NLPLab@Montclair

Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing at Montclair State University #NLProc #Montclair_NLP #Montclair_CL #NLP4IF

[NLPLab@Montclair @lab_nlp]

New Japanese euphemism benchmark (JP-PET): models do well on seen euphemisms, but performance drops hard on unseen PETs, suggesting reliance on lexical familiarity over pragmatic understanding. XLM-R generalized best.

#NLP #JapaneseNLP #LLM
#LREC2026

[NLPLab@Montclair @lab_nlp]

An NLP study on detecting Ukrainian war euphemisms like “бавовна” (“explosion”) and “пташка” (“drone”). GPT-4o performs well on a newly annotated dataset, but the harder problem remains contextual disambiguation, sarcasm, and shifting euphemistic meaning over time. #UkrainianNLP

[NLPLab@Montclair @lab_nlp]

Semantic overlap alone may not be enough for cross-lingual euphemism transfer. Interesting results on Turkish↔English euphemism detection showing strong asymmetries even when expressions appear semantically aligned.

#NLP #MultilingualAI #LLM #SIGTURK2026

[NLPLab@Montclair @lab_nlp]

Scrambling hurts MLMs across languages, but morphology sensitivity varies a lot by language.

#NLP #LLM #MultilingualAI

[NLPLab@Montclair @lab_nlp]

Euphemism Benchmark in SEVEN languages! @LREC2026 #Euphemisms #montclair #benchmark

[NLPLab@Montclair @lab_nlp]

@LinguisticsMSU Congratulations! @montclairstateu @LinguisticsMSU

[Linguistics@Montclair @LinguisticsMSU]

Oct 27 at Montclair: @zawadzkanatalka on how European media racializes and genders refugee crises—same violence, different headlines. https://t.co/v0GnQZZcpw
@Montclair_CHSS #montclair #linguistics @lab_nlp

[FeldmanMSU @FeldmanMSU]

Looking for scholars whose work addresses real-world language challenges in educational, clinical, or communicative contexts, grounded in strong theoretical foundations.

[NLPLab@Montclair @lab_nlp]

Takeaway: cross-lingual transfer isn’t “more is better.”
Success depends on the model, language pair, and training order.
Great work by Julia Sammartino advancing research on multilingual euphemism detection! 👏

#RANLP2025 #TransferLearning #LowResource #AIResearch

[NLPLab@Montclair @lab_nlp]

🎉 We’re proud of our recent graduate Julia Sammartino https://t.co/bgEQUuZqmG, who presented her paper “When Does Language Transfer Help? Sequential Fine-Tuning for Cross-Lingual Euphemism Detection” at #RANLP2025!
📄 Preprint: https://t.co/T2BMFjAfNg

[NLPLab@Montclair @lab_nlp]

🧩 Findings:
• XLM-R → bigger boosts, but more catastrophic forgetting when languages differ.
• mBERT → steadier, smaller gains, less forgetting.
Transfer helps, but only in the right conditions.

[Linguistics@Montclair @LinguisticsMSU]

Linguistics kicked off its new Book Club with Algospeak by @adam_aleksic how people twist words like “unalive” or “seggs” to dodge algorithms. Takeaway: platforms don’t just host language -- they shape it. Next up: Cultish by @amandamontell ! #MontclairLinguistics #Algospeak

[Linguistics@Montclair @LinguisticsMSU]

See this Instagram post by @montclair_linguistics https://t.co/TOPxY1dhlW

[NLPLab@Montclair @lab_nlp]

Dr. Suma Bhat at Montclair! @Montclair_CHSS @LinguisticsMSU @MSUCSAM

[NLPLab@Montclair @lab_nlp]

New Talk on YouTube!
"Discovering Implicit Social Biases in Large Language Models" by @sharonlevy21 . Explore how hidden biases in AI affect decisions in healthcare, education, and more! https://t.co/1rnqmMVggT #NLPMontclair #GenderBias #FairAI @LinguisticsMSU @montclairstateu

[Linguistics@Montclair @LinguisticsMSU]

🌟 Excellent presentations today at the Graduate Mini-Conference Fall 2024! 🎓👏 Huge congratulations to all the students who shared their work. Excited to see your future endeavors.🚀 #GradConference2024 #ResearchExcellence @Montclair_CHSS @MSUCSAM @lab_nlp @LibbyBarak

[NLPLab@Montclair @lab_nlp]

Today!

[NLPLab@Montclair @lab_nlp]

Join us Nov 21, 2024, at 3:30 PM for a talk by Dr. Sharon Levy @sharonlevy21: "Discovering Implicit Social Biases in Large Language Models".
Explore how AI biases arise unexpectedly in domains like healthcare, education, and decision-making.
#NLPMontclair #ResponsibleAI

[NLPLab@Montclair @lab_nlp]

Join us Nov 21, 2024, at 3:30 PM for a talk by Dr. Sharon Levy @sharonlevy21: "Discovering Implicit Social Biases in Large Language Models".
Explore how AI biases arise unexpectedly in domains like healthcare, education, and decision-making.
#NLPMontclair #ResponsibleAI

[NLPLab@Montclair @lab_nlp]

Great to see both new and returning students collaborating at the NLP lab! Exciting discussions ahead.@LibbyBarak @FeldmanMSU @Montclair_CHSS @MSUCSAM @montclairstateu @LinguisticsMSU #MontclairNLP