🌍This talk was a reflection of my life-long passion for cultures and languages, and lessons I learned along the way from my many students and collaborators from across the world. ❤️

🌎 Honored to give one of the keynote talks at #NAACL2025, and speak about the power of learning from many cultures as a key to the success of NLP.

I believe this will not only help us build better systems, but also bring more innovation to our community, and drive more impact.

Very proud of my lab’s work to be presented at #NAACL2025, all aligned with this year’s special theme on NLP in a multicultural world 🌎 Come find us throughout the conference!

We had a blast at the NLP@Michigan Day! Many thanks to our outstanding keynote speakers Parisa Kordjamshidi & @mohitbansal.bsky.social, our fantastic organizers Muhammad Khalifa & Siyang Liu, and all the engaged participants from across campus and beyond. So much positive NLP energy! 💛💙

Tomorrow at #AAAI25 we are presenting our paper “Why AI is W.E.I.R.D. (Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic—a concept from psychology) and why it shouldn’t be”—a position paper on challenges & opportunities in developing AI that works equally well for everyone🌍🌎🌏

arxiv.org/pdf/2410.16315