Gavin Abercrombie
@gavina.bsky.social
natural language things @ https://sites.google.com/site/hwinteractionlab/
gavinabercrombie.github.io
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gavinabercrombie.github.io
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Tha beagan Gàidhlig agam
Do annotators agree with each other? No
But they agree with themselves, right? Also no
But they agree with themselves, right? Also no
November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Do annotators agree with each other? No
But they agree with themselves, right? Also no
But they agree with themselves, right? Also no
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🚨I'm recruiting a fully funded EPSRC PhD student (start 2026/27) to work with me and
Mohammad Taher Pilehvar on multilingual misinformation and online harms in #NLP.
(the position is open to UK and international students.)
Details and contact information 👇:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Mohammad Taher Pilehvar on multilingual misinformation and online harms in #NLP.
(the position is open to UK and international students.)
Details and contact information 👇:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Designing Reliable NLP Systems for Cross-Lingual Information Environments at Cardiff University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Designing Reliable NLP Systems for Cross-Lingual Information Environments at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
🚨I'm recruiting a fully funded EPSRC PhD student (start 2026/27) to work with me and
Mohammad Taher Pilehvar on multilingual misinformation and online harms in #NLP.
(the position is open to UK and international students.)
Details and contact information 👇:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Mohammad Taher Pilehvar on multilingual misinformation and online harms in #NLP.
(the position is open to UK and international students.)
Details and contact information 👇:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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I'll be at the NLPerspectives workshop tomorrow, giving a talk on "Cultural Awareness in Multilingual LLMs" in the morning and then being part of a panel discussion in the afternoon.
Come join and share your perspectives on the topic!
Come join and share your perspectives on the topic!
Detailed programme now up on website. Looking forward to 14 research papers, results of the 3rd Shared Task on Learning with Disagreements (LeWiDi), a talk from @camachocollados.bsky.social, and a panel discussion feat. Jose, Eve Fleisig, and @beiduo.bsky.social. See you in Room A305 or online!
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I'll be at the NLPerspectives workshop tomorrow, giving a talk on "Cultural Awareness in Multilingual LLMs" in the morning and then being part of a panel discussion in the afternoon.
Come join and share your perspectives on the topic!
Come join and share your perspectives on the topic!
Tomorrow in Suzhou
Detailed programme now up on website. Looking forward to 14 research papers, results of the 3rd Shared Task on Learning with Disagreements (LeWiDi), a talk from @camachocollados.bsky.social, and a panel discussion feat. Jose, Eve Fleisig, and @beiduo.bsky.social. See you in Room A305 or online!
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Tomorrow in Suzhou
I finally got my visa for China. Who do I know that will be at EMNLP?
October 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I finally got my visa for China. Who do I know that will be at EMNLP?
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New blog: Good diagrams for research papers
Ive seen a number of diagrams recently which are too complicated and difficult to understand. I explain some of the problems I see and give advice.
ehudreiter.com/2025/10/08/g...
Ive seen a number of diagrams recently which are too complicated and difficult to understand. I explain some of the problems I see and give advice.
ehudreiter.com/2025/10/08/g...
Good diagrams for research papers
Ive seen a number of diagrams recently which are too complicated and difficult to understand. I explain some of the problems I see and give advice.
ehudreiter.com
October 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
New blog: Good diagrams for research papers
Ive seen a number of diagrams recently which are too complicated and difficult to understand. I explain some of the problems I see and give advice.
ehudreiter.com/2025/10/08/g...
Ive seen a number of diagrams recently which are too complicated and difficult to understand. I explain some of the problems I see and give advice.
ehudreiter.com/2025/10/08/g...
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📢 Are you interested in a PhD in #NLProc to study and improve how AI model emotions and social signals?
🚨Exciting news:🚨 I’m hiring a PhD candidate at LIACS,
@unileiden.bsky.social.
