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LAGoM NLP

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We are the Leuven AI Group of Multilingual NLP (LAGoM NLP), a research lab at the department of Computer Science at KU Leuven, led by @mdlhx

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LAGoM NLP @lagom-nlp.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
July has been a good month: * Our ACL paper about Wikipedia quality was awarded an SAC highlight (aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon...) * @colemanhaley.bsky.social joined our lab as a postdoc * Coleman's CoNLL paper about impossible languages won the best paper award (aclanthology.org/2026.conll-m...)
SAC highlight award from ACL 2026 in San Diego for our paper "How Good is Your Wikipedia? Auditing Data Quality for Low-resource and Multilingual NLP"
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LAGoM NLP @lagom-nlp.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This Sunday at 5pm at #ACL2026 in the multilingual session, Kushal Tatariya and Artur Kulmizev will present our work on auditing the quality of Wikipedia for low-resource NLP, see the paper here: aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon...
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How Good is Your Wikipedia? Auditing Data Quality for Low-resource and Multilingual NLP
Kushal Tatariya, Artur Kulmizev, Wessel Poelman, Esther Ploeger, Marcel Bollmann, Johannes Bjerva, Jiaming Luo, Heather Lent, Miryam de Lhoneux. Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Associati...
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ir. Thomas Bauwens @bauwenst.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
BPE-knockout just got outperformed by an algorithm that modifies BPE tokenisers in a feedback loop to make them absorb more and more constraints. It doesn't even need more data to do that. It uses the tokeniser itself as a dataset. 🧵
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LAGoM NLP @lagom-nlp.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
LAGoM will present several papers at #EACL2026 in Rabat next week! Our work at this year’s conference spans tokenisation, multilingual evaluation, and model design.
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Wessel Poelman @wpoelman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
New EACL paper (with @mdlhx.bsky.social)! We tested if comparing perplexity of parallel data across languages is fair. Turns out: it depends. We show the choice of test set (even with consistent meaning) can flip conclusions about which language is easier to model. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2601.10580
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Form and Meaning in Intrinsic Multilingual Evaluations
Intrinsic evaluation metrics for conditional language models, such as perplexity or bits-per-character, are widely used in both mono- and multilingual settings. These metrics are rather straightforwar...
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LAGoM NLP @lagom-nlp.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
When is a language hard to model? Previous research has suggested that morphological complexity both does and does not play a role, but it does so by relating the performance of language models to corpus statistics of words or subword tokens in isolation.
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LAGoM NLP @lagom-nlp.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Our group has two papers at #acl2025: * (Main) GRaMPa: Subword Regularisation by Skewing Uniform Segmentation Distributions with an Efficient Path-counting Markov Model by Thomas Bauwens, David Kaczér and @mdlhx.bsky.social, presented by Thomas. URL: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...
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GRaMPa: Subword Regularisation by Skewing Uniform Segmentation Distributions with an Efficient Path-counting Markov Model
Thomas Bauwens, David Kaczér, Miryam De Lhoneux. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 2025.
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Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands @clin35-2025.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The submission deadline for #CLIN35 has been extended by one week! New deadline: June 20th. 🔊 Spread the word! More info: clin35.ccl.kuleuven.be/call-for-abs...
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CLIN35 - Call for Abstracts
We invite submissions for CLIN35, the 35th edition of the Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) conference, which will take place in Leuven on September 12th, 2025. Abstracts describing ...
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Miryam de Lhoneux @mdlhx.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Reminder, a few more days to apply!
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Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands @clin35-2025.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
📅 Don't forget! The deadline for submitting your abstract to the #CLIN conference in Leuven is coming: 13th of June! Submitting is easy: name, title of your work, 500-word abstract, done! #nlp #nlproc #compling #llm #ai #dutch clin35.ccl.kuleuven.be
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CLIN35
Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands (CLIN) is a yearly conference on computational linguistics. Each year the conference is organized by a different institution in the Dutch-speaking region. ...
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LAGoM NLP @lagom-nlp.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We are hiring in #nlproc!!
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Marcel Bollmann @marcel.bollmann.me · 13/12/2024
I’m looking for a postdoc, to start ideally ASAP! The work would be in the EU-funded TrustLLM project, focusing on modularisation and language adaptation of LLMs, tokenization, and evaluation benchmarks for multilingual LLMs. The position would be full-time for 2 years with no teaching obligation.
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LAGoM NLP @lagom-nlp.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
@wpoelman.bsky.social and @mdlhx.bsky.social 's 🔥 hot takes on multilingual LLM evaluation, to appear @nodalida.bsky.social is up on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2412.08392
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The Roles of English in Evaluating Multilingual Language Models
Multilingual natural language processing is getting increased attention, with numerous models, benchmarks, and methods being released for many languages. English is often used in multilingual evaluati...
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🚨 New Account Alert! This is the official account of the *MilaNLP group*. We had to recreate it because it was not indexed. If you were following us before, please follow us again. If not, now’s the perfect time to start!
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Juan Diego Rodriguez @juand-r.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
There's too many starter packs. 👇 Here's a list, mostly for NLP, ML, and related areas.
go.bsky.app
NLP grad students
Join the conversation
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LAGoM NLP @lagom-nlp.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Our work on quality estimation of non-English Wikipedia articles is on arXiv! 🎉 arxiv.org/abs/2411.055... By Kushal Tatariya, Artur Kulmizev, Wessel Poelman, @estherploeger.bsky.social, @bollmann.me, Johannes Bjerva, Jiaming Luo, Heather Lent and @mdlhx.bsky.social ✨
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How Good is Your Wikipedia?
Wikipedia's perceived high quality and broad language coverage have established it as a fundamental resource in multilingual NLP. In the context of low-resource languages, however, these quality assum...
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LAGoM NLP @lagom-nlp.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We're slowly growing, tell your friends!! #nlp
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LAGoM NLP @lagom-nlp.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Thanks for the shoutout to our pixology work 🤩🤩
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LAGoM NLP @lagom-nlp.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
The NLP labs starter pack is here! go.bsky.app/LKGekew Let us know if you want to be added!
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LAGoM NLP @lagom-nlp.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Our team at #EMNLP2024 this week!
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LAGoM NLP @lagom-nlp.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Our EMNLP papers are out on the arXiv! 2 main conference papers, about pixology: arxiv.org/abs/2410.12011, about typological diversity: arxiv.org/abs/2402.04222 and one workshop paper about zero-shot pos tagging: arxiv.org/abs/2410.10576. Looking forward to connecting in Miami!
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Pixology: Probing the Linguistic and Visual Capabilities of Pixel-based Language Models
Pixel-based language models have emerged as a compelling alternative to subword-based language modelling, particularly because they can represent virtually any script. PIXEL, a canonical example of su...
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LAGoM NLP @lagom-nlp.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
We have a new logo 🤩
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LAGoM NLP @lagom-nlp.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
New #NLProc paper on ArXiv by E. Ploeger, W. Poelman, M. de Lhoneux and J. Bjerva! More and more papers in NLP claim to evaluate on ‘typologically diverse’ languages. But what does this even mean? We systematically investigate such claims. arxiv.org/abs/2402.04222
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LAGoM NLP @lagom-nlp.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
New paper: 'Sociolinguistically Informed Interpretability: A Case Study on Hinglish Emotion Classification' t.co/MpOmz4uUsd Kushal will present it at SIGTYP @ EACL 2024! #NLProc
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LAGoM NLP @lagom-nlp.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
Hello bluesky! We have a website and a bsky account, therefore we exist! (We are also in the bad place but will try to always post on here first)
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