NALA

Welcome to the von der Wense Natural Language Processing (NALA) Group led by @kelina1124 and hosted by @CUBoulder and @uni_mainz!

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Great news from the @NALACUJGU Group: we’ll be presenting 7(!) papers at #EMNLP2025! 🙌 Stay tuned, we’ll be sharing summaries of all papers soon!

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The new AmericasNLP shared task is out!🥳

#NLProc #AmericasNLP26

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🚨#AmericasNLP26 shared task🚨

Do you know what‘s shown in this image?

Our new ST challenges participants to develop systems that generate culturally grounded captions for images depicting things from Indigenous cultures, written in the Indigenous languages themselves.

#NLProc

[NALA @NALACUJGU]

What looks like a trivial formatting choice can actually alter research conclusions, so mind the gap!

Big thanks to the authors @_mariosanz, @minhducbui_nlp & @kelina1124!

📄 Read the paper: https://t.co/k7xmcXSC88

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🧐 Evaluating your LLM with multiple-choice question answering?

🧵 A tiny space in the prompt can make accuracy jump by 11% – and even reshuffle model rankings.

#EMNLP2025 #NLP #AI #LLM #Evaluation

[NALA @NALACUJGU]

Surprisingly, this small detail:
✅ Shifts model accuracy by up to 11%
✅ Changes which model tops the leaderboard – raising serious concerns about comparability of LLM leaderboards in prior work
✅ Affects calibration (reliability of confidence estimates)

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Big thanks to all the amazing collaborators:
@minhducbui_nlp* @CarolinHolterm* @vjhofmann @anne_lauscher @kelina1124

Read the paper here: https://t.co/ebYSGjv3G3

@DS_research_HH

[NALA @NALACUJGU]

"You speak Bavarian? Then you must be uneducated and closed-minded!"

🤯 Not your opinion? Good. But it might be your LLM's!

🧵 In our #EMNLP2025 paper we uncover concerning dialect bias in recent LLMs - including GPT-5.

#AI #Bias #Dialect #Fairness #LLM #NLProc #Safety

[AmericasNLP @AmericasNLP]

#AmericasNLP25 features 3(!!!) shared tasks!🔥⬇️

1. MT for Indigenous languages — a classic!
2. Educational resources for Indigenous languages — it’s back!
3. MT metrics for Indigenous languages — our newest addition, similar to the WMT metrics ST!

Info: https://t.co/2XqnYt37wU

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🔥AmericasNLP 2025🔥

#AmericasNLP25 will be co-located with @naaclmeeting in Albuquerque, USA on May 4th. The submission deadline is March 7th, and the call for paper is here: https://t.co/HaIWVdxibk

We are looking forward to your submissions and an exciting event!🌎🥳

#NLProc

[Katharina von der Wense @kelina1124]

🚨Job Announcement🚨
I'm looking for a PhD student w/ an interest in low-resource #NLProc and #NLProc for medical applications to join my group (@NALACUJGU) at JGU (@uni_mainz), Germany.
More details here: https://t.co/7tFOgtsQv7
Application deadline: 05/15/24
Please retweet!😊

[Maria Leonor Pacheco @ml_pacheco_]

📢 #NLProc folks looking for faculty positions (at any rank!), consider joining us at @CUBoulder @BoulderNLP!
https://t.co/mZoMAxLzcR
Feel free to reach out to me or any of the other Boulder folks if you have any questions :)

[Katharina von der Wense @kelina1124]

Are you working on machine translation for low-resource languages? Participate in this year’s AmericasNLP shared task!🔥
#MT #NLProc @aclmeeting #AmericasNLP2023

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🚨This year’s AmericasNLP paper submission deadline is exactly one month away! Get your papers ready, everyone!🚨
#americasnlp2023 #acl2023 #NLProc

[Katharina von der Wense @kelina1124]

My group is expanding to Europe!🌍🥳 In July, I will move back to my hometown in Germany to join the faculty at @uni_mainz, while keeping a reduced appointment at @CUBoulder. I’m also hiring the first PhD student at @NALACUJGU's new location: https://t.co/bmwBF6yQ3A
#NLProc #ML

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🚨 Are you interested in a postdoc position in multilingual NLP? Apply here: https://t.co/AQUFegCiKI 🚨
#NLProc #multilingualNLP

[Katharina von der Wense @kelina1124]

Attention, recent/soon-to-be PhD graduates! I’m hiring a postdoc to join my group @NALACUBoulder at @CUBoulder. The selected candidate will work on #multilingualNLP and will be able to get involved in exciting initiatives, such as @AmericasNLP. +Boulder is beautiful!🌞🏔 #NLProc

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✨The AmericasNLP workshop is hosting a mentoring program!✨

If you plan to submit to the workshop and would like mentorship from a senior researcher on your paper(s), sign up here: https://t.co/uUefah1TRn…

[Katharina von der Wense @kelina1124]

Are you working on #NLProc for Indigenous or low-resource languages? Submit your work to #AmericasNLP 2023!🌎
@aclmeeting #ACL2023NLP

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📢📢The submission deadline for the AmericasNLP workshop is April 15, 2023!

We welcome long papers, short papers, and extended abstract submissions!

✨The workshop will be co-located with ACL 2023 in Toronto, Canada✨

More information here: https://t.co/0HsNWFB6wf

[AmericasNLP @AmericasNLP]

The @NeurIPSConf–AmericasNLP 2022 competition's main task (Task 3) is speech🗣️-to-text translation. Build an end-to-end system or combine your best models for Tasks 1 & 2! Prizes will be awarded to the 🥇($1000), 🥈($500) and 🥉($300) team. Deadline: 09/30/22
#NLProc #NeurIPS2022