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Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This morning I started our Machine Learning course for the university-wide minor in AI @rug.nl The minor welcomes all students excluding very few programs. This means: assume zero coding skills and math background. A four-hour lecture, we all survived, students left smiling @gronlp.bsky.social

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🗓️ We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the conference+journal track of the 6th annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, July 8-9, 2027, in #Groningen, #TheNetherlands! #CCLS2027 #CfP Submit your article by February 1, 2027! 🥳🥳🥳 jcls.io/site/cfp/

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It is with great sadness that we announce the recent loss of a dear GroNLP group member. Gosse Bouma will always remain in our hearts! If you would like to write down memories or your condolences, you are welcome to do so via this www.condoleance.nl/19800.

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We were missing kimchy 🥘 so bad that this week we are back to South Korea 🇰🇷 in #Daejeon for #DH2026 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social We have four contributions 😍 - come and say "hi" (look for the cow 🐮) @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

DH2026 accepted contributions by members of GroNLP

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This week we are in Rio 🌴 🦜🩴, Brazil 🇧🇷 for CogSci 😍 @frap98.bsky.social will present on a computational study of verb meaning acquisition in children co-authors: @jumelet.bsky.social @yevgenm.bsky.social @arianna-bis.bsky.social 🏛️ Session T.04 🗓️ July 24, 10:45 @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 08/07/2026

ICLA-DCL special issues on Digital Comparative Literature. Srnd your abstract by 7 September 2026. Full CFP and submission details: icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/news/20... #DigitalComparativeLiterature #ICLA #DigitalHumanities #ComparativeLiterature

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ICLA DCL Journals CfP – Digital Comparative Literature

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

From San Diego to Seul for #ICML2026 🇰🇷🏯🍜 We have 2 papers accepted at the main and 1 workshop - come and say "hi" @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Summer conference season is starting and it will be busy! First up: #ACL2026 - We have 4 papers accepted (3 Main, 1 Findings) + 1 CoNLL. Congratulations to the authors! See you (virtually) in San Diego 🌊 🌴 🦭 @aclmeeting.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl

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University of Groningen | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen @rug.nl · 24/06/2026

Spraaktechnologie voor het Nedersaksisch en het mobiele Spraaklab: Martijn @wieling.bsky.social is veelvoudig bezig met het gebruik en behoud van streektaal 🗣️ Hij spreekt erover met @wimbrons.nl en Hanna van Loo in de nieuwe aflevering van de In de Wetenschap-podcast 👇 www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

Image showing the podcast setup, the hosts and interviewee Martin Wieling

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 24/06/2026

New at @aclmeeting.bsky.social: GOLEMcoref, a multilingual coreference dataset of fiction. 827k tokens across 7 languages (Chinese, Dutch, English, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, and Spanish) built from contemporary fanfiction. Led by @andreasvc.bsky.social and Xiaoyan Yang🧵 1/ @gronlp.bsky.social

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Hello #LREC2026! We are coming with 7 papers at the main conference and 3 papers at different workshops! Have a look here 👇 and check papers and presenations slots below! See you in 🌴 Palma 🇪🇸 next week @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 27/04/2026

Happy to host people interested in Computational Literary Studies and Digital Humanities. I've been an evaluator for 5 years but this year I'm taking a break and will support applicants who want to come to work with @gronlp.bsky.social For me it's been a career changing experience.

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 31/03/2026

Interested in Digital and Computational Humanities for your Master's? The University of Groningen (Netherlands) offers three masters at different levels, from humanities grads with no coding experience to aspiring NLP researchers. Strong interaction with a leading NLP group @gronlp.bsky.social 🧵

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Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Today I gave a talk at the 6th #ROMCIR workshop at @ecir2026.eu reflecting on what has been done so far and suggesting future directions for more proactive approaches to counter and combat misinformation. Thanks to the attendees and the organizers @gronlp.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Hey there!! #EACL2026 is about to start and we are coming with 7 papers (4 MAIN, 1 DEMO, 2 WORKSHOP) See below 👇 for details when and where you can find us. See you 👋 in Rabat 🇲🇦 @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl

