Is AI useful... Well I've avoided Figma for years because every time I opened it, it looked too annoying to learn. But now they have a chatbot, and I made three websites yesterday.
People working in AI industry posting nonsense on X are not “putting their careers on the line.” They’ve got a ton of $$ and will be fine. A lot of this discourse is just weird in-group social signaling explicitly *for* career advancement. Genuine concerns exist but good luck disentangling all that.
Panel starting at #EMNLP with Lillian Lee, Dirk Hovy, and Mor Geva on “New Missions in NLP.” Wifi is down but I’ll try to share some quotes! Lillian polls the crowd, ~40% feel negatively about the future of NLP research.
I feel like there is a pattern in #CHR2027 papers of "we engineered this LLM-based pipeline and evaluated it in service of a humanities research question, but for CHR we will only report about the pipeline." I want to hear about the humanities research question and what you learned via the pipeline!
I’m on my way to my first #IC2S2! 🌧️ I’ll be supporting presentations about computational narrative analysis by my students and mentees @teagrjohnson.bsky.social and @umagunturi1.bsky.social. If you’re interested in storytelling, pretraining data, social media, or language models, come talk to us!
Graham Neubig in his #EMNLP2026 keynote: "Big Closed AI" (vs open academic research) talks about the risks of concentration of power, but I don't see actions to prevent concentration of power, and in fact, some companies take steps to shut down competition.
Listening to @delliott.bsky.social present about ARR AI reviewing experiment. Survey results were negative about quality of generated reviews, consistent across groups except high schoolers (!) who liked them. Many said their human reviews were eerily similar to generated reviews :( #EMNLP2026
Find me at the #EMNLP2026 workshops today! 9:30AM — Keynote at the Workshop on Natural User Generated Text (W-NUT) 2:00PM — Invited talk at the Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact (NLP4PI) 4:30PM — Panel with Lillian Lee, Barbara Plank, Gary Kazantsev, others at NLP4PI
I'm looking for examples of successful NSF CAREER proposals and budgets, especially those written by NLP researchers. If you would be willing to share your successful proposal, or if you know of successful proposals that others have shared publicly, please let me know!
I'm looking for 1-2 emergency reviewers for a #COLM2026 paper on LLMs and science. Paper looks like a nice read to me! Reply or message me if you might be able to write a review by end of week.
