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Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics group at the University of Groningen 🐮

https://www.rug.nl/research/clcg/research/cl/
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Interested in developmentally plausible LMs, and the role of child-directed language data?

Come to our poster TODAY (Fr 7 Nov, 10.30-12.00) #EMNLP!
November 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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I'm in Suzhou to present our work on MultiBLiMP, Friday @ 11:45 in the Multilinguality session (A301)!

Come check it out if your interested in multilingual linguistic evaluation of LLMs (there will be parse trees on the slides! There's still use for syntactic structure!)

arxiv.org/abs/2504.02768
November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Benchmarks of linguistic minimal pairs are key for LM evaluation & help us overcome the English-centric bias in NLP research

Come to our poster TODAY (Fr 7 Nov 10.30-12.00) #EMNLP to meet TurBLiMP, a new benchmark for Turkish, revealing how LLMs deal with free-order, morphologically rich languages
November 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Interested in agent simulations of language change & pragmatic naming behavior?

Come check our poster TODAY (Fri, Nov 7, 12:30 - 13:30) #EMNLP!
There’s more to Neural Nets than big fat LLMs!

We’ve built a NN-agent framework to simulate how people choose the best word in a given communication context (i.e. pragmatic naming behavior).

With @yuqing0304.bsky.social, @ecesuurker.bsky.social, Tessa Verhoef, @gboleda.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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As part of this year's BabyLM challenge, we (researchers from @gronlp.bsky.social and @clausebielefeld.bsky.social diverged from established pretraining paradigm by training only on dialogue data from CHILDES.
October 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
With only a week left for #EMNLP2025, we are happy to announce all the works we 🐮 will present 🥳 - come and say "hi" to our posters and presentations during the Main and the co-located events (*SEM and workshops) See you in Suzhou ✈️
October 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Great tips from @jiruiqi.bsky.social about how to choose your reinforcement learning strategy. @gronlp.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐂 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 (𝐄𝐑𝐂 𝐂𝐨𝐆, 𝐏𝐈 𝐀𝐧𝐚 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐟) 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫! ⁣🎉

We have an opening for a 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 in 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 for a starting duration of 12 months extendible to 30 months.⁣

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September 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀’ 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗼𝗼𝗻! 😍
Here are some photos of our GroNLP station at the Forum, where we welcomed high school classes and potential future researchers. 🧑‍🔬🤖
Quizzes, puzzles, demos, card games, and of course, lots of chocolate! 🍫
September 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Today we were at #CLIN35 hosted by @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social - as always: great interactions, meeting old friends/colleagues, and lots of presentations from us @facultyofartsug.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
We recharged our batteries with a wonderful weekend together in the province of Drenthe! 🌳🍃
As per tradition, we kick off the academic year with plenty of sharing, smiles, and sports 💘

We wish everyone a wonderful start of the academic year <3 may it be inspiring and exciting 🎓
September 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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#INCREC is looking for a new team member:

Postdoc in #Creativity, #Translation and #Technology.
Come an join the team at University of Groningen!

Applications until 12 October 11:59pm, 2025 Dutch local time (CET) .

All information 👇

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September 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
𝗔 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗜𝗡𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗖 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺'𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻” 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁! 😍

#creativity #xl8n #MT #literature #INCREC @gronlp.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social
S2E08: Meritxell Salvany Balada "A translators main work is not so much to create something but to reproduce it in a way that doesn't crumble"
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September 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
#ACL2025 has just finished and it was great to meet with old friends and connect with new colleagus. In case you missed our papers/presentations, this was us 🐮👇
@facultyofartsug.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
We’re excited to share a new addition from our lab to the family of language-specific BLiMPs, this time the morphologically rich Turkish language is in the spotlight! 🎊✨
June 20, 2025 at 5:58 AM
And once again 🎊 a little read for you all to enjoy :)

Check it out !!
📢 New paper: Can unsupervised metrics extracted from MT models detect their translation errors reliably? Do annotators even *agree* on what constitutes an error? 🧐

We compare uncertainty- and interp-based WQE metrics across 12 directions, with some surprising findings!

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May 31, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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“Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models”

I’m happy to share that the preprint of my first PhD project is now online!

🎊 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.23689
Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models
Seminal work by Huebner et al. (2021) showed that language models (LMs) trained on English Child-Directed Language (CDL) can reach similar syntactic abilities as LMs trained on much larger amounts of ...
arxiv.org
May 30, 2025 at 7:40 AM
🎊 New work out from our brilliant PhDs 🎊
Prev. work showed that SAEs can be helpful beyond interpretability, to surgically condition model behaviors.

In this work, we take a small step towards making steering useful for MT personalization on literary works! Check out our thread! ⬇️

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.16612
May 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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A recent @anthropic.com publication has a section on how LLMs plan rhymes when generating poems.

Thanks @gsarti.com @gronlp.bsky.social for the tip!

transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribu...
On the Biology of a Large Language Model
We investigate the internal mechanisms used by Claude 3.5 Haiku — Anthropic's lightweight production model — in a variety of contexts, using our circuit tracing methodology.
transformer-circuits.pub
May 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Tomorrow, Friday 16th May, I will present the GOLEM project at KAIST in South Korea. Online too.

2025-05-16 13:30~15:00 KST (15th May, 21:30 Pacific time)
The GOLEM Project: Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models

DM me for Zoom link

#DigitalHumanities @gronlp.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Few days back 🍦 celebrating spring, sunshine, and one of our most cherished lab member! Nothing like ice cream and an indulgent break to mark a birthday the Computational Linguistics way ☀️🎉 #GroNLP #ComputationalLinguistics #SpringVibes
May 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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🎓Already 3 weeks at @rug.nl
Today I joined my first @gronlp.bsky.social reading group, where prithamajumdar.bsky.social shared her NAACL paper on comparisons & similes - couldn’t help but think of @abstractionerc.bsky.social when seeing this slide❤️

📢 Next week it’s my turn to present—stay tuned!
April 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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@grambelli.bsky.social these weeks is hosted by @gronlp.bsky.social for a postdoctoral visiting sponsored by @abstractionerc.bsky.social for a collaboration with @tommasoc80.bsky.social and @piasommerauer.bsky.social on the emergence of language-mediated stereotypes, a form of overgeneralization.
May 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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📢 Excited to present my postdoc research within @abstractionerc.bsky.social at the @gronlp.bsky.social reading group (@facultyofartsug.bsky.social) TODAY!
🤖🧠 I'll explore how LLMs interpret generics and compounds —and what this tells us about their #generalization abilities.
#NLP #LLMs #linguistics
May 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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✨New paper ✨

Introducing 🌍MultiBLiMP 1.0: A Massively Multilingual Benchmark of Minimal Pairs for Subject-Verb Agreement, covering 101 languages!

We present over 125,000 minimal pairs and evaluate 17 LLMs, finding that support is still lacking for many languages.

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April 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM