Dirk Hovy

We know it’s early, but save the dates for the upcoming CuCo Lab Conversations! We have some fantastic speakers lined up for you, including @dirkhovy.bsky.social, Martina Heßler and @bildoperationen.bsky.social. And then there’s this guy: @questoph.bsky.social.

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Continuing with @dirkhovy.bsky.social keynote on reflecting the future for NLP being kind and open for experts from other fields 🤗

Meet @iaugenstein.bsky.social, Prof at University of Copenhagen 🇩🇰, ELLIS Scholar, and member of ELLIS Unit Copenhagen (@aicentre.dk) + ELLIS Program #NLProc.

Her advice to young women in science: “Success isn't just about tech skills. It's also about managing your career.”

#WomenInELLIS

Super proud to receive the Social Impact award at #ACL2025NLP for our paper together with @amandacurry.bsky.social (eq contribution) and @dirkhovy.bsky.social 🎉

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We are very honored to have @dirkhovy.bsky.social as General Chair of #EMNLP2025, which will take place in Suzhou, China. Looking forward to a great conference!

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!

@milanlp.bsky.social @ #ACL2025 in #Vienna!

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The @milanlp.bsky.social group is presenting 15 papers (+ a toturial) at this year's #ACL2025 , go check them out :)
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Shoutout to @tiancheng.bsky.social for yesterday's stellar presentation of our work benchmarking LLMs' ability to simulate group-level human behavior: bsky.app/profile/tian...

I'm at #ACL2025 this week:📍Find me at the FEVER workshop, *Thursday 11am* 📝 presenting: "I Just Can't RAG Enough" - our ongoing work with @aurman21.bsky.social & @rer.bsky.social & Anikó Hannák, showing that RAG does not solve LLM fact-checking limitations!

Happy to have you join the team, Joe!

Off to #ACL2025. Looking forward to catching up with old friends and new trends.

SimBench: Benchmarking the Ability of Large
Language Models to Simulate Human Behaviors, SRW Oral, Monday, July 28, 14:00-15:30

I will also be at @tiancheng.bsky.social's oral *today at 1430* in the SRW. Tiancheng will present a non-archival sneak peek of our work on benchmarking the ability of LLMs to simulate group-level human behaviours:

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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 :) 🧵

🎉 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! 🚀

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

Reposting this since a number of people lately said they found it helpful. Good luck on the job market, everyone!

Predicting News Headline Popularity with Syntactic and Semantic Knowledge Using Multi-Task Learning Sotiris Lamprinidis, Daniel Hardt, Dirk Hovy. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2018.

#MemoryMonday #NLProc 'Predicting News Headline Popularity' by Lamprinidis, Hardt, @dirkhovy.bsky.social (2018) shows neural networks perform similar to Logistic Regression in prediction.

📄The AI Gap: How Socioeconomic Status Affects Language Technology Interactions
👥 @elisabassignana.bsky.social @amandacurry.bsky.social @dirkhovy.bsky.social
🔗 arxiv.org/pdf/2505.12158
🎯We call for inclusive NLP technologies to accommodate different SES and mitigate the digital divide.

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 🍰

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The Empty Signifier Problem: Towards Clearer Paradigms for... In this paper, we address the concept of "alignment" in large language models (LLMs) through the lens of post-structuralist socio-political theory, specifically examining its parallels to empty signifiers....

#MemoryMonday #NLProc 'The Empty Signifier Problem: Towards Clearer Paradigms for Operationalising 'Alignment' in Large Language Models' by Kirk et al. (2023) presents a novel framework for unpacking 'alignment' in LLMs, promoting definitional clarity.

We are thrilled to announce our keynote speakers for the 6th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP @ #ACL2025!

Please join us in welcoming:
🔹Anne Lauscher @a-lauscher.bsky.social
🔹Maarten Sap @maartensap.bsky.social

Full details: gebnlp-workshop.github.io/keynotes.html
See you on August 1! ☀️
#NLP #GeBNLP

Guiding the Release of Safer E2E Conversational AI through Value Sensitive Design A. Stevie Bergman, Gavin Abercrombie, Shannon Spruit, Dirk Hovy, Emily Dinan, Y-Lan Boureau, Verena Rieser. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue....

#TBT #NLProc : Bergman et al.'s 'Guiding the Release of Safer E2E Conversational AI through Value Sensitive Design' explores AI launch with a value-sensitive lens.

Excited to see what the #NLProc community can do with this data! 🚀💡

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Illustration of a young woman wearing an academic cap and lab coat, closely examining a document with a magnifying glass. A robotic parrot sits on her shoulder, suggesting a blend of science, research, and technology. The style is monochrome with clean, cartoon-like lines.

🚀 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗔𝗥𝗥 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱!
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This 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁 expands on previous releases, now including review data from #COLING2025 and #NAACL2025.

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🙌 𝗛𝘂𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀!
This release wouldn’t be possible without the contributions of: Sheng Lu, @nilsdy.bsky.social, @atnafu.bsky.social, Thamar Solorio, Xiaodan Zhu, Koen Dercksen, Lizhen Qu, Margot Mieskes, @dirkhovy.bsky.social and @igurevych.bsky.social.

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Stellar work from the lab, and a lot of us will be at #ACL2025. Come say hi!

Exposing the limits of Zero-shot Cross-lingual Hate Speech Detection Debora Nozza. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)....

#MemoryMonday #NLProc 'Exploring challenges in Zero-shot Cross-lingual Hate Speech Detection, @deboranozza.bsky.social (2021) reveals how current models may inaccurately label non-hateful, language-specific interjections as hate speech signals.'