Lucy Lu Wang

Pls help spread the word: We are hiring! 🌲☕✨
@ischool.uw.edu is recruiting two tenure-track assistant profs in AI. Areas include human-AI collaboration, AI & society, comp social science, NLP, and AI applications.

Apply by Nov 15, 2025: apply.interfolio.com/171020

Happy to answer questions!

Kaiserslautern, Germany

📣 Life update: Thrilled to announce that I’ll be starting as faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems this Fall!

I’ll be recruiting PhD students in the upcoming cycle, as well as research interns throughout the year: lasharavichander.github.io/contact.html

En route to #ACL2025 and looking forward to seeing everyone! ✈️ 🇦🇹

@bingbingw.bsky.social is presenting two of our papers on Wednesday in the 9a LM session and 11a poster session

I’m also giving a talk at the #SDProc workshop on Thursday on translational science communication

Come say hi!

Congratulations!!

Even better when it’s logistic regression 🙃

Now out in Nature: we analyzed 19,000 computer vision papers and the 20,000+ patents citing them and found that most CV papers are used in surveillance enabling CV patents. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ohhhh Molly Crockett‘s @mjcrockett.bsky.social keynote talk at #FAccT2025 was soo good 🔥🔥🔥

She talked about how techno-optimism is really human pessimism, how DEAD benchmarks don’t capture full human capacities and feed the hype cycle, how we need to avoid monoculture & imagine new worlds together

NLP 4 Democracy - COLM 2025

📣 Super excited to organize the first workshop on ✨NLP for Democracy✨ at COLM @colmweb.org!!

Check out our website: sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...

Call for submissions (extended abstracts) due June 19, 11:59pm AoE

#COLM2025 #LLMs #NLP #NLProc #ComputationalSocialScience

A bit of a mess around the conflict of COLM with the ARR (and to lesser degree ICML) reviews release. We feel this is creating a lot of pressure and uncertainty. So, we are pushing our deadlines:

Abstracts due March 22 AoE (+48hr)
Full papers due March 28 AoE (+24hr)

Plz RT 🙏

CMU LTI is hosting predoc interns this summer, centered around "Language Technologies for All"! Please apply and circulate! lti.cs.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03784-6

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.

A Place of Joy.

Headshot of Gary Franklin.

Headshot of Lucy Lu Wang.

When DEOHS faculty Dr. Gary Franklin asked a chatbot for info on outcomes of a specific medical procedure, the bot gave an answer that cited two medical studies, neither of which existed. Franklin and @uwischool.bsky.social faculty @lucylw.bsky.social discuss AI in medicine w. @uwnews.bsky.social ⬇️

this is great! thank you both!

The Berkeley Info School is hiring an open-rank tenure-track professor in "digital security, safety and trust". Please help get the word out, and if you're working in this space, apply! (Deadline Jan 3.) aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04668

Flyer advertising a panel event called “Advancing Science and Industry with Generative AI.” Join our panel of leading experts as we explore the applications of generative AI in scientific research and industry, the ethical concerns, and future directions. Below are portraits of the four participants: Alexandra Ralevski, Laura Szkolar Sienkiewicz, Lucy Lu Wang, and Robin Cosbey. The event will be 20 Nov 2024, 6PM, at the Fred Hutch & Online. The event is sponsored by the Seattle Association for Women in Science and Puget Sound Chapter of Women in Data Science World wide.

Excited to join the Seattle Association for Women in Science and Puget Sound Women in Data Science tonight for “Advancing Science & Industry with GAI.” This is happening today Nov 20 at the Fred Hutch or online. Join us!

seattleawis.org/event/seattl...

A photo of Boulder, Colorado, shot from above the university campus and looking toward the Flatirons.

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics.

Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎

Apply by December 15th!

We're hiring new #nlp faculty this year!

Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS --
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Hello, Computational linguistics/NLP world in Bluesky! We're creating the same accounts on other social media platforms in Bluesky! #NLProc

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CHI 2026 Barcelona Open Call for volunteers is Open! Please sign up to join the team! This is for organizing and technical committees (excluding subcommittee chairs and area chairs for the papers program…that comes later). Details in the submission form. www.surveymonkey.com/r/GGPYYPD

All the ACL chapters are here now: @aaclmeeting.bsky.social @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social @eaclmeeting.bsky.social @naaclmeeting.bsky.social #NLProc

Taking a stand that we aren’t doing the #nlproc tag here. It’s #nlp. We used #nlproc because a decade ago the #nlp tag was full of sleazy scammers selling guides for hypnotizing women into sleeping with you.

But guess what? We won. All the sleazy scammers are doing natural language processing now.

Love the influx of academics to Bluesky. Will this be our new 🏠? To help grow the community, I just created an HCI+Accessibility "starter pack". Help me grow the list! Many are missing! go.bsky.app/PZxHNqP

I appreciated the callout that half the community is based in China and travel to places like the US can be quite difficult. Now, the other half gets to experience the annoyance of visas :’)

📢 📅 After a long process of soliciting & vetting bids, I'm excited that we've finally been able to reveal the location for #EMNLP2025 -- it'll be at the International Expo Centre, Suzhou, China from 5-9 November 2025. Looking forward to seeing you there!
#NLProc #EMNLP2024

where’s belphagor?

(5/n) I’ll be around during most of the conference to chat about evaluation, abstention, user-facing systems, applications in healthcare and accessibility, the UW iSchool, and more

(4/n) Both papers will be presented in the Wednesday 10:30a poster session!

The framework of our context perturbation framework for studying abstention of LLMs in science QA. An example question is given: “Do they evaluate which compression method yields the most gains?” Four context perturbations are shown: (1) the original context which is illustrated as a highlighted paragraph from the paper, (2) no context, where the context paragraph is removed, (3) random context, where a random paragraph from a different paper is sampled, and (4) noisy context, where the random paragraph is appended to the given context. An arrow connects the context perturbations to the stage “Prompting LLMs,” and the image shows possible outputs and whether they are considered correct in that setting. For example, if the answer is Yes and the model answers Yes, in the given context or noisy context settings, it is correct. However, the model should abstain from answering in the no context and random context settings.

(3/n) Bingbing Wen will present “Characterizing LLM Abstention Behavior in Science QA with Context Perturbations” arxiv.org/abs/2404.12452
We assess model ability to abstain w/ insufficient or incorrect context. Counter-intuitively, adding irrelevant context can sometimes increase task performance!

A schematic of the APPLS testbed. Left side of diagram shows candidate summaries being extracted from plain language summarization datasets. Right side of diagram shows how these candidate summaries are used in the APPLS testbed. A list shows features of APPLS including criteria-specific design, simulate real-world situation, and controlled perturbation. Below that is a line plot showing different trends corresponding to hypothetical metrics, some of which increase or decrease relative to perturbation percentage.

(2/n) Yue Guo, now faculty at UIUC, will present “APPLS: Evaluating Evaluation Metrics for Plain Language Summarization” arxiv.org/abs/2305.14341

We introduce a granular meta-evaluation testbed for medical PLS, and evaluate 14 metrics including automated scores, lexical features, and LLM prompting

(1/n) I’m also excited to be heading to #emnlp2024 next week! Looking forward to catch up with old friends and new acquaintances. Several students and collaborators will be presenting work 🧵