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Yash Kumar Lal ✈️ #NAACL2025 @ykl7.bsky.social · May 16

#EMNLP2025 submission deadline in 3 days!

EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · May 10

🚨 2nd CFP for #EMNLP2025 is out!

Introducing:
✅ New submission topics
🎯 A theme track on Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP
📜 Policies to penalize low-quality reviews & reward high-quality ones, with @aclrollingreview.bsky.social

📝 CFP: 2025.emnlp.org/calls/main_c...
Deadline is 5/19!!

Call for Main Conference Papers

Official website for the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2025.emnlp.org

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Pegah پگاه @itspegah.bsky.social · May 16

Our paper "Misattribution Matters: Quantifying Unfairness in Authorship Attribution" got accepted to #ACL2025!
@niranjanb.bsky.social @ajayp95.bsky.social

Arxiv link coming hopefully soon!

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Niranjan @niranjanb.bsky.social · Apr 29

I'll do the advisory advertising: @ykl7.bsky.social‬ is a fantastic researcher and is passionate about being in academia. He has this amazing ability to simply get things done! Happy to say more in a letter or over a chat but if you are going to @naaclmeeting.bsky.social (#NAACL2025) ping him.

Yash Kumar Lal ✈️ #NAACL2025 @ykl7.bsky.social · Apr 29

I'm headed to #NAACL2025 ✈️ in Albuquerque 🏜️Looking for postdoc positions in the US, so if you're hiring (or know someone who is), let's chat at the conference! Also organizing #WNU2025 so make sure to swing by the workshop on May 4

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Yash Kumar Lal ✈️ #NAACL2025 @ykl7.bsky.social · Apr 29

I'm headed to #NAACL2025 ✈️ in Albuquerque 🏜️Looking for postdoc positions in the US, so if you're hiring (or know someone who is), let's chat at the conference! Also organizing #WNU2025 so make sure to swing by the workshop on May 4

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Feb 15

Heads up for anyone who missed this: ARR has moved to 5 cycles per year and the EMNLP deadline will be in May.

Yash Kumar Lal ✈️ #NAACL2025 @ykl7.bsky.social · Feb 15

First CfP for #EMNLP2025 is live now. Submission deadline to May ARR cycle!

Excited to be part of organizing the conference as publicity chair w/ @amuuueller.bsky.social @dallascard.bsky.social so watch out for more updates esp by following the official conf account @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social

EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · Feb 14

The EMNLP 2025 conference website and CfP are now live! 2025.emnlp.org/calls/main-c...

Conference dates: November 5-9 in Suzhou, China

Submissions will be through ARR, and this year's theme is Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP

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Yash Kumar Lal ✈️ #NAACL2025 @ykl7.bsky.social · Feb 15

First CfP for #EMNLP2025 is live now. Submission deadline to May ARR cycle!

Excited to be part of organizing the conference as publicity chair w/ @amuuueller.bsky.social @dallascard.bsky.social so watch out for more updates esp by following the official conf account @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social

EMNLP @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social · Feb 14

The EMNLP 2025 conference website and CfP are now live! 2025.emnlp.org/calls/main-c...

Conference dates: November 5-9 in Suzhou, China

Submissions will be through ARR, and this year's theme is Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP

Call for Main Conference Papers

Official website for the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2025.emnlp.org

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Yash Kumar Lal ✈️ #NAACL2025 @ykl7.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨 The submission deadline (Feb 17) for the Workshop on Narrative Understanding at #NAACL2025 is approaching us! Excited to see diverse work on studying different aspects of narratives 🤩

Submit here: www.softconf.com/naacl2025/WN... #NLProc #wnu2025

The 7th Workshop on Narrative Understanding

www.softconf.com

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Yash Kumar Lal ✈️ #NAACL2025 @ykl7.bsky.social · Jan 10

📢 The 7th Workshop on Narrative Understanding (WNU) will happen with #NAACL2025 and is open for submissions.

🌐: tinyurl.com/wnu25
Direct Submission: February 17
Pre-Reviewed (ARR) papers: March 10

Excited to organize this again and hope to see you in Albuquerque 🌵 early this May! #wnu2025 #NLProc

Narrative Understanding

This is the 7th iteration of the Narrative Understanding Workshop, which brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers from AI, ML, NLP, Computer Vision and other related fields, as well a...

tinyurl.com

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Yash Kumar Lal ✈️ #NAACL2025 @ykl7.bsky.social · Jan 6

I've read one-off anecdotes of such rings across conferences. Has there been a study by chairs/organizers about how frequents this is?

