Jerry Spanakis 🟥 EMNLP2025
@gerasimoss.bsky.social
he/him, assist. prof. @MaastrichtU, #datascience #ML #NLProc for people - social computing, PI @VOXReality_eu, co-org @nllpworkshop, #avgeek, views my own
Come talk to us at poster #11
November 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Come talk to us at poster #11
Now at WMT, see you at poster!
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Now at WMT, see you at poster!
#EMNLP2025 come today #WMT2025 Abderrahmane will be presenting DTW-Align 🌀, a method that uses Dynamic Time Warping to align speech + text embeddings during training for E2E-ST.
🧠 Boaster: 14:00–15:30
📊 Poster: 16:00–17:00
📄 Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.wmt-1.1...
🧠 Boaster: 14:00–15:30
📊 Poster: 16:00–17:00
📄 Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.wmt-1.1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
#EMNLP2025 come today #WMT2025 Abderrahmane will be presenting DTW-Align 🌀, a method that uses Dynamic Time Warping to align speech + text embeddings during training for E2E-ST.
🧠 Boaster: 14:00–15:30
📊 Poster: 16:00–17:00
📄 Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.wmt-1.1...
🧠 Boaster: 14:00–15:30
📊 Poster: 16:00–17:00
📄 Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.wmt-1.1...
Happening now till 1200 - poster #114
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Happening now till 1200 - poster #114
#EMNLP2025 Pawel Maka and I will present today Fri. Nov 7- 10:30-12:00), 🧠 You Are What You Train — How training data composition affects contextual MT learning and how we can control for it. Stop by! #nlp #nlproc
📝 aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
📝 aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
November 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
#EMNLP2025 Pawel Maka and I will present today Fri. Nov 7- 10:30-12:00), 🧠 You Are What You Train — How training data composition affects contextual MT learning and how we can control for it. Stop by! #nlp #nlproc
📝 aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
📝 aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
Happening now, poster #253
July 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Happening now, poster #253
Happening now poster #361
July 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Happening now poster #361
i am confused with the (new?) #ARR "point system" (a la Black mirror "Nosedive"). does the "add great review" button/comment replace the existing acknowledgement in the meta-review form or are they complementary or something else? @aclrollingreview.bsky.social #NLProc
July 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
i am confused with the (new?) #ARR "point system" (a la Black mirror "Nosedive"). does the "add great review" button/comment replace the existing acknowledgement in the meta-review form or are they complementary or something else? @aclrollingreview.bsky.social #NLProc
shall i start to worry that I might have missed something important?
July 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
shall i start to worry that I might have missed something important?
🚨 The #DSA Data Access Portal just dropped! no more scraping... maybe? 👀🕵️♀️
data-access.dsa.ec.europa.eu/home
Can’t wait for the juicy data catalogues platforms must maintain 🍿📊 (Recital 13 enters the room 👋) — systemic risk researchers, assemble! 🧠🔍 #dataaccess #datascience #research
data-access.dsa.ec.europa.eu/home
Can’t wait for the juicy data catalogues platforms must maintain 🍿📊 (Recital 13 enters the room 👋) — systemic risk researchers, assemble! 🧠🔍 #dataaccess #datascience #research
July 2, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🚨 The #DSA Data Access Portal just dropped! no more scraping... maybe? 👀🕵️♀️
data-access.dsa.ec.europa.eu/home
Can’t wait for the juicy data catalogues platforms must maintain 🍿📊 (Recital 13 enters the room 👋) — systemic risk researchers, assemble! 🧠🔍 #dataaccess #datascience #research
data-access.dsa.ec.europa.eu/home
Can’t wait for the juicy data catalogues platforms must maintain 🍿📊 (Recital 13 enters the room 👋) — systemic risk researchers, assemble! 🧠🔍 #dataaccess #datascience #research
@ewafworkshop.bsky.social Day 2 ✅ Jiska Beuk presented her master thesis on stereotyping of LGBTQ+ individuals in (Dutch)LLMs 🌈🤖.
🧪Translate WinoQueer benchmark
🌍 Assess stereotypes through a survey with the Dutch LGBTQ+ community
📊 Evaluated bias in >10 Dutch/multi-lingual MLMs & LLMs
🧪Translate WinoQueer benchmark
🌍 Assess stereotypes through a survey with the Dutch LGBTQ+ community
📊 Evaluated bias in >10 Dutch/multi-lingual MLMs & LLMs
July 2, 2025 at 7:47 AM
@ewafworkshop.bsky.social Day 2 ✅ Jiska Beuk presented her master thesis on stereotyping of LGBTQ+ individuals in (Dutch)LLMs 🌈🤖.
