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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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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · 13d

Next year #clicit2026 will be in……Palermo!

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · 13d

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...

#NLProc #clicit25

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NLPnorth @nlpnorth.bsky.social · Jul 30

Big congrats to our postdoc @elisabassignana.bsky.social for the well deserved Social Impact award at #ACL2025NLP!!

Elisa Bassignana @elisabassignana.bsky.social · Jul 30

Super proud to receive the Social Impact award at #ACL2025NLP for our paper together with @amandacurry.bsky.social (eq contribution) and @dirkhovy.bsky.social 🎉

#NLProc

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ACL @aclmeeting.bsky.social · Jul 31

The Best Social Impact Papers 🏆 #ACL2025NLP

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ACL @aclmeeting.bsky.social · Jul 31

Huge congratulations again to all the outstanding and best paper award winners at #ACL2025NLP! 🏆 Your innovative research is pushing the boundaries of computational linguistics. 🤯 We are increadibly proud of all this wonderful work!
#ACL2025NLP #OutstandingPapers #Awards

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Elisa Bassignana @elisabassignana.bsky.social · Jul 30

Super proud to receive the Social Impact award at #ACL2025NLP for our paper together with @amandacurry.bsky.social (eq contribution) and @dirkhovy.bsky.social 🎉

#NLProc

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · Jul 30

We’re incredibly proud to announce that our lab received two #ACL2025 awards: Best Social Impact Paper for @elisabassignana.bsky.social and @dirkhovy.bsky.social , and Outstanding Paper for @paul-rottger.bsky.social.

Congratulations to them and to all collaborators who made this possible!

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NLPnorth @nlpnorth.bsky.social · Jul 30

Having a great time at #ACL2025NLP!

#NLProc

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · Jul 30

@milanlp.bsky.social @ #ACL2025 in #Vienna!

#NLProc

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Elisa Bassignana @elisabassignana.bsky.social · Jul 23

Next week I'll be at #ACL2024NLP to present our work about the interplay between SES and LLM usage 🇦🇹
I will present it on Wednesday morning and also take part in a panel at the end of the session.

🤗: shorturl.at/W77Kq

If you're interested in the topic, feel free to reach out for a chat!

#NLProc

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NLPnorth @nlpnorth.bsky.social · Jul 22

📣 Next week we will be in Vienna for @aclmeeting.bsky.social to present a couple of works from our lab!

Find more about each of them below 🧵👇

#NLP #NLProc #ACL2025NLP @itu.dk @aicentre.dk

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · Jul 16

🎉 The @milanlp.bsky.social lab is excited to present 15 papers and 1 tutorial at #ACL2025 & workshops! Grateful to all our amazing collaborators, see everyone in Vienna! 🚀

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · Jul 7

Last week we held our 1st MilaNLP retreat by beautiful Lago Maggiore! ⛰️🌊
We shared research ideas, stories (academic & beyond), and amazing food. It was a great time to connect outside of the usual lab working days, and most importantly, strengthen our bonds as a team. #ResearchLife #NLProc

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AILC-NLP @ailc-nlp.bsky.social · Jun 9

Stiamo vivendo una rivoluzione tecnologica, ma quanto conosciamo realmente l'uso dell'IA nella nostra quotidianità? Aiuta a scoprirlo compilando questo breve questionario (10 min): bit.ly/sondaggio_ai...

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Beatrice Savoldi @bsavoldi.bsky.social · Jun 3

🔍 Stiamo studiando come l'AI viene usata in Italia e per farlo abbiamo costruito un sondaggio!

👉 bit.ly/sondaggio_ai...

(è anonimo, richiede ~10 minuti, e se partecipi o lo fai girare ci aiuti un sacco🙏)

Ci interessa anche raggiungere persone che non si occupano e non sono esperte di AI!

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NLPnorth @nlpnorth.bsky.social · May 26

📢 New #ACL2025 preprint by our postdoc @elisabassignana.bsky.social about the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on the adoption and usage of language technologies!

A first step for better understanding the AI Gap across SES and develop more inclusive language technologies ⚖️🤖

#NLProc @itu.dk

Elisa Bassignana @elisabassignana.bsky.social · May 26

🚨 New paper accepted at #ACL2025 Main conference! 🙌
"The AI Gap: How Socioeconomic Status Affects Language Technology Interactions"
w/ @amandacurry.bsky.social & @dirkhovy.bsky.social

Very happy for this first collab with @milanlp.bsky.social 🤝

🔗 lnkd.in/dtsH3gaX
🤗 lnkd.in/d7diuBJh

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#ACL2025

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Anna Rogers @annarogers.bsky.social · May 26

📢 The Copenhagen NLP Symposium on June 20th!

- Invited talks by @loubnabnl.hf.co (HF) @mziizm.bsky.social (Cohere) @najoung.bsky.social (BU) @kylelo.bsky.social (AI2) Yohei Oseki (UTokyo)
- Exciting posters by other participants

Register to attend and/or present your poster at cphnlp.github.io /1

Copenhagen NLP Symposium 2025

symposium website

cphnlp.github.io

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Elisa Bassignana @elisabassignana.bsky.social · May 26

Check out the full paper here:
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#ACL2025 #ACL #NLProc #NLP #AI #DigitalDivide #LLM #AIethics #sociotechnical

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Elisa Bassignana @elisabassignana.bsky.social · May 26

We argue for designing NLP systems that actively account for socioeconomic linguistic variation.
Bridging the AI gap means more than just making tools accessible—it means making them equitable.

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Elisa Bassignana @elisabassignana.bsky.social · May 26

These aren't just linguistic quirks—they point to real risks of AI reinforcing the digital divide.
Even as LLMs become widespread, they're not being used—or served—equally.

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Elisa Bassignana @elisabassignana.bsky.social · May 26

📊 Higher-SES users:
– Use more abstract & concise prompts
– Focus on topics like "inclusivity" & "travel"
– Use AI for work and study related queries
📎 Lower-SES users:
– Use more concrete language
– Personify the AI more (e.g., “hello”, “thank you”)
– Ask more practical, day-to-day questions

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Elisa Bassignana @elisabassignana.bsky.social · May 26

We surveyed 1,000 people from diverse SES backgrounds and analyzed 6,482 prompts from their real previous interactions with LLMs.
What we found: SES significantly shapes how people use and experience generative AI.

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Elisa Bassignana @elisabassignana.bsky.social · May 26

🚨 New paper accepted at #ACL2025 Main conference! 🙌
"The AI Gap: How Socioeconomic Status Affects Language Technology Interactions"
w/ @amandacurry.bsky.social & @dirkhovy.bsky.social

Very happy for this first collab with @milanlp.bsky.social 🤝

🔗 lnkd.in/dtsH3gaX
🤗 lnkd.in/d7diuBJh

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#ACL2025

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MilaNLP Lab @milanlp.bsky.social · May 2

The @milanlp.bsky.social lab is presenting 6 papers at #NAACL2025!

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