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Language Technologies Institute | CMU @ltiatcmu.bsky.social · 19d

Happy Smiley Day, all! The :-) emoticon was first used on this day in 1982 by LTI Professor Emeritus Scott Fahlman.

Carnegie Mellon University @cmu.edu · 19d

43 years ago today our digital vocabulary expanded tremendously through a simple :-) or :-(

On Sept. 19, 1982, Scott Fahlman, a research professor in
@scsatcmu.bsky.social, proposed the use of smiley emoticons "for joke markers."

That makes us :-)

➡️ cmu.is/Smiley-Emoticon | #Emoticon

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Carnegie Mellon University @cmu.edu · 26d

Carnegie Mellon leaders and faculty shared their expertise amongst fellow researchers and industry experts at AI Horizons 2025.

Recap ➡️ cmu.is/AI-Horizons

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Language Technologies Institute | CMU @ltiatcmu.bsky.social · 26d

Incoming LTI assistant professor @akariasai.bsky.social, set to join our faculty in fall 2026, has been named one of @technologyreview.com's 35 Innovators Under 35 for her work in retrieval-augmented generation. Congratulations to Akari on this great honor!
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Asai Named to MIT Technology Review's '35 Innovators Under 35' - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University

Incoming LTI faculty member Akari Asai recognized in prestigious list for work on retrieval-augmented generation

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Maarten Sap @maartensap.bsky.social · Aug 25

I'm excited cause I'm teaching/coordinating a new unique class, where we teach new PhD students all the "soft" skills of research, incl. ideation, reviewing, presenting, interviewing, advising, etc.

Each lecture is taught by a different LTI prof! It takes a village! maartensap.com/11705/Fall20...

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Language Technologies Institute | CMU @ltiatcmu.bsky.social · Aug 25

Happy first day of classes to all our students, new and returning! Wishing everyone a happy and enlightening fall semester.

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Language Technologies Institute | CMU @ltiatcmu.bsky.social · Aug 22

Congrats to @shinjiw.bsky.social and his team for their Best Student Paper award at #Interspeech2025!

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Maarten Sap @maartensap.bsky.social · Aug 22

I spoke to Forbes about why model "welfare" is a silly framing to an important issue; models don't have feelings, and it's a big distraction from real questions like tensions between safety vs. user utility, which are NLP/HCI/policy questions www.forbes.com/sites/victor...

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Language Technologies Institute | CMU @ltiatcmu.bsky.social · Aug 15

A hearty congratulations to the LTI's
@maartensap.bsky.social, who's been awarded an
Okawa Research Grant for his work in his work in socially-aware artificial intelligence. lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

Sap Awarded 2025 Okawa Research Grant - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University

LTI Assistant Professor Maarten Sap received the prestigious award for his work in socially-aware artificial intelligence

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Language Technologies Institute | CMU @ltiatcmu.bsky.social · Jul 30

We're excited to announce the launch of MMU-RAG at #NeurIPS2025! A new competition from the LTI & Amazon AGI focused on real-world Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with live user feedback via RAG-Arena.

Read more: lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

LTI and Amazon AGI Launch MMU-RAG Competition to Advance AI Systems for Complex Information Tasks - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University

The competion, focused on evaluation of retrieval-augmented generation systems, debuts at NeurIPS 2025

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Language Technologies Institute | CMU @ltiatcmu.bsky.social · Jul 24

Congrats (and well done!) to LTI PhD student Shaily Bhatt on her plenary lightning talk at #IC2S2

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Language Technologies Institute | CMU @ltiatcmu.bsky.social · Jun 27

Hand gestures are a major mode of human communication, but they don't always translate well across cultures. New research from @akhilayerukola.bsky.social, @maartensap.bsky.social and others is aimed at giving AI systems a hand with overcoming cultural biases:
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Using Hand Gestures To Evaluate AI Biases - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University

LTI researchers have created a model to help generative AI systems understand the cultural nuance of gestures.

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Language Technologies Institute | CMU @ltiatcmu.bsky.social · Jun 27

Hand gestures are a major mode of human communication, but they don't always translate well across cultures. New research from @akhilayerukola.bsky.social, @maartensap.bsky.social and others is aimed at giving AI systems a hand with overcoming cultural biases:
lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

Using Hand Gestures To Evaluate AI Biases - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University

LTI researchers have created a model to help generative AI systems understand the cultural nuance of gestures.

