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Dirk Hovy @dirkhovy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Bocconi arranged for an interview with a student (Milek Anilkumar) on studying in the age of AI. It was a lot of fun, and could have easily been 4x longer. TLDR: still worth it… www.youtube.com/watch?v=kclp...

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15 Minutes Break | AI Knows Everything. So Why Study?

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#TBT #NLProc 'Classist Tools: Social Class Correlates with Performance in NLP' by Curry et al. (2024) finds NLP tools perform worse on lower-SES speech - higher perplexity, more ASR errors, dialect flagged as "wrong" by grammar checkers. arxiv.org/pdf/2403.04445

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What if AI systems weren’t chatbots? 💬 @elisabassignana.bsky.social sparked a lively discussion at our reading group with Ghosh et al.’s FAccT paper (2026). Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #NLProc #NLPEthics #AIEthics

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#MemoryModay #NLProc Countering Hateful and Offensive Speech Online - Open Challenges" (Flor Miriam Plaza-Del-Arco, @deboranozza.bsky.social, et al. 2024) presented a tutorial on the challenges and solutions for detecting and mitigating hate speech online. aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-t...

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Countering Hateful and Offensive Speech Online - Open Challenges

Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Debora Nozza, Marco Guerini, Jeffrey Sorensen, Marcos Zampieri. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Tutorial Abstracts.…

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#TBT #NLProc 'Welcome to the Modern World of Pronouns: Identity-Inclusive Natural Language Processing beyond Gender' by Anne Lauscher, Archie Crowley, Dirk Hovy (2022) discusses non-binary representation in tech and NLP's pronouns issue. aclanthology.org/2022.coling-...

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Welcome to the Modern World of Pronouns: Identity-Inclusive Natural Language Processing beyond Gender

Anne Lauscher, Archie Crowley, Dirk Hovy. Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 2022.

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For last week's @milanlp.bsky.social seminar, we had the pleasure to host Hongyu Chen. She presented her upcoming EMNLP paper "Contrast Comes at a Cost: Prompting Large Language Models for Perception-Centered Gendered Style Transfer". #NLProc

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We're excited to welcome Maite Heredia to our lab! 👋 She will be visiting us for the upcoming months. She works on developing resources and evaluating models for code-switching and non-standard language varieties. #NLProc

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Dirk Hovy @dirkhovy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just arrived in lovely León. Tomorrow I’ll give a keynote at SEPLN, the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing, on some of the most interesting problems ahead for NLP. But first: architecture and tapas! sepln2026.org/cuadro-de-po...

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Ponentes principales – XLII Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural – SEPLN 2026

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For today's reading group, @deboranozza.bsky.social presented "LLMs as Oracles: Reliance on LLMs for Subjective Personal Questions" by @myra.bsky.social et al. (2026) Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2609.14849 #NLProc

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Arianna Muti @arimuti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’d like to share my experience with TACL: a process estimated at 35 business days took 6 months. We emailed 10 times for updates and received no reply. We also couldn’t present at EMNLP because of a deadline that was never communicated to us. What an experience. 🫠

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Arianna Muti @arimuti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Our TACL paper "Let Guidelines Guide You: A Prescriptive Guideline-Centered Data Annotation Methodology" is finally out, only six months after acceptance! 😅🎉 direct.mit.edu/tacl/article...

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

👋 We’re delighted to welcome @celianri.bsky.social, who’ll be visiting our lab over the next few months! Her research explores moderation practices on Reddit, combining social-graph signals with NLP to predict moderation outcomes. Great to have you with us, Célia!

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#MemoryModay #NLProc 'SocioProbe: What, When, and Where Language Models Learn about Sociodemographics' - Lauscher et al. delve into language models' grasp of sociodemographics. Their findings? Models learn, but don't apply it. aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-m...

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SocioProbe: What, When, and Where Language Models Learn about Sociodemographics

Anne Lauscher, Federico Bianchi, Samuel R. Bowman, Dirk Hovy. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2022.

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#MemoryModay #NLProc #AI #MachineLearning #SafetyFirst 'Safety-Tuned LLaMAs: Improving LLMs Safety' by Bianchi et al. explores training LLMs for safe refusals, warns of over-tuning. arxiv.org/pdf/2309.07875

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We're back with the reading group! Today Lorena Calvo-Bartolomé presented "The Alternative Annotator Test for LLM-as-a-Judge: How to Statistically Justify Replacing Human Annotators with LLMs" Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon... #NLProc #LLMasajudge

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#TBT #NLProc 'Understanding Political Discourse on Twitter through Election Manifestos' Maurer et al. (2024) present a method for predicting party positioning from tweets aclanthology.org/2024.finding...

