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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 15d

Happening in an hour! 🥳

CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 17d

If you are at #IWCS, then you should not miss Sanne‘s talk ”Not Just Who or What: Modeling the Interaction of Linguistic and Annotator Variation in Hateful Word Interpretation“ (Sanne Hoeken, Özge Alacam, Dong Nguyen, Massimo Poesio, Sina Zarrieß), tomorrow at 16:30! 🕟
@sannehoeken.bsky.social

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 17d

If you are at #IWCS, then you should not miss Sanne‘s talk ”Not Just Who or What: Modeling the Interaction of Linguistic and Annotator Variation in Hateful Word Interpretation“ (Sanne Hoeken, Özge Alacam, Dong Nguyen, Massimo Poesio, Sina Zarrieß), tomorrow at 16:30! 🕟
@sannehoeken.bsky.social

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Tatjana Scheffler @tschfflr.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27d

Sina Zarieß is giving the KONVENS keynote on training BabyLMs #nlproc
The slide shows the number of words a 12yo human has seen in their lifetime compared to the numbers of words typical language models have seen in training #llm

Sina in front of a slide with different size circles

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 27d

Happening now: Sina‘s keynote on our BabyLM work. 🥳

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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 28d

Great first day at #KONVENS2015 today. Looking forward to another engaging day with a keynote by Sina Zarrieß tomorrow 🤓
@clausebielefeld.bsky.social

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · 29d

Don’t miss Sina‘s keynote on BabyLMs at #konvens tomorrow!

Bastian Bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social · 29d

From conference to conference — after last week’s #semdial I am at #konvens in Hildesheim this week. I will be presenting out German BabyLM Corpus (with @simphon.bsky.social) and our PI Sina Zarrieß will give a Keynote on BabyLMs tomorrow. 🥳

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · Sep 5

Final Keynote of #semdial by David Schlangen on ”Meaningful Interaction with Unreal Speakers?“ 😇💬

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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · Sep 5

Final day at #semdial2025 #bialogue — four more presentations, one key note and hopefully many engaging discussions. Let's go!

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · Sep 4

Second #semdial keynote by Robert Hawkins on ”Foraging for common ground“

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · Sep 4

Day 2 of #semdial starts with a session on LMs and dialogue systems 🤩

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · Sep 3

Actually yes! Dialogue differs distinctly from monologues in terms of phonetic features and in the production of novel phonetic forms!

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · Sep 3

Leonie Schade asks whether it takes two to do an articulatory tango 😁

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · Sep 3

And the second talk features contributions by our PI Sina Zarrieß. 🤩

Bastian Bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social · Sep 3

Now coming up: session 1 on naturalistic dialogue 👌

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · Sep 3

#semdial has begun 💬

Bastian Bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social · Sep 3

First keynote by Arabella Sinclair from the University of Aberdeen on “The many reasons for repetition in Dialogue”.

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Bastian Bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social · Sep 3

#semdial is about to begin 🥳

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · Sep 2

Program: semdial2025.github.io/program/
Proceedings: purl.org/semdial/2025...

CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · Sep 2

#semdial2025, the long-awaited #bialogue conference starts tomorrow! We are looking forward to three wonderful conference days, featuring three exciting keynotes, and many oral and poster presentations on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue. 👄💬
Check out the program and proceedings below. 👇

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · Aug 1

Let’s go!

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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · Aug 1

Is simpler child-directed language easier to learn?

Check out our CoNLL paper "Do Construction Distributions Shape Formal Language Learning in German BabyLMs?"

@conll-conf.bsky.social

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · Aug 1

Find the paper here: aclanthology.org/2025.conll-1...

Components of Creativity: Language Model-based Predictors for Clustering and Switching in Verbal Fluency

Sina Zarrieß, Simeon Junker, Judith Sieker, Özge Alacam. Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning. 2025.

aclanthology.org

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · Aug 1

Our PI Sina will give an oral presentation on "Components of Creativity: Language Model-based Predictors for Clustering and Switching in Verbal Fluency" at @conll-conf.bsky.social in 45 minutes. Come check it out if you are at @aclmeeting.bsky.social #ACL2025NLP

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · Jul 31

Impromptu dinner after @conll-conf.bsky.social #ACL2025NLP, connecting Bielefeld and the Netherlands over Greek food 😇👌

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · Jul 28

Happening now: catch Simeon, Manar and Larissa presenting their paper -Are Multimodal Large Language Models Pragmatically Competent Listeners in Simple Reference Resolution Tasks?- in hall X5. #ACL2025NLP

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · Jul 28

It’s actually 41. 🙃

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CLAUSE - Computational Linguistics @ Bielefeld University @clausebielefeld.bsky.social · Jul 28

Happening now — Clara, Judith and Sina present their poster:
Can LLMs Ground when they (Don’t) Know: A Study on Direct and Loaded Political Questions
(Poster board 45) #ACL2025NLP

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