Thrilled to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor! 🎓🌟Huge thanks to my mentors, colleagues&collaborators, students and family who’ve supported me on this journey. Thx LST @ Saarland University Excited for what lies ahead! #love2teach 👩🏻‍🏫#love2doResearch 👩🏻‍💻#academicLife #thankful

We are looking for a PhD student for a fully-funded (tuition and stipend) position for the project: “Can a robot impersonate a human? Studying machines’ ability to mimic linguistic identity": findaphd.com/phds/project/c…

How valuable is interpretability and analysis work for NLP research? We (myself, Vagrant Gautam has left this site, @tombrownev, and Mor Geva) investigate the impact of interpretability and analysis research on NLP in our new paper 👇 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2406.12618 1/7

The #HNR2024 Conference is next week! 🤩 Three days to discuss the application of network analysis to historical disciplines. Program and details here: historicalnetworkresearch.github.io/lausanne/ Join us in Lausanne 🇨🇭 @UNIL or online (Zoom). Free registration: hnr2024.sciencesconf.org

Become a member of HNR! dlvr.it/T9C3cH

📢Do you work with sources from different types of media? We'd like to remind you that you only have a few days left to respond to the call for papers for our “Transmedia History” conference: deadline is July 15! All the info here 👉 impresso.github.io/transmedia/

The fourth chapter of the Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities (NLP4DH) will be in Miami this year. Deadline September 1st! nlp4dh.com/nlp4dh-2024

🔍Discover Impresso project's use of ML in historical media! Check out Marten Düring’s lecture “Historische Medien und Maschinelles Lernen”, presented at the Digital History open research colloquium held at Humboldt University of Berlin. Watch here: youtu.be/7NL3yFHaQaQ

Recommended swimming pool-side reading on your Summer holiday: our new paper on Kolmogorov Complexity, detecting diachronic trends in morphological and syntactic complexity in the West Germanic language

The first workshop on "Context and Meaning: Navigating Disagreements in NLP annotation" (CoMeDi) will happen COLING 2025 on 19/20 January. Shared task, invited talks and more details to be announced soon on comedinlp.github.io! #nlproc #coling2025

Yes, college students have lost their ability to read. I have taught lit for 24 years; the threshold started to decline in the late aughts and nosedived during Covid. A thread with observations + how I get my students to read ALL (or at least most) of the reading I assign: 🧵

I'm looking for an emergency reviewer familiar with fine-tuning LMs for classification tasks. Please reach out if you are interested. #ARR

Data in historical linguistics, a topic close to my heart and an exciting seminar series, which has reached its second edition. Check out the call for abstracts!

📢It is my pleasure to announce that our first #CfP for Transformations -a DARIAH-EU | @dariaheu.bsky.social Journal- is out 😍 📚 Consider submitting your contribution for the theme <#Workflows in #digitalhumanities> ❗️Deadline 31 October ➡️dariah.eu/2024/06/21/tra… #OpenAccess #digitalmethods #DH

So excited to announce the launch of our newest Citizen Science project: Reading Emotions. Come join! zooniverse.org/projects/citiz…

Excited to report that project SemChangeMWE with Filip Miletic, Chris Jenkins & headed by Prof. Sabine Schulte im Walde hosted an inspiring lunch2lunch workshop on synchronic & diachronic computational models of noun compounds. 🥳 Project website: schulteimwalde.de/research/SemCh… #NLProc

Check out the schedule for the reading group on Digital Methods in History and Philosophy of Science organized by Catherine Herfeld and Charles Pence, which starts next week! We look forward to meeting Jan Baedke,@ariannabetti.bsky.social, Stefan Reiners-Selbach, Marcin Milkowski, Przemek Nowakowski

Reminder that the application deadline for PhDs/postdocs in my NLU Lab is this Sunday! I am happy to answer questions before the deadline. Just DM or email me! :-)

🚀 Exciting news! Our new article "Small Worlds" is out in JCLS, co-authored with Matthew Wilkens (@[email protected]), David Bamman, Sandeep Soni and Elizabeth Evans. We explored the mobility of characters across 13,000+ English-language books. jcls.io/article/id/391…

How should we help young children develop positive social skills? The typical answer: >put children in groups >enforce norms like sharing >encourage collaborative play But this approach *backfires*... often tragically. Montessori saw this, and developed a new approach: