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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anyone going to #EMNLP2026? Please consider helping us understand how people use machine translation tools when abroad! (and if you can't, please share!)

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Ehud Reiter @ehudreiter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Going to EMNLP 2026 in Budapest? We are looking for 20-30 EMNLP attendees to help us understand how you handle language barriers during a conference trip. Contact Yujun Wang: y.wang2.25@abdn.ac.uk @weizhaonlp.bsky.social, @markar.bsky.social, Pinzhen Chen, Yujun Wang

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SFU AI @sfu-cs-ai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy to see these papers accepted #Neurips2026 🎊 🎊 🎊 Please come and find us at the conference! More details & links in 🧵

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SFU AI @sfu-cs-ai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

EMNLP 2026 is coming up soon and we will be there! See you in Budapest 🇭🇺 Oct 24–29 #EMNLP2026 Check out our work!

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to join our lab in Fall 2027, through either Computer Science or Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for people with interests in NLP plus [healthcare | literary studies | narratives | social media | etc.]. Join us! 🏔️☀️

cls-lab.com

CLS Lab — Culture, Language, & Systems | University of Colorado Boulder

The Culture, Language, & Systems Lab at CU Boulder studies the language systems that transmit and shape modern culture, from internet platforms to literary archives to language models.

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

still high, but better than allowing for 40+ per person, not sure how (who) will the shared first authorship be checked....

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ACL 2027 @aclmeeting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

ACL Sustainable Reviewing Policy: We are introducing changes in the @ReviewAcl reviewing and submissions. The changes will cap authors and introduce changes in the reviewing to keep our community sustainable. #NLProc #NLP

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My first PhD student (Weidong Zhang, yet to come to blsky) brought us new lab's gadgets and sweets 😍😍😍😍 I'm so happy! Thank you 🥰

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NAACL @naaclmeeting.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

🌉NAACL 2027 will be June 1-5 in San Francisco, CA!🌉 ARR submission deadline: Oct. 12, 2026

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

seems iclr is actually doing just that this year

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Agree though I think a lot of students don't know either. I would think these may just be first authors for whom this is like 1st--2nd submission

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Regular reminder that we have an alt-ARR slack workspace where ACs and SACs can support each other through the sometimes confusing process of the ARR cycle! Post or DM me a good email address for a Slack invitation and I will add you. #EMNLP2026

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

this checkbox at #arr really seems like a get-out-of-jail-free card; if we really need to allow for lang edits, why not require the reviewers to submit their pre-GPTed draft along with the edited one? 😭😭😭

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I've been getting tired of people arguing they 'only translated' or 'lightly edited' their reviews/papers #ARR so I decided to check whether that's really detected as 100% AI by @pangram.com ... Spoiler alert, it's not: marzenakarpinska.substack.com/p/no-ai-tran...

marzenakarpinska.substack.com

No, AI translations are NOT detected as AI generated text

And small language edits give low AI likelihood as well..

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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Text as Data is happening at Berkeley right before COLM. Please share!

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Absolutely! And it actually worked in 99% of cases, the reviewers either upgraded the scores or were clear about what else they wanted... I hope whoever is our AC/SAC can do the same T-T

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

my husband looked at my screen, saw ARR and asked if it's a pirate conference 😅

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David Jurgens @davidjurgens.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Peer review was one of the most-discussed topics at #ACL2026 . Many folks were concerned about the incredible growth in the number of ARR submissions (17K for the May26 ARR cycle 😱), and even more shocked that ~40% didn't have any authors qualified to review. What is going on?? I did some digging...

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

hot take: don’t even use it for polishing your reviews. as an AC and SAC, the last thing i care about is your grammar, spelling, or formatting. i get the presentation issues with papers, where you might face reviewers’ language biases, but you really don’t need to worry about this for reviews.

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

funniest part is that the one i saw looked like bullet points copy-pasted from whichever-ai-tool. there was no space precisely where the bullet points changed but the person said they used ai proofreading, how come proofreading does not catch "no space" issues?

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It's a great policy but for me ACL* conferences are often the best fit. This is also community build and I want to believe we as a community can change this for better...

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I wish it was but the form even allow people to say they used AI for review. Of course the idea is something like "proofreading" but I see 100% AI reviews. I could try pointing them out but will be likely told they just use it for edits. If there is 0 AI policy it would be easier.

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Please 🙏 AI detectors are not that bad, if something sounds AI and @pangram alike say it's 100% AI it is not just using a model to polish and it can get sloppy. Even if the author meant well they can miss something model misrepresented.

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I think I will be posting this after each #ARR cycle: Please 🥺🙏 let's prohibit AI review writing. Otherwise, we will get lazy reviewers claiming they wrote bullet points and used AI only to put that in prose.

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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

ACL 2027 will be in Kyoto, Japan 🇯🇵 🤩

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

5 years later MTurk is on its way out. A lot has improved in open-ended gen eval, but it still suffers from underreporting, lack of statistical analysis, and sometimes sloppy design. Perhaps authors should always do their own tasks to understand the implications of how they designed evals.

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A great lesson learned from #ACL2026 test of time award winner: sometimes it just takes time for people to appreciate your work

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is really insightful, thank you for sharing!

