Dirk Hovy
@dirkhovy.bsky.social
Professor @milanlp.bsky.social for #NLProc, compsocsci, #ML
Also at http://dirkhovy.com/
Also at http://dirkhovy.com/
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π Weβre opening 2 fully funded postdoc positions in #NLP!
Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects.
π More details: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...
β° Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects.
π More details: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...
β° Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
π Weβre opening 2 fully funded postdoc positions in #NLP!
Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects.
π More details: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...
β° Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects.
π More details: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...
β° Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
Happy to have contributed to this
Thrilled to announce the Handbook of Computational Social Science is officially out! 956 pages, 118 authors, and truly global, interdisciplinary perspectives. Deep thanks to the contributors and anonymous reviewers who shaped this over 4 years. Buy your copy now!
@elgarpublishing.bsky.social
@elgarpublishing.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Happy to have contributed to this
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#MemoryModay #NLProc Countering Hateful and Offensive Speech Online - Open Challenges" by Plaza-Del-Arco, @debora_nozza, Guerini, Sorensen, Zampieri, 2024 is a tutorial on the challenges and solutions for detecting and mitigating hate speech.
Countering Hateful and Offensive Speech Online - Open Challenges
Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Debora Nozza, Marco Guerini, Jeffrey Sorensen, Marcos Zampieri. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Tutorial Abstracts.β¦
aclanthology.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#MemoryModay #NLProc Countering Hateful and Offensive Speech Online - Open Challenges" by Plaza-Del-Arco, @debora_nozza, Guerini, Sorensen, Zampieri, 2024 is a tutorial on the challenges and solutions for detecting and mitigating hate speech.
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#MemoryModay #NLProc Uma, A. N. et al. examine AI model training in 'Learning from Disagreement: A Survey'. Disagreement-handling methods' performance is shaped by evaluation methods & dataset traits.
jair.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#MemoryModay #NLProc Uma, A. N. et al. examine AI model training in 'Learning from Disagreement: A Survey'. Disagreement-handling methods' performance is shaped by evaluation methods & dataset traits.
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#TBT #NLProc #MachineLearning #SafetyFirst 'Safety-Tuned LLaMAs: Improving LLMs Safety' by Bianchi et al. explores training LLMs for safe refusals, warns of over-tuning.
Safety-Tuned LLaMAs: Lessons From Improving the Safety of Large...
Training large language models to follow instructions makes them perform better on a wide range of tasks and generally become more helpful. However, a perfectly helpful model will follow even the most...
arxiv.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#TBT #NLProc #MachineLearning #SafetyFirst 'Safety-Tuned LLaMAs: Improving LLMs Safety' by Bianchi et al. explores training LLMs for safe refusals, warns of over-tuning.
Come work with @deboranozza.bsky.social, me, and the lab in Milan!
π Weβre opening 2 fully funded postdoc positions in #NLP!
Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects.
π More details: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...
β° Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
Join the MilaNLP team and contribute to our upcoming research projects.
π More details: milanlproc.github.io/open_positio...
β° Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
December 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Come work with @deboranozza.bsky.social, me, and the lab in Milan!
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We don't actually trust AI.
We trust the companies behind it.
As Maria Antoniak notes, every "private" chat flows through corporate systems with long histories of data misuse. If we care about AI ethics, we need to name power, not anthropomorphize models.
We trust the companies behind it.
As Maria Antoniak notes, every "private" chat flows through corporate systems with long histories of data misuse. If we care about AI ethics, we need to name power, not anthropomorphize models.
December 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We don't actually trust AI.
We trust the companies behind it.
As Maria Antoniak notes, every "private" chat flows through corporate systems with long histories of data misuse. If we care about AI ethics, we need to name power, not anthropomorphize models.
We trust the companies behind it.
As Maria Antoniak notes, every "private" chat flows through corporate systems with long histories of data misuse. If we care about AI ethics, we need to name power, not anthropomorphize models.
Reposted by Dirk Hovy
We're hiring interns in the Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research NYC!
If you're interested in designing AIβbased systems and understanding their impact at both individual and societal scales, apply here by Jan 9, 2026: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
If you're interested in designing AIβbased systems and understanding their impact at both individual and societal scales, apply here by Jan 9, 2026: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
Research Intern - Computational Social Science | Microsoft Careers
Research Interns put inquiry and theory into practice. Alongside fellow doctoral candidates and some of the world's best researchers, Research Interns learn, collaborate, and network for life. Researc...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
We're hiring interns in the Computational Social Science group at Microsoft Research NYC!
If you're interested in designing AIβbased systems and understanding their impact at both individual and societal scales, apply here by Jan 9, 2026: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
If you're interested in designing AIβbased systems and understanding their impact at both individual and societal scales, apply here by Jan 9, 2026: apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
After I shared βHow to professorβ last year, some people asked for a similar post on writing. Now I finally got around to typing up our lab's writing workshop slides.
It covers basic advice for research papers and grant applications.
Curious? Read it here: dirkhovy.com/post/2025_11...
It covers basic advice for research papers and grant applications.
Curious? Read it here: dirkhovy.com/post/2025_11...
