Ece Takmaz

🌍Introducing BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data!

LLMs learn from vastly more data than humans ever experience. BabyLM challenges this paradigm by focusing on developmentally plausible data

We extend this effort to 45 new languages!

Traces of Image Memorability in Vision Encoders: Activations, Attention Distributions and Autoencoder Losses Images vary in how memorable they are to humans. Inspired by findings from cognitive science and computer vision, this paper explores the correlates of image memorability in pretrained vision encoders...

I will be presenting this work at the @iccv.bsky.social
2025 workshop MemVis: The 1st Workshop on Memory and Vision! 🌺 Work done with Albert Gatt & Jakub Dotlacil arxiv.org/abs/2509.01453

What makes an image memorable? And can we predict image memorability using pretrained vision encoders? We explored activations, attention distributions, image patch uniformity and sparse autoencoder losses using image representations across the layers of CLIP, DINOv2 and SigLIP2.

taking the NS train, I do that multiple times a week :)

Could it be the HPLT v3.0 multilingual dataset? list.elra.info/mailman3/hyp...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Memory access in language Help uncover how memory shapes language use. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Language Sciences, you will join the ERC-funded MEMLANG project.

Hi all, there is a postdoc position open in the group I'm currently based in! ✨ Let me know if you are interested or have questions 🙂 Please share if you know someone who might be interested www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Had such a great time presenting our tutorial on Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models at #Interspeech2025! 🔍

For anyone looking for an introduction to the topic, we've now uploaded all materials to the website: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter...

Some amazing @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social people in Vienna💫#acl2025 Raquel Fernández Sandro Pezzelle Katia Shutova @esamghaleb.bsky.social @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social @annabavaresco.bsky.social + @leobertolazzi.bsky.social

with @duyguislakoglu.bsky.social and Ozge Alacam at the ACL 2025 social event✨ #acl2025

CoNLL audience today ✨ @conll-conf.bsky.social

together with some Utrecht NLP people at ACL 2025! #acl2025 #acl2025NLP

I'll be attending ACL 2025 in Vienna! Looking forward to seeing people there!😊🇦🇹 We are going to present 'LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks' aclanthology.org/2025.acl-sho... #acl2025 #acl2025nlp

Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models — Tutorial @ Interspeech 2025

The @interspeech.bsky.social early registration deadline is coming up in a few days!

Want to learn how to analyze the inner workings of speech processing models? 🔍 Check out the programme for our tutorial:
interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter... & sign up through the conference registration form!

Abstract submission deadline extended to June 29!

@melaniemitchell.bsky.social giving a talk at UvA! @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social

CMCL will take place on May 3! Unfortunately, I am not in New Mexico, but I will be online! We have a nice selection of papers, and keynote talks by John Hale and Tessa Verhoef @naaclmeeting.bsky.social
@grambelli.bsky.social
@byungdoh.bsky.social & Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Philipp Wicke, Jixing Li

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht Universiteit Utrecht

Abstract submissions for the 1st Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting is now open! cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

The PhD call is out! Apply by 24 April here:

www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht Universiteit Utrecht

See cpl2025.sites.uu.nl for details!

Keynote Speakers: Stefan Frank (Radboud University), Vera Demberg (Saarland University)

It aims to connect researchers using (neuro-)symbolic, Bayesian, deep-learning, connectionist, and mechanistic models (e.g., ACT-R) in studying human language production, perception, and processing

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht Universiteit Utrecht

Abstract submissions for the 1st Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting is now open! cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

We are looking for emergency reviewers for the CMCL workshop! Send me a message if you would like to volunteer! @cmclworkshop.bsky.social @naaclmeeting.bsky.social

🚨 Guest Speaker Alert! 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce that #CoNLL2025 will feature: 🥁

Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam)
&
Jean-Rémi King (@jeanremiking.bsky.social, CNRS / Meta AI)!
🎤✨

Check out their awesome work!👇

Almost all Dutch universities will go on strike next week, against the budget cuts. Join us!

10 March: Leiden
11 March: Utrecht
13 March: Nijmegen
17 March: Amsterdam
18 March: Groningen
25 March: Twente
8 April: Rotterdam
10 April: Tilburg
14 April: Wageningen
15 April: Maastricht

It was very nice seeing @aicoffeebreak.bsky.social again after many years😊 She gave a wonderful keynote at the Railway Museum in Utrecht, as part of the National Conference on AI Transformations!💫

ZurichCV #7 | ZurichAI Ayca Takmaz on open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding.

I will be giving a talk on open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding at the next ZurichCV meetup!

🗓️ Date: Thursday, January 23rd 18:00 CET

📍Location: @ETH_AI_Center, please see zurichai.ch/events/zurichcv-7 for additional details!

Felix Hill and some other DMers and I after cold water swimming at Parliament Hill Lido a few years ago

Felix Hill was such an incredible mentor — and occasional cold water swimming partner — to me. He's a huge part of why I joined DeepMind and how I've come to approach research. Even a month later, it's still hard to believe he's gone.

Today celebrating Dr. @jumelet.bsky.social who successfully defended his PhD thesis! 🥳👨‍🎓It was great witnessing his amazing research trajectory. Lucky to have had such a friendly and inspirational colleague!✨📸

CMCL call for papers is out! #nlp #cogsci

@naaclmeeting.bsky.social @aclmeeting.bsky.social