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

That is actually a valid concern, but I also think we are already doing 'honorary authorships' (sadly) if people are submitting 40+ papers -- no way to even read that

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

In the spirit of #paperoverflow looking for emergency reviewers: - aspect-based summarization - hallucination detection - evaluation invariance - evaluation, evaluation bias - fine-grained evaluation for some, the reviewers filled in delay but became unresponsive later HELP, this house is on fire 🔥

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

that's a nice way of looking at it!

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I agree about stricter DRs, but I naively hope we can keep 3 reviewers... :/

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Yes, the current solution is to require at least 1 author per paper to contribute (either as a reviewer, AC, or SAC). This means that if no authors are qualified, you can't submit. A bit hard to balance openness with being under paper attack, I guess...

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This is great! I wonder what the acceptance rate will be for the papers with no qualified reviewers.

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Yes, that's precisely what was suggested.

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Only 17% of May #ARR authors are qualified for reviewing, and almost 40% of papers have no qualified people?!?!

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Spotted by @jennarussell.bsky.social at #ACL2026 A sober reminder to check the output when using Claude et al to generate your presentation. Context, the user likely prompted for 8 min long presentation since that was the limit. The model, just added this silly "8 minutes" to all slides.

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Maite Taboada @mtaboada.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

For the last few months, I've been working with my new colleague at SFU @markar.bsky.social, students @yvesfrtl.bsky.social, @adampodoxin.bsky.social, Ty Brassington, and Roman Grundkiewicz of Microsoft, trying to understand the quality of machine translation for literary texts. ...

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Excited to share this. @neel2112.bsky.social, @mariaa.bsky.social, and I analyzed 500K anonymous ChatGPT convos (shared w/ consent from WildChat) to see if people were generating fiction. We found tons of stories, fanfiction & erotica. Many users iterated on the same stories for days and weeks.

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AI FICTION IN THE WILD Neel Gupta Maria Antoniak Melanie Walsh

Some professional authors are beginning to use AI tools to help produce their fiction writing. Are readers using AI to generate fiction, too? Drawing on over 500,000 anonymized, English-language ChatGPT-user conversations (Zhao et al.), we find that more than one third of the conversations involve some form of fiction generation—including original stories, roleplay, fanfiction, and erotica. This AI-generated fiction is notably dominated by power users. We identify common fiction generation patterns and profiles among these users, including what we call infinite story demanders, who repeatedly request and revise variations of the same or similar narratives over extended periods of time. We show that users especially gravitate toward fanfiction and erotica, and that they are broadly drawn to generic forms, repetition, immediacy, and niche combinations of story elements. Our findings motivate two theoretical provocations. First, we argue that AI technologies may lead to a shift in the conventional relationship between the author and reader, potentially producing what we call a solipsistic reader-writer, who both generates and consumes fiction within a closed conversational loop, interacting with a machine rather than a human other. Second, we note that LLMs enable interactivity, play, and permutation in ways that are seemingly pleasurable for users, raising questions about where AI will fit into contemporary storytelling and entertainment ecosystems. We situate these developments within broader transformations in literature and media, including self-publishing, fanfiction, and pornography, and suggest that AI-generated fiction shares structural affinities with on-demand, personalized, and repetitive cultural forms.

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angryinch.bsky.social @angryinch.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It's invaluable in good literature to have someone who has actual, lived experience and a deep cultural and historical understanding of the literature performing the translation @jricole.bsky.social translation of the Rubaiyat is a great example. Omar's words ring out with truth and subtle humor.

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A lot of people focus on AI-written fiction, but what about AI literary translation? 📚 We find that AI translation can be readable.. ‼️BUT it also flattens characters' voices 🧙and is less immersive 🫣 than published human translations. Below is my favorite quote from a reader 📖 lait.cs.sfu.ca

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yvesfrtl.bsky.social @yvesfrtl.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

📚 AI-written stories get attention, but AI-translated literature is quietly shaping how readers experience the author So what gets lost ⁉️ 🤖 AI translation into English is readable and often ‘fine’ ✍️ But human translation is valued more ‼️Both vary in quality BUT AI more, even within a single book

First page of the paper "AI translation of literary texts is ‘fine’, but readers still prefer human translations".

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Slop-eds are on the rise and seem to remain undisclosed. Please check out update to our audit of AI in news: ainewsaudit.github.io This work will be presented next week at #ACL2026 (Sunday 4:00-5:30 oral session)

ainewsaudit.github.io

AI News Audit - Search Articles

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Jenna Russell @jennarussell.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

AI NEWS UPDATE We've added 200k+ recent news articles and 5k op-eds from Oct 2025 - June 2026. Local news is up to ~10.81% AI-generated.

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

One more thing @tuhinchakr.bsky.social 's post reminded me of... people tend to rationalize and see things not there. We saw it already in GPT-2 stories - we *expect* things to *mean* something, so we tend to see things that are not there... (link to this old paper: aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-m...)

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Marzena Karpinska @markar.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

this is how massive illusion of 'creativity' gets crushed... please read it to understand why models may appear to produce coherent text but are in fact Frankenstein factory ...

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

"Load bearing," "I keep coming back to," "Not just X, but Y" A curse of using AI a lot is that you realize how much of the writing around you is just AI, now People who don't use AI have historically been unable to identify AI prose on sight, but those who use it a lot can spot the tells easily

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SFU AI @sfu-cs-ai.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We were happy to be part of the B.C. AI Research-to-Adoption Summit last week co-hosted by @sfu.ca School of Computing Science and @science.ubc.ca 🎊🎊🎊 It was great to see this event so well attended!

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