🎲 The 2nd edition of UncertaiNLP is coming to EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou! A venue for work on uncertainty-aware NLP, from Bayesian inference to decision-making under uncertainty.

🗓 Direct submissions due: Aug 15
🗓 ARR commitments due: Aug 29

Details: uncertainlp.github.io

@melaniemitchell.bsky.social giving a talk at UvA! @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social

This Friday at 3pm, Amsterdam's Computational Linguistics Seminar and the CLClab will host Melanie Mitchell, for a special edition of the Amsterdam Lectures in AI and Society. She will speak about "AI's Challenge of Understanding the World". Zoom link/ register:
clclab.netlify.app/2025/05/07/a...

Jaap Jumelet @jumelet.bsky.social successfully defended his dissertation this week, closing of 6 productive years as master and PhD student at AmsterdamNLP.
bsky.app/profile/jume...

Here's a good thread on some of the highlights of his work!
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All the best at @ groningennlp

My PhD thesis is now available online! It is called "Finding Structure in Language Models" and presents the work I have done in the past 4 years on the intersection of NLP, interpretability, and linguistics.

I'll defend it on December 10, streamed here: jumelet.ai/phd

arxiv.org/abs/2411.16433

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Today we had the pleasure to host @michaelwhanna.bsky.social from @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social for a seminar on his work w/ @amuuueller.bsky.social to interpret incremental sentence processing in language models. Thank you for joining us Michael!

Last week, we organized the workshop "New Perspectives on Bias and Discrimination in Language Technology" 🤖 @uvahumanities.bsky.social @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social

We're looking back at two inspiring days of talks, posters, and discussions—thanks to everyone who participated!

wai-amsterdam.github.io

The NLP labs starter pack is here! go.bsky.app/LKGekew Let us know if you want to be added!

After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇
#NeuroAI #CompNeuro

Beautiful gifs of the Transformer architecture

towardsdatascience.com/drawing-the-...

Work in progress -- suggestions for NLP-ers based in the EU/Europe & already on Bluesky very welcome!

go.bsky.app/NZDc31B

✨ Do current neural speech models show human-like linguistic biases in speech perception?

We took inspiration from classic phonetic categorization experiments to explore where sensitivity to phonotactic context emerges in Wav2Vec2 models 🔍
(w/ @wzuidema.bsky.social)

📑 arxiv.org/abs/2407.03005

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EMNLP 2024 proceedings link aclanthology.org/events/emnlp... #nlp

Today is the start of the British AI Safety summit. As do many other AI researchers, I have mixed feelings. Here are the main worries about the AI regulation process in the UK, EU and US that are currently heavily discussed among AI researchers worldwide: 1/