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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I've written extensive feedback on this most recent edition of CogSci, and I hope that in the future the Society will adopt a greater sensitivity when making decisions about location, space, and lunch provision ! 🙌⁣ ⁣ Hope to see you all next year in Bilbao!

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Unfortunately, I'm left feeling quite disappointed and disheartened by the organization of the conference, for a number of reasons related to the venue and what I saw as its failure to be socially inclusive.

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Thank you so much to everyone who attended and for the questions you asked me, they remain valuable food for thought for the next steps of my research.⁣ ⁣

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I had the opportunity to present the second main paper of my thesis, "𝘐𝘴 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥-𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘖𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨? 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘣 𝘔𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘤𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯."

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'm back from Brazil!⁣ ⁣ Pictures from my first 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗦𝗰𝗶 conference, held in late July in Rio de Janeiro.⁣ ⁣

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This week we are in Rio 🌴 🦜🩴, Brazil 🇧🇷 for CogSci 😍 @frap98.bsky.social will present on a computational study of verb meaning acquisition in children co-authors: @jumelet.bsky.social @yevgenm.bsky.social @arianna-bis.bsky.social 🏛️ Session T.04 🗓️ July 24, 10:45 @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

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Kanishka Misra @kanishka.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Excited that our paper on minimal translation pairs for ASL was recognized with a best paper award at the Workshop on Generative AI for Sign Language @ CVPR 2026! Congrats to my co-authors @skarabuklu.bsky.social, Shester, Diane, Greg, and Karen! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.27232

Certificate for best paper award from Generative AI for Sign Language workshop!

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The goal of this project is to make the technical workings, as well as the perks and perils, of Large Language Models more accessible, and to raise awareness around their use.⁣

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

In this short auxiliary paper, Malvina Nissim and I present a puzzle on Generative AI systems, born from her brilliant idea and made possible thanks to the involvement of sketch artist 𝗠𝗮𝗮𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗷𝗲𝘀, who created all the graphic content.

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Maaike Hartjes – Maaike Hartjes – illustrator, cartoonist en striptekenaar

Maaike Hartjes – illustrator, cartoonist en striptekenaar

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CoNLL 2026 @conll-conf.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Big questions!

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Stay tuned for more updates, and viva TabuDAG :)

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We're looking for enthusiastic native-speaker annotators who would like to get their hands dirty with Universal Dependencies relations and the syntactic structures typical of developmental and conversational language data. If that sounds like something you'd be interested in, feel free to reach out!

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Next week, I'll be in Nijmegen for the first edition of the 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴, organized by Stefan Frank, where I'll be presenting our ongoing efforts toward multilingual annotation and parsing.

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I also had the chance to present our 𝗖𝗔𝗜𝗧 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗶𝘁 🪁 (arxiv.org/abs/2605.19718) to the conference participants for the first time, and to share some of the work we're currently doing to extend Universal Dependencies annotations to the Dutch portion of CHILDES.

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CAIT: A Syntactic Parsing Toolkit for Child-Adult InTeractions

CHILDES is a paramount resource for language acquisition studies -- yet computational tools for analyzing its syntactic structure remain limited. Leveraging the recent release of the UD-English-CHILDE...

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Last week, the 46th edition of 𝗧𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗗𝗔𝗚 took place, the long-standing linguistics conference organized by the Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG) at the @rug.nl. This year, I had the pleasure of being part of the organizing committee!

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

We also demonstrate the practical utility of CAIT through a case study :) This show how valuable this tool is for empirical studies of language development that rely on large-scale syntactic analysis. Check out the pre-print at: arxiv.org/abs/2605.19718

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CAIT: A Syntactic Parsing Toolkit for Child-Adult InTeractions

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

In the paper, accepted at CONLL 🎊, we have conducted an in-depth error analysis, comparing CAIT annotations with those of the off the-shelf English Stanza parser, highlighting systematic differences in dependency predictions and the structural biases introduced by general-purpose parsers.

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Interested in analyzing 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱-𝗔𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 with computational tools? Then the 𝗖𝗔𝗜𝗧 𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗶𝘁 🪁 (pronounced [kaIt]) might be just what you’re looking for! It includes a brand-new i𝗻-𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗿, 𝗣𝗢𝗦 𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿, and 𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿.

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Kanishka Misra @kanishka.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Announcing a new version of our 2024 paper on linguistic hypothesis generation from LMs! @najoung.bsky.social and I have systematized our hypothesis generation framework, added stringent criteria for model selection, 10x-ed our learning trials, and included an epigraph from Jeff Elman 🙏!

Title page for the paper “A systematic framework for generating novel experimental hypotheses from language models”, with an epigraph from Jeff Elman describing how Rumelhart and McClelland (1982) did hypothesis generation with their connectionist network, and a figure describing our pipeline.

