Barbara Plank
@barbaraplank.bsky.social
Prof, Chair for AI & Computational Linguistics,
Head of MaiNLP lab @mainlp.bsky.social, LMU Munich
Co-director CIS @cislmu.bsky.social
Visiting Prof ITU Copenhagen @itu.dk
ELLIS Fellow @ellis.eu
Vice-President ACL
PI MCML @munichcenterml.bsky.social
Head of MaiNLP lab @mainlp.bsky.social, LMU Munich
Co-director CIS @cislmu.bsky.social
Visiting Prof ITU Copenhagen @itu.dk
ELLIS Fellow @ellis.eu
Vice-President ACL
PI MCML @munichcenterml.bsky.social
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Barbara Plank
@barbaraplank.bsky.social
· May 16
🛎️ Excited to announce the 1st Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research at COLM 2025, Oct 10th in Montreal 🇨🇦
As LLMs reshape public discourse and research, collaboration between NLP and Public Opinion Research (POR) is more vital than ever #NLPOR Submit by June 23📄
🔗 tinyurl.com/nlpor25
As LLMs reshape public discourse and research, collaboration between NLP and Public Opinion Research (POR) is more vital than ever #NLPOR Submit by June 23📄
🔗 tinyurl.com/nlpor25
Are you working with LLMs and survey data or generally care about high-quality data and reliable evaluation? Then this might be for you!
Very excited to share the news about our upcoming COLM 2025 workshop #NLPOR
Thanks for helping spread the word ☺️
Very excited to share the news about our upcoming COLM 2025 workshop #NLPOR
Thanks for helping spread the word ☺️
Congrats to MaiNLP lab members!
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Congrats to MaiNLP lab members!
Congrats to MaiNLP lab members!
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Congrats to MaiNLP lab members!
CIS & MaiNLP Group picture at EMNLP 2025! 🤩 🤗 (1/3)
While I sadly 🥲 won't be at EMNLP this year myself, please do reach out to any of our members for a chat if you are interested in our research!
We also co-organize and participate in some great workshops at EMNLP:
While I sadly 🥲 won't be at EMNLP this year myself, please do reach out to any of our members for a chat if you are interested in our research!
We also co-organize and participate in some great workshops at EMNLP:
November 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
CIS & MaiNLP Group picture at EMNLP 2025! 🤩 🤗 (1/3)
While I sadly 🥲 won't be at EMNLP this year myself, please do reach out to any of our members for a chat if you are interested in our research!
We also co-organize and participate in some great workshops at EMNLP:
While I sadly 🥲 won't be at EMNLP this year myself, please do reach out to any of our members for a chat if you are interested in our research!
We also co-organize and participate in some great workshops at EMNLP:
Reposted by Barbara Plank
📑 Our CoT2EL paper will be presented as an oral at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou!
Humans often disagree on labels. Can a model's own reasoning (CoT) help us understand why? We developed a new method to extract these insights. Come join us!
🗓️ Friday, Nov 7, 14:00 - 15:30
📍 Room: A110
Humans often disagree on labels. Can a model's own reasoning (CoT) help us understand why? We developed a new method to extract these insights. Come join us!
🗓️ Friday, Nov 7, 14:00 - 15:30
📍 Room: A110
October 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
📑 Our CoT2EL paper will be presented as an oral at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhou!
Humans often disagree on labels. Can a model's own reasoning (CoT) help us understand why? We developed a new method to extract these insights. Come join us!
🗓️ Friday, Nov 7, 14:00 - 15:30
📍 Room: A110
Humans often disagree on labels. Can a model's own reasoning (CoT) help us understand why? We developed a new method to extract these insights. Come join us!
🗓️ Friday, Nov 7, 14:00 - 15:30
📍 Room: A110
Reposted by Barbara Plank
How do language models memorize noise while reason impressively well?
