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Boulder NLP @bouldernlp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Boulder NLP is heading to COLM with new work on human-chatbot interaction, translationese, and data mixing for pretraining. See you in San Francisco! 🌉 🚋 🍞

A list of papers to be presented by Boulder NLP and University of Colorado Boulder students at COLM 2026.

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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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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 So I will observe without comment: Executive Order 14110 was revoked (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence)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

We focus on automatically evaluating contextual informativeness relative to multiple target words in child-directed text, with implications for improving the automatic generation of educational stories for early childhood vocabulary intervention. Can’t wait to share, and learn about others’ work :)

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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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