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I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Interim Professor for AI and Computational Linguistics at @lmu.de 😊🇩🇪🎉

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I will be attending EMNLP in Budapest! 😊🇭🇺 Here is where you might find me 👀

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abrsvn.bsky.social @abrsvn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New paper at babylm.github.io on "Relational Attention for Data-Efficient Language Modeling" with @ecekt.bsky.social and Jakub Dotlačil, building on the seminal work of @taylorwwebb.bsky.social , @awni.bsky.social and others. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.20530. Code: github.com/abrsvn/babyl...

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Our workshop MINT @ EMNLP 2026 welcomes ARR-reviewed submissions on multimodal interaction in face-to-face dialogue! Deadline: August 31 🍃 @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social mintworkshop.github.io/2026/

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting (CPL 2026) has an updated submission deadline! (July 17) ☀️

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

MINT deadline extended to July 22nd!

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

🍃2nd Call for Papers!😊 EMNLP 2026 Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue (MINT) welcomes work on multimodal communication, speech, gesture, gaze, facial expressions, datasets, eval methods, and applications! @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social mintworkshop.github.io

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

After the very nice 15th edition of CMCL last Saturday 🌴, I'm happy to announce that the 2nd edition of the Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting (CPL 2026) will take place again in Utrecht in December! We are looking forward to receiving abstracts ✨ cpl2026.sites.uu.nl

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Emiel van Miltenburg @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The International conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG) just issued the first Call For Papers: 2026.inlgmeeting.org/calls.html #nlproc

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The 19th International Natural Language Generation Conference is scheduled to be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands from October 17 to 21, 2026.

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

If you are attending LREC this week, check out CMCL (15th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics) on May 16! We have a great program with lots of nice papers, and @claires012345.bsky.social and @coryshain.bsky.social as invited speakers! 💫🌴 I will be following it virtually😊

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INLG 2026 @inlg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

📍It's official! #INLG2026 is coming to Utrecht, Netherlands, Oct 17-21! Hosted with support from Utrecht University and the local NLP community. Follow us here and check 2026.inlgmeeting.org for updates -- hope to see you there!

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The 19th International Natural Language Generation Conference is scheduled to be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands from October 17 to 21, 2026.

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

We are announcing a very new workshop! 🌿 MINT @ EMNLP 2026, 1st Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue! ✨ mintworkshop.github.io Raquel Fernández, Diego Frassinelli, @esamghaleb.bsky.social, Bulat Khaertdinov, @asliozyurek.bsky.social Zerrin Yumak @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

CMCL deadline extended to Feb 28 AoE!

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The submission deadline for CMCL is coming up in less than a month! (Feb 25) CMCL will be co-located with LREC and take place on May 16!🌴https://sites.google.com/view/cmclworkshop/cfp

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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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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Photos from the Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting in Utrecht, many thanks to everyone who joined us in making this a memorable event! ✨

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The CfP for CMCL is out!🌴 We are looking forward to receiving many interesting submissions! ✨ (Deadline: February 25, 2026) sites.google.com/view/cmclwor...

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Many thanks to @dnliu.bsky.social for inviting me, and to the members of the group for their insightful questions! 😊✨

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The program of the Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 at Utrecht University is out, packed with a lot of very interesting talks! The registration is full, but there is a waiting list, if you would like to attend✨ cpl2025.sites.uu.nl/schedule/

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL) workshop will be co-located with LREC 2026 in Palma, Mallorca!🌴Stay tuned for more details!✨ @byungdoh.bsky.social Tatsuki Kuribayashi @grambelli.bsky.social Philipp Wicke, Jixing Li, Ryo Yoshida @cmclworkshop.bsky.social

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I was in Sweden this week! 🇸🇪❄️ Many thanks to Nikolai Ilinykh for inviting me to give a talk at the University of Gothenburg. I enjoyed having inspiring chats and delicious food with Sharid Loáiciga, @asayeed.bsky.social, Simon Dobnik, Hyewon Jang and Chris Howes at CLASP. Much appreciated! 😊🎄

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I will be attending EMNLP in China to present our paper with @bylinina.bsky.social (who will be in China, too) and Jakub Dotlacil in the BabyLM workshop! Looking forward to meeting people there! ✨ 😊 #EMNLP2025 @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social lnkd.in/e-Bzz6De

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Just got back from Hawaii, where I presented a workshop paper on image memorability at @iccv.bsky.social 🌺 Coming from multimodal NLP, it was my first time attending a CV conference. Everywhere I looked, there were talks and posters that were incredibly interesting!

