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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

EMNLP 2026 is shaping up to be the largest NLP conference in Europe this year! Put your brand in front of leading AI & NLP talent to build visibility, recruiting, and partnerships with the people shaping the field. ⏰ Deadline: September 15 🔗 2026.emnlp.org/sponsors/ #EMNLP2026

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Official website for the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Registration for #EMNLP2026 is officially open! 🇭🇺 Authors, please note registration deadlines: Sept 11 (Main) and Sept 24 (Workshops). You can find all the details under the Accepted Paper Information on the registration page. 🔗 2026.emnlp.org/registration/

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Official website for the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

✨ We are thrilled to announce that 5,252 papers have been accepted to #EMNLP2026 ✨ This includes over 2,700 main conference papers and over 2,500 papers in findings! Congratulations to all authors!! 🎉🎉🎉

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Lets assume a year or two from now arxiv / conferences have 10x the paper submissions they currently have. This isn't implausible; it is now trivial to generate true but trivial things. What's the appropriate solution?

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🎉 We are incredibly excited to announce the Keynote Speakers for #EMNLP2026: Pascale Fung, Graham Neubig, and Anna Korhonen! See you in October in Budapest! 🔗 2026.emnlp.org/program/keyn...

The three EMNLP 2026 keynote speakers: Pascale Fung, Graham Neubig, and Anna Korhonen.

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🚨 Call for #EMNLP2026 Student Volunteers Volunteer for 10 hours and receive FREE conference registration Both in-person and virtual roles are available 📅 Deadline: September 1 📢 Decisions: September 9 🔗 Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... More info: 2026.emnlp.org/calls/volunt...

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Call For EMNLP 2026 Volunteers

Official website for the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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ACL Rolling Review (ARR) @aclrollingreview.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

📢 ARR May 2026 update Metareviews will be released by the end of July 30 (AoE). We have received 99.6% and are working hard to collect the final 0.4%. Please bear with us! #ARR #ACL #AACL #EMNLP #NLProc

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Regular reminder that we have an alt-ARR slack workspace where ACs and SACs can support each other through the sometimes confusing process of the ARR cycle! Post or DM me a good email address for a Slack invitation and I will add you. #EMNLP2026

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

⚠️ Submitting to #EMNLP2026? Make sure to review our newly published Paper Integrity Policy first! It includes important updates on Generative Assistance in Authorship, thinly sliced contributions, and unverifiable references. 🔗 Details: 2026.emnlp.org/paper-integr...

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EMNLP 2026 Paper Integrity Policy

EMNLP 2026, together with ARR, are taking actions against growing concerns of irresponsible AI use in paper submissions that take up valuable reviewer/AC resources and make little contributions to the...

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Submitting to ARR for #EMNLP2026? We're running an opt-in AI Reviewing Experiment. Help us test AI-generated reviews during your ARR submission. 🤖 ✅ Reviewers, ACs, and SACs will not be able to see it ✅ Will not affect decisions 🔗 Read more: 2026.emnlp.org/ai-reviewing...

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EMNLP 2026 AI Reviewing Experiment

EMNLP 2026 is running an AI Reviewing Experiment to collect feedback from authors about the quality of AI reviews of their submissions. This experiment is taking place on an opt-in basis, in which aut...

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EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

📢 The First Call for Papers for EMNLP 2026 is officially out! 📝 We welcome long & short papers featuring original research on empirical methods for NLP. 🗓️ ARR Submission Deadline: May 25, 2026 🔗 Read the full CFP here: 2026.emnlp.org/calls/main_c... #EMNLP2026

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Call for Main Conference Papers (EMNLP 2026)

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Desmond Elliott @delliott.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I have been thinking about some of the consequences of closed vs open research. Closed research can slow down scientific progress and concentrate knowledge, which results in what I call “model archaeology”. I discuss this idea in my ICLR 2026 Blogpost. Short thread 🧵and link👇

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Benno Krojer @bennokrojer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

🚨New paper Are visual tokens going into an LLM interpretable 🤔 Existing methods (e.g. logit lens) and assumptions would lead you to think “not much”... We propose LatentLens and show that most visual tokens are interpretable across *all* layers 💡 Details 🧵

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Desmond Elliott @delliott.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

📢 I am hiring a highly-motivated Ph.D student at the University of Copenhagen to work on tokenization-free NLP. Read our previous work in this topic: aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m... aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-m... openreview.net/forum?id=FkS... Apply by March 8: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=1563

A photograph of sunny Copenhagen in the summer!

