Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouDavid Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Text as Data is happening at Berkeley right before COLM. Please share! 03014
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouUMD Language Science Center @umd-lsc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Hear from Julia Mendelsohn at our upcoming hybrid Language and Conflict Panel, hosted by the LSC, Baha'i Chair for World Peace, and College of Behavioral & Social Sciences 🗣️ Visit go.umd.edu/lcpanel to register and learn more. 062
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouDan Goldstein @dggoldst.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Attention NYC undergrads: Applications are open for our 13th annual Data Science Summer school at Microsoft Research NYC! Apply here by April 14th: bit.ly/3pCQENh 058
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouHal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Come join TRAILS as a postdoc at UMD (and work w folks at GW, MSU & Cornell) to conduct research and scholarship focused on approaches to AI that advance trust and trustworthiness with a great group of colleagues! 🌐 go.umd.edu/trails-postd... 🗓️ Summer/Fall 2026 startgo.umd.eduTRAILS UMD Post Doctoral Associate Job Description - Spring 2026Post Doctoral Associate Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society February 2026 The Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS) and the University of Maryland aim to transform the pr... 076
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouAnjalie Field @anjalief.bsky.social · 18/12/2025The next edition of the NLP+CSS will be at ACL 2026! It includes an open-ended shared task (work with the Opioid Industry Documents Archive) with travel grants as prizes! 0166
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouJoel Mire @joelmire.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Reading social media stories evokes a wide range of contextual reader reactions—inferential, affective, evaluative—yet we lack methods to study these at scale. Excited to share our new paper that builds a framework for analyzing storytelling practices across online communities! 1217
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouHanna Wallach @hannawallach.bsky.social · 01/12/2025I'm super excited about the 20th @wimlworkshop.bsky.social, which is taking place tomorrow in San Diego, co-located with @neuripsconf.bsky.social!!! 🎉 To celebrate, @jennwv.bsky.social and I recorded a podcast episode! Check it out here: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...microsoft.comIdeas: Community building, machine learning, and the future of AIAs the Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML) marks its 20th annual gathering, cofounders, friends, and collaborators Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach reflect on WiML’s evolution, navigating ... 0167
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouHal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 21/11/2025AIM's 2nd round of TTK hiring - building up to 30 - is up! 📅 Ddl 12/22/25 🔬 Accessibility & Learning, plus Sustainability & Social Justice 🧑🏫 Associate/Full Prof* 🔗 umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j... *Assistant-level candidates: apply to departments, mentioning AIM in a cover letterumd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comSenior Tenure Track Faculty at the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM) - Associate Professor/Professor (Open Rank Joint Appointment)Job Description Summary Organization Summary Statement: The Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland - AIM (aim.umd.edu) - is hiring 40 faculty over the next several years, incl... 0139
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouJenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Spread the word! 📢 The FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) group at @msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC is hiring interns and postdocs to start in summer 2026! 🎉 Apply by *December 15* for full consideration. 15128
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouManoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 25/10/2025The debate over “LLMs as annotators” feels familiar: excitement, backlash, and anxiety about bad science. My take in a new blogpost is that LLMs don’t break measurement; they expose how fragile it already was. doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/labeling-d...doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyzLabeling Data with Language Models: Trick or Treat?Large language models are now labeling data for us. 1204
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouSunnie S. Y. Kim ☀️ @sunniesuhyoung.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Our Responsible AI team at Apple is looking for spring/summer 2026 PhD research interns! Please apply at jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail... and email rai-internship@group.apple.com. Do not send extra info (e.g., CV), just drop us a line so we can find your application in the central pool!jobs.apple.comMachine Learning / AI Internships - Jobs - Careers at AppleApply for a Machine Learning / AI Internships job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you. 23111
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouMarine Carpuat @marinecarpuat.bsky.social · 18/06/2025What should Machine Translation research look like in the age of multilingual LLMs? Here’s one answer from researchers across NLP/MT, Translation Studies, and HCI. "An Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Machine Translation" arxiv.org/abs/2506.13468arxiv.orgAn Interdisciplinary Approach to Human-Centered Machine TranslationMachine Translation (MT) tools are widely used today, often in contexts where professional translators are not present. Despite progress in MT technology, a gap persists between system development and... 1187
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouSarah Wiegreffe @sarah-nlp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025A bit late to announce, but I’m excited to share that I'll be starting as an assistant professor at UMD CS @univofmaryland.bsky.social this August. I'll be recruiting PhD students this upcoming cycle for fall 2026. (And if you're a UMD grad student, sign up for my fall seminar!) 13653
