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bastian bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Had a really great time in Leipzig today! Thanks for inviting me @weissweiler.bsky.social, and everyone else should keep their eyes peeled for all the cool things happening at LION Lab @lionlab.bsky.social 🦁

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happening now: Sina Zarrieß presenting at *SEM! Stop by if you are interested in The Frequency Confound in LM Surprisal and Metaphor Novelty!

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

CLAUSE will present eight papers at this year's ACL and workshops in San Diego! Make sure to stop by if you are interested in topics such as pragmatic evaluations, document embeddings, hate-speech detection, child-directed speech or metaphor identification! 🎉🌴🇺🇸

ACL 2026
SAN DIEGO JULY2-
Paper
Authors
Where?
What and when?
Talking to a Know-It-All
GPT or a Second-Guesser
Claude? How Repair reveals distinct Multi-Turn Behavior in LLMs
Clara
Lachenmaier, Hannah
Bultmann, Sina Zarrieß
ACL Main
Oral presentation
July 7th, 09:00 - 10:30
(Session 16, Oral Session F:
Discourse, Pragmatics, and Reasoning)
SemCSE-Multi:
Multifaceted and Decodable Embeddings for Aspect-Specific and
Interpretable Scientific
Domain Mapping
Marc Brinner, Sina Zarrieß
ACL Main
Oral presentation
July 5th, 16:00 - 17:30
(Session 4, Oral Session C:
Information Extraction and
Retrieval 3)
How Hypocritical Is Your
LLM judge? Listener-Speaker Asymmetries in the Pragmatic Competence of Large Language Models
Judith Sieker, Sina Zarrieß
ACL Findings
Poster
July 6th, 11:00 - 12:30
(Session 9, Poster Session E)
Prompting Across Time:
Evaluating LLMs on
Historical and
Contemporary Offensive
Language
Sanne Hoeken, Sophie Jasmin Spliethoff, Silke Schwandt, Özge Alacam, Sina Zarrieß
ACL Findings
Poster
July 5th, 14:00 - 15:30
(Session 3, Poster Session
Child-directed speech facilitates production, not comprehension, in BabyLMs
Bastian
Bunzeck, Sina Zarrieß
CoNLL
Oral presentation,
July 4th, 11:15 - 11:30
(Usage-based Grammars, Typology and Multilinguality Session)
CAIT: A Syntactic Parsing Toolkit for Child-Adult
InTeractions
Francesca
Padovani, Xiulin Yang, Bastian Bunzeck, Jaap Jumelet, Yevgen Matusevych,
Nathan
Schneider, Arianna Bisazza
CoNLL
Oral presentation
July 4th, 15:15 - 15:30
(Multimodality, Grounding and Interaction Session)
The Frequency Confound in Language-Model Surprisal and Metaphor Novelty
Omar Momen, Sina Zarrieß
*SEM
Poster
July 3rd, 16:00 - 17:30
(*SEM Poster Session)
Reference Games as a Testbed for the Alignment of Model Uncertainty and Clarification Requests
Manar Ali, Judith Sieker, Sina Zarrieß,
Hendrik
Buschmeier
GEM
Workshop
Poster
July 4th, 11:35 - 12:35
(GEM Poster Session)
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Saad Mahamood @saad.me.uk · 20/05/2026

At RetroEval 2026 we will have three fantastic keynotes: • Sina Zarrieß (@clausebielefeld.bsky.social) • Beatrice Alex @beatricealex.bsky.social (@heriotwattuni.bsky.social) • Albert Gatt (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) More details on the keynotes: retroeval.github.io/_pages/keyno...

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

And look who’s on the bill for the opening keynote: our PI Sina Zarrieß 🎉

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

On Thursday at 11am, Omar Momen will give a talk on "Surprisal and Metaphor Novelty Judgments: Moderate Correlations and Divergent Scaling Effects Revealed by Corpus-Based and Synthetic Datasets" (Omar Momen, Emilie Sitter, Berenike Herrmann, Sina Zarrieß, aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-lo...)!

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Surprisal and Metaphor Novelty Judgments: Moderate Correlations and Divergent Scaling Effects Revealed by Corpus-Based and Synthetic Datasets

Omar Momen, Emilie Sitter, Berenike Herrmann, Sina Zarrieß. Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2026.

