This week at our Institutsversammlung, Neele Falk presented the First Shared Task on Perspective Argument Retrieval! 🎉 This task is organized in collaboration with Andreas Waldis and Prof. Iryna Gurevych from the University of Luzern / UKP Lab. #NLProc UKP Lab #argumentmining

Presenting our paper on detecting fine-grained distortions in science communication at ACL today! :) come by the poster session between 12:15 and 13:15!

Exciting news: I'll be leading my very first full research project soon! As part of the @softwarecampus1 grant, I'll be supervising a project in which we want to understand how to detect & analyze patients' expectations towards their medical treatments using NLP

📢📢 We have two open positions (one PhD and one postdoc) in the MULTIVIEW project led by Amelie Wuehrl and me. It focuses on diversifying perspectives in news recommendations. Deadline: October 6 More info here: ims.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/aktue… Please help spread!😊 #NLProc #recsys

📢 IMS has two open positions at the moment. Check them out, or please help spread the open positions. ☺️

Congratulations to Dr. Neele Falk for successfully defending her PhD. 🥳🥳🥳 #nlproc #NLP #argmining @GabriellaLapesa Check out her amazing work here: aclanthology.org/people/n/neele… ims.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/team/…

🎉 Huge congratulations to Dr. Enrica Troiano enrica for winning the prestigious GSCL PhD Prize (awarded in memory of Wolfgang Hoeppnerat) for May 2022 - May 2024 at #KONVENS2024 in Vienna! 🏆👏🙌🎓 #NLProc #AI #NLP #EmotionRecognition #PhDAward #KONVENS #GSCL Uni Stuttgart

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 We're thrilled to share that our lab has 9 papers at #EMNLP2024! 🌍💻🚀🥳 Check out the super interesting work!👇 #NLProc #NLP #AI #EMNLP2024 Uni Stuttgart

"Unveiling the mystery of visual attributes of concrete and abstract concepts" - Exploring how visual features can effectively distinguish abstract from concrete concepts and what factors contribute to variability in their visual representation! #abstractness Tarun Tater

"Gender Identity in Pretrained Language Models: An Inclusive Approach to Data Creation & Probing" - Probing encoding of gender identity info. in PLMs via a novel TRANsCRIPT corpus with text from transgender, cisgender & non-binary speakers. @UrbanKnupi Agnieszka Faleńska Filip Miletic

"Beyond prompt brittleness: Evaluating the reliability & consistency of political worldviews in LLMs" How reliably & consistently (for political leaning & policy issues) LLMs reflect political worldviews Paper- arxiv.org/pdf/2402.17649… Tanise Ceron Ana Barić Dmitry Nikolaev @nlpado

Our paper about the interaction between factuality and deception in arguments got accepted to EMNLP Findings! Check out the preprint on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2409.20165 Aswathy Velutharambath Roman Klinger BamNLP

EMNLP is here!!!🥳 Check out our papers if you are at EMNLP. #EMNLP2024 #NLProc

Check out our paper: "Unveiling the Mystery of Visual Attributes of Concrete and Abstract Concepts: Variability, Nearest Neighbors, and Challenging Categories" at EMNLP 2024. 🥳 aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-mai… 📍Session 2, Posters- Nov 12 (Tue) 11:00-12:30 at Riverfront Hall.

I will be presenting our TACL paper on political worldviews today at #EMNLP2024 at 4pm at the Ethics, Bias and Fairness session. :) 📍Ashe Auditorium

hey EMNLP friends! :) Aswathy Velutharambath is presenting our paper 'How Entangled Is Factuality and Deception in German?' at the conference today: ⏰14:00-15:30, 📍Conference room 'Jasmine'. Be sure to drop by :)