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouChau Minh Pham @chautmpham.bsky.social · 03/06/2025🤔 What if you gave an LLM thousands of random human-written paragraphs and told it to write something new -- while copying 90% of its output from those texts? 🧟 You get what we call a Frankentext! 💡 Frankentexts are surprisingly coherent and tough for AI detectors to flag. 1369
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouVered Shwartz @veredshwartz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025I guess that now that I have 1% of my Twitter followers follow me here 😅, I should announce it here too for those of you no longer checking Twitter: my nonfiction book, "Lost in Automatic Translation" is coming out this July: lostinautomatictranslation.com. I'm very excited to share it with you! 17615
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouDayeon (Zoey) Ki @dayeonki.bsky.social · 21/05/20251/ How can a monolingual English speaker 🇺🇸 decide if an automatic French translation 🇫🇷 is good enough to be shared? Introducing ❓AskQE❓, an #LLM-based Question Generation + Answering framework that detects critical MT errors and provides actionable feedback 🗣️ #ACL2025 112
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouLingjun Zhao @lingjunz.bsky.social · 20/05/2025We introduce a super simple yet effective strategy to improve video-language alignment (+18%): add hallucination correction in your training objective👌 Excited to share our accepted paper at ACL: Can Hallucination Correction Improve Video-language Alignment? Link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.15079 173
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouJenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Please help us spread the word! 📣 FATE is hiring a pre-doc research assistant! We're looking for candidates who will have completed their bachelor's degree (or equivalent) by summer 2025 and want to advance their research skills before applying to PhD programs. 03828
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouLucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social · 05/05/2025I'm joining Wisconsin CS as an assistant professor in fall 2026!! There, I'll continue working on language models, computational social science, & responsible AI. 🌲🧀🚣🏻♀️ Apply to be my PhD student! Before then, I'll postdoc for a year in the NLP group at another UW 🏔️ in the Pacific Northwest 1614514
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouKartik @kartik-ravisankar.bsky.social · 18/04/2025🔈 NEW PAPER 🔈 Excited to share my paper that analyzes the effect of cross-lingual alignment on multilingual performance Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.09378 🧵arxiv.orgCan you map it to English? The Role of Cross-Lingual Alignment in Multilingual Performance of LLMsLarge language models (LLMs) pre-trained predominantly on English text exhibit surprising multilingual capabilities, yet the mechanisms driving cross-lingual generalization remain poorly understood. T... 102
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouDayeon (Zoey) Ki @dayeonki.bsky.social · 17/04/2025🚨 New Paper 🚨 1/ We often assume that well-written text is easier to translate ✏️ But can #LLMs automatically rewrite inputs to improve machine translation? 🌍 Here’s what we found 🧵 184
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouConference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 20/03/2025A bit of a mess around the conflict of COLM with the ARR (and to lesser degree ICML) reviews release. We feel this is creating a lot of pressure and uncertainty. So, we are pushing our deadlines: Abstracts due March 22 AoE (+48hr) Full papers due March 28 AoE (+24hr) Plz RT 🙏 33631
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouLynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Nice modern NLP (Ai) intro talk slides isabelleaugenstein.github.io/slides/2025_... Isabelle Augensteinisabelleaugenstein.github.io 1145
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouNishant Balepur @nbalepur.bsky.social · 11/03/2025🚨 Our team at UMD is looking for participants to study how #LLM agent plans can help you answer complex questions 💰 $1 per question 🏆 Top-3 fastest + most accurate win $50 ⏳ Questions take ~3 min => $20/hr+ Click here to sign up (please join, reposts appreciated 🙏): preferences.umiacs.umd.edu 023
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouAlexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Our FATE MTL team has been working on a series of projects on anthropomorphic AI systems for which we recently put out a few pre-prints I’m excited about. While working on these we tried to think carefully not only about key research questions but also how we study and write about these systems 3242
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouMohit Iyyer @miyyer.bsky.social · 05/03/2025New synthetic benchmark for multilingual long-context LLMs! Surprisingly, English and Chinese are not the top-performing languages (it's Polish!). We also observe a widening gap between high and low-resource languages as context size increases. Check out the paper for more 👇 041
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouNishant Balepur @nbalepur.bsky.social · 24/02/2025🚨 New Position Paper 🚨 Multiple choice evals for LLMs are simple and popular, but we know they are awful 😬 We complain they're full of errors, saturated, and test nothing meaningful, so why do we still use them? 🫠 Here's why MCQA evals are broken, and how to fix them 🧵 24612
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouChau Minh Pham @chautmpham.bsky.social · 21/02/2025⚠️Current methods for generating instruction-following data fall short for long-range reasoning tasks like narrative claim verification. We present CLIPPER ✂️, a compression-based pipeline that produces grounded instructions for ~$0.5 each, 34x cheaper than human annotations. 1218
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouJulia Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn2.bsky.social · 20/02/2025New preprint! Metaphors shape how people understand politics, but measuring them (& their real-world effects) is hard. We develop a new method to measure metaphor & use it to study dehumanizing metaphor in 400K immigration tweets Link: bit.ly/4i3PGm3 #NLP #NLProc #polisky #polcom #compsocialsci 🐦🐦 618264
