak Bavarian? Then please consider helping in a thesis research project👇

MaiNLP/CIS participates in #stadradeln 🚴☀️

Thanks to everyone who worked on this update!