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Naomi Baes

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👩‍🎓 PhD Candidate | Computational Social Science (NLP × Psychology) 🔍 Build frameworks (SIBling & LSC-Eval) to model semantic change in socially salient concepts 👥 Supervisors: Nick Haslam & Kat Vylomova 🌐 naomibaes.github.io

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Naomi Baes @naomibaes.bsky.social · Jul 27

Excited to present LSC-Eval @aclmeeting.bsky.social! 🎉

This general-purpose framework evaluates methods for assessing dimensions of lexical semantic change using LLM-generated synthetic data to test how well measures detect changes.

📍MON @ 6 pm, Hall 4/5

Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.finding...

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Julia Mendelsohn @jmendelsohn2.bsky.social · 2d

I will be at #COLM2025 this week, and would love to connect with folks interested in applications (and critiques) of language modeling in social science research!

And join us for the NLP4Democracy workshop on Friday!

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#NLP #NLProc #LLM #ComputationalSocialScience

NLP 4 Democracy - COLM 2025

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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 3d

I elaborate on what I think should be taught. It boils down to (at least) four things:
1 causality: how to pose and identify effects
2 regression: as a tool for inference, not prediction
3 benchmarks: as measurements, not trophies
4 experiments: with rigor, power, and ethics

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Manoel Horta Ribeiro @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social · 3d

Computer Science is no longer just about building systems or proving theorems--it's about observation and experiments.

In my latest blog post, I argue it’s time we had our own "Econometrics," a discipline devoted to empirical rigor.

doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-missin...

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Sheridan Feucht @ COLM @sfeucht.bsky.social · Apr 7

[📄] Are LLMs mindless token-shifters, or do they build meaningful representations of language? We study how LLMs copy text in-context, and physically separate out two types of induction heads: token heads, which copy literal tokens, and concept heads, which copy word meanings.

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Naomi Baes @naomibaes.bsky.social · 14d

#SemanticChange #ComputationalLinguistics #NLP #Psychology #CulturalChange #ComputationalSocialScience #LLMs

Naomi Baes @naomibaes.bsky.social · 14d

Honored to give a talk at the National Research Council Canada on Dimensions of Semantic Change, thanks to Dr Saif Mohammad (NRC-VAD mastermind).

Shared 2 frameworks - SIBling (Sentiment, Intensity, Breadth) + LSC-Eval - applied to mental health concepts.

Slides: www.slideshare.net/slideshow/di...

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · 16d

Pleased to announce our #NLP SemEval Task 7: Everyday Knowledge Across Diverse Languages & Cultures.
We extend the BLEnD Benchmark to >30 language-culture pairs. [Our task is Junior-friendly, with live Q&A & tutorials.] 1/

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*SEM @starsem.bsky.social · 21d

*SEM 2025 invites presentations of accepted EMNLP Findings papers that fit the theme. Register your paper by September 24! Registration link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#NLP #NLProc

*SEM2025 Request to Present Accepted EMNLP Findings Paper

*SEM2025 may be able to accommodate presentation of relevant papers accepted for Findings of EMNLP 2025. Please refer to the *SEM2025 CFP to ensure your paper is relevant. The deadline for applicati...

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Naomi Baes @naomibaes.bsky.social · 22d

Gave a talk @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social NLTP Lab — thanks for the kind invitation and stimulating discussion!

I presented:
🔹SIBling – models semantic change (Sentiment, Intensity, Breadth)
🔹LSC-Eval – synthetic benchmarks for evaluating change methods

Slides: www.slideshare.net/slideshow/di...

Dimensions of Semantic Change: Applying the SIBling Framework to Mental Health Concepts

Dimensions of Semantic Change: Applying the SIBling Framework to Mental Health Concepts Invited by: Dr. Pablo Mosteiro Romero: https://www.uu.nl/staff/PJMosteiroRomero Location: Natural Language and Text Processing Lab, University of Utrecht: https://nlp.sites.uu.nl/ Promotion: https://nlp.sites.uu.nl/2025/09/11/nltp-content-meetings-september-16-dimensions-of-semantic-change-applying-the-sibling-framework-to-mental-health-concepts-by-naomi-baes/ Title: Dimensions of Semantic Change: Applying the SIBling Framework to Mental Health Concepts Abstract: Lexical semantic change takes many forms, yet existing approaches often examine them in isolation. I present SIBling, a three-dimensional framework for modelling semantic change through shifts in (1) Sentiment (the valence of a word’s contexts), (2) Intensity (emotional arousal or the use of intensifiers), and (3) Breadth (the diversity of contexts in which a word appears). Together, these dimensions provide an integrated and computationally efficient way of mapping how the meanings of concepts evolve over time. I illustrate the framework with case studies of mental health related concepts, showing how they have broadened, intensified, or shifted in sentiment across decades of text. These results illuminate cultural trends such as pathologization, stigma, and concept creep, demonstrating how the SIBling toolkit captures capture socially significant conceptual change. Main publications the presentation is based on: 1. Naomi Baes, Nick Haslam, and Ekaterina Vylomova. 2024. A Multidimensional Framework for Evaluating Lexical Semantic Change with Social Science Applications. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 1390–1415, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics. 2. Naomi Baes, Raphael Merx, Nick Haslam, Ekaterina Vylomova, and Haim Dubossarsky. 2025. LSC-Eval: A General Framework to Evaluate Methods for Assessing Dimensions of Lexical Semantic Change Using LLM-Generated Synthetic Data. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, pages 10905–10939, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics. - Download as a PDF or view online for free

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Naomi Baes @naomibaes.bsky.social · 25d

The recent killing of Charlie Kirk underscores the urgency of this timely essay by Professor Shalom Lappin. It charts how three illiberal movements — authoritarian New Right, postmodern anti-colonial Left, and Islamist extremism — have surged from the fringes.