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We are back with #TBT #NLProc Best Paper at NeurIPS D&B 2024: Hanna Rose Kirk, @paul-rottger.bsky.social et al. introduce 'The PRISM Alignment Dataset' arxiv.org/pdf/2404.16019

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Debora Nozza @deboranozza.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Very happy that #IC2S22027 will be in Milan at Università Bocconi! I’m really looking forward to welcoming the computational social science community to my university and to Milan, and excited to be part of the team organizing it. See you in 2027! 🇮🇹✨

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It was a pleasure to host @radamihalcea.bsky.social at our weekly lab seminar. Thank you for the inspiring talk and thought-provoking discussion on the importance of the long tail in NLP. We really enjoyed the conversation!

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

#TBT #NLProc "Narratives at Conflict" by Sinelnik and @dirkhovy.bsky.social looks at hidden tactics of disinformation campaigns! They analyzed 8,000 news articles across 4 languages to reveal how disinformation campaigns adapt narratives for different audiences. 🕵️‍♀️ aclanthology.org/2024.acl-srw...

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Narratives at Conflict: Computational Analysis of News Framing in Multilingual Disinformation Campaigns

Antonina Sinelnik, Dirk Hovy. Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop). 2024.

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Arianna Muti @arimuti.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Detecting and explaining implicit misogyny, especially in Italian, is still challenging. Also, if you are looking for a truly implicit misogynistic dataset, here's one! 🚀

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

For today's reading group, @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social presented "Old Habits Die Hard: How Conversational History Geometrically Traps LLMs" by Simhi et al. (2026) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.03308 #NLProc

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Dirk Hovy @dirkhovy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Great question. Yes, this should be possible, and we are currently experimenting with this as well in a project. Happy to follow up once we have indications. Feel free to DM

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Dirk Hovy @dirkhovy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Could not be prouder of @zeerak.bsky.social for this accomplishment: from first paper ever (based on an MSc thesis) to 10-year ToT award. We could not have anticipated the lasting impact of this paper, but it's a great honor – and a wonderful story for any student/advisor team (see Zee's thread).

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🧠🤖 It was a pleasure to host @andreadevarda.bsky.social for his talk, "Large Language Models as Models of Human Language(s) and Higher-Level Cognition." A truly inspiring talk! #NLProc

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🏆 Congrats to @zeerak.bsky.social and @dirkhovy.bsky.social on the 2016 Test of Time Award! 🎉 "Hateful Symbols or Hateful People? Predictive Features for Hate Speech Detection on Twitter" has shaped research on #hatespeech! Paper: aclanthology.org/N16-2013/ #NLProc

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

For our last reading group, @pranav-nlp.bsky.social presented "Enhancing University Curricula with Integrated AI Ethics Education: A Comprehensive Approach" by Deb et al. (2025) Link: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #AIEthics #NLProc

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Debora Nozza @deboranozza.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Very happy to have given my first keynote at an #NLProc related conference! This morning at CORIA-TALN 2026 in Nantes, I talked about emerging risks and research directions around the everyday use of LLMs. coria-taln-2026.ls2n.fr/conferences-...

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

For today's reading group, @esradonmez.bsky.social presented "RLHF May Not Reflect Genuine Preferences" by Ghafouri et al. (2026). Interesting thoughts on whether annotations are actually real preferences! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.03238 #NLProc #RLHF

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

For today's reading group, @marlutz.bsky.social presented "State media control influences large language models" by Waight et al. (2026) Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #NLProc

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Dirk Hovy @dirkhovy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

It's likely getting worse before it gets better. 5 deadlines mean lots of pressure on both ends. One radical idea: limit to 2 ARR submissions & conferences a year + abolish the short paper. That eases the pressure off everyone to always send, and gives more time for longer, more thoughtful papers.

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We were honored to welcome Giulia Barbareschi to our lab for an inspiring conversation on inclusive technology and what NLP should learn from it. Thank you for sharing your insights and vision! #InclusiveTech #Accessibility #NLProc

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

For today's reading group, Urs Zaberer presented "Toward universal steering and monitoring of AI models" by Beaglehole et al. (2026) Paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #NLProc

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

#MemoryMonday #NLProc Uma, A. N. et al. examine AI model training in 'Learning from Disagreement: A Survey'. Disagreement-handling methods' performance is shaped by evaluation methods & dataset traits. www.jair.org/index.php/ja...

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Dirk Hovy @dirkhovy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

On the heels of a fantastic Dagstuhl seminar on Social Intelligence in AI (thx, @jennhu.bsky.social, @maartensap.bsky.social, @tomerullman.bsky.social, & Lucie Flek), a callback to how we thought about this 5 years ago.

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