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MaiNLP research lab at CIS, LMU Munich directed by Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social Natural Language Processing | Artificial Intelligence | Computational Linguistics | Human-centric NLP

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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We have bigger models. Bigger conferences. Have our questions become bigger, too? That was the question I posed in my Presidential Address at #ACL2026 in San Diego. (1/6)
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Georg Ahnert @ahnert.eurosky.social · 01/07/2026
Super excited to present our work at #ACL2026 ✨ 👉 LLM-based social simulations have lots of analytic flexibility—response generation methods are often overlooked 📍Tue July 7, 9am, Poster Session F
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Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I'm at #ACL2026 where I'll present work on comparing text- vs. speech-based classification performance on standard-language vs. dialectal data, finding different trends for different varieties! (Talk @ Harbor A, July 5, 14:20-14:30) [1/3]
"Standard-to-dialect transfer trends 
differ across text and speech:
 A case study on intent and topic 
classification in German dialects" by Verena Blaschke, Miriam Winkler & Barbara Plank
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Feliçia Körner @fkoerner.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I’m at #ACL2026NLP to present ltzGLUE, a GLUE-style benchmark for Luxembourgish. We also release ltz-E1, a ModernBERT-based encoder trained only on Luxembourgish. Come find me on 7/7!
Cartoon-style text advertising "ltzGLUE, Luxembourgish General Language Understanding Evaluation", by authors "Alistair Plum, Felicia Körner, Anne-Marie Lutgen, Laura Bernardy, Fred Philippy, Emilia Milano, Nils Rehlinger, Cédric Lothritz, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Barbara Plank, Christoph Purschke", presented at Poster Session G Grand Hall & Coronado 11-12:30 on 7/7
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Michael A. Hedderich @mhedderich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Excited for 5 papers at #ACL2026NLP with my group and with collaborators. 📍 You can find the work here: 🗓️ Sun. July 5 AfriqueLLM: How Data Mixing and Model Architecture Impact Continued Pre-training for African Languages Oral Session B: Multilinguality and Language Diversity 2
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Florian Eichin @florian-eichin.com · 29/06/2026
Want to learn more? Poster presentation at Tue, Jul 7, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:45 PM @ HALL A #3303 Also in the workshop on mechanistic interpretability, Fri, Jul 10, 2026 • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM @ HALL C Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.20076
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ExPLAIND: Unifying Model, Data, and Training Attribution to Study Model Behavior
Post-hoc interpretability methods typically attribute a model's behavior to its components, data, or training trajectory in isolation, and are often tied to a particular level of granularity along the...
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Florian Eichin @florian-eichin.com · 29/06/2026
𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆? In our ICML paper, we show that it might just be. ExPLAIND is a method that unifies data attribution, model component attribution, and training dynamics by computing an exact decomposition of model behavior based on gradient products.
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
MaiNLP will be at #ACL2026 with a number of talks & posters, plus the ACL presidential address! See you in San Diego 🌊
Overview of MaiNLP papers/talks at ACL 2026
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Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I'm happy to share that I successfully defended my PhD two days ago! Thank you very much to @barbaraplank.bsky.social & Hinrich Schütze for supervising me, to @dirkhovy.bsky.social for joining the committee, and to the many, many people who have been part of my PhD journey :)
Me in front of the opening slide of my defense talk ("Natural language processing for dialects and low-resource language varieties")Me receiving the PhD hat my colleagues crafted. Among other things, it includes a may pole, a cake, and a garland of flags
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Shanshan Xu @sxu3.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
🎉 Our paper “From 🔇 Noise to 📶 Signal to 🎯 Selbstzweck: Reframing Human Label” is accepted to Findings of ACL 2026! 👉 lnkd.in/eqDZkrBa ❤️ Huge thanks to my co-authors @santosh-tyss.bsky.social and @barbaraplank.bsky.social 🙏
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
MaiNLP will be at #LREC2026 to present multiple conference & workshop papers, as well as a workshop keynote! See you in Palma ☀️
List of MaiNLP presentations at LREC
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
MaiNLP is happy to be part of @eaclmeeting.bsky.social with several papers, talks, a panel, and a workshop ☀️ Looking forward to seeing you in Rabat! #EACL2026
MaiNLP talks/posters/events at EACL
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LoResLM 2026 @loreslm.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
We are honoured to welcome Prof Barbara Plank (@barbaraplank.bsky.social ) from @mainlp.bsky.social @cislmu.bsky.social, as our keynote speaker. LoResLM @eaclmeeting.bsky.social
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Pedro Henrique Luz de Araujo @pedrohluzaraujo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
📢 New paper accepted at @eaclmeeting.bsky.social 2026: Persistent Personas? Role-Playing, Instruction Following, and Safety in Extended Interactions with @mhedderich.bsky.social @amodarressi.bsky.social Hinrich Schuetze & Benjamin Roth. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2512.12775
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Principled Personas: Defining and Measuring the Intended Effects of Persona Prompting on Task Performance
Expert persona prompting -- assigning roles such as expert in math to language models -- is widely used for task improvement. However, prior work shows mixed results on its effectiveness, and does not...