How to Write Gooder | Dirk Hovy
After publishing β How to professorβ, several people said they found it helpful, and asked whether I had a similar post on writing. Luckily, we have held an annual writing workshop in the lab for the last few years, so there already was a presentation.
dirkhovy.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
After I shared βHow to professorβ last year, some people asked for a similar post on writing. Now I finally got around to typing up our lab's writing workshop slides.
It covers basic advice for research papers and grant applications.
Curious? Read it here: dirkhovy.com/post/2025_11...
It covers basic advice for research papers and grant applications.
Curious? Read it here: dirkhovy.com/post/2025_11...
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#TBT #NLProc 'Respectful or Toxic?' by Plaza-del-Arco, @debora & @dirkhovy.bsky.social (2023) explores zero-shot learning for multilingual hate speech detection. Highlights prompt & model choice for accuracy. #AI #LanguageModels #HateSpeechDetection
Respectful or Toxic? Using Zero-Shot Learning with Language Models to Detect Hate Speech
Flor Miriam Plaza-del-arco, Debora Nozza, Dirk Hovy. The 7th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH). 2023.
aclanthology.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#TBT #NLProc 'Respectful or Toxic?' by Plaza-del-Arco, @debora & @dirkhovy.bsky.social (2023) explores zero-shot learning for multilingual hate speech detection. Highlights prompt & model choice for accuracy. #AI #LanguageModels #HateSpeechDetection
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#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Leveraging Social Interactions to Detect Misinformation on Social Media' by Fornaciari et al. (2023) uses combined text and network analysis to spot unreliable threads.
arxiv.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Leveraging Social Interactions to Detect Misinformation on Social Media' by Fornaciari et al. (2023) uses combined text and network analysis to spot unreliable threads.
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The Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with Andy Guess (Politics/SPIA), Brandon Stewart (Sociology), and me (CS).
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
Please apply before Sunday, the 13th of December!
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
Please apply before Sunday, the 13th of December!
December 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with Andy Guess (Politics/SPIA), Brandon Stewart (Sociology), and me (CS).
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
Please apply before Sunday, the 13th of December!
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
Please apply before Sunday, the 13th of December!
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#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Multilingual HateCheck: Functional Tests for Multilingual Hate Speech Detection Models' by @paul-rottger.bsky.social et al. (2022). A suite of tests for 10 languages.
Multilingual HateCheck: Functional Tests for Multilingual Hate Speech Detection Models
Paul RΓΆttger, Haitham Seelawi, Debora Nozza, Zeerak Talat, Bertie Vidgen. Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH). 2022.
aclanthology.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Multilingual HateCheck: Functional Tests for Multilingual Hate Speech Detection Models' by @paul-rottger.bsky.social et al. (2022). A suite of tests for 10 languages.
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#TBT #NLProc 'Compromesso! Italian Many-Shot Jailbreaks Undermine LLM Safety' by Pernisi, @dirkhovy.bsky.social, @paul-rottger.bsky.social (2024). Paper highlights LLM vulnerability through Italian demos, more demos = more attack chances.
Compromesso! Italian Many-Shot Jailbreaks undermine the safety of Large Language Models
Fabio Pernisi, Dirk Hovy, Paul RΓΆttger. Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 4: Student Research Workshop). 2024.
aclanthology.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#TBT #NLProc 'Compromesso! Italian Many-Shot Jailbreaks Undermine LLM Safety' by Pernisi, @dirkhovy.bsky.social, @paul-rottger.bsky.social (2024). Paper highlights LLM vulnerability through Italian demos, more demos = more attack chances.
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π’ Postdoc position π’
Iβm recruiting a postdoc for my lab at NYU! Topics include LM reasoning, creativity, limitations of scaling, AI for science, & more! Apply by Feb 1.
(Different from NYU Faculty Fellows, which are also great but less connected to my lab.)
Link in π§΅
Iβm recruiting a postdoc for my lab at NYU! Topics include LM reasoning, creativity, limitations of scaling, AI for science, & more! Apply by Feb 1.
(Different from NYU Faculty Fellows, which are also great but less connected to my lab.)
Link in π§΅
December 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
π’ Postdoc position π’
Iβm recruiting a postdoc for my lab at NYU! Topics include LM reasoning, creativity, limitations of scaling, AI for science, & more! Apply by Feb 1.
(Different from NYU Faculty Fellows, which are also great but less connected to my lab.)
Link in π§΅
Iβm recruiting a postdoc for my lab at NYU! Topics include LM reasoning, creativity, limitations of scaling, AI for science, & more! Apply by Feb 1.
(Different from NYU Faculty Fellows, which are also great but less connected to my lab.)
Link in π§΅
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I will be @euripsconf.bsky.social this week to present our paper as non-archival at the PAIG workshop (Beyong Regulation:
Private Governance & Oversight Mechanisms for AI). Very much looking forward to the discussions!
If you are at #EurIPS and want to chat about LLM's training data. Reach out!
Private Governance & Oversight Mechanisms for AI). Very much looking forward to the discussions!
If you are at #EurIPS and want to chat about LLM's training data. Reach out!
π£ New Preprint!
