Uppsala NLP
@uppsalanlp.bsky.social
We are the #nlproc group at Uppsala University! We focus our research on computational modeling of natural language and practical applications involving natural language processing (NLP).
https://www.uu.se/en/department/linguistics-and-p
https://www.uu.se/en/department/linguistics-and-p
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week's paper: “Large Language Models are Interpretable Learners” by Wang et al.
The authors introduce LLM-Symbolic Programs to combine LLM reasoning with rule-based structures to produce interpretable models.
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week's paper: “Large Language Models are Interpretable Learners” by Wang et al.
The authors introduce LLM-Symbolic Programs to combine LLM reasoning with rule-based structures to produce interpretable models.
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
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November 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week's paper: “Large Language Models are Interpretable Learners” by Wang et al.
The authors introduce LLM-Symbolic Programs to combine LLM reasoning with rule-based structures to produce interpretable models.
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week's paper: “Large Language Models are Interpretable Learners” by Wang et al.
The authors introduce LLM-Symbolic Programs to combine LLM reasoning with rule-based structures to produce interpretable models.
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
📢 Open positions at the department of Linguistics and Philology! 📢
Postdoktor i språkdokumentation och språkbeskrivning: lnkd.in/d2jmHaPZ
Postdoktor i global filologi: lnkd.in/dKipcg7p
Postdoktor i flerspråkig språkteknologi: lnkd.in/dAkSY6tW
Postdoktor i språkdokumentation och språkbeskrivning: lnkd.in/d2jmHaPZ
Postdoktor i global filologi: lnkd.in/dKipcg7p
Postdoktor i flerspråkig språkteknologi: lnkd.in/dAkSY6tW
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
📢 Open positions at the department of Linguistics and Philology! 📢
Postdoktor i språkdokumentation och språkbeskrivning: lnkd.in/d2jmHaPZ
Postdoktor i global filologi: lnkd.in/dKipcg7p
Postdoktor i flerspråkig språkteknologi: lnkd.in/dAkSY6tW
Postdoktor i språkdokumentation och språkbeskrivning: lnkd.in/d2jmHaPZ
Postdoktor i global filologi: lnkd.in/dKipcg7p
Postdoktor i flerspråkig språkteknologi: lnkd.in/dAkSY6tW
📢 Open Positions at the Uppsala NLP Group! 📢
Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months).
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months).
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
November 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
📢 Open Positions at the Uppsala NLP Group! 📢
Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months).
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months).
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week's pick: “AI-LieDar: Examine the Trade-off Between Utility and Truthfulness in LLM Agents” by Su et al.
🤖 How should LLMs balance being helpful and being truthful in multi-turn interactions?
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week's pick: “AI-LieDar: Examine the Trade-off Between Utility and Truthfulness in LLM Agents” by Su et al.
🤖 How should LLMs balance being helpful and being truthful in multi-turn interactions?
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
aclanthology.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week's pick: “AI-LieDar: Examine the Trade-off Between Utility and Truthfulness in LLM Agents” by Su et al.
🤖 How should LLMs balance being helpful and being truthful in multi-turn interactions?
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week's pick: “AI-LieDar: Examine the Trade-off Between Utility and Truthfulness in LLM Agents” by Su et al.
🤖 How should LLMs balance being helpful and being truthful in multi-turn interactions?
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week's pick is “A novel unsupervised contrastive learning framework for ancient Yi script character dataset construction” by Bi, Sun & Chen.
🧠 New unsupervised method for better ancient Yi script datasets.
📖 Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week's pick is “A novel unsupervised contrastive learning framework for ancient Yi script character dataset construction” by Bi, Sun & Chen.
🧠 New unsupervised method for better ancient Yi script datasets.
📖 Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
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September 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week's pick is “A novel unsupervised contrastive learning framework for ancient Yi script character dataset construction” by Bi, Sun & Chen.
🧠 New unsupervised method for better ancient Yi script datasets.
📖 Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week's pick is “A novel unsupervised contrastive learning framework for ancient Yi script character dataset construction” by Bi, Sun & Chen.
🧠 New unsupervised method for better ancient Yi script datasets.
📖 Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
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📢Life update📢
🥳I'm excited to share that I've started as a postdoc at Uppsala University NLP @uppsalanlp.bsky.social, working with Joakim Nivre on topics related to constructions and multilinguality!
