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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · 3d

The UTTER EU project is wrapping up!
At NAVER LABS Europe, we’re proud to have contributed with models like mHuBERT & SPIRE as well as datasets such as ELITR-Bench for long-context LLM evaluation.
Discover more in our latest post 👇
europe.naverlabs.com/blog/multimo...

Multimodal, multilingual and trustworthy AI models and resources for XR

Models, data, resources and publications as part of the EU project UTTER (2022-2025).

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EACL 2026 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 EACL 2026 call for Industry track papers is now out!

Bring your cutting-edge technology to Rabat, Morocco 🇲🇦, Mar 24-29 2026

👉 Paper submission deadline: 17 November 2025

Details: 2026.eacl.org/calls/indust...

#NLProc #ACL2026NLP #EACL2026

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EACL 2026 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · 23d

🌞🌞EACL 2026 deadline is in less than a month! 🌞🌞

ARR submission deadline: 6 October 2025
More info: 2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/

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EACL 2026 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨 Call for Tutorial Proposals 🚨

EACL 2026 (Rabat, Morocco 🇲🇦, Mar 24-29) & ACL 2026 (San Diego, USA 🇺🇸, Jul 2-7) are inviting tutorial proposals!

👉 Open to all areas of CL/NLP + related fields.
Details: www.aclweb.org/portal/conte...

#NLProc #ACL2026NLP #EACL2026

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Thibaut Thonet @tthonet.bsky.social · Sep 2

🎉 Delighted to share that our work “FaST: Feature-aware Sampling and Tuning for Personalized Preference Alignment with Limited Data” has been accepted to #EMNLP2025 main!

🧑🏻‍💻 Joint work with @germank.bsky.social, Jos Rozen, Pierre Erbacher, Marc Dymetman

📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.04698

FaST: Feature-aware Sampling and Tuning for Personalized Preference Alignment with Limited Data

LLM-powered conversational assistants are often deployed in a one-size-fits-all manner, which fails to accommodate individual user preferences. Recently, LLM personalization -- tailoring models to ali...

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EACL 2026 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨 EACL 2026 website is live and Call for Papers is out! 🚨

Join us at #EACL2026 (Rabat, Morocco 🇲🇦, Mar 24-29 2026)

👉 Open to all areas of CL/NLP + related fields.

Details: 2026.eacl.org/calls/papers/

• ARR submission deadline: Oct 6, 2025
• EACL commitment deadline: Dec 14, 2025

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EACL 2026 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · Sep 2

🕰️ The deadline for workshop proposals for (EACL/ACL) 2026 is approaching! 🕰️

Proposal submission deadline: September 5 👀
Notification of acceptance: September 22, 2025

Details: www.aclweb.org/portal/conte...

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Thomas Hueber @thueber.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨 Open PhD Position – Grenoble, France 🚨

Join us at GIPSA-lab to explore how Speech Language Models can learn like children: through physical and social interaction. Think AI, robots, development 🧠🤖🎙️
Fully funded (3 yrs) • @cnrs.fr / @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social
Details 👉 tinyurl.com/bde988b3

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EACL 2026 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · Aug 14

👀 Have you heard? #EACL2026 will be in beautiful Rabat, Morocco 🇲🇦 🏖️🕌🌴🌊
Get ready for great research, inspiring talks, and stunning views!

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EACL 2026 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · Aug 14

Interested in joining us in Rabat next year? 🇲🇦🤩

Key dates for #EACL2026:
• ARR submission deadline: Oct 6, 2025
• EACL commitment deadline: Dec 14, 2025

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mgalle.bsky.social @mgalle.bsky.social · Aug 1

If you are leaving #acl2025 thinking "I wish for a week of time to think what's next", we have you covered:

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Announcing ALPS 2025, our 5th NLP winter school in 🇫🇷 We guarantee great scientific discussions, a fantastic scenery and great speakers:

Advanced Language Processing Winter School – ALPS, 29th March – 3th April 2026

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Marcely Zanon Boito @marcelyzboito.bsky.social · Jul 30

It will be my pleasure to help out as Publicity and Social Media co-chair. 😊

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Marcely Zanon Boito @marcelyzboito.bsky.social · Jul 30

EACL 2026 will happen in Morocco! Prof. Aline Villavicencio, from University of Exeter, will serve as the general chair!