Our #EMNLP2025 (poster, Nov 5, 11:00-12:30, Hall C) paper shows that memorization reuses internal mechanisms of generalization, even when they are not related to each other!
arxiv.org/abs/2507.04782
Our #EMNLP2025 (poster, Nov 5, 11:00-12:30, Hall C) paper shows that memorization reuses internal mechanisms of generalization, even when they are not related to each other!
arxiv.org/abs/2507.04782
November 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
How do language models memorize noise while reason impressively well?
Our #EMNLP2025 (poster, Nov 5, 11:00-12:30, Hall C) paper shows that memorization reuses internal mechanisms of generalization, even when they are not related to each other!
arxiv.org/abs/2507.04782
Our #EMNLP2025 (poster, Nov 5, 11:00-12:30, Hall C) paper shows that memorization reuses internal mechanisms of generalization, even when they are not related to each other!
arxiv.org/abs/2507.04782
Reposted by Barbara Plank
🎥 @barbaraplank.bsky.social, Hinrich Schütze, and I were featured on tv, talking about how AI tools struggle with dialects!
www.ardmediathek.de/video/capric...
www.ardmediathek.de/video/capric...
Capriccio: Warum KI kein Bairisch versteht - hier anschauen
Künstliche Intelligenz verändert die Sprache, denn sie übernimmt nicht nur unser Vokabular, sondern prägt auch andersherum unsere Ausdrucksweise. Nur mit Dialekten tut sich die KI nachweislich schwer,...
www.ardmediathek.de
October 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🎥 @barbaraplank.bsky.social, Hinrich Schütze, and I were featured on tv, talking about how AI tools struggle with dialects!
www.ardmediathek.de/video/capric...
www.ardmediathek.de/video/capric...
Reposted by Barbara Plank
VarDial 2026 will be colocated with @eaclmeeting.bsky.social! We're looking forward to your papers on NLP for similar languages, varieties and dialects :)
Deadline: Dec 19 (Jan 2 for pre-reviewed ARR papers)
sites.google.com/view/vardial...
Deadline: Dec 19 (Jan 2 for pre-reviewed ARR papers)
sites.google.com/view/vardial...
October 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
VarDial 2026 will be colocated with @eaclmeeting.bsky.social! We're looking forward to your papers on NLP for similar languages, varieties and dialects :)
Deadline: Dec 19 (Jan 2 for pre-reviewed ARR papers)
sites.google.com/view/vardial...
Deadline: Dec 19 (Jan 2 for pre-reviewed ARR papers)
sites.google.com/view/vardial...
Reposted by Barbara Plank
Reposted by Barbara Plank
are you attending @colmweb.org 🦙 psst, don't miss our First Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research tomorrow #COLM2025
🛎️ we have a great line up of keynotes, presentation, and panel discussion, followed by a happy hour
📍 room 518B
schedule and info: sites.google.com/view/nlpor20...
🛎️ we have a great line up of keynotes, presentation, and panel discussion, followed by a happy hour
📍 room 518B
schedule and info: sites.google.com/view/nlpor20...
October 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
are you attending @colmweb.org 🦙 psst, don't miss our First Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research tomorrow #COLM2025
🛎️ we have a great line up of keynotes, presentation, and panel discussion, followed by a happy hour
📍 room 518B
schedule and info: sites.google.com/view/nlpor20...
🛎️ we have a great line up of keynotes, presentation, and panel discussion, followed by a happy hour
📍 room 518B
schedule and info: sites.google.com/view/nlpor20...
Reposted by Barbara Plank
Check out the...
- talk on Mon Aug 18, 15:50–16:10
- preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.02894
- suppl. material: github.com/mainlp/betth...
Joint work w/ Miriam Winkler & @barbaraplank.bsky.social from @mainlp.bsky.social, and Constantin Förster & Gabriele Wenger-Glemser from Bayerischer Rundfunk!
- talk on Mon Aug 18, 15:50–16:10
- preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.02894
- suppl. material: github.com/mainlp/betth...
Joint work w/ Miriam Winkler & @barbaraplank.bsky.social from @mainlp.bsky.social, and Constantin Förster & Gabriele Wenger-Glemser from Bayerischer Rundfunk!
