If you happen to be at #NAACL2024, stop by the in-person poster session 3 on the 17th, and check out our work on Basque NLI, presented by Maite Heredia (Maite Heredia) and Aitor Soroa. aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-lon…

Tomorrow we will be presenting our work at #NAACL2024 in-person poster session 3. I will be there with Ahmed Salem Elhady, Maite Heredia and AitorSoroa, which are also presenting their works. aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-sho…

WE ARE HIRING!! 🥳The HiTZ Center for Language Technology (hitz.eus) at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) invites applications for predoctoral and postdoctoral positions in Natural Language and Speech Processing. CHECK IT HERE!! hitz.eus/job-offers

Come and work with us!

HiTZ zentroko bilera orokorra egiten ari gara Iruñean, bi egunez zentroko ikerketari buruz hitz egiten eta hausnartzen egongo gara.

Looking for 1-2 emergency reviewers for the June ARR cycle. If you are available, dm me and I can give you more information. #EMNLP2024 ACLRollingReview

Latxa got the Best Resource Paper Award at #ACL2024NLP 🎉🎉🎉 Congrats to the entire team, and in particular the lead authors Julen Etxaniz, Oscar Sainz and @apinhole!

🚨NEW BENCHMARK🚨 Are LLMs good at linguistic reasoning if we minimize the chance of prior language memorization? We introduce Linguini🍝, a benchmark for linguistic reasoning in which SOTA models perform below 25%. w/ Belen Alastruey, Mikel Artetxe, Marta R. Costa-jussa et al. 🧵(1/n)

Igual son tonterías mías, pero creo que hacer a mano el algoritmo de CYK da para un ejercicio guapo en clase de lengua que invita a mirar la sintaxis desde otro sitio. Los intríngulis del asunto en mi casi difunto blog: grammarpunki.com/sintaxis-para-…

Atzo eta gaur euskarazko ereduen artean onena aukeratzen utzi diegu #IEB2024|ko parte hartzaileei. Mila esker deneri!! Sistema komertzialez gain HiTZ garatzen ari den Latxa 🐑berri txikiena ere probatu dugu, 8B tamainakoa. Llama 3.1-en oinarritzen da. Eta irabazlea… 🥁

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I am happy to announce that our latest work on Visually Augmented Language Models has been accepted in #COLING2025 We present Blind-VaLM, a simple approach removing the need for explicit images to visually augment an LM, while still achieving strong performance on VLU and NLU.

Oier Lopez de Lacalle and I are hiring a post-doc starting in September within the LUMINOUS project, with a focus on multi-modal LLMs. If you're interested or have questions, feel free to get in contact with us or apply directly at the link below: link: lnkd.in/d-Zw6Ysh

Great presentation by Blanca C-F of the Overview of the Critical Questions Generation Shared Task. In 12th Argument Mining Workshop. w/ Rodrigo Agerri, Maite Heredia , JaioneB , Elena Cabrio , and Serena Villata . posters at 16.00! #ACL2025NLP

Ayer presenté mi participación junto con jeremy barnes y AitorSoroa en la segunda edición de la tarea ADOBO sobre detección de anglicismos como parte de IberLEF - Iberian Languages Evaluation Forum. ¡Muchas gracias a todos los organizadores!

Maite Heredia jeremy barnes AitorSoroa IberLEF - Iberian Languages Evaluation Forum Eta, gaur, Tecnoling-en gaude!

Ayer presentamos el proyecto #LUMINOUS en el congreso de la SEPLN 2025, donde tratamos cómo integrar LLMs en entornos de realidad extendida y analizamos los retos presentes en dichas aplicaciones. Eskerrik asko a todes les que se acercaron!

🌟 Exciting news! #WASSA2026 the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment, and Social Media Analysis, will be held at #EACL2026 Meet our organizers: jeremy barnes, Valentin Barriere, Orphée De Clercq, Roman Klinger, Debora Nozza, Celia Nouri, and Pranaydeep Singh

#WASSA2026 will be collocated with #EACL2026. The first call for papers is already out, but we'll be posting updates as we get closer. Check out workshop-wassa.github.io for more information.

🚀 We are pleased to announce the First Call for Papers for #WASSA2026 This year we introduce a Special Track on Multilinguality and Social Bridges between High- & Lesser-Resourced Languages/Communities 🌍 🗓️ Deadlines: Dec 17 (direct) and Jan 2 (ARR) 🔗 workshop-wassa.github.io/2026/call-for-…