Excited to present two papers at #ACL2025!

🗓️30 July, 11 AM: 𝛿-Stance: A Large-Scale Real World Dataset of Stances in Legal Argumentation. w/ Douglas Rice and @brenocon.bsky.social

📍At Hall 4/5. 🧵👇

I'm thrilled to be doing an oral presentation on "Culture is not Trivia" at #ACL2025 next Wednesday 7/30, as well as participating in the human-centered NLP panel afterwards!

(thanks also @lauraknelson.bsky.social for the shoutout in her #ic2s2 keynote today!)

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Research Borderlands is now on ACL anthology.
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Come hear me talk about it at #IC2S2 in the plenary talks tomorrow, 24 July, after the morning keynote and in the poster session after lunch.

I will also be at #acl2025, presenting the poster at 11 AM on Wed, 30th July.

If you are interested in YouTube data, I'm giving a talk at 2:30pm today with the Online Platforms and Algorithms II session in Vingen 3+4.

#ic2s2

‘which came first, the pun, or the research project?’

*academics, head hung low, whispering*

‘the… the pun’

How can we generate synthetic data for a task that requires global reasoning over a long context (e.g., verifying claims about a book)? LLMs aren't good at *solving* such tasks, let alone generating data for them. Check out our paper for a compression-based solution!

There's been a lot of work on "culture" in NLP, but not much agreement on what it is.

A position paper by me, @dbamman.bsky.social, and @ibleaman.bsky.social on cultural NLP: what we want, what we have, and how sociocultural linguistics can clarify things.

Website: naitian.org/culture-not-...

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Bill Labov died this morning. I'm not coherent enough to talk about how important and influential and brilliant he was. I am very sad.

I was so lucky to know him, and I am grateful every day that he (and Gillian, and Walt, etc) built an academic field where kindness is expected.

Our paper was accepted to #COLING! If you work on low-resource MT and have ever found yourself limited to bible data, you might find this interesting.

We're hiring new #nlp faculty this year!

Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS --
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🎬 Coming soon to a theater near you!🍿

Film is a semiotically rich medium: meaning is conveyed through the music, visuals, language, and more. A new paper from me and @dbamman.bsky.social explores what it means to computationally study performance in film.

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I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics.

Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎

Apply by December 15th!

If you're still at #EMNLP2024 check out this work by first year PhD student @rohan-das.bsky.social. Our main idea is to look at media framing through the chains of events they choose to highlight

Does anyone know a good way to filter ACL/EMNLP papers by track? I wanted to make a feed for CSS&CA papers, but the only places I can find the tracks are ARR OpenReview and the pdf handbook for EMNLP.

#EMNLP has a nice set of tokenization/subword modeling papers this year.

It's a good mix of tokenization algorithms, tokenization evaluation, tokenization-free methods, and subword embedding probing. Lmk if I missed some!

Here is a list with links + presentation time (in chronological order).

📢 Check out the lineup of papers our students will be showcasing at #EMNLP2024 in Miami next week! 🌴 We'll be presenting new work on morphology, Q&A, and narratives.🔍