Si Wu 🌊 @ ACL 2026

PhD candidate working on NLP & computational social science @Northeastern. Previously @UCSanDiego.

[Si Wu 🌊 @ ACL 2026 @siwu_nlp]

I am at ACL until July 7th evening. Would love to talk to people working on multilinguality, multimodality, and cultural bias.
I am also looking for postdoc starting Sep 2027, so please reach out to me if you know any relevant openings!!

[Alisa Liu @alisawuffles]

I'm joining OpenAI next week!🥹 The job search turned out to be really challenging but also super rewarding, so I wrote a small blog to share what I learned along the way and hopefully make the process a little less mysterious for the next person. https://t.co/6FigSBdenD

[Graham Neubig @gneubig]

First they came for the model builders...

I feel we're getting a glimpse of a future where AI is only provided to a privileged few, and that's not a future I want to live in.

[Multilingual Representation Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 @mrl_workshop]

After the enthusiasm of the shared task last year, we are running another shared task to create a community-made, culturally relevant multilingual benchmark! The deadline to contribute is August 1 AoE. See more details below.

[Alexander Hoyle @miserlis_]

Delighted to announce the next step in my career!

After my postdoc, I will begin a joint appointment at TU Wien and the Complexity Science Hub Vienna as an Assistant Professor in NLP! My deepest thanks to all who helped me along the way

I'm hiring—details on PhD positions below

[Si Wu 🌊 @ ACL 2026 @siwu_nlp]

@miserlis_ Yay!!! Congrats!!🍾🎉

[Ece Takmaz @ecekt2]

🍃2nd Call for Papers!😊EMNLP 2026 Workshop on Multimodal Interaction in Face-to-Face Dialogue (MINT) welcomes work on multimodal communication, speech, gesture, gaze, facial expressions, datasets, eval methods, and applications! @emnlpmeeting

[Si Wu 🌊 @ ACL 2026 @siwu_nlp]

when the .tex file takes a little too long to compile

[GenAI4World Workshop @ COLM 2026 @GenAI4World]

🚨 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 – #GenAI4World Workshop @COLM_conf #COLM2026

We invite papers on multilingual, multimodal, and culturally grounded LM

🛠️ Two non-archival tracks:
1️⃣ Workshop Track
2️⃣ Conference Track

🔗 Submit: https://t.co/M823EGm6IV

Details below ⬇️

[Si Wu 🌊 @ ACL 2026 @siwu_nlp]

Telling people I am in my Bilbo Baggins era as a way of saying “I am working on my dissertation” is something very special to me. Don’t make fun of me.

[Si Wu 🌊 @ ACL 2026 @siwu_nlp]

@chengmyra1 So fomo now, I wanna be in this social 😭

[Si Wu 🌊 @ ACL 2026 @siwu_nlp]

so "Cambridge, MA" can also mean "got a master's degree from the University of Cambridge", duh. I've officially lived in Boston for too long

[Si Wu 🌊 @ ACL 2026 @siwu_nlp]

@NikolaiVogler @beesafe_ai @ycombinator @obviousvc Congrats Nikolai!! 🎉🍾🎓

[Negar Foroutan @negarforoutan]

1/ 🌍 How does mixing data from hundreds of languages affect LLM training?
In our new paper "Revisiting Multilingual Data Mixtures in Language Model Pretraining" we revisit core assumptions about multilinguality using 1.1B-3B models trained on up to 400 languages.
🧵👇

[ELLIS @ELLISforEurope]

𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗟𝗟𝗠-𝟮𝟮𝗕 launched: fully open 22B multilingual LLM for all EU languages, built by a Europe-wide consortium (ELLIS involved), incl. @andre_t_martins (@Lisbon_ELLIS)

ℹ️ Learn more & access the model:
🔗 https://t.co/VfaxsixnO1
🔗 https://t.co/LYMbHytUts

[Ivan Lee @ivn1e]

DeepSeek-OCR is a solid OCR model. But the excitement around it has become something bigger—evidence that vision might solve the long context problem. Has the excitement outpaced the evidence?

"Optical Context Compression Is Just (Bad) Autoencoding"
→ https://t.co/A9H4Wmocpy

[Christopher Potts @ChrisGPotts]

Safety-oriented interpretability researchers should be focused on AI systems, not individual model artifacts. A snippet from the NeurIPS CogInterp workshop panel on Sunday:

[Vilém Zouhar @zouharvi]

Do you have work on resources, metrics & methodologies for evaluating multilingual systems?

Share it at the MME workshop🕵️co-located at EACL. Direct submission deadline in 10 days! (December 19th)!
https://t.co/RhG5cPr1fW

[Si Wu 🌊 @ ACL 2026 @siwu_nlp]

Just call it PrivateAI. It’s better. Sounds like you care about privacy, and no one can roast you for not being “open”

[Si Wu 🌊 @ ACL 2026 @siwu_nlp]

Unpopular opinion, if you are not going to talk about a figure or screenshot of a paper or share your slides eventually, don’t include these things in your talk. It’s better to just make whatever you are talking about bigger in that slide.