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Debora Nozza
@deboranozza.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at Bocconi University in MilaNLP group • Working in #NLP, #HateSpeech and #Ethics • She/her • #ERCStG PERSONAE
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Flor Plaza @florplaza.bsky.social · 2d
📢 Are you interested in a PhD in #NLProc to study and improve how AI model emotions and social signals?

🚨Exciting news:🚨 I’m hiring a PhD candidate at LIACS,
@unileiden.bsky.social.

📍 Leiden, The Netherlands
📅 Deadline: 17 Nov 2025

👉 Position details and application link: tinyurl.com/5x5v6zsa
PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing
The Faculty of Science and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) are looking for a:PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing (1.0fte)Project descr...
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 2d
#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Measuring Harmful Representations in Scandinavian Language Models' uncovers gender bias, challenging Scandinavia's equity image. #MachineLearning
Measuring Harmful Representations in Scandinavian Language Models
Samia Touileb, Debora Nozza. Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science (NLP+CSS). 2022.
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 6d
#TBT #NLProc Explore 'Wisdom of Instruction-Tuned LLM Crowds' by Plaza et al. LLM labels outperform single models in tasks & languages. But few-shot can't top zero-shot. Supervised models rule.
Wisdom of Instruction-Tuned Language Model Crowds. Exploring Model Label Variation
Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Debora Nozza, Dirk Hovy. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP (NLPerspectives) @ LREC-COLING 2024. 2024.
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Anne Lauscher @a-lauscher.bsky.social · 14d
🚨 Are you looking for a PhD in #NLProc dealing with #LLMs?
🎉 Good news: I am hiring! 🎉
The position is part of the “Contested Climate Futures" project. 🌱🌍 You will focus on developing next-generation AI methods🤖 to analyze climate-related concepts in content—including texts, images, and videos.
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Tanise Ceron @taniseceron.bsky.social · 9d
📣 New Preprint!
Have you ever wondered what the political content in LLM's training data is? What are the political opinions expressed? What is the proportion of left- vs right-leaning documents in the pre- and post-training data? Do they correlate with the political biases reflected in models?
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 9d
📖For our last Reading Group @donyarn.bsky.social presented
"Culture is Everywhere: A Call for Intentionally Cultural Evaluation" by Oh et al.

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01301

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 9d
#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Universal Joy: A Data Set and Results for Classifying Emotions Across Languages' by Lamprinidis et al. (2021) explores how AI research affects our planet. Tech can be green too! #SustainableTech
Universal Joy A Data Set and Results for Classifying Emotions Across Languages
Sotiris Lamprinidis, Federico Bianchi, Daniel Hardt, Dirk Hovy. Proceedings of the Eleventh Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis. 2021.
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 12d
MilaNLPers at CLiC-it 2025 presenting "Probing Feminist Representations: A Study of Bias in LLMs and Word Embeddings"

Check the paper at clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/u...

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 13d
What makes LLMs agree even when they shouldn’t? 🤔
At our last seminar’s lab, Jan Batzner presented The Brief History of LLM Sycophancy as We Know It.

#NLProc #sycophancy #LLM
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 13d
#TBT #NLProc 'Classist Tools: Social Class Correlates with Performance in NLP' by Curry et al. (2024) explores AI's hidden energy problem, and how machine learning impacts environmental sustainability. Tech can be green! #CleanTech
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 16d
#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Benchmarking Post-Hoc Interpretability Approaches for Transformer-based Misogyny Detection' - Attanasio et al. Explores reliability of interpretability in hate speech detection.
Benchmarking Post-Hoc Interpretability Approaches for Transformer-based Misogyny Detection
Giuseppe Attanasio, Debora Nozza, Eliana Pastor, Dirk Hovy. Proceedings of NLP Power! The First Workshop on Efficient Benchmarking in NLP. 2022.
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 20d
📖For this Thursday's Reading Group @elisabassignana.bsky.social presented "The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling" by Grieve et al.

Paper: www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

#NLProc #LLM #sociolinguistics
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 20d
#TBT #NLProc 'Geolocation with Attention-Based Multitask Learning Models' by Tommaso Fornaciari, @dirkhovy.bsky.social (2019) reveals how online political talks can become one-sided. Breaking out of our bubbles! #SocialMedia
Geolocation with Attention-Based Multitask Learning Models
Tommaso Fornaciari, Dirk Hovy. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019). 2019.
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 26d
🎓We're back with Fridays' lab seminars! Today we had
Suyash Fulay presenting "Truth, Political Bias, and AI Representation".

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 23d
#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Dense Node Representation for Geolocation' by Fornaciari & @dirkhovy.bsky.social reveals efficient geolocation methods using node2vec & doc2vec models. Greater network size, less parameters. /publication/2019_m2v/2019_m2v
Dense Node Representation for Geolocation
Tommaso Fornaciari, Dirk Hovy. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019). 2019.
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 27d
📖For this Thursday's Reading Group @deboranozza.bsky.social
presented two papers on #sycophancy in #LLMs.

Papers: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13995, arxiv.org/pdf/2310.13548

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 27d
#TBT #NLProc 'MilaNLP @ WASSA: Does BERT Feel Sad When You Cry?' by Fornaciari et al. (2021) indicates that emotion and empathy are not related tasks for prediction.
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · Sep 8
#MemoryModay #NLProc 'My Answer is C' by Wang et al. (2024) underscores the scrutiny needed for full text responses in LLMs multi-choice evaluations.
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · Sep 4
We're back with the reading group! 🚀
Today @paul-rottger.bsky.social presented The Levers of Political Persuasion with Conversational AI by Hackenburg et al. (2025)

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.13919

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · Sep 4
#TBT #NLProc 'Temporal and Second Language Influence on Intra-Annotator Agreement and Stability in Hate Speech Labelling' Abercrombie, @dirkhovy.bsky.social, & Prabhakaran (2023). NLP models: inclusive or not?
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · Sep 1
#MemoryModay #NLProc Hung et al.'s 2023 paper, 'Can Demographic Factors Improve Text Classification?' finds demographic adaptations of Transformer NLP models don't notably boost performance.
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · Aug 28
#TBT #NLProc Outstanding Paper at ACL 2024! 'Towards More Meaningful Evaluations for Values and Opinions in Large Language Models' by @paul-rottger.bsky.social et al. Enhancing political bias evaluation.
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · Aug 25
#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Detecting Misogynous Memes with Text & Image Modalities' by Attanasio, @deboranozza.bsky.social, Bianchi. Their novel system uses Perceiver IO, surpassing all previous benchmarks.
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · Aug 21
#TBT #NLProc 'XLM-EMO: Multilingual Emotion Prediction in Social Media Text' by Bianchi, @deboranozza.bsky.social, @dirkhovy.bsky.social (2022) advances cross-language emotion detection, especially for low-resource languages.
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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · Aug 18
#MemoryModay #NLProc Plaza-del-Arco, @debora_nozza, @dirkhovy.bsky.social's 2024 paper "Wisdom Instruction-Tuned Language Model Crowds" shows that multiple LLMs can be BETTER than a single model & specialize across tasks & languages.
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