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Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · Dec 13

In the early days of CS, reviewing loads were typically 20 papers. This required a much greater commitment from the reviewers, but results were much more consistent. For FOCS and STOC, reviewers read EVERY submission

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Niranjan @niranjanb.bsky.social · Dec 9

Thanks @mohitbansal.bsky.social for the wonderful Distinguished Lecture on agents and multimodal generation. This got so many of us here at Stony Brook excited for the potential in these areas. Also, thanks for spending time with our students & sharing your wisdom. It was a pleasure hosting you!

Niranjan @niranjanb.bsky.social · Dec 3

Excited to host the wonderful @mohitbansal.bsky.social as part of Stony Brook CS Distinguished Lecture Series on Dec 6th. Looking forward to hearing about his team's fantastic work on Planning Agents for Collaborative Reasoning and Multimodal Generation. More here: tinyurl.com/jkmex3e9

A flyer announcing that Professor Mohit Bansal from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill will present a Distinguished Lecture on Planning Agents for Collaborative Reasoning and Multimodal Generation at 2:30 PM in the New Computer Science Room 120 on Dec 6th 2024. The flyer also has a head shot of Mohit Bansal.

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Yash Kumar Lal ✈️ #NAACL2025 @ykl7.bsky.social · Dec 5

Why did @duolingoverde.bsky.social go with the villain vibe for the year in review this year? 🤔

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Elias Stengel-Eskin @esteng.bsky.social · Dec 5

🚨 I am on the faculty job market this year 🚨
I will be presenting at #NeurIPS2024 and am happy to chat in-person or digitally!

I work on developing AI agents that can collaborate and communicate robustly with us and each other.

More at: esteng.github.io and in thread below

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Mohit Bansal @mohitbansal.bsky.social · Dec 3

Looking forward to giving this Distinguished Lecture at StonyBrook next week & meeting the several awesome NLP + CV folks there - thanks Niranjan‬ + all for the kind invitation 🙂

PS. Excited to give a new talk on "Planning Agents for Collaborative Reasoning and Multimodal Generation" ➡️➡️

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Niranjan @niranjanb.bsky.social · Dec 3

Excited to host the wonderful @mohitbansal.bsky.social as part of Stony Brook CS Distinguished Lecture Series on Dec 6th. Looking forward to hearing about his team's fantastic work on Planning Agents for Collaborative Reasoning and Multimodal Generation. More here: tinyurl.com/jkmex3e9

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Yash Kumar Lal ✈️ #NAACL2025 @ykl7.bsky.social · Nov 30

Lots of posts about LLMs trivially generating websites. How do I prompt them to generate a full (static) website with CSS and JS too? The HTML is fine but I can't fix (a lot of) issues in the generated CSS and JS. I feel like we still need domain expertise to make sure these things work 😅

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Ahmad Beirami @abeirami.bsky.social · Nov 27

The question that a reviewer should ask themselves is:
Does this paper take a gradient step in a promising direction? Is the community better off with this paper published? If the answer is yes, then the recommendation should be to accept.

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Thomas Wolf @thomwolf.bsky.social · Nov 26

Releasing SmolVLM, a small 2 billion parameters Vision+Language Model (VLM) built for on-device/in-browser inference with images/videos.

Outperforms all models at similar GPU RAM usage and tokens throughputs

Blog post: huggingface.co/blog/smolvlm

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.txt @dottxtai.bsky.social · Nov 21

A new paper, "Let Me Speak Freely" has been spreading rumors that structured generation hurts LLM evaluation performance.

Well, we've taken a look and found serious issue in this paper, and shown, once again, that structured generation *improves* evaluation performance!

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Yash Kumar Lal ✈️ #NAACL2025 @ykl7.bsky.social · Nov 24

Free food might motivate grad students to do more 😂

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Ahmad Beirami @abeirami.bsky.social · Nov 24

The criteria to get accepted to ARR should be similar to TMLR. The presentation slots in conferences and workshops left to PCs to decide. Decouple the two completely.

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Yash Kumar Lal ✈️ #NAACL2025 @ykl7.bsky.social · Nov 24

One of my gripes with ARR (orhers have also raised this) is that reviews and scores are not tied to accept/reject decisions. But coupling them together again brings it closer to the old review system again 😅

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Marc Marone @marcmarone.com · Nov 23

I noticed a lot of starter packs skewed towards faculty/industry, so I made one of just NLP & ML students: go.bsky.app/vju2ux

Students do different research, go on the job market, and recruit other students. Ping me and I'll add you!

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Yash Kumar Lal ✈️ #NAACL2025 @ykl7.bsky.social · Nov 23

An agent would be an LLM to do one specific task (or function, as you refer to it) such as plan (decide to delegate), summarize long context, summarize short fontext

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Yash Kumar Lal ✈️ #NAACL2025 @ykl7.bsky.social · Nov 23

Yes, a single system can delegate to multiple different 'agent' LLMs. So a multi agent system is still just one system but has differing components inside (here, an agent that can summarize novels vs another that can summarize a news article)

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