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Barbara Plank

@barbaraplank.bsky.social
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Prof, Chair for AI & Computational Linguistics, Head of MaiNLP lab @mainlp.bsky.social, LMU Munich Co-director CIS @cislmu.bsky.social President ACL aclweb.org Visiting Prof ITU Copenhagen @itu.dk ELLIS Fellow @ellis.eu PI MCML @munichcenterml.bsky.social

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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The new ACL Sustainable Reviewing Policy is out, following an early draft presentation at the ACL 2026 business meeting and input from many members of our community. The policy is now approved by the exec The central idea is: reviewing capacity must grow with submission volume. Key points: (1/n)
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
At this year's ACL business meeting, it was wonderful to see so many attendees - a sign that this community cares. As president, I wanted to use the occasion to give some insights into ACL - the premier organization for computational linguistics, founded in 1962. (1/5)
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IJCAIconf @ijcai.org · 10/07/2026
Announcing the keynote speakers for IJCAI-ECAI 2026: 2026.ijcai.org/invited-talks/ 🗣️David Parkes 🗣️Jiajun Wu 🗣️Nick Jennings 🗣️Barbara Plank 🗣️Doina Precup 🗣️Jan Peters 🗣️Luciano Serafini 🗣️Tinne Tuytelaars #IJCAI2026 #ECAI2026 #research #Innovation
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ACL 2027 will be in Kyoto, Japan 🇯🇵 🤩
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We have bigger models. Bigger conferences. Have our questions become bigger, too? That was the question I posed in my Presidential Address at #ACL2026 in San Diego. (1/6)
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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Great message from @barbaraplank.bsky.social unifying CL & NLP
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
MaiNLP will be at #ACL2026 with a number of talks & posters, plus the ACL presidential address! See you in San Diego 🌊
Overview of MaiNLP papers/talks at ACL 2026
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Feliçia Körner @fkoerner.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I’m at #ACL2026NLP to present ltzGLUE, a GLUE-style benchmark for Luxembourgish. We also release ltz-E1, a ModernBERT-based encoder trained only on Luxembourgish. Come find me on 7/7!
Cartoon-style text advertising "ltzGLUE, Luxembourgish General Language Understanding Evaluation", by authors "Alistair Plum, Felicia Körner, Anne-Marie Lutgen, Laura Bernardy, Fred Philippy, Emilia Milano, Nils Rehlinger, Cédric Lothritz, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Barbara Plank, Christoph Purschke", presented at Poster Session G Grand Hall & Coronado 11-12:30 on 7/7
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Congratulations @verenablaschke.bsky.social 🎓 👏🎉
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ACL 2027 @aclmeeting.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
📜 Some of you may have heard about the desk-rejected papers from the ACL'26/ARR Jan 2026 or October 2025 cycles because of hallucinated references. These cases were detected post-commitment. ACL Program chairs have an official statement on this: 2026.aclweb.org/acl_statement/ #ACL2026NLP #NLProc
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ACL Statement on Desk Rejecting Papers with Hallucinated References
Official website for the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
We are excited to share MaiNLP work at #LREC2026
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Looking forward to EACL 2026 in Rabat! MaiNLP will present the following. If you are interested, reach out to any of us on site.
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ACL 2027 @aclmeeting.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Prof. Vivian Yun-Nung Chen has been appointed as the fourth TACL EiC 🎉
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Ryan Soh-Eun Shim @soheunshim.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
✨New paper✨ We find script (e.g. Cyrillic, Latin) to be a linear direction in the activation space of Whisper, enabling transliteration at test-time by adding such script directions to the activations — producing e.g. Cyrillic Japanese transcriptions.
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Group photo at NeurIPS 2025 San Diego
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ACL 2027 @aclmeeting.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
📢 Statement from ACL and EACL 2026 Organizers On Nov 27, OpenReview was notified of a software bug that allowed unauthorized access to authors, reviewers, and area chairs. We are grateful to the OpenReview team for fixing the issue quickly. (🧵 1/3)
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I visited @uni-bamberg.de this week to give a Bamberg Center for AI lecture, and had the opportunity to meet many brilliant researchers, thanks for the invitation @bamnlp.de, @bamdial.bsky.social and BaCAI committee
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Congrats to MaiNLP lab members!