🙏Many thanks to the Walter Benjamin Programme of the DFG for making this possible.
🥳I'm excited to share that I've started as a postdoc at Uppsala University NLP @uppsalanlp.bsky.social, working with Joakim Nivre on topics related to constructions and multilinguality!
🙏Many thanks to the Walter Benjamin Programme of the DFG for making this possible.
September 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
📢Life update📢
🥳I'm excited to share that I've started as a postdoc at Uppsala University NLP @uppsalanlp.bsky.social, working with Joakim Nivre on topics related to constructions and multilinguality!
🙏Many thanks to the Walter Benjamin Programme of the DFG for making this possible.
🥳I'm excited to share that I've started as a postdoc at Uppsala University NLP @uppsalanlp.bsky.social, working with Joakim Nivre on topics related to constructions and multilinguality!
🙏Many thanks to the Walter Benjamin Programme of the DFG for making this possible.
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week's pick is "Do Prompt-Based Models Really Understand the Meaning of Their Prompts?" by Webson & Pavlick.
🧠 The authors ask whether modern LMs truly “understand” the instructions in prompts.
📖 Let’s discuss!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week's pick is "Do Prompt-Based Models Really Understand the Meaning of Their Prompts?" by Webson & Pavlick.
🧠 The authors ask whether modern LMs truly “understand” the instructions in prompts.
📖 Let’s discuss!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
aclanthology.org
September 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week's pick is "Do Prompt-Based Models Really Understand the Meaning of Their Prompts?" by Webson & Pavlick.
🧠 The authors ask whether modern LMs truly “understand” the instructions in prompts.
📖 Let’s discuss!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week's pick is "Do Prompt-Based Models Really Understand the Meaning of Their Prompts?" by Webson & Pavlick.
🧠 The authors ask whether modern LMs truly “understand” the instructions in prompts.
📖 Let’s discuss!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week's pick: "Modern Models, Medieval Texts: A POS Tagging Study of Old Occitan" by Schöffel et al.
🧠 Old Occitan exposes LLM struggles in POS tagging and points to tips for low-resource languages.
📖 Let’s discuss!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week's pick: "Modern Models, Medieval Texts: A POS Tagging Study of Old Occitan" by Schöffel et al.
🧠 Old Occitan exposes LLM struggles in POS tagging and points to tips for low-resource languages.
📖 Let’s discuss!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
aclanthology.org
September 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week's pick: "Modern Models, Medieval Texts: A POS Tagging Study of Old Occitan" by Schöffel et al.
🧠 Old Occitan exposes LLM struggles in POS tagging and points to tips for low-resource languages.
📖 Let’s discuss!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week's pick: "Modern Models, Medieval Texts: A POS Tagging Study of Old Occitan" by Schöffel et al.
🧠 Old Occitan exposes LLM struggles in POS tagging and points to tips for low-resource languages.
📖 Let’s discuss!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week’s pick: "Fantastically Ordered Prompts and Where to Find Them" by Lu et al.
🧠 Prompt order matters—a lot. This paper shows why and offers an unsupervised fix using entropy.
📖 Read it and let’s discuss!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week’s pick: "Fantastically Ordered Prompts and Where to Find Them" by Lu et al.
🧠 Prompt order matters—a lot. This paper shows why and offers an unsupervised fix using entropy.
📖 Read it and let’s discuss!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
aclanthology.org
May 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week’s pick: "Fantastically Ordered Prompts and Where to Find Them" by Lu et al.
🧠 Prompt order matters—a lot. This paper shows why and offers an unsupervised fix using entropy.
📖 Read it and let’s discuss!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week’s pick: "Fantastically Ordered Prompts and Where to Find Them" by Lu et al.
🧠 Prompt order matters—a lot. This paper shows why and offers an unsupervised fix using entropy.
📖 Read it and let’s discuss!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week’s pick: "How Likely Do LLMs with CoT Mimic Human Reasoning?" by Bao et al.
🧠 CoT prompting can improve LLM reasoning—but does it mimic how humans think?
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week’s pick: "How Likely Do LLMs with CoT Mimic Human Reasoning?" by Bao et al.
🧠 CoT prompting can improve LLM reasoning—but does it mimic how humans think?
