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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 goal is to make peer review sustainable while preserving review quality and creating pathways for newer researchers to become qualified reviewers. The full proposal can be found at: aclrollingreview.org/sustainable-...
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ACL sustainable reviewing policy
In light of challenges with unsustainable rate of submissions at EMNLP’26, ACL Peer Review Standing Committee has developed a proposal for a sustainable reviewing policy. It has now been approved by A...
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
- Submission caps and safeguards against spam and systematic misuse are also being introduced.
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
- The policy is complemented by measures to broaden and develop the reviewer pool: expanded qualification criteria, a manual route for researchers with equivalent experience, mentored secondary reviewing, and a proposed certification path for new reviewers.
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
- Papers without a designated contributor can enter a lottery for any remaining reviewing capacity.
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
- Not all authors of a paper are required to review. Instead, each submission should designate one qualified service contributor-an author or, where necessary, a non-author—who commits to reviewing or chairing in the same cycle and vouches for the paper.
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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
To the many known and unnamed volunteers who contribute their time and expertise: thank you. ACL exists and drives because of you. 🙏 (5/5) #ACL #NLProc #ComputationalLinguistics
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I drew an organization chart to make these structures visible (attached). And even this chart doesn't capture it all: I simply cannot name everyone who contributes. Each box could be expanded to many more people working behind the scenes-committee members, editors, reviewers, and volunteers. (4/5)
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
A whole network of committees and officers keeps ACL running: ethics co-chairs, the Publication Ethics Committee, the Professional Conduct Committee, TACL co-editors-in-chief, Peer Review Committee, directors for the Anthology, information, sponsorship, equity, and publicity — among others. (3/5)
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
A look inside. 👇 The ACL Exec consists of 15 members: the presidency line (President, VP, VP-elect, Past president), treasurer and secretariat, members-at-large, chapter chairs (EACL, NAACL, AACL), the CL journal editor, and our business manager. The Exec is just the tip of the iceberg. (2/5)
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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
(6/6) Models evolve. Benchmarks evolve. Language remains. And as long as language remains, CL/NLP will remain important. Thank you to everyone who joined — and keep on doing great work at/for ACL! 💃 #ComputationalLinguistics #NLProc #ACL2026
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
(5/6) ✨ 3) Keep learning from one another — our open, constructive, pluralistic community is our greatest asset.
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
(4/6) ✨ 2) Keep improving our science — evaluation should mature into a measurement science, with validity, reliability, and reported error. And we need open weights, open source, and open checkpoints.
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
(3/6) ✨ 1) Keep language at the center — variation is everywhere, and it belongs at the heart of NLP.
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
(2/6) In 1967, early CL/NLP deliberately narrowed its scope — back then, narrowing was necessary. In 2026, in the era of LLMs and agents, we're seeing new kinds of narrowing. My call:
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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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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
big congrats Dr. Muñoz-Ortiz! greetings to everyone
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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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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Congratulations! ☺️ Also to Uni Leipzig for getting Leonie 🤗
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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
3/3 See more here about accepted EMNLP paper from the greater Munich AI ecosystem / MCML: mcml.ai/news/2025-11...
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MCML - MCML at EMNLP 2025
MCML researchers are represented with 37 papers at EMNLP 2025 (17 Main, 13 Findings, and 7 Workshops).
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
2/3 - UncertainNLP: 2nd workshop on Uncertainty in NLP uncertainlp.github.io - NLPerspectives (nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/4th-worksh...) with Le-Wi-Di (learning from disagreement) shared task, 3rd edition: le-wi-di.github.io
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Second Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP @EMNLP 2025
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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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