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Raoyuan Zhao @raoyuan.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
In our new paper, "A Comprehensive Evaluation of Multilingual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Performance, Consistency, and Faithfulness Across Languages", we go beyond final-answer accuracy to analyze multilingual reasoning along three dimensions: performance, consistency, and faithfulness.
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Ryan Soh-Eun Shim @soheunshim.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
✨New paper✨ We find script (e.g. Cyrillic, Latin) to be a linear direction in the activation space of Whisper, enabling transliteration at test-time by adding such script directions to the activations — producing e.g. Cyrillic Japanese transcriptions.
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Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
VarDial 2026 will be colocated with @eaclmeeting.bsky.social! We're looking forward to your papers on NLP for similar languages, varieties and dialects :) Deadline: Dec 19 (Jan 2 for pre-reviewed ARR papers) sites.google.com/view/vardial...
VarDial @ EACL 2026, with important dates (see next post for text version). 
Photo CC-0.
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Group photo at NeurIPS 2025 San Diego
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Congrats to Pingjun, @beiduo.bsky.social , Siyao, Marie, and @barbaraplank.bsky.social for receiving the SAC Highlights reward!
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Congrats to our team member Diego Frassinelli on the SAC Highlights award!
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Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
At #Interspeech2025 I'm going to present Betthupferl, a dataset for German dialect ASR & dialect-to-standard speech translation! We analyze differences between dialectal & Standard German transcriptions, benchmark ASR models, and examine shortcomings of current ASR models & evaluation metrics.
Piper title ("A multi-dialectal dataset for German dialect ASR and dialect-to-standard speech translation") and a map of the German state Bavaria showing where the Franconian, Bavarian, and Alemannic dialect groups are spoken
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Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
UPDATE: Our poster presentation got moved to Tuesday, 16:00–17:30 (session 10)! #ACL2025NLP
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Unsure which presentations to attend at #ACL2025? 🛎️🗣️
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Headed to ACL? MaiNLP & our most recent work will be there too👥📄 Come see what we’ve been working on!
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Philipp Mondorf @pmondorf.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
📄 [ACL 2025 main] Circuit compositions: Exploring Modular Structures in Transformer-Based Language Models (doi.org/10.48550/arX...)
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Circuit Compositions: Exploring Modular Structures in Transformer-Based Language Models
A fundamental question in interpretability research is to what extent neural networks, particularly language models, implement reusable functions through subnetworks that can be composed to perform mo...
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Philipp Mondorf @pmondorf.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
📄 [ACL 2025 main] LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks (doi.org/10.48550/arX...)
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LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks
There is an increasing trend towards evaluating NLP models with LLMs instead of human judgments, raising questions about the validity of these evaluations, as well as their reproducibility in the case...
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Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
At #ACL2025NLP I'll present our analysis of the effect of linguistic similarity on cross-lingual transfer! We looked at how 10 similarity measures correlate w/ transfer results btwn 263 languages across 3 NLP tasks. Different similarity measures matter for diff. experiments (no one-size-fits-all)!
Correlations between transfer results per experiment (parsing, POS tagging, topic classification with different input representations) and similarity measures. The results vary a lot across experiments and measures – some are described in the next posts.
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Bolei Ma @boleima.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
🤔 Can LLMs read between the lines? Our another #ACL2025 paper surveys resources on how LLMs handle pragmatics like implicatures, deixis, and more. We map out a new landscape for both LLMs and linguistics in pragmatic research. 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2502.12378 🧠💬 #LLMs #Pragmatics
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Bolei Ma @boleima.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
🎉 Our paper “Algorithmic Fidelity of LLMs in Generating Synthetic German Public Opinions” is accepted at #ACL2025 main conference as an oral presentation! 🇩🇪🤖 We study how well LLMs simulate real survey responses using open-ended German data, showing the left-leaning bias.
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The future of AI literacy starts early! Our very own @fkoerner.bsky.social recently led a series of hands-on workshops teaching some of our youngest students yet 🌱🤖
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Michael A. Hedderich @mhedderich.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Looking forward to my visit to Hamburg University and their Data Science group!
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Michael A. Hedderich @mhedderich.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
What changes if you take the LLM prompt “Tell me a short story about Dr. Li” and replace “Dr. Li” with “Dr. Smith”? Would you have guessed that this introduces a massive gender bias, from ca. half/half to 99% male doctors? 

In our #ACL2025 paper we present the Spotlight framework which...