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Language Technologies Institute | CMU @ltiatcmu.bsky.social · Jun 26

New research from LTI, UMich, & Allen Institute for AI: LLMs don’t just hallucinate – sometimes, they lie. When truthfulness clashes with utility (pleasing users, boosting brands), models often mislead. @nlpxuhui.bsky.social and @maartensap.bsky.social discuss the paper:
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Does Your Chatbot Swear to Tell the Truth? - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University

New research finds that LLM-based agents can't always be trusted to be truthful

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CyLab @cylab.bsky.social · Jun 23

Niloofar Mireshghallah, incoming @cylab.bsky.social ky.social‬, @cmu-epp.bsky.social, and @ltiatcmu.bsky.social professor, shares tips with @shiraovide.bsky.social and @heatherkelly.bsky.social of @washingtonpost.com for protectin#privacycy while usin#chatbotsts.

Analysis | 6 tips to avoid using AI chatbots all wrong

Chatbots are an embarrassing mistake waiting to happen. Here’s what not to do.

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Daniel Chechelnitsky @dchechel.bsky.social · Jun 17

What if AI played the role of your sassy gay bestie 🏳️‍🌈 or AAVE-speaking friend 👋🏾?

You: “Can you plan a trip?”
🤖 AI: “Yasss queen! let’s werk this babe✨💅”

LLMs can talk like us, but it shapes how we trust, rely on & relate to them 🧵

📣 our #FAccT2025 paper: bit.ly/3HJ6rWI

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Language Technologies Institute | CMU @ltiatcmu.bsky.social · Jun 17

Congratulations to LTI Assistant Prof @ybisk.me on his Amazon Research Award!

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LTI's Bisk Receives Amazon Research Award - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University

Assistant Professor Yonatan Bisk is among five School of Computer Science faculty members to receive the award this year

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Language Technologies Institute | CMU @ltiatcmu.bsky.social · May 28

Our MSAII and MCDS programs were both recently ranked among the nations best by TechGuide, with the MSAII program being named the number one program among MS programs in AI. Congrats to all the faculty, students and staff that make us who we are! lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

MSAII and MCDS Named Top Programs - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University

LTI's Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence and Innovation and Master of Computational Data Science Programs Both Ranked Among Nation's Best by TechGuide

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Language Technologies Institute | CMU @ltiatcmu.bsky.social · May 14

We had a blast at our Commencement Reception Friday night. Congrats again to all of our 2025 grads – go out and make us (even more) proud!

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Language Technologies Institute | CMU @ltiatcmu.bsky.social · May 12

Notice our new look? We're thrilled to unveil our new logo – representing our vision, values, and the future ahead. Stay tuned for more!

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Language Technologies Institute | CMU @ltiatcmu.bsky.social · May 9

“Go forth and innovate. Disrupt wisely. And carry your LTI pedigree with pride.”

Read LTI Director Mona Diab’s message to our 2025 graduating class:

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LTI Joins CMU Community in Celebrating 127th Commencement - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University

"Go forth and innovate" exhorts LTI Director Mona Diab

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Language Technologies Institute | CMU @ltiatcmu.bsky.social · May 9

Congratulations to all of the MIIS, MSAII, MCDS and MLT graduates receiving their diplomas today! 🎓🎉 #tartanproud

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Carnegie Mellon Alumni @cmualumni.bsky.social · May 7

For 125 years, @cmu.edu has been achieving what was never thought possible. Celebrate #CMU125 and find out what you can expect during this milestone anniversary year: www.cmu.edu/125?utm_sour...

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Kshitish Ghate @kghate.bsky.social · Apr 29

Excited to announce our #NAACL2025 Oral paper! 🎉✨

We carried out the largest systematic study so far to map the links between upstream choices, intrinsic bias, and downstream zero-shot performance across 131 CLIP Vision-language encoders, 26 datasets, and 55 architectures!

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Sireesh Gururaja @siree.sh · Apr 29

If you're at NAACL this week (or just want to keep track), I have a feed for you: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Currently pulling everyone that mentions NAACL, posts a link from the ACL Anthology, or has NAACL in their username. Happy conferencing!

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Athiya Deviyani @athiya.bsky.social · Apr 29

Ever trusted a metric that works great on average, only for it to fail in your specific use case?

In our #NAACL2025 paper (w/ @841io.bsky.social), we show why global evaluations are not enough and why context matters more than you think.

📄 aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
#NLP #Evaluation

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