Link: quillette.com/2025/08/21/t...

The Neo-Romantic Revolt

The rise of a three-pronged politics of unreason.

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Naomi Baes @naomibaes.bsky.social · 29d

Had an intellectually stimulating time at the Language models And RePresentations (LARP) 2025 conference, exploring ideas around neuro-symbolic AI and enjoying excellent keynotes from Moa Johansson, Dan Roth, and Vaishak Belle.

See proceedings here: gu-clasp.github.io/LARP/program...

Naomi Baes @naomibaes.bsky.social · Sep 5

#SemanticChange #ConceptCreep #MentalHealth

Naomi Baes @naomibaes.bsky.social · Sep 5

Excited to be speaking at Change is Key! (University of Gothenburg) on "Dimensions of Semantic Change: Validation and Application of the SIBling Framework"

I’ll show how SIBling (Sentiment, Intensity, Breadth) helps track semantic change in mental health terms.

Link: www.gu.se/en/event/cha...

Change is Key! – Using LLMs in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Come and learn about computational modeling of linguistic, cultural and social change. Welcome to a full-day conference at Humanisten, organized by the research project Change is Key! We will present ...

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Naomi Baes @naomibaes.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations, @andreskarjus.bsky.social! Well deserved.

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Andres Karjus @andreskarjus.bsky.social · Sep 1

We wrote a little overview chapter on Evolutionary Linguistics with Jonas Nölle and @stefanhartmann.bsky.social for the upcoming Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (3rd ed), edited by Nesi&Milin. Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... (with extra references! the handbook had a limit on those)

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Naomi Baes @naomibaes.bsky.social · Aug 29

Presenting SIBling at @ic2s2.bsky.social was super enjoyable. Thanks to everyone who dropped by and for the thoughtful discussions!

Naomi Baes @naomibaes.bsky.social · Aug 28

We successfully presented our findings @aclmeeting.bsky.social Thanks to everyone who stopped by for the thoughtful questions and great discussion!

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Noga Zaslavsky @nogazs.bsky.social · Aug 9

If you missed us at #cogsci2025, my lab presented 3 new studies showing how efficient (lossy) compression shapes individual learners, bilinguals, and action abstractions in language, further demonstrating the extraordinary applicability of this principle to human cognition! 🧵

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Lucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social · Aug 12

A nice discovery today: #ic2s2 keynotes are on Youtube! In particular, I think the papers listed by @lauraknelson.bsky.social in her keynote could form a great list for a CSS reading group.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXYg...

Laura Nelson: Qualitative Methods for Computational Social Science — IC2S2 2025 Keynote

YouTube video by Institute for Analytical Sociology

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Lauren Ross @laurennross.bsky.social · Feb 21

Enjoyed this interview with Ricardo on @thedissenteryt.bsky.social ! We discussed different types of causation, the topic of explanation in science, & my recent Cambridge Univ Press Elements book on "Explanation in biology" 📕

YouTube: youtu.be/sbY40h-1gKY

Book: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The Dissenter @thedissenteryt.bsky.social · Feb 20

New episode (1061), with Dr. Lauren Ross (@laurennross.bsky.social). We talk about causation and explanation in #Science. #Philosophy

YouTube: youtu.be/sbY40h-1gKY
Podcast: bit.ly/4hLHjvL

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · Jul 29

I am delighted to share our new #PNAS paper, with @grvkamath.bsky.social @msonderegger.bsky.social and @sivareddyg.bsky.social, on whether age matters for the adoption of new meanings. That is, as words change meaning, does the rate of adoption vary across generations? www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · Aug 8

This week, we had the pleasure of hosting @christinenlp.bsky.social , who presented her work on 'Modelling the Language of Extremist Groups.' Thank you for visiting us!

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Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences @psychunimelb.bsky.social · Aug 3

Will the Australian government really lock under-16s out of TikTok? A/Prof Scott Griffiths returns to PsychTalks to unpack the proposed social media ban. He breaks down policy motives, enforcement hurdles, and how parents can protect kids’ mental health online.
🎧Find it here go.unimelb.edu.au/7axe

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*SEM @starsem.bsky.social · Jul 31

*SEM 2025 call for ARR commit papers! *SEM 2025 will be co-located with EMNLP and accepts commits of ARR papers with complete sets of ARR reviews. Commit your paper here by Aug 22: openreview.net/group?id=acl...

#NLP #NLProc

StarSEM 2025 ARR Commitment

Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for StarSEM 2025 ARR Commitment

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Naomi Baes @naomibaes.bsky.social · Jul 31

Congratulations, Nedjma, and all! Well deserved. 🎉

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