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

With my ACL PC abilities, I wanted to characterize who these folks are, whether they're actually "outsiders", whether their papers are much less likely to be accepted, is this growth just LLM slop? The whole analsis is here medium.com/@jurgens_245...

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Is the ACL Rolling Review actually broken?

ARR is broken! ARR is being overwhelmed with papers from outsiders! LLM-generated slop is ruining our peer review! There are not enough…

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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

At this year's ACL business meeting, it was wonderful to see so many attendees - a sign that this community cares. As president, I wanted to use the occasion to give some insights into ACL - the premier organization for computational linguistics, founded in 1962. (1/5)

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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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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Not attending ACL in person? Follow along via my new NLP feed! It should match all mentions of #ACL2026, #EMNLP2026, #COLM2026, #NLProc, #NLP, and more.

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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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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 ☀️

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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

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n8rob.bsky.social @n8rob.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Interested in developing LLMs that work for dialectal Arabic? Introducing the AMIYA shared task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent, just accepted to VarDial 2026. Please consider submitting and joining us in Morocco if you do! sites.google.com/view/vardial...

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VarDial 2026 - Shared Tasks

AMIYA (عامية) Shared Task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent The AMIYA shared task will offer a chance for researchers to demonstrate innovations and improvements in language modeling of dialectal Arabic...

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NLPnorth @nlpnorth.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

📄DistaLs: A Comprehensive Collection of Language Distance Measures 👥 Rob van der Goot, Esther Ploeger, @verenablaschke.bsky.social Tanja Samardžic 🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-d... 🎯A convenient toolkit for obtaining distance measures across languages ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSk9...

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Pranav A @pranav-nlp.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

We're surveying researchers about name changes in academic publishing. If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc. forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP

We're investigating how publishers handle name changes and the barriers scholars face. If you've changed your name (or are considering it) and dealt with updating your academic publications, we want to hear from you.

Researchers who have changed their name for any reason, such as gender transition, marriage, divorce, immigration, cultural reasons, or citation formatting issues. Whether you've successfully updated your work, are currently trying, or decided not to because of barriers, your opinion matters.

Your input will help us advocate for better, more inclusive policies in academic publishing. It takes around 5-10 minutes to complete.

Survey Link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP

Please share with anyone who might benefit.

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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).
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Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Moin! I'm on my way to Hamburg to meet the @ds-hamburg.bsky.social group and give a talk about dialect NLP! ⚓

Slide: "Dialect NLP: How (and why) to process non-standard language varieties"

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Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

#Interspeech2025 had a science fair today with lots of interactive speech tech demos, not just for conference attendees but also/especially for curious laypeople! The demos were fun, and I like the idea of combining a conference w/ a bit of scicomm for the local public

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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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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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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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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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Queer in AI @queerinai.com · 04/05/2025

The first archival *CL Queer in AI workshop will kick off in about 15 min! Join us in-person if you're at NAACL or virtually 💜 We will have presentations from our amazing contributors and invited speakers. Read on for more details 🧵

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Vinodkumar Prabhakaran @vinodkpg.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Happening now at #NAACL2025 in room Pecos. Kicking off with amazing talks and a panel by Monojit Choudhury, Isabelle Augenstein, and Katia Shutova

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Manuel Mager (Turatemai) @pywirrarika.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Happening now at @americasnlp.bsky.social 2025. Telegram in Aymara and how to translate tech terminology. #NAACL2025

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Alan Ramponi @alanramponi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

📣 Join us tomorrow May 3rd for the 10th Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text #W-NUT at #NAACL2025 (📍 Room Navajo/Nambe)! The workshop features 16 paper presentations and 2 exciting keynote talks by @verenablaschke.bsky.social and Su Lin Blodgett (titles+abstracts below)! #NLProc #NAACL 👇

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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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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Are you attending NAACL 2025 and are you interested in low-resource languages and dialects? Then don't miss our very own @verenablaschke.bsky.social's keynote talk at the WNUT 2025 workshop on May 3rd: Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data 🌐 ☀️ noisy-text.github.io/2025/

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