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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 1d

Could it be the HPLT v3.0 multilingual dataset? list.elra.info/mailman3/hyp...

Release of the massive HPLT v3.0 multilingual dataset - Corpora - ELRA lists

list.elra.info

Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 2d

Hi all, there is a postdoc position open in the group I'm currently based in! ✨ Let me know if you are interested or have questions 🙂 Please share if you know someone who might be interested www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Memory access in language

Help uncover how memory shapes language use. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Language Sciences, you will join the ERC-funded MEMLANG project.

www.uu.nl

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Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net · Aug 19

Had such a great time presenting our tutorial on Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models at #Interspeech2025! 🔍

For anyone looking for an introduction to the topic, we've now uploaded all materials to the website: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter...

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Aug 3

Some amazing @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social people in Vienna💫#acl2025 Raquel Fernández Sandro Pezzelle Katia Shutova @esamghaleb.bsky.social @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social @annabavaresco.bsky.social + @leobertolazzi.bsky.social

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Aug 3

with @duyguislakoglu.bsky.social and Ozge Alacam at the ACL 2025 social event✨ #acl2025

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Aug 1

CoNLL audience today ✨ @conll-conf.bsky.social

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Jul 27

together with some Utrecht NLP people at ACL 2025! #acl2025 #acl2025NLP

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Jul 24

I'll be attending ACL 2025 in Vienna! Looking forward to seeing people there!😊🇦🇹 We are going to present 'LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks' aclanthology.org/2025.acl-sho... #acl2025 #acl2025nlp

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Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net · Jun 13

The @interspeech.bsky.social early registration deadline is coming up in a few days!

Want to learn how to analyze the inner workings of speech processing models? 🔍 Check out the programme for our tutorial:
interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter... & sign up through the conference registration form!

Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models — Tutorial @ Interspeech 2025

interpretingdl.github.io

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Jun 10

Abstract submission deadline extended to June 29!

Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Mar 20

Abstract submissions for the 1st Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting is now open! cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht

Universiteit Utrecht

cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · May 16

@melaniemitchell.bsky.social giving a talk at UvA! @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · May 1

CMCL will take place on May 3! Unfortunately, I am not in New Mexico, but I will be online! We have a nice selection of papers, and keynote talks by John Hale and Tessa Verhoef @naaclmeeting.bsky.social
@grambelli.bsky.social
@byungdoh.bsky.social & Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Philipp Wicke, Jixing Li

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Mar 20

Abstract submissions for the 1st Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting is now open! cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht

Universiteit Utrecht

cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

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Arianna Bisazza @arianna-bis.bsky.social · Apr 4

The PhD call is out! Apply by 24 April here:

www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Mar 20

See cpl2025.sites.uu.nl for details!

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht

Universiteit Utrecht

cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Mar 20

Keynote Speakers: Stefan Frank (Radboud University), Vera Demberg (Saarland University)

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Mar 20

It aims to connect researchers using (neuro-)symbolic, Bayesian, deep-learning, connectionist, and mechanistic models (e.g., ACT-R) in studying human language production, perception, and processing

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Mar 20

Abstract submissions for the 1st Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting is now open! cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht

Universiteit Utrecht

cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Mar 15

We are looking for emergency reviewers for the CMCL workshop! Send me a message if you would like to volunteer! @cmclworkshop.bsky.social @naaclmeeting.bsky.social

CMCL Workshop (@cmclworkshop.bsky.social)

Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics http://cmclorg.github.io/

cmclworkshop.bsky.social

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CoNLL 2025 @conll-conf.bsky.social · Mar 4

🚨 Guest Speaker Alert! 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce that #CoNLL2025 will feature: 🥁

Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam)
&
Jean-Rémi King (@jeanremiking.bsky.social, CNRS / Meta AI)!
🎤✨

Check out their awesome work!👇

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Rens Bod @rensbod.bsky.social · Mar 4

Almost all Dutch universities will go on strike next week, against the budget cuts. Join us!

10 March: Leiden
11 March: Utrecht
13 March: Nijmegen
17 March: Amsterdam
18 March: Groningen
25 March: Twente
8 April: Rotterdam
10 April: Tilburg
14 April: Wageningen
15 April: Maastricht

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Feb 1

It was very nice seeing @aicoffeebreak.bsky.social again after many years😊 She gave a wonderful keynote at the Railway Museum in Utrecht, as part of the National Conference on AI Transformations!💫

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Ayca Takmaz @aycatakmaz.bsky.social · Jan 16

I will be giving a talk on open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding at the next ZurichCV meetup!

🗓️ Date: Thursday, January 23rd 18:00 CET

📍Location: @ETH_AI_Center, please see zurichai.ch/events/zurichcv-7 for additional details!

ZurichCV #7 | ZurichAI

Ayca Takmaz on open-vocabulary 3D scene understanding.

zurichai.ch

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Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social · Jan 2

Felix Hill was such an incredible mentor — and occasional cold water swimming partner — to me. He's a huge part of why I joined DeepMind and how I've come to approach research. Even a month later, it's still hard to believe he's gone.

Felix Hill and some other DMers and I after cold water swimming at Parliament Hill Lido a few years ago

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Dec 10

Today celebrating Dr. @jumelet.bsky.social who successfully defended his PhD thesis! 🥳👨‍🎓It was great witnessing his amazing research trajectory. Lucky to have had such a friendly and inspirational colleague!✨📸

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