For today's reading group, @PiaPachinger presented "When Personalization Meets Reality: A Multi-Faceted Analysis of Personalized Preference Learning" by Yijiang River Dong et al. (2025)
Paper: https://t.co/PMFm2aQCOZ
#NLProc
📢Calling PhD researchers: Turing Internship Network applications open for 3–12 month paid internships.
4 opportunities across justice, financial and AI safety sectors, and NLP/information retrieval
Deadline to apply: 16 June 2026
💡 Learn more: https://t.co/oHM3iu4GpE
⏰ 4 days left to apply!
🎓 2 PhD positions still open:
🎯 Human-Centred Evaluation Frameworks for Multilingual Technologies
✨ Multimedia Personalization with Multimodal Large Language Models
📅 Deadline: 15 May 2026
🔗 Full details: https://t.co/ZagIUM3UCo
📚 Have you worked on a dictionary, corpus, or language tool?
The Adam Kilgarriff Prize recognises outstanding work in #Lexicography and #LanguageTechnology.
Apply or share with someone who should 👇
https://t.co/uOJu7FjziZ
CfP conference: 9-11 December 2026. Retranslation in Context VII. Concepts, contexts, prospects. University of Antwerp, Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2026
https://t.co/aAdyOMFqSi
📢 AILC sollecita candidature per ospitare l’edizione 2027 delle “Lectures on Computational Linguistics”.
Maggiori info nell'immagine, scadenza il 30 maggio 2026. 📢
The program of #LT4HALA2026 is online: https://t.co/MGOxKSwIPe
The workshop, organized in the context of #LREC2026, has almost 100 registered participants: it’s so great to see so many researchers interested in #NLProc for ancient and historical languages!
See you in Palma!
One full day. Endless inspiration. April 24 | #AAAL2026
Be part of the conversation shaping applied linguistics.
Register today: https://t.co/lVNRneBV48
@CambUP_LangLing
ReCALL journal 38 (2) is OUT!! Check out some of the papers here. #research#CALL#languagelearning#technology#MALL#writing
Shadiev, R., Liu, T., Reynolds, B. L., & Hwang, W.-Y. (2026). Exploring the effects of (un)familiar environments on MALL task writing performance, EFL writing proficiency, and learner perceptions. ReCALL, 38(2), 187–205. doi:10.1017/S0958344025100402
Join the 25th edition of Lexicom 2026 in Palermo ���🇹, 14–18 September! Be part of a workshop in #lexicography, #corpuslinguistics, #dictionaries, and lexical computing, attended by 700+ participants worldwide.
🔗 https://t.co/mzCyzFg0CE
CfP doctoral conference: “Literature in Dialogue: Emotions, Mediations, and Ecologies between Crisis and Transformation”, University of Trento, 5-7 October 2026
Deadline for submitting proposals: 30 April 2026
https://t.co/40llJzK1iG
New Book: Challenges in Translation and Language Industries
From Professional Skills to Market Needs
By: Verónica Arnáiz Uzquiza (ed.)
https://t.co/nPOyrdCys5
Translating Conflict and Refuge: Language, displacement, and the politics of representation
Translators, interpreters, scholars, refugees, and NGOs will explore the complex realities of translating conflict and refuge
24 April 2026
West Hub, CB3 0US
https://t.co/OTQ5uPFIuU
For today's Reading Group @CarolinHolterm presented "REL-A.I.: An Interaction-Centered Approach To Measuring Human-LM Reliance" by @KaitlynZhou and colleagues.
Paper: https://t.co/UEEA70SCMz
#NLProc
📣 Free workshop organized by Eleonora Litta Modignani Picozzi and Matteo Pellegrini: "LINKING MORPHOLOGY AND SEMANTICS - Meaning in Word Formation Resources".
- 🌍 Where: Università Cattolica (Room SF.111) and online
- ���️ When: April 13, 2026, 10-17
@PranavKhadpe Fascinante. 49% more agreement than humans means models learn to please, not inform. We're building systems that confirm our biases instead of challenging them. 🤔
Our paper in Science shows that AI sycophancy is prevalent and consequential. Discussing interpersonal conflicts with AI made people feel they were more in the right and less willing to apologize. In spite of this (or perhaps because of it) people preferred sycophantic responses.
New Book: Canonisation through Translation and Retranslation
Digital Humanities Analyses of the English Translations of Journey to the West
By: Binhua Wang & Yuan Ping
https://t.co/21T6Or8YAT