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Tokenization Workshop (TokShop) @COLM2026 @tokshop.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Three invited speakers will share their insights at TokShop! Hear from Yuval Pinter @uvp.bsky.social, Desmond Elliott @delliott.bsky.social, and Adrian Łańcuck on cutting-edge tokenization research. Don't miss these keynote presentations! #ICML2025 tokenization-workshop.github.io/speakers

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Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

It is with great pleasure that I share MAXMINDS 2.0, a new Max Planck program to support scholars in danger of displacement by war or natural disasters, and who have limited access to resources and institutional support. If you know affected scholars, please share. www.maxminds.mpg.de

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Desmond Elliott @delliott.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

📢I am hiring a Postdoc to work on post-training methods for low-resource languages. Apply by August 15 employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho.... Let's talk at #ACL2025NLP in Vienna if you want to know more about the position and life in Denmark.

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Postdoc in Natural Language Processing

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Valentina Pyatkin @valentinapy.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

💡Beyond math/code, instruction following with verifiable constraints is suitable to be learned with RLVR. But the set of constraints and verifier functions is limited and most models overfit on IFEval. We introduce IFBench to measure model generalization to unseen constraints.

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Desmond Elliott @delliott.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

📣 I am happy to support Ph.D applications to the Danish Advanced Research Academy. My main areas of research include multimodal learning and tokenization-free language processing. Feel free to reach out if you have similar interests! Applications due August 29 www.daracademy.dk/fellowship/f...

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#ICCV2025 @iccv.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Following #CVPR2025, #ICCV2025 implemented a new policy targeting accountability and integrity. PCs identified 25 highly irresponsible reviewers, resulting in the desk rejection of 29 associated papers, including 12 submissions that otherwise would have been accepted.

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Desmond Elliott @delliott.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Huge thanks to everyone that attended the Copenhagen NLP Symposium last week. Thanks for our wonderful speakers @kylelo.bsky.social, @najoung.bsky.social, Yohei Oseki, @mziizm.bsky.social, and @loubnabnl.hf.co! @mariaa.bsky.social did a great job of summarizing the talks in these liveposts (quoted).

People finding their seats before the event started

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Desmond Elliott @delliott.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Thought-provoking interview with Meg about “AGI”

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Stella Frank @scfrank.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

📯 Best Paper Award at CVPR workshop on Visual concepts for our (@doneata.bsky.social + @delliott.bsky.social) paper on probing vision/lang/ vision+lang models for semantic norms! TLDR: SSL vision models (swinV2, dinoV2) are surprisingly similar to LLM & VLMs even w/o lang 👀 arxiv.org/abs/2506.03994

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Desmond Elliott @delliott.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I am looking forward to meeting people working on multimodality at #CVPR2025. You can find me hopping between the @vlms4all.bsky.social and Visual Concepts Workshops on Thursday. Feel free to reach out if you want to grab a coffee ☕ or a beer 🍻 during the week!

Where and when to find me at #CVPR2025 this week

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Ilker Kesen @ilkerkesen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Announcing our recent work “Multilingual Pretraining for Pixel Language Models”! We introduce PIXEL-M4, a pixel language model pretrained on four visually & linguistically diverse scripts: English, Hindi, Ukrainian & Simplified Chinese. #NLProc

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Srishti @srishtiy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I am excited to announce our latest work 🎉 "Cultural Evaluations of Vision-Language Models Have a Lot to Learn from Cultural Theory". We review recent works on culture in VLMs and argue for deeper grounding in cultural theory to enable more inclusive evaluations. Paper 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22793

Paper title "Cultural Evaluations of Vision-Language Models
Have a Lot to Learn from Cultural Theory"

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Anna Rogers @annarogers.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

📢 The Copenhagen NLP Symposium on June 20th! - Invited talks by @loubnabnl.hf.co (HF) @mziizm.bsky.social (Cohere) @najoung.bsky.social (BU) @kylelo.bsky.social (AI2) Yohei Oseki (UTokyo) - Exciting posters by other participants Register to attend and/or present your poster at cphnlp.github.io /1

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Copenhagen NLP Symposium 2025

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Miryam de Lhoneux @mdlhx.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Interested in multilingual tokenization in #NLP? Lisa Beinborn and I are hiring! PhD candidate position in Göttingen, Germany: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... PostDoc position in Leuven, Belgium: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Deadline 6th of June

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Stellen OBP - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Webseiten der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Has anyone written anything about *scraping and text processing* for internet pretraining data? Practical details, which tools are used, which webpage elements are considered, how HTML to text conversion is done? (I know about work on quality filters, relevant but not quite what I'm looking for)

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Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Had fun talking at the Spurious Correlations & Shortcut Learning at ICLR! One example I brought up, which I think provides an uncommon perspective: a case where spurious shortcuts can improve generalization... even to out-of-distribution sets where the spurious feature doesn't generalize! Thread:

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Desmond Elliott @delliott.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

What would you do if someone has rolled your dataset into their benchmark (cool!) but marked it as being available under a much more permissive license (not so cool)?

