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Are you interested in learning more about the world of language technology? Are you a pre-doctoral student – even one from a non-CS background? Our Language Technology for All Internship could be right for you!
Apply by Feb. 20 for Summer 2026:
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CMU LTI Language Technology for All Internship 2026 - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University
Announcement and details of the 2026 Language Technology for All Internship, presented by CMU's Language Technologies Institute
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February 5, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Are you interested in learning more about the world of language technology? Are you a pre-doctoral student – even one from a non-CS background? Our Language Technology for All Internship could be right for you!
Apply by Feb. 20 for Summer 2026:
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Apply by Feb. 20 for Summer 2026:
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🎭 How do LLMs (mis)represent culture?
🧮 How often?
🧠 Misrepresentations = missing knowledge? spoiler: NO!
At #CHI2026 we are bringing ✨TALES✨ a participatory evaluation of cultural (mis)reps & knowledge in multilingual LLM-stories for India
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2511.21322
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🧮 How often?
🧠 Misrepresentations = missing knowledge? spoiler: NO!
At #CHI2026 we are bringing ✨TALES✨ a participatory evaluation of cultural (mis)reps & knowledge in multilingual LLM-stories for India
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2511.21322
1/10
February 2, 2026 at 9:38 PM
🎭 How do LLMs (mis)represent culture?
🧮 How often?
🧠 Misrepresentations = missing knowledge? spoiler: NO!
At #CHI2026 we are bringing ✨TALES✨ a participatory evaluation of cultural (mis)reps & knowledge in multilingual LLM-stories for India
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2511.21322
1/10
🧮 How often?
🧠 Misrepresentations = missing knowledge? spoiler: NO!
At #CHI2026 we are bringing ✨TALES✨ a participatory evaluation of cultural (mis)reps & knowledge in multilingual LLM-stories for India
📜 arxiv.org/abs/2511.21322
1/10
"Responsibility should not be optional, external, reactive, or just an afterthought."
In a recent LinkedIn Pulse article, LTI director Mona Diab argues that CS education needs a new core axis of thinking and teaching: Responsible Thinking. Read more:
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In a recent LinkedIn Pulse article, LTI director Mona Diab argues that CS education needs a new core axis of thinking and teaching: Responsible Thinking. Read more:
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Responsible Thinking: The Missing Third Axis in Computer Science Education
By Mona Diab Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views, policies, or positions of their affiliated institutions. The final...
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January 30, 2026 at 9:16 PM
"Responsibility should not be optional, external, reactive, or just an afterthought."
In a recent LinkedIn Pulse article, LTI director Mona Diab argues that CS education needs a new core axis of thinking and teaching: Responsible Thinking. Read more:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/respon...
In a recent LinkedIn Pulse article, LTI director Mona Diab argues that CS education needs a new core axis of thinking and teaching: Responsible Thinking. Read more:
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The LTI will be closed for the holiday break starting today (Dec 23) at 2pm EST. We’ll reopen on Monday, January 5. We wish everyone a joyous and restful holiday season! 🎉🎁❄️
December 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The LTI will be closed for the holiday break starting today (Dec 23) at 2pm EST. We’ll reopen on Monday, January 5. We wish everyone a joyous and restful holiday season! 🎉🎁❄️
LTI Professor Alex Waibel was one of twelve global experts invited by Pope Leo XIV to advise on ethical guidelines for AI. Their appeal outlines eleven principles for responsible AI and human-centered design.
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Pope Invites Waibel to Vatican To Advise on AI - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University
SCS Professor Joined Esteemed Thinkers for AI Working Group
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December 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
LTI Professor Alex Waibel was one of twelve global experts invited by Pope Leo XIV to advise on ethical guidelines for AI. Their appeal outlines eleven principles for responsible AI and human-centered design.
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The LTI is now accepting applications for teaching-track faculty positions beginning in Fall 2026! If you’re passionate about building scholarly community and shaping the next generation of innovators, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply by January 9, 2026: lti.cmu.edu/careers/inde...
Apply by January 9, 2026: lti.cmu.edu/careers/inde...
Careers - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University
Career Opportunities at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute
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November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The LTI is now accepting applications for teaching-track faculty positions beginning in Fall 2026! If you’re passionate about building scholarly community and shaping the next generation of innovators, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply by January 9, 2026: lti.cmu.edu/careers/inde...
Apply by January 9, 2026: lti.cmu.edu/careers/inde...
Today is Giving Tuesday, but also #GivingCMUDay. Consider celebrating with us by donating to support LTI students, fellowships, and initiatives! Learn more about Giving CMU Day, and donate, at the link below:
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December 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Today is Giving Tuesday, but also #GivingCMUDay. Consider celebrating with us by donating to support LTI students, fellowships, and initiatives! Learn more about Giving CMU Day, and donate, at the link below:
givenow.cmu.edu/giving-cmu-d...