Reposted by Yu (Hope) Houtomgoldstein.bsky.social @tomgoldstein.bsky.social · 10/02/2025New open source reasoning model! Huginn-3.5B reasons implicitly in latent space 🧠 Unlike O1 and R1, latent reasoning doesn’t need special chain-of-thought training data, and doesn't produce extra CoT tokens at test time. We trained on 800B tokens 👇 1124
Yu (Hope) Hou @houyu0930.bsky.social · 23/01/2025I have learned a lot in this project! If you are interested in how NLI can be used in VLMs to complement its representation, check it out! 020
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouHyoJung Han @hjhan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Accepted at #ICLR2025✨ 🧐Which languages benefit the most from vocabulary adaptation? We introduce VocADT, a new vocabulary adaptation method with a vocabulary adapter. We explore the impact of various adaptation strategies on languages with diverse scripts and fragmentation to answer this question 271
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouConference on Language Modeling @colmweb.org · 13/01/2025We are looking for volunteers for reviewing and AC roles! Please sign up here: forms.gle/rZp67YvMn1hn...forms.gleCOLM 2025 Program Committee Volunteer FormThis form is to volunteer to serve on the COLM 2025 (https://colmweb.org/) program committee as a reviewer or an area chair. 099
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouTransactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 08/01/2025🎉Announcing... the 2024 TMLR Outstanding Certifications! (aka, our "best paper" awards!) Are you bursting with anticipation to see what they are? Check out this blog post, and read down-thread!! 🎉🧵👇 1/n medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ann...medium.comAnnouncing the 2024 TMLR Outstanding CertificationBy the 2024 TMLR Outstanding Paper Committee: Michael Bowling, Brian Kingsbury, Andreas Kirsch, Yingzhen Li, and Eleni Triantafillou 1207
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouAlexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social · 05/12/2024📣 📣 Interested in an internship on human-centred AI, human agency, AI evaluation & the impacts of AI systems? Our team/FATE MLT (Su Lin Blodgett, @qveraliao.bsky.social & I) is looking for a few summer interns 🎉 Apply by Jan 10 for full consideration: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... 02210
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouMaria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Reminder that we are looking for papers using LLMs for humanities research, for a special issue of the Computational Humanities Research Journal. Deadline January 31st! #NLP #DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalyticscambridge.orgExpanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities ResearchCall for Papers: Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research. 510558
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Is your #FAccT2025 paper draft accessible? This is important for both peer review and camera ready publications. Check out this guide from CHI with tips for both Word and LaTeX users! sigchi.org/resources/gu...sigchi.orgAccessibility guide for authorsAccessible submissions are essential to make your work readable by the greatest number of readers. This includes taking steps as you author your document, and making your submitted PDF accessible. 084
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouHal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 09/12/2024The Impact of Explanations on Fairness in Human-AI Decision-Making: Protected vs Proxy Features Despite hopes that explanations improve fairness, we see that when biases are hidden behind proxy features, explanations may not help. Navita Goyal, Connor Baumler +al IUI’24 hal3.name/docs/daume23... > 1216
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouHal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 10/12/2024starter pack for the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing group at the University of Maryland - get all your NLP and data science here! go.bsky.app/V9qWjEi 12912
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouHal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Successfully Guiding Humans with Imperfect Instructions by Highlighting Potential Errors and Suggesting Corrections When generating instructions for people, we can help them by highlighting potential confabs, AND by suggesting alternatives. by Lingjun Zhao EMNLP’24 hal3.name/docs/daume24... > 192
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouHal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 27/11/2024ASL STEM Wiki: Dataset and Benchmark for Interpreting STEM Articles We develop a continuous signing dataset for ASL on a STEM subset of Wikipedia; challenges suggest problems related to fingerspelling detection, sign linking, & translation. by Kayo Yin et al EMNLP’24 hal3.name/docs/daume24... > 183
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouHal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Toxicity Detection is NOT all you Need: Measuring the Gaps to Supporting Volunteer Content Moderators Much work aims to help moderators by automation; much focusing on toxicity. Turns out that’s a small part of what volunteer mods want. by Yang Trista Cao +al EMNLP’24 hal3.name/docs/daume24... > 13110
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouHal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 25/11/2024In an effort to play a small part in creating additional value on this site, I'm going to post one-per-day a paper we wrote that was published in 2024. Together with memes. Skipping holidays/weekends. In random order. Would love your thoughts on them. I'll keep them threaded for easy finding! > 1888
Reposted by Yu (Hope) HouHal Daumé III @haldaume3.bsky.social · 13/11/2024The AI Interdisciplinary Institute at the University of Maryland (AIM) is hiring 40 new faculty members in all areas of AI, particularly: - accessibility, - sustainability, - social justice, and - learning; building on computational, humanistic, or social scientific approaches to AI. > 16419
