David Jurgens

Job Market - Bocconi University Recruiting, Faculty, Post-doc Grant, Collaboration Contracts

Junior and senior faculty positions in computational social scientists at Bocconi, one of the world's best universiites: Assistant Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=841
Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843

Join our Computational Social Science department at GESIS! PhD position in Research Software Engineering!

Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

John Derby Evans Professorship in Information (Assistant or Associate Professor) at UMSI. Apps due Nov 1. www.si.umich.edu/people/facul...

Postdoctoral Scholar - Research Associate at USC Learn more about applying for Postdoctoral Scholar - Research Associate at USC

Come work with us at USC! We're hiring an NSF-funded Postdoc for the Everyday Respect Project. 🤖

You'll work directly with me, Ben Graham, and Shri Narayanan, using cutting-edge AI to analyze police body-worn camera footage to improve police-community relations.

UMSI Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship. Apps due Nov 1. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

so if you're interested in joining a vibrant community of scholars, consider applying careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Interesting in being a future faculty member at UMSI? We're recruiting for the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) this year, which is a two-year postdoc with an opportunity to convert to faculty at the end (several current faculty were PPFP fellows!). The deadline is a month away...

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...

🎉 Our work on attribution in summarization is now accepted to #EMNLP2025 main! 🎉

"Unstructured Evidence Attribution for Long Context Query Focused Summarization"

w/ @zainmujahid.me , Lu Wang, @iaugenstein.bsky.social , and @davidjurgens.bsky.social

Another job here at Michigan - this one in Linguistics! Part of a cluster of hires with a focus on Cognitive Science and AI. Happy to chat to interested folks. apply.interfolio.com/171006

Identity-Aware AI Workshop announcement. Co-located with ECAI 2025 in Bologna on October 25, with submission deadline August 22. Topics include: Methods for effective, fair, and inclusive AI; Critiques of AI on the exclusion of identities; Methods for detecting and controlling bias; Perspectivist approaches to AI. Submission types: Long papers (8 pages), Short papers (4 pages), Extended abstracts, Mixed-media submissions (videos, blogs, codebase, artworks). For details, visit: identity-aware-ai.github.io

Wondering what makes each of us unique and how AI should handle human diversity? 🤔

We're organizing Identity-Aware AI workshop at #ECAI2025 Bologna on Oct 25.

Deadline: Aug 22
Website: identity-aware-ai.github.io

Best Resource Paper (1/2) #ACL2025NLP

Feel free to reach out on BlueSky or email if you want to connect (I'm terrible at checking Whova)

I'll be at #ACL2025 with a variety of papers on podcasts, linguistic accommodation, whether papers cite accurately, multilingual morals, demographically-prompted LLMs, how tokenization affects style recognition, and new multilingual data for author attribution. Looking forward to catching up!

Michigan allows it and I haven't heard of any issues from the sponsored research office about the terms

How Scientists Use Large Language Models to Program | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.

She also had a cool recent paper on this topic too dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

There's also an opt-in raffle for five $100 cash awards. Scientists from any research area, career track, or stage (including student research assistants) are invited. If you want to share your experiences umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Do you using GenAI to help code? My colleague Elle O'Brien is running a study to answer questions about your programming practices and tool usage, including experiences with AI code assistants. The survey is anonymous and should take no more than 10-15 minutes to complete.

For Prospective PhD Students I’m recruiting PhD students who will begin their degree in Fall 2026! I am an incoming assistant professor at Wisconsin-Madison’s Computer Sciences department, and my research focuses on natural langu...

I'm sadly not at #IC2S2 😭, but I will be at #ACL2025 in Vienna ☕️ next week!!

Please spread the word that I'm recruiting prospective PhD students: lucy3.notion.site/for-prospect...

Open PhD positions in Denmark! daracademy.dk/fellowship/f...

If you want to apply to work with me and Johannes Bjerva at @aau.dk Copenhagen, I'll be at @ic2s2.bsky.social this week and @aclmeeting.bsky.social next week! DM me if you'd like to meet :)

There are a bunch of other interesting experiments in the paper too. I'll be around ACL too so come chat with any of us

This isn't to say that some future model can't learn these preferences BUT it strongly suggests that we need to be more careful when when trying to model different sources of systematic rating variance. If we hadn't also tested annotator variance we would have incorrectly thought demographics helped

... it turns out LLMs are mostly treating demographic combinations as annotators' IDs and just learning individual preferences. These are useful too and just leaning annotator preferences does equally as well as using demographics. But adding demographics with annotator IDs didn't help at all!

This paper was such a fun collaboration—and a surprising result. I fully expected we could train LLMs to learn demographic preferences in ratings but

Wanna do some authorship attribution? Chances are what tokenizer you use matters.

Tokenization is Sensitive to Language Variation, probably, more investigation necessary...

📄 ACL Findings paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.15343
🧑‍🏫 @dongng.bsky.social @davidjurgens.bsky.social and myself

See you at ACL!

I'm looking for two emergency reviewers for ARR for papers on agentic LLMs and on LLM interpretability. If you could get a review done in the next 1-2 days and would be open to helping, please DM me.

Our critical perspective of AI efficiency is now online in Communications of the ACM!

cacm.acm.org/sustainabili...

Despite the duality of these results, I personally have a lot of hope for this tech. With a more personalized and more sophisticated design for how GenAI assists, I think we can mitigate the negative perceptions while still making it easier for people to authentically participate.

GenAI generally helps people engage in conversations they wouldn't otherwise and can help bring in a more diverse group of conversants. However, readers dislike GenAI-assisted content more (👎) and rate the content quality lower.