The world’s largest NLP conference with almost 2,000 papers presented, ACL 2025 just took place in Vienna! 🎓✨ Here is a quick snapshot of the event via a short interview with one of the authors whose work caught my attention.
🎥 Watch: youtu.be/GBISWggsQOA

I am honored to receive the 2025 #GSCL Best Thesis Award at #KONVENS in Hildesheim for my Master’s thesis, which investigates multilinguality and develops language models for Ancient Greek and Latin. Thank you to my mentors and collaborators. I look forward to what comes next.

Looking at Bruegel's Tower of Babel in Vienna makes you wonder: How can multilingual language models overcome the language barriers? Find out tomorrow!
📍 Level 1 (ironic, right?), Room 1.15-1
🕐 2 PM
#ACL2025NLP

How and when do multilingual LMs achieve cross-lingual generalization during pre-training? And why do later, supposedly more advanced checkpoints, lose some language identification abilities in the process? Our #ACL2025 paper investigates.

Debates aren’t always black and white—opposing sides often share common ground. These partial agreements are key for meaningful compromises
Presenting “Perspectivized Stance Vectors” (PSVs) — an interpretable method to identify nuanced (dis)agreements

📜 arxiv.org/abs/2502.09644
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What did Aristotle actually write? We think we know, but reality is messy. As ancient Greek texts traveled through 2,500 years of history, they were copied and recopied countless times, accumulating subtle errors with each generation. Our new #NAACL2025 paper tackles this fascinating challenge.