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Maria Valentini

@mvalentini.bsky.social
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computer science/cognitive science PhD student @ CU Boulder • computational psycholinguistics, NLP for education, AI ethics

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Maria Valentini @mvalentini.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Excited to be presenting our new paper at #CogSci2026 this coming week, which asks: Does Contextual Informativeness Predict Preschoolers’ Word Learning from Stories? I will be in poster session 3 on Friday evening. Full paper will be published in proceedings at the conclusion of the conference! :)
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Boulder NLP @bouldernlp.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Congratulations to @mginn.bsky.social, @covetedfish.bsky.social, Ali Marashian, @mvalentini.bsky.social, @alexispalmer.bsky.social & friends for receiving an Outstanding Paper award at #ACL2026 for the paper "Massively Multilingual Joint Segmentation and Glossing". aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon...
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Massively Multilingual Joint Segmentation and Glossing
Michael Ginn, Lindia Tjuatja, Enora Rice, Ali Marashian, Maria Valentini, Jasmine Xu, Graham Neubig, Alexis Palmer. Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguist...
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michael ginn @mginn.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Excited to announce that the PolyGloss paper has been accepted to @aclmeeting.bsky.social! Previously, we trained models to help in endangered language documentation workflows by automatically predicting interlinear glosses. But real-world user studies revealed crucial issues...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/06/2025
This is the third story I've read in a month about how AI chatbots are leading people into psychological crises. Gift link
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They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I don’t really have the energy for politics right now. So I will observe without comment: Executive Order 14110 was revoked (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence)
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Maria Valentini @mvalentini.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Excited to be presenting my work with @teaywright.bsky.social at #COLING2025 next week in Abu Dhabi! Find us in poster session 6/E on Jan 22nd (11 AM in the atrium). Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.17427
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Measuring Contextual Informativeness in Child-Directed Text
To address an important gap in creating children's stories for vocabulary enrichment, we investigate the automatic evaluation of how well stories convey the semantics of target vocabulary words, a tas...
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
1. Can you stop companies from training generative AI using your data? No, not currently. 2. Is this dataset meant for training generative AI? 🤷‍♀️ but more likely for research and statistical analysis. 3. Is it ok to duplicate and distribute people’s data without agency to opt out? I’d argue no.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/11/2024
So many people, CS researchers included, think that you can explore how an LLM works by simply asking it to tell you what it is doing or "thinking". Here @jennhu.bsky.social provides an excellent illustration of how that approach fails even at the most basic level.
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