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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Aug 1

Happening now: Sean Papay presents his work on CRFs for distant interactions in X5, 223 :-). #xllm #nlproc #acl2025

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Roman Klinger @romanklinger.de · Jul 31

Happening now, talk to me :-) #nlproc #acl2025

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Jul 29

The @uni-bamberg.de group at #acl2025 (including @bamnlp.de and @bamdial.bsky.social) #acl2025 #nlproc

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Jul 29

Now happening in X5, 95: Johannes Schäfer presenting our work on default demographics in LLMs. #nlproc #acl2025

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Roman Klinger @romanklinger.de · Jul 29

Now happening: Jiahui Li presents her SRW poster in X5, 218, from the entrance in the left corner. #acl2025 #nlproc

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Jul 28

Christopher Bagdon now presents his work on multimodal social media #emotion corpus creation. hall X4, far away from the entrance, stand 375.

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Jul 24

On his way to #ACL2025, Saif Mohammad (x.com/SaifMMohammad) made a stop @bamnlp.de @uni-bamberg.de to give a very inspiring talk on "NLP for Affective Sciences".
A recording of the talk is available at youtu.be/LYC6gDJMwac

Thanks for visiting us! #NLP #NLProc

photo of a seminar room from the back to the front. many people sit at desks and listen to a presentation. in the front Saif Mohammad gives a talk. There are two projections next to each other of his slides.

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Jul 24

We will be at @aclmeeting.bsky.social in #Vienna next week! with some main and workshop papers, and an affinity group meeting. If you want to talk to us, please have a look at the group's schedule. We are looking forward to talking to you, please don't hesitate to get in touch! #NLProc #NLP #ACL2025

Johannes Schäfer, Aidan Combs, Christopher Bagdon, Jiahui Li, Nadine Probol, Lynn Greschner,
Sean Papay, Yarik Menchaca Resendiz, Aswathy Velutharambath, Amelie Wührl, Sabine Weber,
and Roman Klinger.
Which demographics do LLMs default to during annotation?
ACL Main Conference: Poster Session 3, Tuesday, July 29; 16:00–17:30; Hall 4/5.
https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.848/

Christopher Bagdon, Aidan Combs, Carina Silberer, and Roman Klinger.
Donate or create? Comparing data collection strategies for emotion-labeled multimodal social
media posts.
ACL Main Conference: Poster Session 1, Monday, July 28; 11:00–12:30; Hall 4/5.
https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.847/

Jiahui Li, and Roman Klinger.
iPrOp: Interactive Prompt Optimization for Large Language Models with a Human in the Loop
Student Research Workshop: Tuesday, July 29, 10:30–12:00, Hall 4/5.
https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-srw.18/

Lynn Greschner, Amelie Wührl, and Roman Klinger.
QoLAS: a Reddit corpus of health-related quality of life aspects of mental disorders.
Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (BioNLP): Friday, August 1, 2025; 16:00–18:00;
Room 2.15.
https://aclanthology.org/2025.bionlp-1.18/

Sean Papay, Roman Klinger, and Sebastian Pado.
Regular-pattern-sensitive CRFs for distant label interactions.
Workshop on Large Language Models and Structure Modeling (XLLM): Friday, August 1, 2025;
12:00–12:30 or 17:00–17:30; Room 1.61-62.
https://aclanthology.org/2025.xllm-1.4/

Jan Hofmann, Cornelia Sindermann, and Roman Klinger.
Prompt-based personality profiling: Reinforcement learning for relevance filtering.
Workshop for Research on Agent Language Models (REALM): Thursday, July 31, 2025; 10:30–
11:00 or 15:00–16:00; Room 1.61-62.
https://aclanthology.org/2025.realm-1.1/

Sabine Weber.
Queer in AI Meet-Up.
Affinity Group Meeting: Monday, July 28, 12:30–14:00; Room 1.33

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Jul 24

Last week, we've been on a retreat to talk about the big picture of our research, research ideas, and synergies between group members – and did some team building.
@annefriedrich.bsky.social
was our external guest and helped us out of a couple of local optima. Thank you for participating!

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Jun 25

Organized with involvement from our group 🤩 – thanks @aswathyve.bsky.social for taking the lead!

Aswathy Velutharambath @aswathyve.bsky.social · Jun 25

✨ The First NLPSI Workshop @ ICWSM 2025 is a wrap!
Huge thanks to the speaker (Bennett Kleinberg), authors, reviewers, attendees, and co-organizers (Sofie Labat, Neele Falk, @florplaza.bsky.social, @romanklinger.de & Veronique Hoste) who made it a success.

nlpsi-workshop.github.io/highlights/

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Jun 16

Today, we had Goran Glavaš from @uni-wuerzburg.de in our research seminar for a talk "On Multilingual Abilities of (Different Types of) Language Models" at @bamnlp.de @uni-bamberg.de Thanks for visiting us, Goran!

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · May 29

We have five #nlproc papers accepted at @aclmeeting.bsky.social – after just one year in @uni-bamberg.de . Hope to meeting many of you in Vienna!

The BamNLP Group at the University of Bamberg has the following five papers accepted at The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025) in Vienna.