A Multi-Dialectal Dataset for German Dialect ASR and Dialect-to-Standard Speech Translation
Although Germany has a diverse landscape of dialects, they are underrepresented in current automatic speech recognition (ASR) research. To enable studies of how robust models are towards dialectal var...
arxiv.org
August 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Check out the...
- talk on Mon Aug 18, 15:50–16:10
- preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.02894
- suppl. material: github.com/mainlp/betth...
Joint work w/ Miriam Winkler & @barbaraplank.bsky.social from @mainlp.bsky.social, and Constantin Förster & Gabriele Wenger-Glemser from Bayerischer Rundfunk!
- talk on Mon Aug 18, 15:50–16:10
- preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2506.02894
- suppl. material: github.com/mainlp/betth...
Joint work w/ Miriam Winkler & @barbaraplank.bsky.social from @mainlp.bsky.social, and Constantin Förster & Gabriele Wenger-Glemser from Bayerischer Rundfunk!
Reposted by Barbara Plank
At #Interspeech2025 I'm going to present Betthupferl, a dataset for German dialect ASR & dialect-to-standard speech translation! We analyze differences between dialectal & Standard German transcriptions, benchmark ASR models, and examine shortcomings of current ASR models & evaluation metrics.
August 7, 2025 at 8:46 AM
At #Interspeech2025 I'm going to present Betthupferl, a dataset for German dialect ASR & dialect-to-standard speech translation! We analyze differences between dialectal & Standard German transcriptions, benchmark ASR models, and examine shortcomings of current ASR models & evaluation metrics.
So well-deserved, and such a great, supportive talk, especially kudos for including her students in the Lifetime Achievement Award! Thank you, Kathy ☀️
🕊️ Lifetime Achievement Award at #ACL2025NLP
A standing ovation for Prof. Kathy McKeown, recipient of the ACL 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award! 🌟
A standing ovation for Prof. Kathy McKeown, recipient of the ACL 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award! 🌟
July 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
So well-deserved, and such a great, supportive talk, especially kudos for including her students in the Lifetime Achievement Award! Thank you, Kathy ☀️
Reposted by Barbara Plank
This year ACL inaugurates the ✨🎓ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award! 🎓✨
Instrumental for launching this inaugural prize is the Computational Linguistics Journal @CompLingJournal, with support of the ACL Exec.
#CLJournal #ComputationalLinguistics
#ACL2025NLP @CompLingJournal
Instrumental for launching this inaugural prize is the Computational Linguistics Journal @CompLingJournal, with support of the ACL Exec.
#CLJournal #ComputationalLinguistics
#ACL2025NLP @CompLingJournal
July 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This year ACL inaugurates the ✨🎓ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award! 🎓✨
Instrumental for launching this inaugural prize is the Computational Linguistics Journal @CompLingJournal, with support of the ACL Exec.
#CLJournal #ComputationalLinguistics
#ACL2025NLP @CompLingJournal
Instrumental for launching this inaugural prize is the Computational Linguistics Journal @CompLingJournal, with support of the ACL Exec.
#CLJournal #ComputationalLinguistics
#ACL2025NLP @CompLingJournal
Reposted by Barbara Plank
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📣 Social event at Day2 at #ACL2025NLP 🇦🇹
Get ready to experience the vibrant culture of Vienna at the ACL 2025 Social Event this Tuesday night at the ACV! 🎉
We've got an unforgettable evening planned!
📣 Social event at Day2 at #ACL2025NLP 🇦🇹
Get ready to experience the vibrant culture of Vienna at the ACL 2025 Social Event this Tuesday night at the ACV! 🎉
We've got an unforgettable evening planned!
Willkommen | TU Orchester, Wien
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July 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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📣 Social event at Day2 at #ACL2025NLP 🇦🇹
Get ready to experience the vibrant culture of Vienna at the ACL 2025 Social Event this Tuesday night at the ACV! 🎉
We've got an unforgettable evening planned!