📍 Leiden, The Netherlands
📅 Deadline: 17 Nov 2025
👉 Position details and application link: tinyurl.com/5x5v6zsa
🚨Exciting news:🚨 I’m hiring a PhD candidate at LIACS,
@unileiden.bsky.social.
📍 Leiden, The Netherlands
📅 Deadline: 17 Nov 2025
👉 Position details and application link: tinyurl.com/5x5v6zsa
PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing
The Faculty of Science and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) are looking for a:PhD Candidate in Emotionally and Socially Aware Natural Language Processing (1.0fte)Project descr...
tinyurl.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
📢 Are you interested in a PhD in #NLProc to study and improve how AI model emotions and social signals?
🚨Exciting news:🚨 I’m hiring a PhD candidate at LIACS,
@unileiden.bsky.social.
📍 Leiden, The Netherlands
📅 Deadline: 17 Nov 2025
👉 Position details and application link: tinyurl.com/5x5v6zsa
🚨Exciting news:🚨 I’m hiring a PhD candidate at LIACS,
@unileiden.bsky.social.
📍 Leiden, The Netherlands
📅 Deadline: 17 Nov 2025
👉 Position details and application link: tinyurl.com/5x5v6zsa
Applications open for PhD entry September 2026: www.cdt-d2air.uk Get in touch if you're interested in applying
October 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Applications open for PhD entry September 2026: www.cdt-d2air.uk Get in touch if you're interested in applying
Has anybody managed to get a letter of invitation from @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social for visa purposes? I am not getting replies to emails
September 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Has anybody managed to get a letter of invitation from @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social for visa purposes? I am not getting replies to emails
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Please help in sharing and reposting through your network! 🙏🙏🙏
🌈 Help with my LGBTQIA+ research! 🌈
I'm building a dataset to fight harmful LGBTQIA+ stereotypes in AI. Take my quick survey:
👉 IT: lnkd.in/dfPuyT6j
👉 NL: lnkd.in/d-3Di7WY
👉 FA: lnkd.in/dfvWzWCu
Everybody is welcome!
📤 Share if you can!
I'm building a dataset to fight harmful LGBTQIA+ stereotypes in AI. Take my quick survey:
👉 IT: lnkd.in/dfPuyT6j
👉 NL: lnkd.in/d-3Di7WY
👉 FA: lnkd.in/dfvWzWCu
Everybody is welcome!
📤 Share if you can!
September 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Please help in sharing and reposting through your network! 🙏🙏🙏
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📢 The slides from the CSHAM tutorial are now available on our website!
🔗 Check it out: sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
🔗 Check it out: sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
CSHAM - Slides
Introduction Marco Guerini
sites.google.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
📢 The slides from the CSHAM tutorial are now available on our website!
🔗 Check it out: sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
🔗 Check it out: sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
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I have two fully funded PhD positions in my group. If you want to work on persona based dialogical models or using LLMs to fight online harms then consider applying!
📢 Do you want to join our group? We opened **two** calls for a fully funded PhD. Details are in the image and at the following links.
Calls: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...
PhD Details: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...
Deadline: August 22nd, 2025, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST)
Calls: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...
PhD Details: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad...
Deadline: August 22nd, 2025, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST)
August 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I have two fully funded PhD positions in my group. If you want to work on persona based dialogical models or using LLMs to fight online harms then consider applying!
Today 14:00-17:30 in Hall N.1-N.2
Last but not least, we present the CSHAM organisers. Daniel Russo (@daniel-russo.bsky.social), Helena Bonaldi (@helenabon.bsky.social), Yi-Ling Chung, Gavin Abercrombie (@gavina.bsky.social), Marco Guerini (@marcoguerini.bsky.social).
