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🎓For today's lab seminar, it was a pleasure to have Zhijing Jin presenting "Testing Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models: Trolley Problem, Political Bias, and Beyond" #NLProc

#MemoryMonday #NLProc 'Visualizing Regional Language Variation Across Europe on Twitter' by Dirk Hovy et al. uncovers language differences across Europe with stunning visuals. Language is art! #Linguistics link.springer.com/referenceworke…

📖For this Thursday's Reading Group Anne Lauscher (she/her) presented "Aligned but Blind: Alignment Increases Implicit Bias by Reducing Awareness of Race " by Lihao Sun, Chengzhi Mao, Valentin Hofmann and Xuechunzi Bai. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.00253 #NLProc

#TBT #NLProc 'Impoverished Language Technology: The Lack of (Social) Class in NLP' by Curry, Talat, Dirk Hovy (2024). New tools target harmful content! #OnlineSafety arxiv.org/pdf/2403.03874

🎓For last Friday's lab seminar, it was a pleasure to have Shehzaad Dhuliawala presenting "Learning to Adapt and Align with Feedback" #NLProc

#MemoryMonday #NLProc 'Interpretability Informs Gender Bias Mitigation in Machine Translation'- Attanasio et al. (2023). Their new research tackles gender bias in machine translations using a simple, few-shot learning method for fairness. aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-mai…

📖For this Thursday's Reading Group Tanise Ceron presented "Generative Echo Chamber? Effects of LLM-Powered Search Systems on Diverse Information Seeking " by Nikhil Sharma, Q. Vera Liao and Ziang Xiao. Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114… #NLProc

#TBT #NLProc New study, 'Entropy-based Attention Regularization Frees Unintended Bias Mitigation from Lists' by Attanasio et al. redefines bias reduction in #AI, sans prior term knowledge. #2022Publication aclanthology.org/2022.findings-…

🎓For today's lab seminar it was a pleasure to have Federico Ruggeri presenting "From data annotation to modelling, the importance of integrating and extracting textual knowledge in hate speech" #NLProc

#MemoryMonday #NLProc 'Data-Efficient Strategies for Expanding Hate Speech Detection into Under-Resourced Languages' funnels limited target-language data to fine-tune models & enhance effectiveness. By Paul Röttger et al. aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-mai…

📖For this Thursday's Reading Group, Yujie Ren presented "How Does Vision-Language Adaptation Impact the Safety of Vision Language Models?" by Lee et al 2024 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.07571 #NLProc #AISafety

#TBT #NLProc Metrics for What, Metrics for Whom: Assessing Actionability of Bias Evaluation Metrics in NLP" by Delobelle, Attanasio, @deboranozza.bsky.social, Blodgett, and Talat, 2024 highlights the need for clearer, actionable bias measures in NLP. aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-mai…

🎓For today's lab seminar, we've had the pleasure to listen to Pietro Lesci 's presentation on "The hidden cost of split: Tokenization bias in language models". #NLProc

#MemoryMonday #NLProc 'Language Invariant Properties in NLP' by Bianchi, Debora Nozza, Dirk Hovy (2022) explores text transformation constants, studying translation & paraphrasing effects on sentiment & traits. #linguistics aclanthology.org/2022.nlppower-…

#TBT #NLProc 'Emotion Analysis in NLP: Trends, Gaps & Future' by Plaza-del-Arco et al. (2024) analyses key NLP papers, spotting major gaps in emotion analysis including terminology standardization and demographic aspects. aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main…

Last week we held our 1st MilaNLP retreat by beautiful Lago Maggiore! ⛰️🌊 We shared research ideas, stories (academic & beyond), and amazing food. It was a great time to connect outside of the usual lab working days, and most importantly, strengthen our bonds as a team. #NLProc

#MemoryMonday #NLProc 'Exploring challenges in Zero-shot Cross-lingual Hate Speech Detection, Debora Nozza (2021) reveals how current models may inaccurately label non-hateful, language-specific interjections as hate speech signals.' aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short…

📖For this Thursday's Reading Group, Pranav presented "Research Borderlands: Analysing Writing Across Research Cultures" by Bhatt et al. (2025) Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.00784 #NLProc

#TBT #NLProc 'Tonneau et al.'s (2024) 'From Languages to Geographies'' reveals geo-cultural bias in hate speech data, underlining the need for improved representation. #Research #BiasInData aclanthology.org/2024.woah-1.23