🔍 Drawing on work at the intersection of #NLP and financial and social science applications, Dr. Chen highlighted why understanding LLMs as active intermediaries is crucial for assessing influence, accountability, and systemic risk in modern information ecosystems.
💬 We thank Dr. Chen for the thought-provoking talk and the discussion with UKP Lab members on language, mediation, and power in the age of #LLMs.
#UKPLab #NLProc #AIandSociety #ComputationalSocialScience #FinNLP #GuestTalk
We would like to share with you the contributions that we make to the @eaclmeeting.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy in Rabat in March. See you all there to talk about #NLProc!
Language Technology Group at the University of Oslo has two papers accepted at #ICLR2026!
- Dual Language Models: Balancing Training Efficiency and Overfitting Resilience by David Samuel and Lucas Charpentier
- Fluent Alignment with Disfluent Judges: Post-training for Lower-resource Languages by David Samuel, Lilja Øvrelid, Erik Velldal and Andrey Kutuzov
Details and links in the thread:
Second call for papers for our #LREC2026 workshop "Computational Affective Science". If you studying #NLProc and #Affect and are interested in bringing these areas closer together, please consider submitting!
casworkshop.github.io
Workshop on Computational Affe...
The briefing also features perspectives from:
👤 Prof. Dr. Hinrich Schütze, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
👤 Prof. Dr. Dorothea Kolossa, Technische Universität Berlin
👤 Dr. Paul Röttger, Oxford Internet Institute
👤 Dr. Jonas Geiping, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
📄 Read the full German briefing here:
https://sciencemediacenter.de/angebote/sprachmodelle-entwickeln-unerwuenschte-verhaltensweisen-26006
🧾 Nature paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09937-5
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📢 Call for Papers: ACL 2026 Industry Track
ACL 2026 Industry Track in San Diego, CA, United States
Conference: July 2 - 7, 2026
Paper submission deadline: February 14, 2026
https://2026.aclweb.org/calls/industry_track/ #NLProc #ACL2026NLP
🧪 Modellen er basert på en ny metode for post-trening av LLM-er utviklet ved LTG og beskrevet i artikkelen "Fluent Alignment with Disfluent Judges: Post-training for Lower-resource Languages" av David Samuel, Lilja Øvrelid, Erik Velldal og Andrey Kutuzov:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08777
🤖 Ny norsk praterobot fra #LTG med chat-grensesnitt! NorMistral-11B-thinking er en åpen språkmodell (#LLM) finjustert for å følge instruksjoner og å resonnere før den svarer.
💬 For tilgang til chat: https://chat.llm.sigma2.no
🤗 Nedlasting fra #HF: https://huggingface.co/norallm/normistral-11b-thinking
👷♂️ Hovedutvikler: LTG-stipendiat David Samuel
ℹ️ For mer informasjon, se https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/forskning/grupper/ltg/store-sprakmodeller-for-norsk
🔗 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀
𝗔𝗥𝗥 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: https://arr-data.aclweb.org/
𝗗𝗮𝗴𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗵𝗹 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/seminar-calendar/seminar-details/24052
Interested in #emotions and natural language processing #NLProc? Then our new workshop is for you: We invite submissions for the 1st Computational Affective Science Workshop (at #LREC 2026). casworkshop.github.io/2026/fcfp/
First Call for Papers
Delighted to announce that the Nominating Committee has selected 11 new ACL fellows for 2025: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-fellows-2025. Many congratulations to all the ACL fellows!
For more information on the ACL fellowship, please see:
https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/ACL_Fellows #NLP #NLProc
Today we hosted a seminar on open Norwegian LLMs, thanks to everyone who joined and for the lively discussion!
Through a series of talks, various perspectives on #LLM research were presented, highlighting the importance of open models and the particular research challenges posed by working on Norwegian.
Finally, we presented our most recent LLM and its chat interface (more on this very soon!).
Deadline Extended: Call for Nominations: 2026 ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award is now Dec. 22, 2025, at 11:59 pm, AOE. Nominations should be submitted by the candidate's PhD advisor. Further details can be found at https://bit.ly/acl-dissertation-award-2026 #NLP #NLProc
Call for Papers: The 20th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XX):
https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XX-2026/cfp.html (Submission deadline: March 5, 2026) #ACL2026NLP #NLProc #NLP
We’re excited to have Dasha on board and look forward to seeing her research unfold at the intersection of #NLP and mental health 👋
#UKPLab #TUDarmstadt #AI #AIMentalHealth #NLProc #AISocialGood
Last was a short talk by Anna Preus and Siddharth Bhogra on extracting bibliographic data from historical publishing catalogues at the University of Washington eScience Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp3YgTZlWLk (11/11) #nlproc
Intentionally blurry impressions from the very early Language Technology Group (LTG) X-Mas party at the University of #Oslo
The day featured well-prepared talks, thoughtful questions, and lively exchanges across topics.
A big thank you to Yongxin Huang, our thesis coordinator, for guiding this cohort through the process, and to all supervisors for their continuous support throughout the semester.
We wish all students the best of luck as they finalize their submissions by the end of this month! ✨
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Tomorrow I'll give my inaugural lecture @uni-bamberg.de@bsky.brid.gy – if you don't know what language technology #nlproc is, and want to know what @bamnlp.de@bsky.brid.gy works on, please feel invited! If you can't make it at 6pm to Weberei 5 in Bamberg ("Erba Campus"), send me a message and I'll share a streaming link.