Have you ever wondered what the political content in LLM's training data is? What are the political opinions expressed? What is the proportion of left- vs right-leaning documents in the pre- and post-training data? Do they correlate with the political biases reflected in models?
Have you ever wondered what the political content in LLM's training data is? What are the political opinions expressed? What is the proportion of left- vs right-leaning documents in the pre- and post-training data? Do they correlate with the political biases reflected in models?
December 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I will be @euripsconf.bsky.social this week to present our paper as non-archival at the PAIG workshop (Beyong Regulation:
Private Governance & Oversight Mechanisms for AI). Very much looking forward to the discussions!
If you are at #EurIPS and want to chat about LLM's training data. Reach out!
Private Governance & Oversight Mechanisms for AI). Very much looking forward to the discussions!
If you are at #EurIPS and want to chat about LLM's training data. Reach out!
Reposted by Dirk Hovy
Another exhausting day in the lab⦠conducting very rigorous panettone analysis. Pandoro was evaluated too, because we believe in fair experimental design.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Another exhausting day in the lab⦠conducting very rigorous panettone analysis. Pandoro was evaluated too, because we believe in fair experimental design.
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#TBT #NLProc '@donyarn.bsky.social & @dirkhovy.bsky.social's 2024 paper, 'Conversations as a Source for Teaching Scientific Concepts' turns video dialogues into effective teaching tools.'
arxiv.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
#TBT #NLProc '@donyarn.bsky.social & @dirkhovy.bsky.social's 2024 paper, 'Conversations as a Source for Teaching Scientific Concepts' turns video dialogues into effective teaching tools.'
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π’Submissions are open for EACL 2026 SRW **pre-submission mentorship**!
Get valuable feedback on your research paper draft from experienced mentors before the deadline. Don't miss this chance to refine your work!
π Submit here: openreview.net/group?id=eac...
@eaclmeeting
#NLProc
Get valuable feedback on your research paper draft from experienced mentors before the deadline. Don't miss this chance to refine your work!
π Submit here: openreview.net/group?id=eac...
@eaclmeeting
#NLProc
EACL 2026 SRW Mentorship
Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for EACL 2026 SRW Mentorship
openreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
π’Submissions are open for EACL 2026 SRW **pre-submission mentorship**!
Get valuable feedback on your research paper draft from experienced mentors before the deadline. Don't miss this chance to refine your work!
π Submit here: openreview.net/group?id=eac...
@eaclmeeting
#NLProc
Get valuable feedback on your research paper draft from experienced mentors before the deadline. Don't miss this chance to refine your work!
π Submit here: openreview.net/group?id=eac...
@eaclmeeting
#NLProc
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Here at UMass Amherst CICS, weβre searching for TT faculty in NLP β see the link from
www.cics.umass.edu/about/employ...
Iβm happy to answer questions of course, too!
www.cics.umass.edu/about/employ...
Iβm happy to answer questions of course, too!
Faculty Positions
Open tenure-track and teaching faculty positions in computer science and informatics at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
www.cics.umass.edu
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Here at UMass Amherst CICS, weβre searching for TT faculty in NLP β see the link from
www.cics.umass.edu/about/employ...
Iβm happy to answer questions of course, too!
www.cics.umass.edu/about/employ...
Iβm happy to answer questions of course, too!
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#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Hey Siri. Ok Google. Alexa: A topic modeling of user reviews for smart speakers,' by Nguyen & @dirkhovy.bsky.social decodes speaker reviews for user preferences using topic models. Domain knowledge needed for market analysis.
Hey Siri. Ok Google. Alexa: A topic modeling of user reviews for smart speakers
Hanh Nguyen, Dirk Hovy. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019). 2019.
aclanthology.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Hey Siri. Ok Google. Alexa: A topic modeling of user reviews for smart speakers,' by Nguyen & @dirkhovy.bsky.social decodes speaker reviews for user preferences using topic models. Domain knowledge needed for market analysis.
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βTeacher Demonstrations in a BabyLMβs Zone of Proximal Development for Contingent Multi-Turn Interactionβ selected for an Outstanding Paper Award at the BabyLM Challenge & Workshop!
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
βTeacher Demonstrations in a BabyLMβs Zone of Proximal Development for Contingent Multi-Turn Interactionβ selected for an Outstanding Paper Award at the BabyLM Challenge & Workshop!
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What an inspiring week at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhouπ¨π³!
Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who stopped by our poster/talk!
Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who stopped by our poster/talk!
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
What an inspiring week at #EMNLP2025 in Suzhouπ¨π³!
Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who stopped by our poster/talk!
Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who stopped by our poster/talk!
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See also @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social's post on this same topic: doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/labeling-d...
Labeling Data with Language Models: Trick or Treat?
Large language models are now labeling data for us.
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz
November 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
See also @manoelhortaribeiro.bsky.social's post on this same topic: doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/labeling-d...
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Trying an experiment in good old-fashioned blogging about papers: dallascard.github.io/granular-mat...
Language Model Hacking - Granular Material
dallascard.github.io
November 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Trying an experiment in good old-fashioned blogging about papers: dallascard.github.io/granular-mat...