I successfully defended my PhD in Dutch fashion and required a PhD certificate in Latin. Thank you to the amazing people that got me here, a.o. @dongng.bsky.social and the ones I blur here.

Is this the Dutch budget cuts or does utrecht uni really not want me to come to the office? My highlight is the door that has been broken for weeks, with the only change being a laminated piece of paper saying I should enter uni maze through two other buildings.

Utrecht is back from #ACL2025! We had a blast.

I should have posted this before but here are some papers from people in our group that were presented at ACL.

Since people at #ACL2025 are very interested in tokenization, a reminder to join the discussion on discord set up by @mcognetta.bsky.social

How come the @aclmeeting.bsky.social underline page was set to release July 20 last Friday and now promises access only on the 24th?

Access to papers and videos remains evasive less than a week before the conference.

Wanna do some authorship attribution? Chances are what tokenizer you use matters.

Tokenization is Sensitive to Language Variation, probably, more investigation necessary...

📄 ACL Findings paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.15343
🧑‍🏫 @dongng.bsky.social @davidjurgens.bsky.social and myself

See you at ACL!

PhD thesis submitted ✅

(1 ) *Insults Welsh language*
(2) *Excitedly studies increased use of less than socially acceptable Welsh in Welsh participants*

What encoding error is this? It cant be the language I spent five years learning. Tokenizers, we stand no chance

First step, identify all English variation and collect texts representing it. No biggie

buuuurn

It's great to read old methods sections. Pretend to be a lost shopper and secretly study language. Thanks Labov.

It looks like someone is working an ARR deadline... 👀

EMNLP was a blast

Measure the style of your texts using our popular style embedding model huggingface.co/AnnaWegmann/...

Interested in whether people👂 each other in a conversation?
🚨 #EMNLP2024 with Tijs van den Broek and Dong Nguyen about detecting paraphrases between speakers
🤖 Detect? huggingface.co/AnnaWegmann/...
📊 Analyze? huggingface.co/datasets/Ann...
📄 Read? aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-m...