We are excited to see you all tomorrow at 2 pm at #ACL2025NLP 👀
We are excited to see you all tomorrow at 2 pm at #ACL2025NLP 👀
July 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Today 14:00-17:30 in Hall N.1-N.2
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Delighted to introduce Cathy Buerger, our first invited speaker for the "NLP for Counterspeech against Hate and Misinformation" tutorial. Join us to hear her insightful work on "Co-designing Counterspeech: Rethinking AI's Role" #ACL2025NLP
More details ⤵️
sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
More details ⤵️
sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
CSHAM - Program
Sunday, July 27 (UTC+1)
sites.google.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Delighted to introduce Cathy Buerger, our first invited speaker for the "NLP for Counterspeech against Hate and Misinformation" tutorial. Join us to hear her insightful work on "Co-designing Counterspeech: Rethinking AI's Role" #ACL2025NLP
More details ⤵️
sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
More details ⤵️
sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
Reposted by Gavin Abercrombie
Simone Fontana (@simofons.bsky.social), Editorial Director at @facta.news, is our second invited speaker! His talk, "Countering Disinformation and Hate Speech: The Role of Journalism", will offer insights from a practitioner’s perspective! #ACL2025NLP
Details ⤵️
sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
Details ⤵️
sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
CSHAM - Program
Sunday, July 27 (UTC+1)
sites.google.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Simone Fontana (@simofons.bsky.social), Editorial Director at @facta.news, is our second invited speaker! His talk, "Countering Disinformation and Hate Speech: The Role of Journalism", will offer insights from a practitioner’s perspective! #ACL2025NLP
Details ⤵️
sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
Details ⤵️
sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
Reposted by Gavin Abercrombie
#TBT #NLProc : Bergman et al.'s 'Guiding the Release of Safer E2E Conversational AI through Value Sensitive Design' explores AI launch with a value-sensitive lens.
Guiding the Release of Safer E2E Conversational AI through Value Sensitive Design
A. Stevie Bergman, Gavin Abercrombie, Shannon Spruit, Dirk Hovy, Emily Dinan, Y-Lan Boureau, Verena Rieser. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue....
aclanthology.org
July 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
@tommasoc80.bsky.social and I are the nominal hosts of this meet up, but of course we hope it's going to be as participatory as possible. Bring your experiences with and/or questions about PD for NLP
12. Participatory Design for NLP
🗓️ Tue 7/29, 16:00–17:30
📍Ballroom 1.33
🗓️ Tue 7/29, 16:00–17:30
📍Ballroom 1.33
July 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
@tommasoc80.bsky.social and I are the nominal hosts of this meet up, but of course we hope it's going to be as participatory as possible. Bring your experiences with and/or questions about PD for NLP
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It seems like the ARR AC guidelines don't give instructions for what the AC should do in the case of a very negative ethics review. Should the AC lower their scores and recommend rejecting the paper, if they are convinced by the ethics review? #emnlp2025
aclrollingreview.org/acguidelines
aclrollingreview.org/acguidelines
July 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
It seems like the ARR AC guidelines don't give instructions for what the AC should do in the case of a very negative ethics review. Should the AC lower their scores and recommend rejecting the paper, if they are convinced by the ethics review? #emnlp2025
aclrollingreview.org/acguidelines
aclrollingreview.org/acguidelines
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🎓 Looking for PhD opportunities in #NLProc for a start in Spring 2026?
🗒️ Add your expression of interest to join @copenlu.bsky.social here by 20 July: forms.office.com/e/HZSmgR9nXB
Selected candidates will be invited to submit a DARA fellowship application with me: daracademy.dk/fellowship/f...
🗒️ Add your expression of interest to join @copenlu.bsky.social here by 20 July: forms.office.com/e/HZSmgR9nXB
Selected candidates will be invited to submit a DARA fellowship application with me: daracademy.dk/fellowship/f...
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
🎓 Looking for PhD opportunities in #NLProc for a start in Spring 2026?
🗒️ Add your expression of interest to join @copenlu.bsky.social here by 20 July: forms.office.com/e/HZSmgR9nXB
Selected candidates will be invited to submit a DARA fellowship application with me: daracademy.dk/fellowship/f...
🗒️ Add your expression of interest to join @copenlu.bsky.social here by 20 July: forms.office.com/e/HZSmgR9nXB
Selected candidates will be invited to submit a DARA fellowship application with me: daracademy.dk/fellowship/f...