📣 Social event at Day2 at #ACL2025NLP 🇦🇹
Get ready to experience the vibrant culture of Vienna at the ACL 2025 Social Event this Tuesday night at the ACV! 🎉
We've got an unforgettable evening planned!
Reposted by Barbara Plank
Sewon Min 🏆 presenting the essence of her thesis: Rethinking Data Use in Large Language Models -- It won the first ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award 🎓✨
#ACL2025NLP #CLJournal @complingjournal.bsky.social
#ACL2025NLP #CLJournal @complingjournal.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Sewon Min 🏆 presenting the essence of her thesis: Rethinking Data Use in Large Language Models -- It won the first ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award 🎓✨
#ACL2025NLP #CLJournal @complingjournal.bsky.social
#ACL2025NLP #CLJournal @complingjournal.bsky.social
Reposted by Barbara Plank
Get ready, ACL 2025 attendees! 🎉 The Opening Ceremony kicks off Monday, July 28 at 9 AM CEST in Hall A of the Austria Center Vienna. Don't miss it! 📍 #ACL2025NLP #Vienna
July 27, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Get ready, ACL 2025 attendees! 🎉 The Opening Ceremony kicks off Monday, July 28 at 9 AM CEST in Hall A of the Austria Center Vienna. Don't miss it! 📍 #ACL2025NLP #Vienna
Thanks for the invitation to the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) to give this year's Hermann-Paul-Center Lecture lnkd.in/d_wUeDfY
I enjoyed the visit, the great audience, and the stay in this lovely city.
Thank you
#blackforest #freiburg #breisgau
I enjoyed the visit, the great audience, and the stay in this lovely city.
Thank you
#blackforest #freiburg #breisgau
July 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Thanks for the invitation to the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) to give this year's Hermann-Paul-Center Lecture lnkd.in/d_wUeDfY
I enjoyed the visit, the great audience, and the stay in this lovely city.
Thank you
#blackforest #freiburg #breisgau
I enjoyed the visit, the great audience, and the stay in this lovely city.
Thank you
#blackforest #freiburg #breisgau
My ACL 2024 keynote talk on "Are LLMs Narrowing Our Horizon? Let’s Embrace Variation in NLP!" is online now:
underline.io/events/466/s...
2024.aclweb.org/program/keyn...
It was a huge honor to me to give last year's flagship-in-NLP-conference keynote in Bangkok 🇹🇭
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2024.aclweb.org/program/keyn...
It was a huge honor to me to give last year's flagship-in-NLP-conference keynote in Bangkok 🇹🇭
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June 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My ACL 2024 keynote talk on "Are LLMs Narrowing Our Horizon? Let’s Embrace Variation in NLP!" is online now:
underline.io/events/466/s...
2024.aclweb.org/program/keyn...
It was a huge honor to me to give last year's flagship-in-NLP-conference keynote in Bangkok 🇹🇭
underline.io/events/466/s...
2024.aclweb.org/program/keyn...
It was a huge honor to me to give last year's flagship-in-NLP-conference keynote in Bangkok 🇹🇭
Do you speak Bavarian? Then please consider helping in a thesis research project👇
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!
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!
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!
June 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Do you speak Bavarian? Then please consider helping in a thesis research project👇
MaiNLP/CIS participates in #stadradeln 🚴☀️
Proposing "kilometers cycled in 2 weeks" as a new success metric for research groups 🚴♀️📊🥇
@mainlp.bsky.social #stadtradeln
@mainlp.bsky.social #stadtradeln
May 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
MaiNLP/CIS participates in #stadradeln 🚴☀️
Just submitted your EMNLP paper? Congrats!
An update on paper awards: the ACL award policy has been updated - in future the non-publicized awards won't have that info any longer in its title. Read more below:
🏆
An update on paper awards: the ACL award policy has been updated - in future the non-publicized awards won't have that info any longer in its title. Read more below:
🏆
ACL Conference Awards Policy - Admin Wiki
www.aclweb.org
May 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Just submitted your EMNLP paper? Congrats!