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Desmond Elliott @delliott.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I'm recruiting a postdoc on an 18-month contract candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI.... The position is about deploying LLMs in the Danish public sector. This is an interdisciplinary project that touches on technical, ethical, and legal aspects of LLM usage. Apply by 1 May 2025.

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing

Postdoc in Natural Language Processing, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen The Natural Language Process

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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Very excited to release Kaleidoscope—a multilingual, multimodal evaluation set for VLMs, built as part of our open-science initiative! 🌍 18 languages (high-, mid-, low-) 📚 21k questions (55% require image understanding) 🧪 STEM, social science, reasoning, and practical skills

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Cohere Labs @cohereforai.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

🚀 We are excited to introduce Kaleidoscope, the largest culturally-authentic exam benchmark. 📌 Most VLM benchmarks are English-centric or rely on translations—missing linguistic & cultural nuance. Kaleidoscope expands in-language multilingual 🌎 & multimodal 👀 VLMs evaluation

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Desmond Elliott @delliott.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I'm really excited about this new benchmark for VLMs! It was great to do this as part of an open-science initiative and to meet so many great people.

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MAPS - CVPR 2026 Workshop @mapscvpr.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

📢Excited to announce our upcoming workshop - Vision Language Models For All: Building Geo-Diverse and Culturally Aware Vision-Language Models (VLMs-4-All) @CVPR 2025! 🌐 sites.google.com/view/vlms4all

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Ines Montani 〰️ @inesmontani.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Announcing a new event initiative: Feminist AI LAN Party! Katharine and I did a pilot event last year and we're now taking it to @pyconde.bsky.social. We've also open-sourced event kits to make it easy to host your own, including: 💣 hacking LLMs 📑 data development ✂️ zine making feministai.party

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 30/03/2025

Would you present your next NeurIPS paper in Europe instead of traveling to San Diego (US) if this was an option? Søren Hauberg (DTU) and I would love to hear the answer through this poll: (1/6)

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NeurIPS participation in Europe

We seek to understand if there is interest in being able to attend NeurIPS in Europe, i.e. without travelling to San Diego, US. In the following, assume that it is possible to present accepted papers ...

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

I'm also desperately looking for emergency reviewers for safety, bias, and alignment papers. Please let me know if you could write a review! 😭

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Desmond Elliott @delliott.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Can anyone point me at concrete examples of the value being created by Large Language Models right now in 2025?

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Stella Frank @scfrank.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Inspired by languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=68451 , I asked Claude for elephant-free rooms and honestly got much more than I expected

Empty room with very small elephants that barely count. GPT asks "Would you like me to try again with an even more elephant-free approach?"

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Roberta Sinatra @robysinatra.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🌍 Join us in Copenhagen - fantastic city for work-life balance and awesome science. I am hiring PhD students & Postdocs in my group at SODAS Univ of Copenhagen to explore AI, network science & the science of science. 📍 Start: flex summer 2025 📌 Info&Apply: www.robertasinatra.com/2025/03/02/p...

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Desmond Elliott @delliott.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I was reading a preprint from this week and I noticed, upon closer inspection, that 41/49 of the citations are from 2023--. It seems like the observation we made in 2020 (aclanthology.org/2020.acl-mai...) is becoming even more extreme in 2025.

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Desmond Elliott @delliott.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Finland is making a significant investment in the future of machine learning / artificial intelligence by hiring 20 professors (at various levels) www.ellisinstitute.fi/ellis-instit...

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PI positions | ELLIS Institute Finland

ELLIS Institute Finland PI positions

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Nadav Borenstein @nadavb.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

🚨 Preprint alert 🚨 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭-𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬? (arxiv.org/abs/2502.14132) Fact-checking agencies have come under intense scrutiny in recent months regarding their role in combating misinformation on social media.

Can Community Notes Replace Professional Fact-Checkers? Work done by Nadav Borenstein, Greta Warren, Desmond Elliott, and Isabelle Augenstein.

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Yoav Artzi @yoavartzi.com · 18/02/2025

We now have a form for postdoc applications: forms.gle/tiydAChgV1wL... I am looking at candidates on a rolling basis, so while there's no deadline, there's an advantage of throwing your name in the ring earlier than later

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Desmond Elliott @delliott.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I've noticed a trend that Ph.D students are not finishing industrial internship projects before they return to university. Instead of the internship project being abandoned, it is completed during university time, sometimes paid for by tax payer-funded projects. Does anyone else see this happening?

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Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Can Large Language Models THINK and UNDERSTAND? The answer from cognitive science is, of course, lolwut YES! The more interesting question is CAN TOASTERS LOVE? Intriguingly, the answer is ALSO YES! And they love YOU

a romantic toaster presenting a single red rose

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