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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I'll be presenting my student Chloe's @chloenlp.bsky.social work constructing a dataset of YouTube channels and their historical subscribers counts today at ICWSM. 3:30 pm poster session, 4 pm session. We have a pip package! github.com/blast-cu/tub...

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TubeCensus: A Transparent, Replicable, and Large-Scale Census of YouTube Channels and their Subscriber Counts Over Time | Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social M...

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Ankita @ankitagupta.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Excited to present two papers at #ACL2025! 🗓️30 July, 11 AM: 𝛿-Stance: A Large-Scale Real World Dataset of Stances in Legal Argumentation. w/ Douglas Rice and @brenocon.bsky.social 📍At Hall 4/5. 🧵👇

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naitian @naitian.org · 23/07/2025

I'm thrilled to be doing an oral presentation on "Culture is not Trivia" at #ACL2025 next Wednesday 7/30, as well as participating in the human-centered NLP panel afterwards! (thanks also @lauraknelson.bsky.social for the shoutout in her #ic2s2 keynote today!) aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...

A poster for "Culture is not Trivia: sociocultural theory for cultural NLP" which takes the form of a flow-chart. The central question, and the starting point of the flow chart, is "What is culture in cultural NLP?"

An arrow is labeled "wait, so what's cultural NLP?" This leads to a block explaining that the goals of cultural NLP are described in section 2 of the paper. They include inclusivity, depth, discerning, and adaptiveness.

That leads to an arrow that says "that sounds great!". But there are recurring challenges in this kind of work! Section 3 surveys some of these: a discomfort around the proxies being chosen, a lack of coverage, and a lack of dynamicity.

That in turn leads to an arrow labeled "Hm, sounds like we need to figure out..." and it leads back to the main question: "What is culture in cultural NLP?"

A final arrow extends below this block: "Well, who's to say, really?"

This points to sociocultural linguistics. Section 4 explores how other disciplines, like sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and discourse analysis have faced similar challenges in the past. Section 4.2 gives an overview of sociocultural linguistics, which is a set of principles tying together some convergent themes: emergence, positionality, indexicality, relationality, and partialness.

One arrow extends from this asking, "what's that have to do with cultural NLP?" Section 5 gives a case study of how indexicality clarifies how to think about stereotypies in the context of mining cultual knowledge from the web.

Another arrow says "How can I build safe NLP systems?" Section 6.2 explores how localization can serve as a useful model from building culturally aware technologies because it forces developers to define culture explicitly and tractably.

Finally, an arrow asks "how can I study culture with NLP methods?" Section 6.1 lays out theoretically motivated directions for future empirical and theoretical work in computationally modeling culture.

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Shaily @shaily99.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Research Borderlands is now on ACL anthology. aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon... Come hear me talk about it at #IC2S2 in the plenary talks tomorrow, 24 July, after the morning keynote and in the poster session after lunch. I will also be at #acl2025, presenting the poster at 11 AM on Wed, 30th July.

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(@COLM) Chloe Eggleston @chloenlp.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

If you are interested in YouTube data, I'm giving a talk at 2:30pm today with the Online Platforms and Algorithms II session in Vingen 3+4. #ic2s2

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

‘which came first, the pun, or the research project?’ *academics, head hung low, whispering* ‘the… the pun’

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Mohit Iyyer @miyyer.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

How can we generate synthetic data for a task that requires global reasoning over a long context (e.g., verifying claims about a book)? LLMs aren't good at *solving* such tasks, let alone generating data for them. Check out our paper for a compression-based solution!

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naitian @naitian.org · 18/02/2025

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-... 1/n

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.

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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Bill Labov died this morning. I'm not coherent enough to talk about how important and influential and brilliant he was. I am very sad. I was so lucky to know him, and I am grateful every day that he (and Gillian, and Walt, etc) built an academic field where kindness is expected.

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Enora @covetedfish.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Our paper was accepted to #COLING! If you work on low-resource MT and have ever found yourself limited to bible data, you might find this interesting.

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brendan o’connor @brenocon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

We're hiring new #nlp faculty this year! Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS -- careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

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Details - Assistant/Associate Professor - Natural Language Processing (NLP) | Human Resources | UMass Amherst

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(@COLM) Chloe Eggleston @chloenlp.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

If it's okay / not full, mind adding me to the list?

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naitian @naitian.org · 19/11/2024

🎬 Coming soon to a theater near you!🍿 Film is a semiotically rich medium: meaning is conveyed through the music, visuals, language, and more. A new paper from me and @dbamman.bsky.social explores what it means to computationally study performance in film. Website: naitian.org/once-more-wi... 1/n

Screenshot of the abstract for the paper, "Once More, With Feeling: Measuring Emotion of Acting Performances in Contemporary American Film". The abstract reads: "Narrative film is a composition of writing, cinematography, editing, and performance. While much computational work has focused on the writing or visual style in film, we conduct in this paper a computational exploration of acting performance. Applying speech emotion recognition modes and a variationist sociolinguistic analytical framework to a corpus of popular, contemporary American film, we find narrative structure, diachronic shifts, and genre- and dialogue-based constraints located in spoken performances.

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics. Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎 Apply by December 15th!

A photo of Boulder, Colorado, shot from above the university campus and looking toward the Flatirons.

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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If you're still at #EMNLP2024 check out this work by first year PhD student @rohan-das.bsky.social. Our main idea is to look at media framing through the chains of events they choose to highlight

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(@COLM) Chloe Eggleston @chloenlp.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Update: seems like the Underline schedules are still up for most events, and they tend to sort in-person presentations by track, so that just leaves out the Virtual Posters / Findings not on OpenReview and TACL.

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(@COLM) Chloe Eggleston @chloenlp.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Does anyone know a good way to filter ACL/EMNLP papers by track? I wanted to make a feed for CSS&CA papers, but the only places I can find the tracks are ARR OpenReview and the pdf handbook for EMNLP.

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Marco @mcognetta.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

#EMNLP has a nice set of tokenization/subword modeling papers this year. It's a good mix of tokenization algorithms, tokenization evaluation, tokenization-free methods, and subword embedding probing. Lmk if I missed some! Here is a list with links + presentation time (in chronological order).

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Boulder NLP @bouldernlp.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

📢 Check out the lineup of papers our students will be showcasing at #EMNLP2024 in Miami next week! 🌴 We'll be presenting new work on morphology, Q&A, and narratives.🔍

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