🧪Translate WinoQueer benchmark
🌍 Assess stereotypes through a survey with the Dutch LGBTQ+ community
📊 Evaluated bias in >10 Dutch/multi-lingual MLMs & LLMs
🧪Translate WinoQueer benchmark
🌍 Assess stereotypes through a survey with the Dutch LGBTQ+ community
📊 Evaluated bias in >10 Dutch/multi-lingual MLMs & LLMs
We also had the most interesting visitor 🕵️♂️, captured by that amazing figure 📊 by @thalesbertaglia.bsky.social on what data is needed for studying election misinfo 🗳️🧠 and what is available (or not) via the TikTok research API 📱🔍
"oh look, so much data missing"
"oh look, so much data missing"
July 2, 2025 at 7:41 AM
We also had the most interesting visitor 🕵️♂️, captured by that amazing figure 📊 by @thalesbertaglia.bsky.social on what data is needed for studying election misinfo 🗳️🧠 and what is available (or not) via the TikTok research API 📱🔍
"oh look, so much data missing"
"oh look, so much data missing"
@ewafworkshop.bsky.social first day ✅
With Jacob van Kerkhof presented our paper on data access under DSA art.40 described (and visualized :-)) as the “great data standoff” between researchers and platforms.
While waiting for the delegated act, you can read the paper here arxiv.org/pdf/2505.01122
With Jacob van Kerkhof presented our paper on data access under DSA art.40 described (and visualized :-)) as the “great data standoff” between researchers and platforms.
While waiting for the delegated act, you can read the paper here arxiv.org/pdf/2505.01122
June 30, 2025 at 9:08 PM
@ewafworkshop.bsky.social first day ✅
With Jacob van Kerkhof presented our paper on data access under DSA art.40 described (and visualized :-)) as the “great data standoff” between researchers and platforms.
While waiting for the delegated act, you can read the paper here arxiv.org/pdf/2505.01122
With Jacob van Kerkhof presented our paper on data access under DSA art.40 described (and visualized :-)) as the “great data standoff” between researchers and platforms.
While waiting for the delegated act, you can read the paper here arxiv.org/pdf/2505.01122
At @maastrichtu.bsky.social we on strike today to protest destructive cuts of more than 1 billion euro that impact research, teaching and our position as border region university. #WOinACTIE #DefendMaastrichtUniversity #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs #StakingHO
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April 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
At @maastrichtu.bsky.social we on strike today to protest destructive cuts of more than 1 billion euro that impact research, teaching and our position as border region university. #WOinACTIE #DefendMaastrichtUniversity #KabinetSlooptHogerOnderwijs #StakingHO
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nobody talks enough about this under-rated Outlook feature #academiclife
March 1, 2025 at 12:28 PM
nobody talks enough about this under-rated Outlook feature #academiclife
📢 Whatever Happened to TikTok? (And What’s Still Happening?!)
🗓 Monday, February 3rd ⏰ 17:30 📍 @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social
Join us for a lively discussion where law, tech and geopolitics collide! ⚖️🤖🌍
@valentinagolunova.bsky.social @kollnig.net
www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/whate...
🗓 Monday, February 3rd ⏰ 17:30 📍 @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social
Join us for a lively discussion where law, tech and geopolitics collide! ⚖️🤖🌍
@valentinagolunova.bsky.social @kollnig.net
www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/whate...
January 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
📢 Whatever Happened to TikTok? (And What’s Still Happening?!)
🗓 Monday, February 3rd ⏰ 17:30 📍 @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social
Join us for a lively discussion where law, tech and geopolitics collide! ⚖️🤖🌍
@valentinagolunova.bsky.social @kollnig.net
www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/whate...
🗓 Monday, February 3rd ⏰ 17:30 📍 @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social
Join us for a lively discussion where law, tech and geopolitics collide! ⚖️🤖🌍
@valentinagolunova.bsky.social @kollnig.net
www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/events/whate...
🤔 Quite a provocative read from #COLING2025: "Is peer-reviewing worth the effort?"
TL;DR: #NLP A* venue ≠ Citations ≠ Quality. Could early citations (e.g., on ArXiv) + a nomination process fix peer-review scalability?
📎 Read more: aclanthology.org/2025.coling-...
TL;DR: #NLP A* venue ≠ Citations ≠ Quality. Could early citations (e.g., on ArXiv) + a nomination process fix peer-review scalability?
📎 Read more: aclanthology.org/2025.coling-...
January 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
🤔 Quite a provocative read from #COLING2025: "Is peer-reviewing worth the effort?"
TL;DR: #NLP A* venue ≠ Citations ≠ Quality. Could early citations (e.g., on ArXiv) + a nomination process fix peer-review scalability?
