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@shaily99.bsky.social

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PhDing at LTI, CMU Prev: Ai2, Google Research, MSR Evaluating language technologies, regularly ranting, and probably procrastinating. https://sites.google.com/view/shailybhatt/

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Shaily @shaily99.bsky.social · Jun 9

🖋️ Curious how writing differs across (research) cultures?
🚩 Tired of “cultural” evals that don't consult people?

We engaged with interdisciplinary researchers to identify & measure ✨cultural norms✨in scientific writing, and show that❗LLMs flatten them❗

📜 arxiv.org/abs/2506.00784

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An overview of the work “Research Borderlands: Analysing Writing Across Research Cultures” by Shaily Bhatt, Tal August, and Maria Antoniak. The overview describes that We survey and interview interdisciplinary researchers (§3) to develop a framework of writing norms that vary across research cultures (§4) and operationalise them using computational metrics (§5). We then use this evaluation suite for two large-scale quantitative analyses: (a) surfacing variations in writing across 11 communities (§6); (b) evaluating the cultural competence of LLMs when adapting writing from one community to another (§7).

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Shaily @shaily99.bsky.social · 1d

I now have a notion page that i made when i did this ages ago and i blindly follow 2023 me and am grateful to her.

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s a #COLM2025 feed!

Pin it 📌 to follow along with the conference this week!

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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!

sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e...

#NLP #NLProc #LLM #ComputationalSocialScience

NLP 4 Democracy - COLM 2025

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Nishant Subramani @ ACL @nsubramani23.bsky.social · 2d

At @colmweb.org all week 🥯🍁! Presenting 3 mechinterp + actionable interp papers at @interplay-workshop.bsky.social

1. BERTology in the Modern World w/ @bearseascape.bsky.social
2. MICE for CATs
3. LLM Microscope w/ Jiarui Liu, Jivitesh Jain, @monadiab77.bsky.social

Reach out to chat! #COLM2025

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Fernando Diaz @841io.bsky.social · 6d

In January, Asia Biega (MPI), Georgina Born (UCL), Mary Gray (MSR), Rida Qadri (G), and I ran a Dagstuhl Seminar bringing together folks from CS and the broader social sciences to discuss questions around AI and culture. Dagstuhl has just posted our report, 1/3

drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/04da...

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Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · 6d

Looking for PhD opportunites in #NLProc #XAI? We @copenlu.bsky.social @aicentre.dk @apepa.bsky.social are hiring for a start in Spring or Autumn 2026.
📆 Application deadline: 31 October 2025
ℹ️ Details: www.copenlu.com/news/phd-fel...
👀 Reasons to apply: www.copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/

PhD fellowships for start in Spring or Autumn 2026 | CopeNLU

Would you like to join our lab as a PhD student in 2026? We have several openings. Read more about reasons to join CopeNLU here. Start in Spring 2026 We have two fully funded 3-year PhD fellowships av...

www.copenlu.com

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Abhilasha Ravichander @lasha.bsky.social · 7d

It is PhD application season again 🍂 For those looking to do a PhD in AI, these are some useful resources 🤖:

1. Examples of statements of purpose (SOPs) for computer science PhD programs: cs-sop.org [1/4]

CS PhD Statements of Purpose

cs-sop.org is a platform intended to help CS PhD applicants. It hosts a database of example statements of purpose (SoP) shared by previous applicants to Computer Science PhD programs.

cs-sop.org

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Jessy Li @jessyjli.bsky.social · 8d

All of us (@kanishka.bsky.social @kmahowald.bsky.social and me) are looking for PhD students this cycle! If computational linguistics/NLP is your passion, join us at UT Austin!

For my areas see jessyli.com

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Shaily @shaily99.bsky.social · 9d

You guys are writing at 9 AM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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naitian @naitian.org · 13d

I've written really terrible paragraphs that have made me want to stop at 9AM in the morning.

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Shaily @shaily99.bsky.social · 18d

@danishpruthi.bsky.social
Kalika Bali at MSR (don't think she's on here)

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Yanai Elazar @yanai.bsky.social · Sep 3

Organizing a workshop? Checkout our compiled material for organizing one: www.bigpictureworkshop.com/open-workshop

(and hopefully we'll be back for another iteration of the Big Picture next year w/ Allyson Ettinger, @norakassner.bsky.social, @sebruder.bsky.social)

Big Picture Workshop - Open Workshop

Open sourcing the workshop

www.bigpictureworkshop.com

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Aug 29

New preprint on "Computational Hermeneutics," co-authored by too many people to list in one post. TL;DR: GenAI is a cultural technology, and needs to be evaluated in ways that recognize situatedness, plurality, and ambiguity as the conditions of meaning — not noise to be minimized.

Computational Hermeneutics: Evaluating Generative AI as a Cultural Technology

<div> <div> <div> <p>Generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat cul

papers.ssrn.com

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Shaily @shaily99.bsky.social · Aug 21

I would love to know more about the findings.

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Arnav Arora @rnv.bsky.social · Aug 21

Happy to share that our work on multi-modal framing analysis of news was accepted to #EMNLP2025!

Understanding news output and embedded biases is especially important in today's environment and it's imperative to take a holistic look at it.

Looking forward to presenting it in Suzhou!

Arnav Arora @rnv.bsky.social · Apr 7

🚨New pre-print 🚨

News articles often convey different things in text vs. image. Recent work in computational framing analysis has analysed the article text but the corresponding images in those articles have been overlooked.
We propose multi-modal framing analysis of news: arxiv.org/abs/2503.20960

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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

lti.cmu.edu

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Haley L. @haleyhaala.bsky.social · Aug 19

The world is a mess. Need a laugh? Check out @ajalvero.bsky.social and my Linguistic Affordances Framework (LAF) for the social study of language technologies! Jokes aside, we hope this will help researchers make sense of social changes associated with new technologies.
doi.org/10.1177/0894...

Linguistic Affordances Framework: A Linguistic-Sociological Approach for the Social Study of Language Technology - Haley Lepp, AJ Alvero, 2025

This paper describes a three-part framework to study how language technologies elucidate and shape linguistic relations in society. Reframing a mountain of evid...

doi.org

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Shaily @shaily99.bsky.social · Aug 20

Page are joke. Must to succinctly.

Shaily @shaily99.bsky.social · Aug 19

but what if they remove what you typed immediately after :'0

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Nedjma Ousidhoum @nedjmaou-nlp.bsky.social · Aug 15

The Call for #EMNLP2025 @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social student volunteers is out:
2025.emnlp.org/calls/volunt...
Please fill out the form by 20 Sep 2026 : forms.gle/qfTkVGyDitXi...
For questions, you can contact emnlp2025-student-volunteer-chairs [at] googlegroups [dot] com

Call for Volunteers

Official website for the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2025.emnlp.org

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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhD students Fall'26 @upolehsan.bsky.social · Aug 5

The Onion used to make jokes.
Now it does academic ethnography.

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Shaily @shaily99.bsky.social · Aug 6

welcome back to NA

Shaily @shaily99.bsky.social · Jul 28

I was this close to just asking Maria haha. Sounds about right, thanks for pointing me to it.

Shaily @shaily99.bsky.social · Jul 28

are there any bsky #acl2025 feed around already?

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Shaily @shaily99.bsky.social · Jul 27

#IC2S2 was so much fun, now see you at Vienna at #aclnlp2025. Fine me around the conference or in the poster session on Wednesday at 11 talking about this work, cultural competence in LLMs, and evaluation.

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