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Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

on my way to #EVALITA2026 where I’ll present team TiGRO ‘s work (Stefano Azzeni, Malvina Nissim @gsarti.com) on fallacy detection (btw, we ranked #1) @gronlp.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @ailc-nlp.bsky.social

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Are you based in Groningen and want to help us evaluate the Generative AI puzzle? 🍫 We are looking for participants of every age between 16 and 60 years old. 📊 Contact us and we will deliver the puzzle and cards to you in person :)

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Faculty of Arts - University of Groningen @facultyofartsug.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Happy #SaferInternetDay! We asked Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Rik van Noord @rug.nl, who researches artificial intelligence, how university and high school students can safely use language models like ChatGPT. Read more 👉 www.rug.nl/let/onze-fac...

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Een chatbot als tutor

RUG-docent informatiekunde Rik van Noord, die onderzoek doet naar kunstmatige intelligentie, helpt studenten en middelbare scholieren om taalmodellen als...

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University of Groningen | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen @rug.nl · 16/12/2025

What if AI-driven models could help people with language disorders – e.g. with a smartphone app? 🗣️ Researcher Frank Tsiwah (@facultyofartsug.bsky.social) is exploring various ways to make this happen. ‘If it can make a single life better, then it will be worth it.’ 👇 www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

👀 Look what 🎅 has broght just before Christmas 🎁: a brand new Research Master in Natural Language Processing at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu... Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)

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Natural Language Processing

How do you build Large Language Models? How do humans experience Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications in their daily lives? And how can we...

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Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

📣 I'm hiring 📣 Post-doc position at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social as part of @rug.nl CIT Innovation Fun "A3i – Artificial Intelligence Innovation Identifier" Full call is available here: lnkd.in/esdQ7YGD 📅 Application deadline: Jan. 15 2026

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a fantastic friend and researcher, @mdhk.net , who came to visit us in Groningen for a couple of days from Amsterdam! 🎉

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Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

✨ It's happening ✨ Curious to meet our new colleague? Stay tuned! #HAICu @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @gronlp.bsky.social #NLProc #LLMs #CulturalHeritage

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Arianna Bisazza @arianna-bis.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Interested in developmentally plausible LMs, and the role of child-directed language data? Come to our poster TODAY (Fr 7 Nov, 10.30-12.00) #EMNLP!

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Jaap Jumelet @jumelet.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I'm in Suzhou to present our work on MultiBLiMP, Friday @ 11:45 in the Multilinguality session (A301)! Come check it out if your interested in multilingual linguistic evaluation of LLMs (there will be parse trees on the slides! There's still use for syntactic structure!) arxiv.org/abs/2504.02768

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Arianna Bisazza @arianna-bis.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Benchmarks of linguistic minimal pairs are key for LM evaluation & help us overcome the English-centric bias in NLP research Come to our poster TODAY (Fr 7 Nov 10.30-12.00) #EMNLP to meet TurBLiMP, a new benchmark for Turkish, revealing how LLMs deal with free-order, morphologically rich languages

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Arianna Bisazza @arianna-bis.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Interested in agent simulations of language change & pragmatic naming behavior? Come check our poster TODAY (Fri, Nov 7, 12:30 - 13:30) #EMNLP!

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bastian bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

As part of this year's BabyLM challenge, we (researchers from @gronlp.bsky.social and @clausebielefeld.bsky.social diverged from established pretraining paradigm by training only on dialogue data from CHILDES.

Dialogue Is Not Enough to Make a Communicative BabyLM
(But Neither Is Developmentally Inspired Reinforcement Learning)
Francesca Padovani1∗ Bastian Bunzeck2∗ Manar Ali2 Omar Momen2
Arianna Bisazza1 Hendrik Buschmeier2 Sina Zarrieß2
1Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG), University of Groningen
2CRC 1646 – Linguistic Creativity in Communication, Bielefeld University
f.padovani@rug.nl bastian.bunzeck@uni-bielefeld.de

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

With only a week left for #EMNLP2025, we are happy to announce all the works we 🐮 will present 🥳 - come and say "hi" to our posters and presentations during the Main and the co-located events (*SEM and workshops) See you in Suzhou ✈️

accepted papers at main conference and findings

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 03/10/2025

Great tips from @jiruiqi.bsky.social about how to choose your reinforcement learning strategy. @gronlp.bsky.social

Slide showing practical tips about how to choose reinforcement learning strategy between PPO, DPO, and GRPO.

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐂 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 (𝐄𝐑𝐂 𝐂𝐨𝐆, 𝐏𝐈 𝐀𝐧𝐚 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐟) 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫! ⁣🎉 ⁣ We have an opening for a 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 in 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 for a starting duration of 12 months extendible to 30 months.⁣ For further details -> www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀’ 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻! 😍 Here are some photos of our GroNLP station at the Forum, where we welcomed high school classes and potential future researchers. 🧑‍🔬🤖 Quizzes, puzzles, demos, card games, and of course, lots of chocolate! 🍫

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Today we were at #CLIN35 hosted by @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social - as always: great interactions, meeting old friends/colleagues, and lots of presentations from us @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

We recharged our batteries with a wonderful weekend together in the province of Drenthe! 🌳🍃 As per tradition, we kick off the academic year with plenty of sharing, smiles, and sports 💘 We wish everyone a wonderful start of the academic year <3 may it be inspiring and exciting 🎓

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Ana Guerberof @anaguerberof.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

#INCREC is looking for a new team member: Postdoc in #Creativity, #Translation and #Technology. Come an join the team at University of Groningen! Applications until 12 October 11:59pm, 2025 Dutch local time (CET) . All information 👇 www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

𝗔 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗖 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺'𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻” 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁! 😍 #creativity #xl8n #MT #literature #INCREC @gronlp.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

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S2E08: Meritxell Salvany Balada "A translators main work is not so much to create something but to reproduce it in a way that doesn't crumble"

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

#ACL2025 has just finished and it was great to meet with old friends and connect with new colleagus. In case you missed our papers/presentations, this was us 🐮👇 @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

We’re excited to share a new addition from our lab to the family of language-specific BLiMPs, this time the morphologically rich Turkish language is in the spotlight! 🎊✨

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

And once again 🎊 a little read for you all to enjoy :) Check it out !!

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🎊 New work out from our brilliant PhDs 🎊

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 15/05/2025

Tomorrow, Friday 16th May, I will present the GOLEM project at KAIST in South Korea. Online too. 2025-05-16 13:30~15:00 KST (15th May, 21:30 Pacific time) The GOLEM Project: Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models DM me for Zoom link #DigitalHumanities @gronlp.bsky.social

introductory slide of a talk by Federico Pianzola, titled "Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models", a project funded by the European Union

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Few days back 🍦 celebrating spring, sunshine, and one of our most cherished lab member! Nothing like ice cream and an indulgent break to mark a birthday the Computational Linguistics way ☀️🎉 #GroNLP #ComputationalLinguistics #SpringVibes

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Giulia Rambelli @grambelli.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

🎓Already 3 weeks at @rug.nl Today I joined my first @gronlp.bsky.social reading group, where prithamajumdar.bsky.social shared her NAACL paper on comparisons & similes - couldn’t help but think of @abstractionerc.bsky.social when seeing this slide❤️ 📢 Next week it’s my turn to present—stay tuned!

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MariannaBolog @mariannabolog.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

@grambelli.bsky.social these weeks is hosted by @gronlp.bsky.social for a postdoctoral visiting sponsored by @abstractionerc.bsky.social for a collaboration with @tommasoc80.bsky.social and @piasommerauer.bsky.social on the emergence of language-mediated stereotypes, a form of overgeneralization.

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Giulia Rambelli @grambelli.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

📢 Excited to present my postdoc research within @abstractionerc.bsky.social at the @gronlp.bsky.social reading group (@facultyofartsug.bsky.social) TODAY! 🤖🧠 I'll explore how LLMs interpret generics and compounds —and what this tells us about their #generalization abilities. #NLP #LLMs #linguistics

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Jaap Jumelet @jumelet.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

✨New paper ✨ Introducing 🌍MultiBLiMP 1.0: A Massively Multilingual Benchmark of Minimal Pairs for Subject-Verb Agreement, covering 101 languages! We present over 125,000 minimal pairs and evaluate 17 LLMs, finding that support is still lacking for many languages. 🧵⬇️

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