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Janet Liu ⛷️ @janetlauyeung.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
🦙 how well do LLMs encode discourse knowledge? does that generalize across languages? 🛎️ in our #ACL2025 paper, we uncover fascinating trends about multilingual discourse representations! joint work w/ @florian-eichin.com @barbaraplank.bsky.social @mhedderich.bsky.social 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2503.10515
to appear at ACL2025
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Caught some great moments at #MCML Munich AI Day 2025 last week📍 From sharp keynotes to poster debates. Our team had the chance to show some recent work, join the conversations, and bring back plenty of food for thought🧠🗣️📊
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Thanks for the invitation to the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) to give this year's Hermann-Paul-Center Lecture lnkd.in/d_wUeDfY I enjoyed the visit, the great audience, and the stay in this lovely city. Thank you #blackforest #freiburg #breisgau
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
My ACL 2024 keynote talk on "Are LLMs Narrowing Our Horizon? Let’s Embrace Variation in NLP!" is online now: underline.io/events/466/s... 2024.aclweb.org/program/keyn... It was a huge honor to me to give last year's flagship-in-NLP-conference keynote in Bangkok 🇹🇭
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Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Dei Boarisch heard ned bei "Servus" und "Pfiade" auf? Dann suach ma genau Di! Wir suachan Bairischsprecher:innen, de a kurze Umfrage über KI-generierds Boarisch für a Masterarbeit beantwortn mechadn. Mid jeder Teilnahme bring ma den boarischn Dialekt a Stickal weida in de digitale Weyd!
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Do you speak Bavarian? Then please consider helping in a thesis research project👇
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Florian Eichin @florian-eichin.com · 30/05/2025
Want to know if your prompting is also affected by this? Addressing this and other issues systematically, we proposed Spotlight, which utilizes data mining to uncover the effects of prompt- and model-changes (meet us at ACL to discuss) arxiv.org/abs/2504.15815
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What's the Difference? Supporting Users in Identifying the Effects of Prompt and Model Changes Through Token Patterns
Prompt engineering for large language models is challenging, as even small prompt perturbations or model changes can significantly impact the generated output texts. Existing evaluation methods, eithe...
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Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Bavarian dialect speakers needed! Our MSc student Miriam wants to find out 1. how good/bad LLM-generated "Bavarian" is, and 2. whether dialect speakers agree with each other on this. The survey takes <5 min: survey.ifkw.lmu.de/dialquali25/ Thank you for sharing/participating!
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Florian Eichin @florian-eichin.com · 28/05/2025
Proposing "kilometers cycled in 2 weeks" as a new success metric for research groups 🚴‍♀️📊🥇 @mainlp.bsky.social #stadtradeln
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Computational Linguistics Journal @complingjournal.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Researchers from Georgetown University, LMU Munich, Abo Akademi, and Indiana University present “eRST: A Signaled Graph Theory of Discourse Relations and Organization”. Read: direct.mit.edu/coli/article...
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
LeWiDi: Shared task on Learning With Disagreement Website: le-wi-di.github.io We'd like to invite researchers in disagreement & variation to participate in the third edition of the LeWidi shared tasks held in conjunction with the NLPerspectives workshop at EMNLP 2025 nlperspectives.di.unito.it
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LeWiDi 2025 - 3rd edition
This is the page of the Learning With Disagreements tasks
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Janet Liu ⛷️ @janetlauyeung.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🛎️ Excited to announce the 1st Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research at COLM 2025, Oct 10th in Montreal 🇨🇦 As LLMs reshape public discourse and research, collaboration between NLP and Public Opinion Research (POR) is more vital than ever #NLPOR Submit by June 23📄 🔗 tinyurl.com/nlpor25
Welcome to the First Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research, co-located with COLM 2025, October 10, 2025, Montreal, Canada.
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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Are you working with LLMs and survey data or generally care about high-quality data and reliable evaluation? Then this might be for you! Very excited to share the news about our upcoming COLM 2025 workshop #NLPOR Thanks for helping spread the word ☺️
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CIS, LMU Munich @cislmu.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🗨️ Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data 🔎 Keynote talk at WNUT @ NAACL 👥 @verenablaschke.bsky.social 📁 Workshop on noisy and user-generated text (May 3) The full workshop programme is here: noisy-text.github.io/2025/ bsky.app/profile/vere...
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Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
On my way to #NAACL2025 where I'll give a keynote at the noisy text workshop (WNUT), presenting some of the challenges & methods for dialect NLP + also discussing dialect speakers' perspectives! 🗨️ Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data 🗓️ Saturday, May 3, 9:30–10:30
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MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich @mainlp.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Reunion in Singapore!🇸🇬 @barbaraplank.bsky.social, @xinpeng.bsky.social, who's currently on a research stay at NYU, and Chengzhi are presenting their work at @iclr-conf.bsky.social
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