An update on paper awards: the ACL award policy has been updated - in future the non-publicized awards won't have that info any longer in its title. Read more below:
🏆
An update on paper awards: the ACL award policy has been updated - in future the non-publicized awards won't have that info any longer in its title. Read more below:
🏆
Are you working with LLMs and survey data or generally care about high-quality data and reliable evaluation? Then this might be for you!
Very excited to share the news about our upcoming COLM 2025 workshop #NLPOR
Thanks for helping spread the word ☺️
Very excited to share the news about our upcoming COLM 2025 workshop #NLPOR
Thanks for helping spread the word ☺️
🛎️ Excited to announce the 1st Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research at COLM 2025, Oct 10th in Montreal 🇨🇦
As LLMs reshape public discourse and research, collaboration between NLP and Public Opinion Research (POR) is more vital than ever #NLPOR Submit by June 23📄
🔗 tinyurl.com/nlpor25
As LLMs reshape public discourse and research, collaboration between NLP and Public Opinion Research (POR) is more vital than ever #NLPOR Submit by June 23📄
🔗 tinyurl.com/nlpor25
May 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Are you working with LLMs and survey data or generally care about high-quality data and reliable evaluation? Then this might be for you!
Very excited to share the news about our upcoming COLM 2025 workshop #NLPOR
Thanks for helping spread the word ☺️
Very excited to share the news about our upcoming COLM 2025 workshop #NLPOR
Thanks for helping spread the word ☺️
LeWiDi: Shared task on Learning With Disagreement
Website: le-wi-di.github.io
We'd like to invite researchers in disagreement & variation to participate in the third edition of the LeWidi shared tasks held in conjunction with the NLPerspectives workshop at EMNLP 2025
nlperspectives.di.unito.it
Website: le-wi-di.github.io
We'd like to invite researchers in disagreement & variation to participate in the third edition of the LeWidi shared tasks held in conjunction with the NLPerspectives workshop at EMNLP 2025
nlperspectives.di.unito.it
LeWiDi 2025 - 3rd edition
This is the page of the Learning With Disagreements tasks
le-wi-di.github.io
May 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
LeWiDi: Shared task on Learning With Disagreement
Website: le-wi-di.github.io
We'd like to invite researchers in disagreement & variation to participate in the third edition of the LeWidi shared tasks held in conjunction with the NLPerspectives workshop at EMNLP 2025
nlperspectives.di.unito.it
Website: le-wi-di.github.io
We'd like to invite researchers in disagreement & variation to participate in the third edition of the LeWidi shared tasks held in conjunction with the NLPerspectives workshop at EMNLP 2025
nlperspectives.di.unito.it
Reposted by Barbara Plank
On my way to #NAACL2025 where I'll give a keynote at the noisy text workshop (WNUT), presenting some of the challenges & methods for dialect NLP + also discussing dialect speakers' perspectives!
🗨️ Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data
🗓️ Saturday, May 3, 9:30–10:30
🗨️ Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data
🗓️ Saturday, May 3, 9:30–10:30
April 29, 2025 at 9:17 AM
On my way to #NAACL2025 where I'll give a keynote at the noisy text workshop (WNUT), presenting some of the challenges & methods for dialect NLP + also discussing dialect speakers' perspectives!
🗨️ Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data
🗓️ Saturday, May 3, 9:30–10:30
🗨️ Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data
🗓️ Saturday, May 3, 9:30–10:30
Reposted by Barbara Plank
Reunion in Singapore!🇸🇬 @barbaraplank.bsky.social, @xinpeng.bsky.social, who's currently on a research stay at NYU, and Chengzhi are presenting their work at @iclr-conf.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Reunion in Singapore!🇸🇬 @barbaraplank.bsky.social, @xinpeng.bsky.social, who's currently on a research stay at NYU, and Chengzhi are presenting their work at @iclr-conf.bsky.social