Johannes Schäfer, Aidan Combs, Christopher Bagdon, Jiahui Li, Nadine Probol, Lynn Greschner, Sean Papay, Yarik Menchaca Resendiz, Aswathy Velutharambath, Amelie Wührl, Sabine Weber, and Roman Klinger.
Which demographics do LLMs default to during annotation?
ACL Main Conference

Christopher Bagdon, Aidan Combs, Carina Silberer, and Roman Klinger.
Donate or create? comparing data collection strategies for emotion-labeled multimodal social media posts.
ACL Main Conference

Lynn Greschner, Amelie Wührl, and Roman Klinger.
QOLAS: a Reddit corpus of health-related quality of life aspects of mental disorders.
Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing (BioNLP)

Sean Papay, Roman Klinger, and Sebastian Pado.
Regular-pattern-sensitive CRFs for distant label interactions.
Joint Workshop on Large Language Models and Structure Modeling (XLLM)

Jan Hofmann, Cornelia Sindermann, and Roman Klinger.
Prompt-based personality profiling: Reinforcement learning for relevance filtering.
Proceedings of the First Workshop for Research on Agent Language Models (REALM)

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · May 28

We are really happy about this new collaboration, in which we use our experience with #LLM models for automatic text simplification in #psychology research.

Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie (ZPID) @zpid.bsky.social · May 28

Large Language Models für allgemeinverständliche Zusammenfassungen psychologischer Übersichtsarbeiten: Kooperation des @zpid.bsky.social mit der @uni-bamberg.de
& @bamnlp.de nlp.de
#psychologie #llm #klarpsy

leibniz-psychology.org/news/detail/...

Mit Hilfe von Large Language Models allgemeinverständliche Zusammenfassungen psychologischer Übersichtsarbeiten verfassen

Kooperation des ZPID mit der Universität Bamberg

leibniz-psychology.org

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Jan 29

Choose-a-chair fair at the computer science faculty @uni-bamberg.de – we presented our courses and theses topics to our students (with Sean Papay, @multilingual-s.bsky.social and @romanklinger.de).

A group of three people is posing in front of a research poster titled "Fundamentals of Natural Language Processing." The poster contains sections on research focus, research methods, and possible thesis topics. The individuals are standing in an indoor academic or conference setting with other attendees visible in the background. One person is wearing a casual t-shirt with cartoon illustrations, another is in a button-up shirt, and the third is dressed in a dark sweater. The setting includes modern lighting and furniture, with a red couch and a yellow chair visible on the left side of the image.

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Jan 20

Are you at #COLING2025? Come visit our poster presented by Yarik Menchaca Resendiz on "MOPO: Multi-Objective Prompt Optimization for Affective Text Generation". (Fri, Jan 24 13:30-15:00) #NLP #nlproc #prompts #llm #emotions

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Dec 19

The @bamnlp.de group wishes everybody nice holidays. 🎄

An 8 times 3 grid of photos of the members of the research group. In each photo, people wear christmas outfit.

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Dec 18

Here comes the preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2412.12948

MOPO: Multi-Objective Prompt Optimization for Affective Text Generation

How emotions are expressed depends on the context and domain. On X (formerly Twitter), for instance, an author might simply use the hashtag #anger, while in a news headline, emotions are typically wri...

arxiv.org

BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Dec 18

Have a look at our new #preprint on our work on human-in-the-loop prompt optimization. It's a preprint of a demo paper describing our experiment environment that we use in the @dfgpublic.bsky.social funded project INPROMPT. #nlp #nlproc

arxiv cs.CL @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social · Dec 18

Jiahui Li, Roman Klinger
iPrOp: Interactive Prompt Optimization for Large Language Models with a Human in the Loop
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12644

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Dec 18

New #preprint by @nlp-amelie.bsky.social and @romanklinger.de on automatically optimizing a claim paraphrased/extractor with preference optimization, such that the claims can be better fact-checked. #nlp #nlproc

arxiv cs.CL @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social · Dec 17

Amelie W\"uhrl, Roman Klinger
Self-Adaptive Paraphrasing and Preference Learning for Improved Claim Verifiability
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11653

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Dec 2

We will share the preprint as soon as it's ready. (3/3)

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Dec 2

This leads to more robust prompts, because we can, a posteriori, decide for which objective a prompt should work, without retraining. We focus our evaluation on affective text generation across multiple domains, but it should work across other multi-objective use cases (2/3).

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Dec 2

We got one paper accepted to #COLING2025: "MOPO: Multi-objective prompt optimization for affective text generation." with @romanklinger.de and Yarik Menchaca Resendiz. We optimize prompts for multiple objectives, while indirectly optimizing the prompts that optimize the prompts #NLP #NLProc (1/3)

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Nov 27

Today, Eyke Hüllermeier gave a talk in our BACAI lecture series, on uncertainty quantification in machine learning. The main message was the difference between inherent randomness and a lack of knowledge: aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty.

Two people on a stage. Left is Eyke Hüllermeier. Right, currently talking, is Ute Schmid, introducing Eyke. In back, the title slide of the presentation is visible.

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Nov 22

Hello Everybody! We are the Bamberg NLP group at the University of Bamberg. We exist since March 2024 and work on the interaction of #computerscience #naturallanguageprocessing #nlproc #psychology #computationalsocialsciences #digitalhumanities. If you want to learn more: www.uni-bamberg.de/nlproc/

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BamNLP @bamnlp.de · Nov 20

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