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AmsterdamNLP @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social · Nov 10

Work in progress -- suggestions for NLP-ers based in the EU/Europe & already on Bluesky very welcome!

go.bsky.app/NZDc31B

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AmsterdamNLP @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social · Aug 8

🎲 The 2nd edition of UncertaiNLP is coming to EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou! A venue for work on uncertainty-aware NLP, from Bayesian inference to decision-making under uncertainty.

🗓 Direct submissions due: Aug 15
🗓 ARR commitments due: Aug 29

Details: uncertainlp.github.io

Second Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP @EMNLP 2025

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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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AmsterdamNLP @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social · May 14

This Friday at 3pm, Amsterdam's Computational Linguistics Seminar and the CLClab will host Melanie Mitchell, for a special edition of the Amsterdam Lectures in AI and Society. She will speak about "AI's Challenge of Understanding the World". Zoom link/ register:
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Amsterdam Lectures in AI and Society ‹ clclab

Melanie Mitchell, leading AI researcher from the Santa Fe Institute and key voice in the discussions on the abilities and inabilities of Large Language Models, will speak at Amsterdam Science Park.

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AmsterdamNLP @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social · Dec 15

Jaap Jumelet @jumelet.bsky.social successfully defended his dissertation this week, closing of 6 productive years as master and PhD student at AmsterdamNLP.
bsky.app/profile/jume...

Here's a good thread on some of the highlights of his work!
bsky.app/profile/jume...

All the best at @ groningennlp

Jaap Jumelet @jumelet.bsky.social · Dec 11

I have succesfully defended my thesis yesterday!

Huge thank you to my supervisors @wzuidema.bsky.social and Raquel Fernandez for their guidance, my paranymphs Emile & Jop for their support, my defense committee for their questions, and my brother for photobombing this official portrait!

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Jaap Jumelet @jumelet.bsky.social · Nov 29

My PhD thesis is now available online! It is called "Finding Structure in Language Models" and presents the work I have done in the past 4 years on the intersection of NLP, interpretability, and linguistics.

I'll defend it on December 10, streamed here: jumelet.ai/phd

arxiv.org/abs/2411.16433

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AmsterdamNLP @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social · Nov 30

Beautiful work! Are you still in Amsterdam now and then? Would be great to hear a talk on this work here!

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GroNLP @gronlp.bsky.social · Nov 22

Today we had the pleasure to host @michaelwhanna.bsky.social from @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social for a seminar on his work w/ @amuuueller.bsky.social to interpret incremental sentence processing in language models. Thank you for joining us Michael!

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Oskar van der Wal @ovdw.bsky.social · Nov 15

Last week, we organized the workshop "New Perspectives on Bias and Discrimination in Language Technology" 🤖 @uvahumanities.bsky.social @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social

We're looking back at two inspiring days of talks, posters, and discussions—thanks to everyone who participated!

wai-amsterdam.github.io

Photo of the poster session at the workshop.

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LAGoM NLP @lagom-nlp.bsky.social · Nov 13

The NLP labs starter pack is here! go.bsky.app/LKGekew Let us know if you want to be added!

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AmsterdamNLP @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social · Nov 12

Great! Let's hope that @chrmanning.bsky.social, @catlai.bsky.social and @andreasvc.bsky.social, a.o., create the institutional accounts [for StanfordNLP, EdinburghNLP and GroningenNLP, respectively] (and perhaps their handles can be on the list as placeholders until that time).

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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · Nov 12

After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇
#NeuroAI #CompNeuro

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AmsterdamNLP @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social · Nov 10

Beautiful gifs of the Transformer architecture

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Drawing the Transformer Network from Scratch (Part 1)

Getting a mental model of the Transformer in a playful way

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AmsterdamNLP @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social · Nov 10

Work in progress -- suggestions for NLP-ers based in the EU/Europe & already on Bluesky very welcome!

go.bsky.app/NZDc31B

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Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net · Jul 8

✨ Do current neural speech models show human-like linguistic biases in speech perception?

We took inspiration from classic phonetic categorization experiments to explore where sensitivity to phonotactic context emerges in Wav2Vec2 models 🔍
(w/ @wzuidema.bsky.social)

📑 arxiv.org/abs/2407.03005

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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · Nov 9

EMNLP 2024 proceedings link aclanthology.org/events/emnlp... #nlp

The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - ACL Anthology

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Jelle Zuidema 🟥 @wzuidema.bsky.social · Nov 1

Today is the start of the British AI Safety summit. As do many other AI researchers, I have mixed feelings. Here are the main worries about the AI regulation process in the UK, EU and US that are currently heavily discussed among AI researchers worldwide: 1/

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