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Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · Jul 31

Want to see this guy in action again? Come to the Gender Bias in NLP (genderbiasnlp.bsky.social) poster session tomorrow, Aug 1, at 2pm! Joint presentation with PhD student Nicola Fanton, who is looking for a postdoc position soon. Come say hi!

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CoNLL 2025 @conll-conf.bsky.social · Jul 30

Excited to see everyone tomorrow in Hall M1! 🎉 We kick off at 09:20 with the Opening. Don’t miss the 17:20 Discussion on:
👉 Handling growing submissions
👉Adapting conference formats
👉 Strengthening our community
Join us to shape the future! #CoNLL2025

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Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · Jul 27

Finally on my way to #acl2025nlp as well, where I will co-chair this year's @conll-conf.bsky.social . My team will also share results on clarifying discourse relations (ACL Findings), classifying Spanish dialects (ACL-SRW) and a teaser for our 2026 WSD task at the #SemEval workshop. Come say hi!

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Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · Jul 16

Our program is finally ready! =) #nlproc

CoNLL 2025 @conll-conf.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚨 CoNLL 2025 attendees!
🗓️ The tentative program schedule is now live on the website!
🎤 Don’t miss Raquel Fernández’s talk:
“The Interplay between Gestures and Speech in Face-to-Face Communication”
Questions? Let us know!
👇 Poster authors
#CoNLL2025

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Titus von der Malsburg 📖👀💭 @tmalsburg.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 15

Fully-funded PhD position in experimental and/or computational psycholinguistics:

https://tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_phd.html

Application deadline is August 15.

Fully Funded PhD Position in Experimental and/or Computational Psycholinguistics

tmalsburg.github.io

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Asya Achimova @aachimova.bsky.social · Jul 3

More Ph.D. positions available in several projects related to the #SFB Common ground! Please see the list here uni-tuebingen.de/de/283575

Freie Stellen

uni-tuebingen.de

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Andreas Kipf @andreaskipf.bsky.social · Jul 5

The Data Systems Lab is seeking a motivated PhD candidate to join our team and work on foundation models for data compression.

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Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · Jun 23

Is "citations per faculty" really a good metric for university rankings? Why don't we do "burnouts per publication" instead? Also, please don't cite me on this... :P

Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · Jun 6

Correct counts:
1700 accepted Main conference papers
1395 accepted Findings papers
108 accepted Industry papers
64 accepted demos

Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · Jun 6

According to ChatGPT, we will have a very small ACL this year.
chatgpt.com/share/6842a4...

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Barbara Plank @barbaraplank.bsky.social · Jun 4

Do you speak Bavarian? Then please consider helping in a thesis research project👇

Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · Jun 4

Dei Boarisch heard ned bei "Servus" und "Pfiade" auf? Dann suach ma genau Di!
Wir suachan Bairischsprecher:innen, de a kurze Umfrage über KI-generierds Boarisch für a Masterarbeit beantwortn mechadn.
Mid jeder Teilnahme bring ma den boarischn Dialekt a Stickal weida in de digitale Weyd!

Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · May 30

Bavarian dialect speakers needed! Our MSc student Miriam wants to find out 1. how good/bad LLM-generated "Bavarian" is, and 2. whether dialect speakers agree with each other on this. The survey takes <5 min: survey.ifkw.lmu.de/dialquali25/ Thank you for sharing/participating!

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Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · Jun 3

If you want to spare your "hard-working students" unnecessary rejections, you should not let them submit to venues that do not fit the topic of their work. This is your responsibility as a supervisor, not the fault of the venue's PCs...

Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · May 24

About 170 rejects and 40 accepts later, I just need to survive one more round of messages from disappointed authors. By the way, why do authors of accepted papers never write responses to decision notifications? #nlproc #conll2025 @conll-conf.bsky.social

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Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · May 19

Two days after the meta-review deadline, 1 meta-review missing. Not so bad, eh? #conll2025 #nlproc @conll-conf.bsky.social

Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · May 5

One week later, we're still 8 reviews short, but we will make it. Many thanks to our fantastic area chairs and dozens of emergency reviewers! Also: good to hear that @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social is barring irresponsible reviewers from committing their work. Sadly right and necessary. #nlproc #conll2025

Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · Apr 28

Two days after the review deadline, 120 reviews are missing. Sent invitations to 186 emergency reviewers. About 20 have accepted so far. Organizing a conference is fun. Highly recommended. #conll2025 @conll-conf.bsky.social

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Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · Apr 30

Of course, you can call your paper "The Leaderboard Illusion", but that's a bit misleading if it's only about problems with one particular leaderboard (Chatbot Arena). #arxiv

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Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · Apr 28

Two days after the review deadline, 120 reviews are missing. Sent invitations to 186 emergency reviewers. About 20 have accepted so far. Organizing a conference is fun. Highly recommended. #conll2025 @conll-conf.bsky.social

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Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · Apr 4

Lots of #nlp / #nlproc work these days is like: we generate synthetic data with GPT-4, fine-tune BERT, and then show that ourBERT performs better than BERT. But what does this really show? Is there anything meaningful that I am missing?

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Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · Mar 19

Oh, a rejection email regarding a professor position for which I applied in 2023. I almost forgot about that one. #germanacademia #academictwitter

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Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · Mar 17

There are people who, without being asked, suggest themselves as invited speakers for a conference??? 🤯

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Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · Mar 17

It's really interesting to see what authors can get wrong when submitting papers: incorrect page sizes, wrong fonts, exceeded page limits, non-anonymized acknowledgements, entirely different paper templates, ...

Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · Mar 15

218 submissions @conll-conf.bsky.social

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Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · Mar 15

218 submissions @conll-conf.bsky.social

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Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · Mar 9

🚀 Attention #nlproc community! Got a standout *CL paper that has been flying under the radar? Our new non-archival submission track at #conll2025 will give you an extra spotlight. Let your research shine and submit your published paper here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #NLP #ACL2025 #ARR

CoNLL 2025: non-archival submissions

Please see instructions for non-archival submissions on the CoNLL 2025 website.

docs.google.com

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Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · Mar 4

We found two great invited speakers for this year's CoNLL!

CoNLL 2025 @conll-conf.bsky.social · Mar 4

🚨 Guest Speaker Alert! 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce that #CoNLL2025 will feature: 🥁

Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam)
&
Jean-Rémi King (@jeanremiking.bsky.social, CNRS / Meta AI)!
🎤✨

Check out their awesome work!👇

Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · Feb 16

Fun fact: In 2012, I took a truly inspiring class on Coursera called Model Thinking. Almost 13 years later, I am a professor myself and feel honored that @scottepage.bsky.social now follows me on Bluesky! His course is still available—check it out: www.coursera.org/learn/model-...

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