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Congrats to MaiNLP lab members!
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
CIS & MaiNLP Group picture at EMNLP 2025! 🤩 🤗 (1/3) While I sadly 🥲 won't be at EMNLP this year myself, please do reach out to any of our members for a chat if you are interested in our research! We also co-organize and participate in some great workshops at EMNLP:
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Yupei Du @yupeidu.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
How do language models memorize noise while reason impressively well? Our #EMNLP2025 (poster, Nov 5, 11:00-12:30, Hall C) paper shows that memorization reuses internal mechanisms of generalization, even when they are not related to each other! arxiv.org/abs/2507.04782
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Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
🎥 @barbaraplank.bsky.social, Hinrich Schütze, and I were featured on tv, talking about how AI tools struggle with dialects! www.ardmediathek.de/video/capric...
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Capriccio: Warum KI kein Bairisch versteht - hier anschauen
Künstliche Intelligenz verändert die Sprache, denn sie übernimmt nicht nur unser Vokabular, sondern prägt auch andersherum unsere Ausdrucksweise. Nur mit Dialekten tut sich die KI nachweislich schwer,...
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Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
VarDial 2026 will be colocated with @eaclmeeting.bsky.social! We're looking forward to your papers on NLP for similar languages, varieties and dialects :) Deadline: Dec 19 (Jan 2 for pre-reviewed ARR papers) sites.google.com/view/vardial...
VarDial @ EACL 2026, with important dates (see next post for text version). 
Photo CC-0.
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EACL 2027 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
🌞 The list of workshops for #EACL2026 is out! 🇲🇦 👇 Follow the thread for the full list! (no specific order) #NLProc
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Janet Liu ⛷️ @janetlauyeung.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
are you attending @colmweb.org 🦙 psst, don't miss our First Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research tomorrow #COLM2025 🛎️ we have a great line up of keynotes, presentation, and panel discussion, followed by a happy hour 📍 room 518B schedule and info: sites.google.com/view/nlpor20...
NLPOR workshop at COLMChatGPT generated image for the happy hour event after the workshop
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Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Check out the... - talk on Mon Aug 18, 15:50–16:10 - preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.02894 - suppl. material: github.com/mainlp/betth... Joint work w/ Miriam Winkler & @barbaraplank.bsky.social from @mainlp.bsky.social, and Constantin Förster & Gabriele Wenger-Glemser from Bayerischer Rundfunk!
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A Multi-Dialectal Dataset for German Dialect ASR and Dialect-to-Standard Speech Translation
Although Germany has a diverse landscape of dialects, they are underrepresented in current automatic speech recognition (ASR) research. To enable studies of how robust models are towards dialectal var...
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Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
At #Interspeech2025 I'm going to present Betthupferl, a dataset for German dialect ASR & dialect-to-standard speech translation! We analyze differences between dialectal & Standard German transcriptions, benchmark ASR models, and examine shortcomings of current ASR models & evaluation metrics.
Piper title ("A multi-dialectal dataset for German dialect ASR and dialect-to-standard speech translation") and a map of the German state Bavaria showing where the Franconian, Bavarian, and Alemannic dialect groups are spoken
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
So well-deserved, and such a great, supportive talk, especially kudos for including her students in the Lifetime Achievement Award! Thank you, Kathy ☀️
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ACL 2027 @aclmeeting.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
This year ACL inaugurates the ✨🎓ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award! 🎓✨ Instrumental for launching this inaugural prize is the Computational Linguistics Journal @CompLingJournal, with support of the ACL Exec. #CLJournal #ComputationalLinguistics #ACL2025NLP @CompLingJournal
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ACL 2027 @aclmeeting.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
1/3 📣 Social event at Day2 at #ACL2025NLP 🇦🇹 Get ready to experience the vibrant culture of Vienna at the ACL 2025 Social Event this Tuesday night at the ACV! 🎉 We've got an unforgettable evening planned!