📎 Read more: aclanthology.org/2025.coling-...
TL;DR: #NLP A* venue ≠ Citations ≠ Quality. Could early citations (e.g., on ArXiv) + a nomination process fix peer-review scalability?
📎 Read more: aclanthology.org/2025.coling-...
"i know what you did (not do) last summer"
January 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"i know what you did (not do) last summer"
#COLING2025 is done!
After the decoupling of LREC/COLING:
#LREC2026 will be "somewhere in the Mediterannean"
#COLING2027 will be in Macau
After the decoupling of LREC/COLING:
#LREC2026 will be "somewhere in the Mediterannean"
#COLING2027 will be in Macau
January 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
#COLING2025 is done!
After the decoupling of LREC/COLING:
#LREC2026 will be "somewhere in the Mediterannean"
#COLING2027 will be in Macau
After the decoupling of LREC/COLING:
#LREC2026 will be "somewhere in the Mediterannean"
#COLING2027 will be in Macau
🚀 AI is racing ahead—but who’s steering? ⚖️
Join us on Feb 6 for a workshop RE: accountability, ethics & responsible AI. Top experts, hot debates, help us shape AI’s future. 🌟
🎟️ Spots limited—Register now! lu.ma/tovrj8z6
#AI #EthicalAI #LegalTech #AIforGood
Join us on Feb 6 for a workshop RE: accountability, ethics & responsible AI. Top experts, hot debates, help us shape AI’s future. 🌟
🎟️ Spots limited—Register now! lu.ma/tovrj8z6
#AI #EthicalAI #LegalTech #AIforGood
January 13, 2025 at 10:25 PM
🚀 AI is racing ahead—but who’s steering? ⚖️
Join us on Feb 6 for a workshop RE: accountability, ethics & responsible AI. Top experts, hot debates, help us shape AI’s future. 🌟
🎟️ Spots limited—Register now! lu.ma/tovrj8z6
#AI #EthicalAI #LegalTech #AIforGood
Join us on Feb 6 for a workshop RE: accountability, ethics & responsible AI. Top experts, hot debates, help us shape AI’s future. 🌟
🎟️ Spots limited—Register now! lu.ma/tovrj8z6
#AI #EthicalAI #LegalTech #AIforGood
📢✊ students and staff rally against higher education budget cuts 🎓💰✂️in Maastricht. Grateful to have @rianneletschert.bsky.social from CvB of our university acting as a true leader against the budget cuts and the internationalization plans #woinactie #doehetniet 🟥
December 11, 2024 at 2:29 PM
📢✊ students and staff rally against higher education budget cuts 🎓💰✂️in Maastricht. Grateful to have @rianneletschert.bsky.social from CvB of our university acting as a true leader against the budget cuts and the internationalization plans #woinactie #doehetniet 🟥
3/ Pawel’s 2nd PhD paper dives into: how do context-aware MT models really use context? 🤔
We analyzed attention heads and found:
🔑 Some are critical for pronoun disambiguation.
🚀 Fine-tuning these heads = boosted performance!
📝 coming soon #MT #NLP
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See you all in Abu Dhabi! 🇦🇪🌴
We analyzed attention heads and found:
🔑 Some are critical for pronoun disambiguation.
🚀 Fine-tuning these heads = boosted performance!
📝 coming soon #MT #NLP
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See you all in Abu Dhabi! 🇦🇪🌴
December 1, 2024 at 9:28 AM
2/joint side work by Antoine&Vageesh: ColBERT-XM 🌍 A modular retriever for 81+ languages 🧩
Built w/XMOD encoders & ColBERT’s backbone, it trains on English and transfers zero-shot to other languages💡✨
📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2402.15059
🤗 huggingface.co/antoinelouis/dpr-xm
#IR #MultilingualIR #NLP
Built w/XMOD encoders & ColBERT’s backbone, it trains on English and transfers zero-shot to other languages💡✨
📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2402.15059
🤗 huggingface.co/antoinelouis/dpr-xm
#IR #MultilingualIR #NLP
December 1, 2024 at 9:28 AM
2/joint side work by Antoine&Vageesh: ColBERT-XM 🌍 A modular retriever for 81+ languages 🧩
Built w/XMOD encoders & ColBERT’s backbone, it trains on English and transfers zero-shot to other languages💡✨
📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2402.15059
🤗 huggingface.co/antoinelouis/dpr-xm
#IR #MultilingualIR #NLP
Built w/XMOD encoders & ColBERT’s backbone, it trains on English and transfers zero-shot to other languages💡✨
📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2402.15059
🤗 huggingface.co/antoinelouis/dpr-xm
#IR #MultilingualIR #NLP