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The LTI is now accepting applications for teaching-track faculty positions beginning in Fall 2026! If you’re passionate about building scholarly community and shaping the next generation of innovators, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply by January 9, 2026: lti.cmu.edu/careers/inde...
Apply by January 9, 2026: lti.cmu.edu/careers/inde...
Careers - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University
Career Opportunities at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute
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November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The LTI is now accepting applications for teaching-track faculty positions beginning in Fall 2026! If you’re passionate about building scholarly community and shaping the next generation of innovators, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply by January 9, 2026: lti.cmu.edu/careers/inde...
Apply by January 9, 2026: lti.cmu.edu/careers/inde...
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Can LLMs accurately aggregate information over long, information-dense texts? Not yet…
We introduce Oolong, a dataset of simple-to-verify information aggregation questions over long inputs. No model achieves >50% accuracy at 128K on Oolong!
We introduce Oolong, a dataset of simple-to-verify information aggregation questions over long inputs. No model achieves >50% accuracy at 128K on Oolong!
November 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Can LLMs accurately aggregate information over long, information-dense texts? Not yet…
We introduce Oolong, a dataset of simple-to-verify information aggregation questions over long inputs. No model achieves >50% accuracy at 128K on Oolong!
We introduce Oolong, a dataset of simple-to-verify information aggregation questions over long inputs. No model achieves >50% accuracy at 128K on Oolong!
ICYMI: the LTI's Carolyn Rosé has been awarded the Kavčić-Moura Professorship in recognition of her research achievements and support of her future work. Congratulations to a devoted member of the LTI community!
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Rosé Among New SCS Endowed Faculty Chair Recipients - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University
LTI Faculty Member Carolyn Rosé has Received the Kavčić-Moura Professorship
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October 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
ICYMI: the LTI's Carolyn Rosé has been awarded the Kavčić-Moura Professorship in recognition of her research achievements and support of her future work. Congratulations to a devoted member of the LTI community!
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SCS faculty members Carolyn Rosé (@ltiatcmu.bsky.social) and Jun-Yan Zhu (@cmurobotics.bsky.social) recently received endowed chairs to recognize their research contributions and support their future work.
SCS Faculty Receive Chaired Professorships
"As a researcher who has dedicated her career to impact in education and who directs one of Carnegie Mellon's largest data science graduate programs, I am honored to receive a chair named after Aleksandar Kavčić, in light of his current work in Serbia to provide free textbooks for schools through his foundation, and José Moura, who has partnered with him and others to invest in data science education at Carnegie Mellon," Rosé said.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
SCS faculty members Carolyn Rosé (@ltiatcmu.bsky.social) and Jun-Yan Zhu (@cmurobotics.bsky.social) recently received endowed chairs to recognize their research contributions and support their future work.
Three LTI students (Danqing Wang, Zichun Yu, and @xinranz3.bsky.social) have been announced as part of the inaugural cohort of the @amazon AI Ph.D. Fellowship Program. Congrats to all recipients!
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10 CMU Students Selected for Amazon AI Ph.D. Fellowship Program
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October 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Three LTI students (Danqing Wang, Zichun Yu, and @xinranz3.bsky.social) have been announced as part of the inaugural cohort of the @amazon AI Ph.D. Fellowship Program. Congrats to all recipients!
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Congratulations to Maarten Sap for being named a recipient of a 2025 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering! 👏
Sap, a professor in @ltiatcmu.bsky.social, was recognized for his work to make artificial intelligence adaptive and knowledgeable about diverse cultures.
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Sap, a professor in @ltiatcmu.bsky.social, was recognized for his work to make artificial intelligence adaptive and knowledgeable about diverse cultures.
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October 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Congratulations to Maarten Sap for being named a recipient of a 2025 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering! 👏
Sap, a professor in @ltiatcmu.bsky.social, was recognized for his work to make artificial intelligence adaptive and knowledgeable about diverse cultures.
@scsatcmu.bsky.social
Sap, a professor in @ltiatcmu.bsky.social, was recognized for his work to make artificial intelligence adaptive and knowledgeable about diverse cultures.
@scsatcmu.bsky.social
Congratulations to our own Maarten Sap on the tremendous honor of being named a 2025 Packard Fellow!
I’m ✨ super excited and grateful ✨to announce that I'm part of the 2025 class of #PackardFellows (www.packard.org/2025fellows). The @packardfdn.bsky.social and this fellowship will allow me to explore exciting research directions towards culturally responsible and safe AI 🌍🌈
October 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Congratulations to our own Maarten Sap on the tremendous honor of being named a 2025 Packard Fellow!
Our PhD & MLT students took advantage of a beautiful Pittsburgh fall day to explore Mt. Washington’s Emerald View Park. Here’s to making the most of fall break!
