Dirk Hovy

PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing The Faculty of Science and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) are looking for a:PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing (1.0fte)Project descr...

📢 Are you interested in a PhD in #NLProc to study and improve how AI model emotions and social signals?

🚨Exciting news:🚨 I’m hiring a PhD candidate at LIACS,
@unileiden.bsky.social.

📍 Leiden, The Netherlands
📅 Deadline: 17 Nov 2025

👉 Position details and application link: tinyurl.com/5x5v6zsa

One of the most important things said about AI/NLP/ML recently. Could not agree more

Universal Joy A Data Set and Results for Classifying Emotions Across Languages Sotiris Lamprinidis, Federico Bianchi, Daniel Hardt, Dirk Hovy. Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis. 2021.

#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Universal Joy: A Data Set and Results for Classifying Emotions Across Languages' by Lamprinidis et al. (2021) explores how AI research affects our planet. Tech can be green too! #SustainableTech

Wisdom of Instruction-Tuned Language Model Crowds. Exploring Model Label Variation Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Debora Nozza, Dirk Hovy. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP (NLPerspectives) @ LREC-COLING 2024. 2024.

#TBT #NLProc Explore 'Wisdom of Instruction-Tuned LLM Crowds' by Plaza et al. LLM labels outperform single models in tasks & languages. But few-shot can't top zero-shot. Supervised models rule.

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Watch out for the next talk by @dirkhovy.bsky.social. It approaches the question of the human condition in a digitally enriched lifeworld from a new perspective, considering the role of „AI“ in particular.

Join us on site or via Webex, 9.10.2025, 16:00 CEST.

Infos: cucolab.uni.lu/blog/convers...

📣 New Preprint!
Have you ever wondered what the political content in LLM's training data is? What are the political opinions expressed? What is the proportion of left- vs right-leaning documents in the pre- and post-training data? Do they correlate with the political biases reflected in models?

MilaNLPers at CLiC-it 2025 presenting "Probing Feminist Representations: A Study of Bias in LLMs and Word Embeddings"

Check the paper at clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/u...

#NLProc #clicit25

Benchmarking Post-Hoc Interpretability Approaches for Transformer-based Misogyny Detection Giuseppe Attanasio, Debora Nozza, Eliana Pastor, Dirk Hovy. Proceedings of NLP Power! The First Workshop on Efficient Benchmarking in NLP. 2022.

#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Benchmarking Post-Hoc Interpretability Approaches for Transformer-based Misogyny Detection' - Attanasio et al. Explores reliability of interpretability in hate speech detection.

#TBT #NLProc 'Classist Tools: Social Class Correlates with Performance in NLP' by Curry et al. (2024) explores AI's hidden energy problem, and how machine learning impacts environmental sustainability. Tech can be green! #CleanTech

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The position is part of the “Contested Climate Futures" project. 🌱🌍 You will focus on developing next-generation AI methods🤖 to analyze climate-related concepts in content—including texts, images, and videos.

"BERT" AND "multilingual" source:"Digital Journalism" OR source:"Digital Journalism" OR source:"International Journal of Press/Politics" OR source:"Journal of Communication" OR source:"New Media and Society" OR source:"Communication Methods and Measures" OR source:"Communication Research" OR source:"Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication" OR source:"Big Data and Society" OR source:"Political Communication" OR source:"Social Media and Society" OR source:"Computational Communication Research"

Just wanted to share this Google Scholar trick: I often have the problem that I want to find papers using certain computational methods, but specifically in my own field (for lit reviews).

You can do that by limiting the search to certain sources. My (imperfect) collection in the alt text.

#EMNLP2025 is offering Virtual Registration Subsidies for those who would otherwise be unable to attend.

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To apply, please read the details here, and fill out the linked form: 2025.emnlp.org/calls/virtua...

Hi @gavina.bsky.social. Sorry to hear about that. We are aware of the issues, and have put out some information that hopefully helps:
2025.emnlp.org/visa/

To everyone in the #EMNLP2025 community, we are aware of the issue regarding delays in responses to visa requests, and are actively working to find a viable solution to the visa invitation letter issue.

Geolocation with Attention-Based Multitask Learning Models Tommaso Fornaciari, Dirk Hovy. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019). 2019.

#TBT #NLProc 'Geolocation with Attention-Based Multitask Learning Models' by Tommaso Fornaciari, @dirkhovy.bsky.social (2019) reveals how online political talks can become one-sided. Breaking out of our bubbles! #SocialMedia

Absolutely. LLMs just scale this problme up to a new degree. The work is an attempt to induce a bit of caution in the current enthusiastic adoption of these tools.

#TBT #NLProc 'MilaNLP @ WASSA: Does BERT Feel Sad When You Cry?' by Fornaciari et al. (2021) indicates that emotion and empathy are not related tasks for prediction.

🪶 #EMNLP2025 is currently seeking applications for Birds-of-a-Feather and Affinity Group Events, as additional networking opportunities for EMNLP participants. 🪶

Please see this page and submit your application before 26 September, 2025 11:59pm (AoE): 2025.emnlp.org/calls/bof/

Dense Node Representation for Geolocation Tommaso Fornaciari, Dirk Hovy. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019). 2019.

#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Dense Node Representation for Geolocation' by Fornaciari & @dirkhovy.bsky.social reveals efficient geolocation methods using node2vec & doc2vec models. Greater network size, less parameters. /publication/2019_m2v/2019_m2v

If you feel uneasy using LLMs for data annotation, you are right (if not, you should). It offers new chances for research that is difficult with traditional #NLP/#textasdata methods, but the risk of false conclusions is high!

Experiment + *evidence-based* mitigation strategies in this preprint 👇

Why this matters: LLM hacking affects any field using AI for data analysis–not just computational social science!

Please check out our preprint, we'd be happy to receive your feedback!

#LLMHacking #SocialScience #ResearchIntegrity #Reproducibility #DataAnnotation #NLP #OpenScience #Statistics

Comprehensive preprint out now, check it out (feedback welcome!).

#MemoryModay #NLProc 'My Answer is C' by Wang et al. (2024) underscores the scrutiny needed for full text responses in LLMs multi-choice evaluations.

#TBT #NLProc 'Temporal and Second Language Influence on Intra-Annotator Agreement and Stability in Hate Speech Labelling' Abercrombie, @dirkhovy.bsky.social, & Prabhakaran (2023). NLP models: inclusive or not?

We're back with the reading group! 🚀
Today @paul-rottger.bsky.social presented The Levers of Political Persuasion with Conversational AI by Hackenburg et al. (2025)

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.13919

#NLProc

Note: predates chatGPT…
CC @gavina.bsky.social @verenarieser.bsky.social @steviebergman.bsky.social @shannonspruit.substack.com

A rose by any other name…
This paper discussed various issues related to LLM behavior we see now resurface in the sycophancy and alignment debate
aclanthology.org/2022.acl-lon...

#MemoryModay #NLProc Hung et al.'s 2023 paper, 'Can Demographic Factors Improve Text Classification?' finds demographic adaptations of Transformer NLP models don't notably boost performance.

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