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NAVER LABS Europe @naverlabseurope.bsky.social · Jul 29

Major announcement ✨registration is OPEN✨
AI for Robotics workshop (4th edition): Spatial AI
🗓️Nov 21-22 Grenoble, France!
Details: tinyurl.com/bdtk2nzs
⭐⭐ 14 confirmed speakers ⭐⭐: 🧵2/3
Poster submissions (travel grant possible): 🧵 3/3
Spread the word!

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Marcely Zanon Boito @marcelyzboito.bsky.social · Jul 29

P.S. Beomseok Lee is finishing his PhD and open to new opportunities. Hire him before someone else does! 💼✨

Work done at @naverlabseurope.bsky.social

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Marcely Zanon Boito @marcelyzboito.bsky.social · Jul 29

And here’s the twist: No multilingual SQA data was provided in the constrained setting! Only English!

So… how did we do it? 👀

🗓️ Come find out:
Thursday, July 31st, 2PM at #IWSLT2025 #ACL2025

📄 Or read the full system report here:
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.01808

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Marcely Zanon Boito @marcelyzboito.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚀 A powerful and easy-to-build constrained speech LLM model. For multilingual SQA, we beat Microsoft-Phi and all unconstrained submissions on the SHORT track at IWSLT 2025 instruction-following track!

Presented this Thursday at ACL 2025 by myself and @beomseok-lee.bsky.social 🧵👇

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · Jul 23

Update on hidden prompts in papers targeting LLM reviews: ICML 2025 PCs react.

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ACL @aclmeeting.bsky.social · Jul 22

🥳 🎉 ❤️ The ACL 2025 Proceedings are live on the ACL Anthology 🥰 !
We’re thrilled to pre-celebrate the incredible research 📚 ✨ that will be presented starting Monday next week in Vienna 🇦🇹 !
Start exploring 👉 aclanthology.org/events/acl-2...
#NLProc #ACL2025NLP #ACLAnthology

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2025) - ACL Anthology

pdf bibProceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)Wanxiang Che | Joyce Nabende | Ekaterina Shutova | Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

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Thomas Hueber @thueber.bsky.social · Jul 2

🚀 I’m excited to announce the launch of our new research chair DevAI&Speech (2025–2029), funded by the Grenoble AI Institute MIAI Cluster IA!

The project explores how human developmental processes can inspire more grounded and socially aware conversational AI (1/6).

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Marcely Zanon Boito @marcelyzboito.bsky.social · Jul 2

This ARR rebuttal has been extra silent.
None of the authors for the papers I reviewed answered me 😞
And none of the reviewers for my papers reacted to our answers 😞

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · Jun 14

I have created a starter pack with researchers from Naver Labs Europe @naverlabseurope.bsky.social: we are in Grenoble, France, and we do research in AI for robotics, computer vision, NLP, machine learning, HRI.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Jun 3

Dyson, Nivea, Tiffany & Co., Capital One, UPS, Disney, DoorDash, Live Nation, Anheuser-Busch, Diageo, PepsiCo, Nissan, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Citi, Mastercard, Booz Allen Hamilton, & Deloitte

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19 companies pulling back their support for Pride

For years, major corporations publicly celebrated the LGBTQ community.

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · Mar 28

ALPS 2025, the #NLP winter school in the Alps, kicks off in 2 days! 50 participants from around the world 🌍 7 top speakers, mini-projects, and 3 poster sessions ! Plus: snowy, screen-free fun in Aussois❄️ #ALPS2025 Web: https:/alps.imag.fr

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Laurent Besacier @lbesacier.bsky.social · Mar 3

Join AutoMin 2025 - 3d Run of the Automatic Minuting Shared Task at #SIGDIAL2025 to push the limits of LLMs in
📌 Meeting Summarization
📌 Meeting Question Answering
📅 Workshop: Aug. 28, 2025
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#NLP #LLMs #AI #AutoMin

AutoMin 2025 | Home

Shared Task on Automatic Minuting

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