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

We will soon publish the pre-print!

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

See you in Brazil! I’m really looking forward to discussing the results and possible extensions of this work with all of you.🤗

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I’m very happy to share that my latest paper on the 𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠, tested on models trained under CDL data vs ADL data , has been accepted for an 𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 at the upcoming edition of 𝐂𝐨𝐠𝐒𝐜𝐢, which will take place at the end of July in Rio de Janeiro.💃

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

and the Polifonia project (lnkd.in/eaUyUBk), it examines how Generative AI can be used to augment the curation of structured data while addressing problems where standard approaches struggle with highly specialised humanities knowledge.

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

💬Description: The talk explores the intersection of semantic technologies and historical research within the context of initiatives like the Listening Experience Database (LED) (lnkd.in/efCzWwgQ)

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

📈Join us for the CDH Guest Lecture - Enrico Daga: Humanities Knowledge Graphs: opportunities and challenges with gen-AI 📅Date: March 4th, 2026 ⏰Time: 11:00-12:30 🏫Location: Turft06 (Turftorenstraat, room 06)

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TABU Dag @tabudag.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The call is open! All researchers in linguistics and related fields and research projects are welcome to join and submit an abstract. Abstracts can be submitted through this link until March 16th 2026. For more information, check out the submission instructions on the TABU Dag website tabudag.nl

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Are you based in Groningen and want to help us evaluate the Generative AI puzzle? 🍫 We are looking for participants of every age between 16 and 60 years old. 📊 Contact us and we will deliver the puzzle and cards to you in person :)

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Abdellah Fourtassi @fourtassi.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Thrilled to announce the 1st Workshop on Computational Developmental Linguistics (CDL) at ACL 2026 🎉 A new venue at the intersection of development linguistics × modern NLP, spearheaded by @fredashi.bsky.social @marstin.bsky.social, and and outstanding team of colleagues! A thread 🧵

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

We can’t wait to welcome you, over the coming months we’ll be gradually revealing more information about the amazing keynote speakers who will be presenting at the Academiegebouw next summer 🤫. Stay tuned! 🤗

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

⁣ This year I’m part of the organizing team, and I’m incredibly excited to work on and plan this historic event for the linguistics community in Groningen and across Northern Europe.⁣

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

We are thrilled to officially announce the dates of the 46th edition of 𝗧𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗗𝗔𝗚! Save the date for 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟭–𝟭𝟮 💫⁣

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Tommaso Caselli @tommasoc80.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

📣 I'm hiring 📣 Post-doc position at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social as part of @rug.nl CIT Innovation Fun "A3i – Artificial Intelligence Innovation Identifier" Full call is available here: lnkd.in/esdQ7YGD 📅 Application deadline: Jan. 15 2026

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

👀 Look what 🎅 has broght just before Christmas 🎁: a brand new Research Master in Natural Language Processing at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu... Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)

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Natural Language Processing

How do you build Large Language Models? How do humans experience Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications in their daily lives? And how can we...

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Stefan Frank @stefanfrank.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The Multilingual Minds & Machines Meetings call for abstracts is now open! Everything you need to know is here -> mmmm2026.github.io

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

It was wonderful to continue our personal and professional exchange outside the walls of the department and with other colleagues! Thanks for stopping by :)

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Then at our weekly @gronlp.bsky.social Reading Group she talked about “𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐡?”, which is also part of an ongoing research project. 📊

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Marianne presented her work on “𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧-𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬” at the monthly edition of the Linguistic Lunch I organize in our CLCG department.

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a fantastic friend and researcher, @mdhk.net , who came to visit us in Groningen for a couple of days from Amsterdam! 🎉

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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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Morten H. Christiansen @mh-christiansen.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

📣 Save the date 🗓️ to present your exciting statistical learning research at the 6th Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference June 10-12 2026 in San Sebastián 🇪🇸 Keynotes by @jennysaffran.bsky.social @noranewcombe.bsky.social @pyoudeyer.bsky.social More info to follow #IASL26

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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...

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Arianna Bisazza @arianna-bis.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Interested in developmentally plausible LMs, and the role of child-directed language data? Come to our poster TODAY (Fr 7 Nov, 10.30-12.00) #EMNLP!

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Arianna Bisazza @arianna-bis.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Thrilled to be heading to Suzhou with a big team of GroNLP'ers 🐮 Interested in Interpretable, Cognitively inspired, Low-resource LMs? Don't miss our posters & talks #EMNLP2025!

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bastian bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

...ii) a direct quality reward from a teacher model, and iii) a reward based on the log probabilities of a teacher model (and its dialogue continuations). While these rewards did not improve our models performance, two different DPO approaches did!

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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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