Starting tomorrow! blogs.umass.edu/bridging-socio/

Reminder - for the terrific interdisciplinary Text as Data conference, abstract submissions coming up - due Aug 4! tada2023.org It's a great, small, non-archival conference to discuss emerging work with folks across social sciences, humanities, and computer science.

Do you work with text data? The abstract submission deadline for Text as Data has been extended to Aug 11! This is a great, supportive, and interdisciplinary conference and includes a doctoral consortium

🚨 We are back! Our workshop returns next year at #NAACL24. Watch this space for more details

Considering the mind-boggling amount of $$ flowing through #NLProc right now, it's surprising to hear that WiNLP has funding shortages. If your org has cash, please reach out to WiNLP to help them fund underrepresented authors at EMNLP 2025!

We've opened public registration for Text as Data 2023! Slots are limited, but if interested sign up from the TADA website: tada2023.org

It's not the first time! A dream team of Eve Fleisig @ ACL 2025 (human eval expert), Adam Lopez (remembers the Stat MT era), Kyunghyun Cho (helped end it), and me (pun in title) are here to teach you the history of scale crises and what lessons we can take from them. 🧵arxiv.org/abs/2311.05020

Check out ezCoref, our open-source tool for easy coreference annotation across languages/domains. Demo: azkaban.cs.umass.edu:8877/tutorial Re-annotation study via ezCoref reveals interesting deviations from prior work. 📜aclanthology.org/2023.findings-… #CRAC2023 EMNLP 2025 Dec 6, 2:50PM 🧵👇

Our submission deadline is still about 1.5 months away (March 24th), but in case it's not yet in your calendars: here's your reminder ;) sites.google.com/site/nlpandcss…

Excited to present our #ACL2024 paper on extracting argument structures from text by prompting LLMs with the names of a pedagogically popular linguistic theory, and applying this method for analyzing public comments! Work \w brendan o'connor, Ethan Zuckerman. 📜tinyurl.com/4xcte9z4 🧵👇

🎉 New paper: "Latin Treebanks in Review: An Evaluation of Morphological Tagging Across Time" We review existing Latin treebanks, standardize their morphological annotations, and show BERT-based taggers outperform prior models across time periods. (1/2)

Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences at UMass Amherst is planning to hire two tenure-track faculty in #NLProc at Assistant / Associate Professor levels. Job posting: careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/… Applications are due on Dec. 1st. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out! Please RT!

We're hiring new #nlproc faculty this year! Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS -- careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/…

Some personal news: I'll join UMass Amherst CS as an assistant professor in fall 2026. Until then, I'll postdoc at Meta nyc. Reasoning will continue to be my main interest, with a focus on data-centric approaches🤩 If you're also interested, apply to me (phds & a postdoc)!

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Thanks to masslivenews for great coverage of our ICWSM'25 study of global news coverage 📰! We show that deaths and event country 💰GDP💰 are the strongest predictors of global news coverage of disasters and terrorist attacks (w Erica Cai, Xi Chen, Ethan Zuckerman, brendan o'connor)!

Excited to present two papers at #ACL2025! 🗓️30 July, 11 AM: 𝛿-Stance: A Large-Scale Real World Dataset of Stances in Legal Argumentation. w/ Douglas Rice and brendan o'connor 📍At Hall 4/5. 🧵👇

🗓️29 July, 4 PM: Automated main concept generation for narrative discourse assessment in aphasia. w/ Marisa Hudspeth, Polly Stokes, Jacquie Kurland, and brendan o'connor. 📍Hall 4/5. Come by to chat about argumentation, narrative texts, policy & law, and beyond! #ACL2025NLP