Ivan Habernal

This was one of the coolest gigs ever! Usually we play a couple of fill-ins and then get bored during the speeches... But this time James Green, a NASA chief scientist, talking an hour about his team landing on Mars and searching for life there? What can be more fascinating than that!? 🤩

Great questions - but what were the answers? (yeah, I get it, I should have just participated ... :)

An academic fact whose importance cannot—absolutely cannot—be overstated:

Whoever creates the Overleaf project gets to pick the macros.tex

Sabine Wehnert

🎉 Welcome Sabine Wehnert to TrustHLT!

She builds practical Legal NLP: textbook-to-law knowledge, robust search & recommenders, and verifiable model outputs for real legal work. What capability should trustworthy legal AI deliver next?

#LegalNLP #TrustworthyAI

Foto: Foto Fuchs Magdeburg

Prof. Elizabeth Tipton

🌍 “Do the right thing, not just the easy thing.”
Prof. Elizabeth Tipton (Northwestern) visited the RC Trust Graduate School to discuss how science can create trustworthy evidence that truly supports policymaking.

More: rc-trust.ai/news/news-de...

Photo: Julian Welz/TU Dortmund

That's where we'll meet for the 7th edition of the Privacy-Preserving NLP workshop - so save the date :) Until then, have fun doing cool research!

🚨 #NLLP2025 decisions are in! (📩 direct subs + 📑 ARR commits)

🎉 32 papers accepted 🥳

🙏 thx to our reviewers 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️

🗂️ the final program is now up in the scramble (stay tuned)

☀️✈️ Ready for Suzhou? 🇨🇳🐉🥟
#NLProc #LegalTech #EMNLP2025
@emnlpmeeting.bsky.social

🚨 ARR is looking for a volunteer Co-CTO to help improve tech infrastructure!
🛠️ Preferred:
• 5+ years in NLP research
• Git, CLI tools, Python, and basic HTML
• 2-year role, overlapping with current Co-CTO
Interested? DM @fredashi.bsky.social or email fhs@uwaterloo.ca
#ARR #ACL #NLProc

Here's another one... thanks for cleaning up my idea TODO-list ;)

Sorting out some old research ideas, happily seeing someone else else actually did care :)

...and for bringing some transparency: github.com/habernal/emn...

Thank you!!!

GitHub - habernal/emnlp2025-demos-openreview: OpenReview configuration for EMNLP 2025 demo papers OpenReview configuration for EMNLP 2025 demo papers - habernal/emnlp2025-demos-openreview

EMNLP 25 demo decisions are out, angry e-mails are coming in, but if you wonder what it means to run this thing first time in OpenReview, we have been documenting it and making it fully transparent: github.com/habernal/emn... including lessons learned for future chairs (see Issues)

The EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social 2025 demo acceptance notifications are out. 77 out of 212 papers accepted. 31 excellent area chairs, 185 mostly excellent reviewers (some left the marathon in the middle), Joerg and Peter amazing PC co-chairs! 964 orga e-mails sent so far - and we're not over yet.

...ehm... from progam chairs, obviously. Area chairs have their amazing job done already - we can't thank them enough 😍

Updates from EMNLP demo area chairs: We're working hard on finalizing the decisions - partly becuase we're really spend time with quite many papers out of 212 submitted, partly because of the unavoidable troubleshooting of OpenReview. Just give us one more day, thanks!

An excellent (and provoking) position paper from Philip Resnik in the latest issue of Computational Linguistics!
doi.org/10.1162/coli...

In the next edition of PrivateNLP '26 workshop, we'd like to include under-represented groups in the organizer team and/or the program committe! If that sparks your interest, please get in touch. Thanks for reposting :)

utm_source=chatgpt.com ?? what's wrong with you, Google Scholar?!

Kudos for not pressing "Del" right away and engaging with the spam content! ;)

I think all the late reviewers made OpenReview so sad, so it decided to better crash completely 😢

Dear EMNLP'25 demo reviewers - if you make a commitment to review (your community is very thankful for that!!!) then also please deliver :)

Looks like we're looking for emergency reviewers, and we need many :/

wow... didn't know Swiss people are such Pokémon buffs 😍

@aclanthology.org seems like the anthology website has some performance issues these days, so just FYI...

Time to reach to the burried pile of printed ACL papers from 10 years ago to **finally** read them! (aka. paper ArChaeoLogy :)

#ACL2025NLP was awesome! But the elevator music at the Vienna airport really hurts - "The Blue Danube" (yeah, that famous waltz) crippled into a 4/4 beat, with stupidified "cool" modal harmony in minor chords only... oh boy... why on earth?!... I mean even GenAI could actually do better that that ;)

and the whole thing times two, there's two of these hangars :)

Heading to #acl2025 in Vienna after two weeks of digital detox, travels, and hiking. Ready for my head to explode on day 1 :)

I should stop using these silly emoticons. Saw it in a presentation yesterday with the explanation "it would be a wall of text otherwise", found it cool, but hey, I'm a tenured prof and over 40 now, we're allowed to write a wall of text... :)

Let's bring more transparency to the #EMNLP25 demo track!

[Updates]

* 220 submissions (last year only 160) 😱
* 147 / 343 reviewers accepted 😘
* 15 reviewers missing papers in profiles, 8 reviewers have no OR account
* 31 awesome Area Chairs doing now the dirty work of paper checking 😍

Stay tuned!

[tales from chairing EMNLP25 demos, part 1]
Difficult tasks in research & academia, sorted:

Difficulty 1: Write a research grant proposal
Difficulty 2: Buy stuff at the university
...
Difficulty 10: Solve Fermat's last theorem
...
Difficulty infinity: Configure OpenReview for paper matching

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