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Jaap Jumelet @jumelet.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

🌍Introducing BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data! LLMs learn from vastly more data than humans ever experience. BabyLM challenges this paradigm by focusing on developmentally plausible data We extend this effort to 45 new languages!

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

What makes an image memorable? And can we predict image memorability using pretrained vision encoders? We explored activations, attention distributions, image patch uniformity and sparse autoencoder losses using image representations across the layers of CLIP, DINOv2 and SigLIP2.

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Hi all, there is a postdoc position open in the group I'm currently based in! ✨ Let me know if you are interested or have questions 🙂 Please share if you know someone who might be interested www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Memory access in language

Help uncover how memory shapes language use. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Language Sciences, you will join the ERC-funded MEMLANG project.

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Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net · 19/08/2025

Had such a great time presenting our tutorial on Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models at #Interspeech2025! 🔍 For anyone looking for an introduction to the topic, we've now uploaded all materials to the website: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter...

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Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models — Tutorial @ Interspeech 2025

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

with @duyguislakoglu.bsky.social and Ozge Alacam at the ACL 2025 social event✨ #acl2025

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

together with some Utrecht NLP people at ACL 2025! #acl2025 #acl2025NLP

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I'll be attending ACL 2025 in Vienna! Looking forward to seeing people there!😊🇦🇹 We are going to present 'LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks' aclanthology.org/2025.acl-sho... #acl2025 #acl2025nlp

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Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net · 13/06/2025

The @interspeech.bsky.social early registration deadline is coming up in a few days! Want to learn how to analyze the inner workings of speech processing models? 🔍 Check out the programme for our tutorial: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter... & sign up through the conference registration form!

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Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models — Tutorial @ Interspeech 2025

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Abstract submission deadline extended to June 29!

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

CMCL will take place on May 3! Unfortunately, I am not in New Mexico, but I will be online! We have a nice selection of papers, and keynote talks by John Hale and Tessa Verhoef @naaclmeeting.bsky.social @grambelli.bsky.social @byungdoh.bsky.social & Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Philipp Wicke, Jixing Li

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Abstract submissions for the 1st Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting is now open! cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

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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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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Abstract submissions for the 1st Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting is now open! cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

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CoNLL 2026 @conll-conf.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🚨 Guest Speaker Alert! 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce that #CoNLL2025 will feature: 🥁 Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam) & Jean-Rémi King (@jeanremiking.bsky.social, CNRS / Meta AI)! 🎤✨ Check out their awesome work!👇

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Rens Bod @rensbod.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Almost all Dutch universities will go on strike next week, against the budget cuts. Join us! 10 March: Leiden 11 March: Utrecht 13 March: Nijmegen 17 March: Amsterdam 18 March: Groningen 25 March: Twente 8 April: Rotterdam 10 April: Tilburg 14 April: Wageningen 15 April: Maastricht

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

It was very nice seeing @aicoffeebreak.bsky.social again after many years😊 She gave a wonderful keynote at the Railway Museum in Utrecht, as part of the National Conference on AI Transformations!💫

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Ayca Takmaz @aycatakmaz.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I will be giving a talk on open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding at the next ZurichCV meetup! 🗓️ Date: Thursday, January 23rd 18:00 CET 📍Location: @ETH_AI_Center, please see zurichai.ch/events/zurichcv-7 for additional details!

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Ayca Takmaz on open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding.

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Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Felix Hill was such an incredible mentor — and occasional cold water swimming partner — to me. He's a huge part of why I joined DeepMind and how I've come to approach research. Even a month later, it's still hard to believe he's gone.

Felix Hill and some other DMers and I after cold water swimming at Parliament Hill Lido a few years ago

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Today celebrating Dr. @jumelet.bsky.social who successfully defended his PhD thesis! 🥳👨‍🎓It was great witnessing his amazing research trajectory. Lucky to have had such a friendly and inspirational colleague!✨📸

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