And just in time for the holidays, exciting news 🥳: we're hiring! Assistant professorship in CL/NLP, permanent after 18mo if criteria are met. Vibrant atmosphere, great group! See full ad for details and contact bit.ly/CLjob-GroNLP #NLProc University of Groningen Faculty of Arts - University of Groningen

Our paper in which we ultimately recommend using Wav2Vec2-based acoustic representations to model subjective non-native pronunciation differences, has been accepted by the Journal of Phonetics! Transformers everywhere!

Our work w/ Malvina Nissim on the Italian T5 is finally out! IT5 is the first encoder-decoder NLM pre-trained on Italian, advancing the state-of-the-art in many 🇮🇹 NLG & NLU tasks. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2203.03759 Code: github.com/gsarti/it5 Demo: hf.co/spaces/it5/it5… 🧵👇

Can we distinguish closely-related Dutch regional languages using only 6⃣ seconds of speech? With multilingual pre-training and fine-tuning on Dutch we can! Even more accurately compared to using a (new) monolingual Dutch model. Read it in our new NAACL HLT 2025 paper! 🌟

🌍 "Make the Best of Cross-lingual Transfer: Evidence from POS Tagging with over 100 Languages" by Wietse de Vries (contact me by email) et al. will be presented in session OS4-6 at 12:00 CEST x.com/Wietsedv/statu…

Conference season is here!🎓 Wietse de Vries (contact me by email) just presented his paper (with Malvina Nissim & @martijnwieling, GroNLP) on cross-lingual transfer for >100 languages at #ACL2022 (ACL 2025). 🎉 If you missed it, you can still catch him at his poster tomorrow!

That's a wrap for the GroNLP team at #ACL2022! Now, on to the workshops! #acl2022nlp

Want to know more about our University of Groningen Faculty of Arts - University of Groningen GroNLP #NAACL2022 paper? Check it out in our 🌟new🌟 video! 📽️ by the great Simon youtu.be/c5nowiEItA4

📢🥳 Our group is opening two 2y post-doc positions in NLP in the wider context of Humane AI! Come work with us! All details: rug.nl/let/sectorplan #NLProc Main gist of the two specific projects below 👇 Interested? Get in touch with Malvina Nissim

🥳We're back! Fresh start of the season GroNLP reading group, with plenty of ideas and enthusiasm for the year ahead. Always happy to host external #NLProc speakers. If you're interested to talk to us about your research, get in touch!

After a year of restless development, I'm finally happy to announce Inseq, a new tool to democratize post-hoc interpretability of sequence generation models 🐛 github.com/inseq-team/ins… #nlproc #xai Some highlights 👇 1/