Dr. Arjun

Accepted to #COLM2025! See you in MTL :)

Agree to Disagree? A Meta-Evaluation of LLM Misgendering Numerous methods have been proposed to measure LLM misgendering, including probability-based evaluations (e.g., automatically with templatic sentences) and generation-based evaluations (e.g., with aut...

Have you or a loved one been misgendered by an LLM? How can we evaluate LLMs for misgendering? Do different evaluation methods give consistent results?
Check out our preprint led by the newly minted Dr. @arjunsubgraph.bsky.social, and with Preethi Seshadri, Dietrich Klakow, Kai-Wei Chang, Yizhou Sun

Announcing our first workshop keynote!

"Processing Trans Languaging" by Vagrant Gautam @dippedrusk.com at 13:30 - 14:30 MDT on May 4, 2025

Read on for a description of the talk! 🧵

Birds of paradise in the sand on a beach. Tide, sunset, and mountains visible.

Corollary to cow on a beach

Went down a huge rabbit hole last night about how the land on which SF was built was primarily covered in massive shifting sand dunes

felt

I can't advise joining an extra Slack workspace, but you should join the AI 4 Conservation Slack if you're not in it already :) at the very least to get images like the one below

credit: github.com/google/camer...

Culture is not trivia: sociocultural theory for cultural NLP. By Naitian Zhou and David Bamman from the Berkeley School of Information and Isaac L. Bleaman from Berkeley Linguistics.

There's been a lot of work on "culture" in NLP, but not much agreement on what it is.

A position paper by me, @dbamman.bsky.social, and @ibleaman.bsky.social on cultural NLP: what we want, what we have, and how sociocultural linguistics can clarify things.

Website: naitian.org/culture-not-...

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View of Golden Gate Bridge from Baker Beach. Cloudy weather, ocean foam, and wet sand are visible.

A walk through the Presidio fixes me more than I would like to admit

Stop! In the Name of Flaws: Disentangling Personal Names and Sociodemographic Attributes in NLP Vagrant Gautam, Arjun Subramonian, Anne Lauscher, Os Keyes. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP). 2024.

Very cool work, and a much-needed follow-up to the OpenAI names study! Would also like to share this work with @dippedrusk.com about the use of personal names in NLP: aclanthology.org/2024.gebnlp-... :)

This day in US xenophobia Today, Feb 19, 2025, is a day to see the sheer inhumanity of US anti-immigrant xenophobia at fever pitch. But today is also the 102 year ann...

Today in xenophobia history: 102 years ago today, all Indian American naturalized US citizens were stripped of their citizenship and property. verylowfrequency.blogspot.com/2025/02/this...

Decorative graphic for call for contributions. Graphic reads: "We're seeking research papers, extended abstracts, position papers, opinion pieces, surveys, or media pieces for Queer in AI Workshop at NAACL 2025! Topic of Intrest: Queer Issues in NLP and Linguistics"

🚨 FINAL REMINDER 🚨

Whether you're exploring queer linguistics/NLP or queer activism/D&I, the Queer in AI workshop at #NAACL2025 is the place to be!

📅 Submission Deadline: *Feb 20, 2025 AoE*

Let’s make #NAACL2025 the queerest one yet!
All details 👉 queerinai.com/naacl-2025

#QueerInAI #NLProc

Friendly reminder that all submissions are due Feb 20! Get your submissions in :)

We do have a non-archival track! So do not hesitate to send in your work that is in submission/accepted elsewhere if you are looking for a wonderful group of folks to present your work to

www.queerinai.com/naacl-2025

Oakland dance group performs in halftime show with Kendrick Lamar A dance group from Oakland performed in the half-time show with Kendrick Lamar.

Incredible! 💃🏾🔥 I was so inspired by Oakland’s own TurfFeinz shining on the Super Bowl stage with Kendrick Lamar!

Proud to see our city’s talent on full display. Keep dancing, keep thriving! 🙌🏾✨ #SuperBowlLIX #TurfFeinz

🔗 ktvu.com/news/oakland-dance-group-performs-halftime-show-kendrick-lamar

my reaction exactly 😭

Our workshop has been extended till Feb 20. We are looking forward for your papers at NAACL's Queer in AI workshop.

The archival deadline has been extended to Feb 20! All submissions are now due on Feb 20. Get your work in soon 💜

Beach and tree atop a bluff, clear sky

View of rocks descending into ocean from atop bluff, sunset visible to the side

So UCSB offers free Overleaf and this ??

NAACL 2025 Queer in AI Call for reviewers We are looking for reviewers to review the upcoming submissions to Queer in AI workshop. Each person will get around 1-2 papers to review. Review starts: February 10 Review ends: March 1 Topics wil...

We are looking for reviewers for our Queer in AI NAACL workshop. The reviewing workload is low (1-2 papers) and you will be given ample time to review.

If you are new to reviewing, you are highly encouraged to sign up as a reviewer!

Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Friendly reminder, the archival deadline is Jan 30 💜

TIL that half of the UCs provide their students with free Overleaf premium, and I am not in that half

View of Pacific Ocean and rolling hills from ridge of Santa Cruz mountains

Never an unpretty day at Russian Ridge

Palisades Fire Destroys Historic Homes and Buildings at Will Rogers State Historic Park and Topanga State Park California State Parks

I used to go to Will Rogers SP nearly every weekend as an undergrad (one of the most accessible hiking places by bus from UCLA), and it's still hard to believe that the buildings there are just gone now 😔
parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/...

Animated anthropomorphic frog cleaning bedroom with purple feather duster while listening to music through headphones

How Benito has me this week

Saw an HSBC ad at Heathrow that just read, “Are we shaped by society? Or are we shaping society?” 😭 Are they asking for relevant literature?

Is anyone writing about the weird part of YouTube that records places in LA and the Bay which are in poverty and majority BIPOC?

It just seems to play into poverty theater manufactured by the right

They’re thankfully not — international leg is British Airways. My trust in Air India is very low right now :(

In wonderful news, I have given up on my Air India flight after 6 hrs of delays and somehow need to get the 463 km from Madurai to Chennai before my flight to SF from Chennai leaves in 12 ish hours ://

My unbelievably deep dislike of air travel just gets worse and worse as I get older