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@kathaem.bsky.social
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Computational Linguistics / Multilingual Language Models Into SciFi, choir, cats (incomplete list of interests) they/them

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 02/09/2026
It really is this simple. Don't watch.
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Jindřich Libovický @jlibovicky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Very happy to share that Adnan Al Ali's first big PhD project has been accepted to #EMNLP2026! 🎉 Joint work with @kathaem.bsky.social, me & Alex Fraser. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2608.03446 What predicts multilingual LLM performance in a language? 🧵
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Predicting Multilingual Classification and Translation Performance of LLMs with Cross-Lingual Alignment -- Is English Enough?
Multilingual large language models (LLMs) have been shown to perform better on non-English classification tasks when the representations of the given language are more aligned to English within the mo...
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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · 26/03/2026
How Important is ‘Perfect’ English for Machine Translation Prompts? by @patuchen.bsky.social, @niyatibafna.bsky.social, @sethjsa.bsky.social , @gianlucavico.bsky.social ,W. Kamzela, @kathaem.bsky.social & @zouharvi.bsky.social aclanthology.org/2026.finding... TL;DR: Prompt errors < prompt choice
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This is indeed delightful, thanks for posting! Their channel seems to have whole albums' worth of similar songs but not sure if any of the others have subtitles or dancing 💃
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
@aclanthology.org not sure where to report, but in the last few months I've often had issues with long loading times/timeouts on aclanthology.org. It's particularly bad today---maybe related to the upcoming ARR deadline?
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Idk about "primarily" mate
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
You mean the most popular *US* politicians on this list
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Personally, sleeping more and vitamin D in the winter. ...sorry, not much of a baker
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
@aclrollingreview.bsky.social Why is the reviewing window (still) so short this cycle? Wasn't the cycle extended to ten weeks specifically to make the process more manageable? Wasn't it three weeks in past cycles? Instead reviewers don't even get two full weeks to handle 4+ submissions.
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Tokenization Workshop (TokShop) @COLM2026 @tokshop.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
TokShop @ #ICML2025 got way more submissions than expected! 📈 We could really use a few more reviewers to help out. If you have the capacity to review a #tokenization paper by Saturday, please fill out this form: forms.gle/32A6sQHQrMSb... 🙏
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TokShop 2025
Registering interest in all things tokenization at TokShop @ ICML 2025 (July 18) Consider joining the Google group for future updates! https://groups.google.com/g/tokshop
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Tokenization Workshop (TokShop) @COLM2026 @tokshop.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Beyond text: Modern AI tokenizes images too! Vision models split photos into patches, treating each 16x16 pixel square as a "token." 🖼️➡️🔤 #VisualTokenization Interested in tokenization? Join our workshop tokenization-workshop.github.io The submission deadline is already May 30!
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I'll be presenting this paper in Gather Town (Session 1) in a few hours 🎊 Come along!
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This is a fantastic oral history of the last 10 years of NLP and AI. www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...
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When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History | Quanta Magazine
Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer.
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
As a second language English speaker this also confused me for so long. Eventually I decided it must be from the phrase "having cake" which also means eating the cake
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Just spent two days in Göttingen at #HumanCLAIM workshop! Re-presented my poster on surveying methods for cross-lingual representation alignment, got a city tour, heard cool talks and had interesting conversations 💬💭
Me posing with my poster
The tour guide standing next to a statue of Professor Lichtenberg.A slide of the vocabulary learning algorithm "SaGe"
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Oh very nice to see a paper for this intuition, and the data could be very useful! Adding to the reading list 👀
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Alignability is more predictive of cross-lingual transfer than divergence of literal token distributions, particularly for language pairs with disparate scripts.
Figure 1: Eflomal score (bottom), a measure of token alignability, predicts downstream transfer performance better than the previous metric of distributional token
overlap (top). The difference is especially stark for language pairs with different scripts (•), compared to language pairs with the same script (×). The orange line shows the linear fit across all included pairs.
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Basically we argue that token overlap measures for predicting multilingual performance are too literal, and introduce the notion of **token alignability**, which can be measured via the scores of a statistical aligner over a corpus tokenised with a given tokenised.
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Happy to say that our paper "Beyond Literal Token Overlap: Token Alignability for Multilinguality" will be presented at #NAACL2025! This is work with @tomlim.bsky.social, @jlibovicky.bsky.social, and Alex Fraser. arxiv.org/abs/2502.06468 #newpaper #NLP #NLProc
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Beyond Literal Token Overlap: Token Alignability for Multilinguality
Previous work has considered token overlap, or even similarity of token distributions, as predictors for multilinguality and cross-lingual knowledge transfer in language models. However, these very li...
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Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal.mff.cuni.cz · 27/02/2025
Following the MT Marathon, we're hosting a hackathon in Prague. Researchers and students from five institutions (+1 online) are working together to assess how robust #LLMs are to grammar errors in machine translation and related tasks. Thanks to EAMT for their support.
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
@queerinai.com Hi, I was invited to review for the workshop the other day but the email is not clear on when reviews will be due. This info will be important to decide if I'm able to serve; can you share the deadlines? Thanks!
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Gotta say I'm not sure what pronunciation "luh-BOEV" is referring to but in my head it sounds like French beef
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Germany. a) ground floor b) first floor. This matches how we count in German but the German terms basically treat the "upper floors" separately from the "ground floor"
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Betsy Sneller @betsysneller.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Bill Labov died this morning. I'm not coherent enough to talk about how important and influential and brilliant he was. I am very sad. I was so lucky to know him, and I am grateful every day that he (and Gillian, and Walt, etc) built an academic field where kindness is expected.
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
To add to the reviewing complaints 😅 Why do authors so often respond with an absolute wall of text? (Biggest response I got this time was four comments long.) As a reviewer, I find this very tough to engage with in the short discussion period, and as an author, I try to be concise in my responses.
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
5k is a small town, honestly 😂
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Just wanted to say a quick thank you for organising a lovely social! 🎊🌈
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Right now the app is being very laggy though?
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Kathy @kathaem.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Today I finally deactivated my Twitter account (not that I'd been super active there but hey) and decided to check out Bluesky. Looks like there's already a LOT of people here!
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