October 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Our PhD & MLT students took advantage of a beautiful Pittsburgh fall day to explore Mt. Washington’s Emerald View Park. Here’s to making the most of fall break!
Happy Smiley Day, all! The :-) emoticon was first used on this day in 1982 by LTI Professor Emeritus Scott Fahlman.
43 years ago today our digital vocabulary expanded tremendously through a simple :-) or :-(
On Sept. 19, 1982, Scott Fahlman, a research professor in
@scsatcmu.bsky.social, proposed the use of smiley emoticons "for joke markers."
That makes us :-)
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On Sept. 19, 1982, Scott Fahlman, a research professor in
@scsatcmu.bsky.social, proposed the use of smiley emoticons "for joke markers."
That makes us :-)
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September 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Happy Smiley Day, all! The :-) emoticon was first used on this day in 1982 by LTI Professor Emeritus Scott Fahlman.
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Carnegie Mellon leaders and faculty shared their expertise amongst fellow researchers and industry experts at AI Horizons 2025.
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September 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Carnegie Mellon leaders and faculty shared their expertise amongst fellow researchers and industry experts at AI Horizons 2025.
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Incoming LTI assistant professor @akariasai.bsky.social, set to join our faculty in fall 2026, has been named one of @technologyreview.com's 35 Innovators Under 35 for her work in retrieval-augmented generation. Congratulations to Akari on this great honor!
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Asai Named to MIT Technology Review's '35 Innovators Under 35' - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University
Incoming LTI faculty member Akari Asai recognized in prestigious list for work on retrieval-augmented generation
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September 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Incoming LTI assistant professor @akariasai.bsky.social, set to join our faculty in fall 2026, has been named one of @technologyreview.com's 35 Innovators Under 35 for her work in retrieval-augmented generation. Congratulations to Akari on this great honor!
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I'm excited cause I'm teaching/coordinating a new unique class, where we teach new PhD students all the "soft" skills of research, incl. ideation, reviewing, presenting, interviewing, advising, etc.
Each lecture is taught by a different LTI prof! It takes a village! maartensap.com/11705/Fall20...
Each lecture is taught by a different LTI prof! It takes a village! maartensap.com/11705/Fall20...
August 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I'm excited cause I'm teaching/coordinating a new unique class, where we teach new PhD students all the "soft" skills of research, incl. ideation, reviewing, presenting, interviewing, advising, etc.
Each lecture is taught by a different LTI prof! It takes a village! maartensap.com/11705/Fall20...
Each lecture is taught by a different LTI prof! It takes a village! maartensap.com/11705/Fall20...
Happy first day of classes to all our students, new and returning! Wishing everyone a happy and enlightening fall semester.
August 25, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Happy first day of classes to all our students, new and returning! Wishing everyone a happy and enlightening fall semester.
Congrats to @shinjiw.bsky.social and his team for their Best Student Paper award at #Interspeech2025!
August 22, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Congrats to @shinjiw.bsky.social and his team for their Best Student Paper award at #Interspeech2025!
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I spoke to Forbes about why model "welfare" is a silly framing to an important issue; models don't have feelings, and it's a big distraction from real questions like tensions between safety vs. user utility, which are NLP/HCI/policy questions www.forbes.com/sites/victor...
August 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I spoke to Forbes about why model "welfare" is a silly framing to an important issue; models don't have feelings, and it's a big distraction from real questions like tensions between safety vs. user utility, which are NLP/HCI/policy questions www.forbes.com/sites/victor...
A hearty congratulations to the LTI's
@maartensap.bsky.social, who's been awarded an
Okawa Research Grant for his work in his work in socially-aware artificial intelligence. lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...
@maartensap.bsky.social, who's been awarded an
Okawa Research Grant for his work in his work in socially-aware artificial intelligence. lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...
Sap Awarded 2025 Okawa Research Grant - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University
LTI Assistant Professor Maarten Sap received the prestigious award for his work in socially-aware artificial intelligence
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August 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
A hearty congratulations to the LTI's
@maartensap.bsky.social, who's been awarded an
Okawa Research Grant for his work in his work in socially-aware artificial intelligence. lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...
@maartensap.bsky.social, who's been awarded an
Okawa Research Grant for his work in his work in socially-aware artificial intelligence. lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...
We're excited to announce the launch of MMU-RAG at #NeurIPS2025! A new competition from the LTI & Amazon AGI focused on real-world Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with live user feedback via RAG-Arena.
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LTI and Amazon AGI Launch MMU-RAG Competition to Advance AI Systems for Complex Information Tasks - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University
The competion, focused on evaluation of retrieval-augmented generation systems, debuts at NeurIPS 2025
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July 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We're excited to announce the launch of MMU-RAG at #NeurIPS2025! A new competition from the LTI & Amazon AGI focused on real-world Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with live user feedback via RAG-Arena.
Read more: lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...
Read more: lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...