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Willkommen | TU Orchester, Wien
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ACL 2027 @aclmeeting.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Sewon Min 🏆 presenting the essence of her thesis: Rethinking Data Use in Large Language Models -- It won the first ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award 🎓✨ #ACL2025NLP #CLJournal @complingjournal.bsky.social
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ACL 2027 @aclmeeting.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Get ready, ACL 2025 attendees! 🎉 The Opening Ceremony kicks off Monday, July 28 at 9 AM CEST in Hall A of the Austria Center Vienna. Don't miss it! 📍 #ACL2025NLP #Vienna
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Thanks for the invitation to the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) to give this year's Hermann-Paul-Center Lecture lnkd.in/d_wUeDfY I enjoyed the visit, the great audience, and the stay in this lovely city. Thank you #blackforest #freiburg #breisgau
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
My ACL 2024 keynote talk on "Are LLMs Narrowing Our Horizon? Let’s Embrace Variation in NLP!" is online now: underline.io/events/466/s... 2024.aclweb.org/program/keyn... It was a huge honor to me to give last year's flagship-in-NLP-conference keynote in Bangkok 🇹🇭
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Do you speak Bavarian? Then please consider helping in a thesis research project👇
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
MaiNLP/CIS participates in #stadradeln 🚴☀️
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Just submitted your EMNLP paper? Congrats! An update on paper awards: the ACL award policy has been updated - in future the non-publicized awards won't have that info any longer in its title. Read more below: 🏆
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ACL Conference Awards Policy - Admin Wiki
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Are you working with LLMs and survey data or generally care about high-quality data and reliable evaluation? Then this might be for you! Very excited to share the news about our upcoming COLM 2025 workshop #NLPOR Thanks for helping spread the word ☺️
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
LeWiDi: Shared task on Learning With Disagreement Website: le-wi-di.github.io We'd like to invite researchers in disagreement & variation to participate in the third edition of the LeWidi shared tasks held in conjunction with the NLPerspectives workshop at EMNLP 2025 nlperspectives.di.unito.it
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LeWiDi 2025 - 3rd edition
This is the page of the Learning With Disagreements tasks
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Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
On my way to #NAACL2025 where I'll give a keynote at the noisy text workshop (WNUT), presenting some of the challenges & methods for dialect NLP + also discussing dialect speakers' perspectives! 🗨️ Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data 🗓️ Saturday, May 3, 9:30–10:30
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Reunion in Singapore!🇸🇬 @barbaraplank.bsky.social, @xinpeng.bsky.social, who's currently on a research stay at NYU, and Chengzhi are presenting their work at @iclr-conf.bsky.social
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
💬 Find us today at Poster Session 1, happening this morning right after the keynote talk (poster #531) @xinpeng.bsky.social
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
😍 MaiNLP 3rd anniversary
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Are you attending NAACL 2025 and are you interested in low-resource languages and dialects? Then don't miss our very own @verenablaschke.bsky.social's keynote talk at the WNUT 2025 workshop on May 3rd: Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data 🌐 ☀️ noisy-text.github.io/2025/
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Upcoming ICLR 2025 paper: ✂️ Surgical, Cheap, and Flexible: Mitigating False Refusal in Language Models via Single Vector Ablation We propose a surgical & flexible approach to mitigate false refusal in LLMs with minimal effect on performance and inference cost led by @xinpeng.bsky.social (1/2)
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Arianna Bisazza @arianna-bis.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The PhD call is out! Apply by 24 April here: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
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Vacatures bij de RUG
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Celebration day 🎉- it all started exactly 3 years ago in Munich, on a very empty corridor... with snow in the April weekend 🚴🏔️🏄🥨🌤️ Happy and grateful for all the amazing people who are/were/will be part of the MaiNLP @mainlp.bsky.social @cislmu.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social journey☀️
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Congratulations to Dr. Erik Arakelyan for successfully defending his PhD thesis on "Reasoning Inconsistencies and How to Mitigate Them in Deep Learning" at the University of Copenhagen @copenlu.bsky.social today 🇩🇰 🎉
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Congratulations to Dr. Jón Friðrik Daðason for successfully defending his PhD thesis on "Language Representation Models for Low and Medium-Resource Languages" at Reykjavik University today 🇮🇸 🎉
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