AmsterdamNLP

🎲 The 2nd edition of UncertaiNLP is coming to EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou! A venue for work on uncertainty-aware NLP, from Bayesian inference to decision-making under uncertainty.

🗓 Direct submissions due: Aug 15
🗓 ARR commitments due: Aug 29

Details: uncertainlp.github.io

@melaniemitchell.bsky.social giving a talk at UvA! @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social

Amsterdam Lectures in AI and Society ‹ clclab Melanie Mitchell, leading AI researcher from the Santa Fe Institute and key voice in the discussions on the abilities and inabilities of Large Language Models, will speak at Amsterdam Science Park.

This Friday at 3pm, Amsterdam's Computational Linguistics Seminar and the CLClab will host Melanie Mitchell, for a special edition of the Amsterdam Lectures in AI and Society. She will speak about "AI's Challenge of Understanding the World". Zoom link/ register:
clclab.netlify.app/2025/05/07/a...

Jaap Jumelet @jumelet.bsky.social successfully defended his dissertation this week, closing of 6 productive years as master and PhD student at AmsterdamNLP.
bsky.app/profile/jume...

Here's a good thread on some of the highlights of his work!
bsky.app/profile/jume...

All the best at @ groningennlp

My PhD thesis is now available online! It is called "Finding Structure in Language Models" and presents the work I have done in the past 4 years on the intersection of NLP, interpretability, and linguistics.

I'll defend it on December 10, streamed here: jumelet.ai/phd

arxiv.org/abs/2411.16433

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Beautiful work! Are you still in Amsterdam now and then? Would be great to hear a talk on this work here!

Today we had the pleasure to host @michaelwhanna.bsky.social from @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social for a seminar on his work w/ @amuuueller.bsky.social to interpret incremental sentence processing in language models. Thank you for joining us Michael!

Last week, we organized the workshop "New Perspectives on Bias and Discrimination in Language Technology" 🤖 @uvahumanities.bsky.social @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social

We're looking back at two inspiring days of talks, posters, and discussions—thanks to everyone who participated!

wai-amsterdam.github.io

The NLP labs starter pack is here! go.bsky.app/LKGekew Let us know if you want to be added!

Great! Let's hope that @chrmanning.bsky.social, @catlai.bsky.social and @andreasvc.bsky.social, a.o., create the institutional accounts [for StanfordNLP, EdinburghNLP and GroningenNLP, respectively] (and perhaps their handles can be on the list as placeholders until that time).

After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇
#NeuroAI #CompNeuro

Drawing the Transformer Network from Scratch (Part 1) Getting a mental model of the Transformer in a playful way

Beautiful gifs of the Transformer architecture

towardsdatascience.com/drawing-the-...

Work in progress -- suggestions for NLP-ers based in the EU/Europe & already on Bluesky very welcome!

go.bsky.app/NZDc31B

✨ Do current neural speech models show human-like linguistic biases in speech perception?

We took inspiration from classic phonetic categorization experiments to explore where sensitivity to phonotactic context emerges in Wav2Vec2 models 🔍
(w/ @wzuidema.bsky.social)

📑 arxiv.org/abs/2407.03005

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EMNLP 2024 proceedings link aclanthology.org/events/emnlp... #nlp

Today is the start of the British AI Safety summit. As do many other AI researchers, I have mixed feelings. Here are the main worries about the AI regulation process in the UK, EU and US that are currently heavily discussed among AI researchers worldwide: 1/