The deadline has been extended to July 4th.
If you work on collecting, modelling, or analysing data that encodes varied human perspectives, or have an idea or opinion on how to do any of this better, submit a paper, research communication, or non-archival to our workshop!
📣 A Second Call for Papers: Come on in! NLPerspectives Workshop at EMNLP 2025! Submission deadline: June 27, 2025. Join us in Suzhou, China (Nov 5-9) or online to learn and chat about the latest on approaches in the context of perspectives in NLP research. 📝 #NLPerspectives #EMNLP2025
June 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The deadline has been extended to July 4th.
I have had a proposal for a 'birds of a feather' session on participatory design accepted at ACL. However, I have no idea what this should consist of. Anyone want to co-organise?
June 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I have had a proposal for a 'birds of a feather' session on participatory design accepted at ACL. However, I have no idea what this should consist of. Anyone want to co-organise?
Final call for archival and non-archival papers and research communications
📣 A Third Call for Papers: Come on in! NLPerspectives Workshop at EMNLP 2025! Submission deadline: June 27, 2025. Join us in Suzhou, China (Nov 5-9) or online to learn and chat about the latest on approaches in the context of perspectives in NLP research. 📝 #NLPerspectives #EMNLP2025
June 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Final call for archival and non-archival papers and research communications
Reposted by Gavin Abercrombie
📣 A Third Call for Papers: Come on in! NLPerspectives Workshop at EMNLP 2025! Submission deadline: June 27, 2025. Join us in Suzhou, China (Nov 5-9) or online to learn and chat about the latest on approaches in the context of perspectives in NLP research. 📝 #NLPerspectives #EMNLP2025
June 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
📣 A Third Call for Papers: Come on in! NLPerspectives Workshop at EMNLP 2025! Submission deadline: June 27, 2025. Join us in Suzhou, China (Nov 5-9) or online to learn and chat about the latest on approaches in the context of perspectives in NLP research. 📝 #NLPerspectives #EMNLP2025
I'll be presenting this tutorial in Vienna with co-organisers @daniel-russo.bsky.social, @helenabon.bsky.social, Yi-Ling Chung, @marcoguerini.bsky.social and invited civil society speakers Cathy Buerger (@dangerousspeech.org) and @simofons.bsky.social (Facta). Come along or join online!
🗣️ Discover "NLP for Counterspeech against Hate and Misinformation" at #ACL2025NLP! This tutorial bridges CS, social sciences & policy, exploring among others the role of LLMs. #HateSpeech #Misinformation #NLProc #ResponsibleAI
👉 2025.aclweb.org/program/tuto...
👉 2025.aclweb.org/program/tuto...
Tutorials
ACL 2025 Conference Overview.
2025.aclweb.org
June 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
I'll be presenting this tutorial in Vienna with co-organisers @daniel-russo.bsky.social, @helenabon.bsky.social, Yi-Ling Chung, @marcoguerini.bsky.social and invited civil society speakers Cathy Buerger (@dangerousspeech.org) and @simofons.bsky.social (Facta). Come along or join online!
Reposted by Gavin Abercrombie
We are happy to announce our tutorial, "NLP for Counterspeech against Hate and Misinformation".
It will be held on July 27, 2025, at #ACL2025NLP in Vienna, Austria!
Stay tuned for more details 👀
sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
It will be held on July 27, 2025, at #ACL2025NLP in Vienna, Austria!
Stay tuned for more details 👀
sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
CSHAM
Sunday, July 27 - 14:00-17:30
sites.google.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
We are happy to announce our tutorial, "NLP for Counterspeech against Hate and Misinformation".
It will be held on July 27, 2025, at #ACL2025NLP in Vienna, Austria!
Stay tuned for more details 👀
sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...
It will be held on July 27, 2025, at #ACL2025NLP in Vienna, Austria!
Stay tuned for more details 👀
sites.google.com/view/nlp4csh...