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Ece Takmaz

@ecekt.bsky.social
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Interim Professor for AI and Computational Linguistics at LMU Munich Previously Postdoc at Utrecht University, PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam Multimodal NLP, Vision and Language, Cognitively Inspired NLP ecekt.github.io

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you!!
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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
thank you! 😊
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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you Dota!! 😊
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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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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BabyLM 4 at EMNLP 2026
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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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Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2026 | Universiteit Utrecht
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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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INLG2026
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
Some of my fellow organizers are planning to be there! @byungdoh.bsky.social @grambelli.bsky.social @jixingli.bsky.social Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Philipp Wicke, Ryo Yoshida
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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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INLG2026
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 had so many inspiring conversations with lovely colleagues and I am already looking forward to visiting again in the future! Many thanks to @simeonjunker.bsky.social, @bbunzeck.bsky.social, @manarali.bsky.social, @hbuschme.bsky.social, Clara Lachenmaier, Lisa Gottschalk, Emilie Sitter, Yu Wang ✨
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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
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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
which song did they use? money for nothing?
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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 hope our findings would be helpful for the future contributors to the multimodal track of the BabyLM challenge! aclanthology.org/2025.babylm-...
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Model Merging to Maintain Language-Only Performance in Developmentally Plausible Multimodal Models
Ece Takmaz, Lisa Bylinina, Jakub Dotlacil. Proceedings of the First BabyLM Workshop. 2025.
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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Instead of using the data provided in the BabyLM challenge, I opted for obtaining them from their sources, which added extra layers of filtering and complexity, revealing some discrepancies in the multimodal BabyLM data. I mention these in the paper.
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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Unfortunately, we had limited time and resources to modify the whole evaluation pipeline for our specific multimodal architecture. As a result, we tested our models on a subset of the benchmarks.
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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
The report on the Findings of the Third BabyLM Challenge indicates that the multimodal track received only 1 full submission this year. We submitted our paper to the workshop track instead of the challenge.
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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
We experiment with weighted linear interpolation of language-only and multimodal model weights. Model merging with language-only checkpoints helps alleviate the issue to some extent, benefiting performance in language-only benchmarks and not disrupting accuracy in multimodal tasks heavily.
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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
How can we mitigate this issue in developmentally plausible multimodal models and maintain language-only performance? We explored model merging, a technique that has been shown to benefit multi-task and multi-language models, reducing the effects of catastrophic forgetting.
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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Our multimodal BabyLM model surpasses previous multimodal baselines and submissions on the leaderboard. Yet, compared to language-only models, it underperforms in grammar-oriented benchmarks, although being exposed to the same language-only data as the language-only models (+ multimodal data).
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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Previous work, including BabyLM contributions, indicates that multimodal data has limited or no benefits in text-only benchmarks. We reach similar conclusions in our low-resource multimodal scenario.
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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
I felt very much at home at #ICCV2025! Here is the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2509.01453
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Traces of Image Memorability in Vision Encoders: Activations, Attention Distributions and Autoencoder Losses
Images vary in how memorable they are to humans. Inspired by findings from cognitive science and computer vision, this paper explores the correlates of image memorability in pretrained vision encoders...
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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
I will be presenting this work at the @iccv.bsky.social 2025 workshop MemVis: The 1st Workshop on Memory and Vision! 🌺 Work done with Albert Gatt & Jakub Dotlacil arxiv.org/abs/2509.01453
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Traces of Image Memorability in Vision Encoders: Activations, Attention Distributions and Autoencoder Losses
Images vary in how memorable they are to humans. Inspired by findings from cognitive science and computer vision, this paper explores the correlates of image memorability in pretrained vision encoders...
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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 · 13/10/2025
taking the NS train, I do that multiple times a week :)
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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Could it be the HPLT v3.0 multilingual dataset? list.elra.info/mailman3/hyp...
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Release of the massive HPLT v3.0 multilingual dataset - Corpora - ELRA lists
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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
Some amazing @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social people in Vienna💫#acl2025 Raquel Fernández Sandro Pezzelle Katia Shutova @esamghaleb.bsky.social @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social @annabavaresco.bsky.social + @leobertolazzi.bsky.social
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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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