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
aclanthology.org
May 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week’s pick: "How Likely Do LLMs with CoT Mimic Human Reasoning?" by Bao et al.
🧠 CoT prompting can improve LLM reasoning—but does it mimic how humans think?
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week’s pick: "How Likely Do LLMs with CoT Mimic Human Reasoning?" by Bao et al.
🧠 CoT prompting can improve LLM reasoning—but does it mimic how humans think?
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
@uppsalanlp.bsky.social and Språkbanken CLARIN are represented today at Svenska Språkets historia 18 #ssh18uu by @sstymne.bsky.social and Eva Pettersson
May 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
@uppsalanlp.bsky.social and Språkbanken CLARIN are represented today at Svenska Språkets historia 18 #ssh18uu by @sstymne.bsky.social and Eva Pettersson
We just announced a new position as assistant professor / biträdande universitetslektor (BUL).
For more information visit:
uu.varbi.com/se/what:job/...
For more information visit:
uu.varbi.com/se/what:job/...
Biträdande universitetslektor i datorlingvistik
Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi bedriver forskning och utbildning inom språkvetenskap och textstudier med fokus på Asiens s
uu.varbi.com
April 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
We just announced a new position as assistant professor / biträdande universitetslektor (BUL).
For more information visit:
uu.varbi.com/se/what:job/...
For more information visit:
uu.varbi.com/se/what:job/...
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week, we’re reading "Why do language models perform worse for morphologically complex languages?" by Arnett et al.
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week, we’re reading "Why do language models perform worse for morphologically complex languages?" by Arnett et al.
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
aclanthology.org
April 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week, we’re reading "Why do language models perform worse for morphologically complex languages?" by Arnett et al.
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week, we’re reading "Why do language models perform worse for morphologically complex languages?" by Arnett et al.
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week, we’re diving into "Leveraging Mandarin as a Pivot Language for Low-Resource Machine Translation between Cantonese and English" by Suen et al.
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week, we’re diving into "Leveraging Mandarin as a Pivot Language for Low-Resource Machine Translation between Cantonese and English" by Suen et al.
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
aclanthology.org
March 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week, we’re diving into "Leveraging Mandarin as a Pivot Language for Low-Resource Machine Translation between Cantonese and English" by Suen et al.
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week, we’re diving into "Leveraging Mandarin as a Pivot Language for Low-Resource Machine Translation between Cantonese and English" by Suen et al.
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week, we’re diving into "Uncertainty Modelling in Under-Represented Languages with Bayesian Deep Gaussian Processes" by Ubaid Azam et al.
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts! What stood out to you? Let's discuss!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week, we’re diving into "Uncertainty Modelling in Under-Represented Languages with Bayesian Deep Gaussian Processes" by Ubaid Azam et al.
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts! What stood out to you? Let's discuss!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
aclanthology.org
March 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🔍 Uppsala NLP Reading Group: Paper Spotlight!
This week, we’re diving into "Uncertainty Modelling in Under-Represented Languages with Bayesian Deep Gaussian Processes" by Ubaid Azam et al.
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts! What stood out to you? Let's discuss!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
This week, we’re diving into "Uncertainty Modelling in Under-Represented Languages with Bayesian Deep Gaussian Processes" by Ubaid Azam et al.
📖 Give it a read and share your thoughts! What stood out to you? Let's discuss!
Stay tuned for our next pick! 🚀
We have several open PhD positions (4-years, fully funded) at the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University, both in Computational Linguistics and other language subjects. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
PhD positions at the Faculty of Languages - Uppsala University
PhD positions at the Faculty of Languages, Faculty of Languages, Uppsala University
www.uu.se
February 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We have several open PhD positions (4-years, fully funded) at the Faculty of Languages at Uppsala University, both in Computational Linguistics and other language subjects. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Ahmed will be presenting at virtual COLING today!
A new multimodal dataset of Arabic implicit discourse relations in speech and writing and a comparison of recognition methods based on audio and text - it's all in the paper by Ahmed Ruby, @sstymne.bsky.social and me, in Monday's online COLING session. Look here: aclanthology.org/2025.coling-...
Multimodal Extraction and Recognition of Arabic Implicit Discourse Relations
Ahmed Ruby, Christian Hardmeier, Sara Stymne. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics. 2025.
aclanthology.org
January 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Ahmed will be presenting at virtual COLING today!