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Before we forget: of course, CLAUSE Bielefeld is also at @eaclmeeting.bsky.social 2026 in Rabat/Marocco! Our group is involved in a main conference papers:

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Happening right now — @stefanhartmann.bsky.social presenting an extremely interesting case study on snowclones like »x is the new y«. 🗣️

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I have just returned from a week-long visit to Bielefeld University! Thank you very much for hosting me Sina Zarrieß and @ozgealacam.bsky.social 😊 @clausebielefeld.bsky.social

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This week we’re having @ecekt.bsky.social as our guest in Bielefeld. She gave a highly timely talk on language+vision models, how they process images under noise conditions, and about how to train a highly effective multimodal BabyLM with model merging. 🗣️👀💻

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Daniel Khashabi @danielkhashabi.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

For years since the GPT-2 paper, emergent in-context learning (ICL) from 'next-token' training has been treated as something deeply tied to 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞. But … is it?

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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Am I evil? Am I likeable? Need a 10 minutes break? Like Fantasy? Loath it? Take part in our study and help us by rating images of fictional characters here: bixprag.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/publix/0aSWK...

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

For this week’s group colloquium, we invited Loulou Kosmala from Paris-Est Créteil University. She gave a talk on multimodal feedback during all types of conversation, from real life to virtual, from learners to adults, from L1 to L2, and more! 🤩

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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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bastian bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Preprint alert! We release BabyBabelLM, a multilingual benchmark of developmentally plausible training data. I was responsible for German and Polish data as well as various child-directed wikis. Immensely rewarding project with exceptionally cool co-authors. 🥳🚀

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞? 🇨🇳🇮🇩🇸🇪 Here’s the proof! 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐋𝐌 is the first Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data available for 45 languages to the NLP community 🎉 arxiv.org/abs/2510.10159

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

If you are at #IWCS, then you should not miss Sanne‘s talk ”Not Just Who or What: Modeling the Interaction of Linguistic and Annotator Variation in Hateful Word Interpretation“ (Sanne Hoeken, Özge Alacam, Dong Nguyen, Massimo Poesio, Sina Zarrieß), tomorrow at 16:30! 🕟 @sannehoeken.bsky.social

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Tatjana Scheffler @tschfflr.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025

Sina Zarieß is giving the KONVENS keynote on training BabyLMs #nlproc The slide shows the number of words a 12yo human has seen in their lifetime compared to the numbers of words typical language models have seen in training #llm

Sina in front of a slide with different size circles

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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Great first day at #KONVENS2015 today. Looking forward to another engaging day with a keynote by Sina Zarrieß tomorrow 🤓 @clausebielefeld.bsky.social

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Final Keynote of #semdial by David Schlangen on ”Meaningful Interaction with Unreal Speakers?“ 😇💬

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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Final day at #semdial2025 #bialogue — four more presentations, one key note and hopefully many engaging discussions. Let's go!

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Second #semdial keynote by Robert Hawkins on ”Foraging for common ground“

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Actually yes! Dialogue differs distinctly from monologues in terms of phonetic features and in the production of novel phonetic forms!

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Leonie Schade asks whether it takes two to do an articulatory tango 😁

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

And the second talk features contributions by our PI Sina Zarrieß. 🤩

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bastian bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

#semdial is about to begin 🥳

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Program: semdial2025.github.io/program/ Proceedings: purl.org/semdial/2025...

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

#semdial2025, the long-awaited #bialogue conference starts tomorrow! We are looking forward to three wonderful conference days, featuring three exciting keynotes, and many oral and poster presentations on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue. 👄💬 Check out the program and proceedings below. 👇

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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Is simpler child-directed language easier to learn? Check out our CoNLL paper "Do Construction Distributions Shape Formal Language Learning in German BabyLMs?" @conll-conf.bsky.social

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Our PI Sina will give an oral presentation on "Components of Creativity: Language Model-based Predictors for Clustering and Switching in Verbal Fluency" at @conll-conf.bsky.social in 45 minutes. Come check it out if you are at @aclmeeting.bsky.social #ACL2025NLP

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Impromptu dinner after @conll-conf.bsky.social #ACL2025NLP, connecting Bielefeld and the Netherlands over Greek food 😇👌

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Happening now: catch Simeon, Manar and Larissa presenting their paper -Are Multimodal Large Language Models Pragmatically Competent Listeners in Simple Reference Resolution Tasks?- in hall X5. #ACL2025NLP

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Happening now — Clara, Judith and Sina present their poster: Can LLMs Ground when they (Don’t) Know: A Study on Direct and Loaded Political Questions (Poster board 45) #ACL2025NLP

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The CLAUSE group from Bielefeld University is looking forward to next month‘s ACL in Vienna, where we will be presenting quite a few papers. 🥳 Feel free to get in touch if you want to know more. 😇

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