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For today's reading group, @marlutz.bsky.social presented "State media control influences large language models" by Waight et al. (2026) Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #NLProc

State media control influences large language models | Nature nature.com
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  • Chinese state-media content appears in typical LLM training sets at roughly 41 times the rate of Chinese-language Wikipedia.
  • Across 37 countries, models prompted in the local language produce more regime-favorable responses in countries with lower press freedom.
  • A pretraining experiment with just 6,400 state-scripted documents pushed an open-weight model to pro-government responses nearly 80 percent of the time.
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#TBT #NLProc 'Classist Tools: Social Class Correlates with Performance in NLP' by Curry et al. (2024) finds NLP tools perform worse on lower-SES speech - higher perplexity, more ASR errors, dialect flagged as "wrong" by grammar checkers. arxiv.org/pdf/2403.04445

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#MemoryModay #NLProc Countering Hateful and Offensive Speech Online - Open Challenges" (Flor Miriam Plaza-Del-Arco, @deboranozza.bsky.social, et al. 2024) presented a tutorial on the challenges and solutions for detecting and mitigating hate speech online. aclanthology.org/202…

Countering Hateful and Offensive Speech Online - Open Challenges aclanthology.org
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  • The EMNLP 2024 tutorial in Miami, by five researchers, treats online hate-speech moderation as a set of open challenges, not a solved product.
  • Topics include multilingualism, counter-narrative generation, a hands-on session with a popular hate-speech detection API, and fairness and ethics in AI.
  • The abstract names no specific API, no detector numbers, and frames safer online spaces as a collaboration goal rather than a shipped technology.
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#TBT #NLProc '[MASK]? Making Sense of Language-Specific BERT Models' by @deboranozza.bsky.social, Bianchi & @dirkhovy.bsky.social (2020), explores language-specific vs universal BERT models. arxiv.org/pdf/2003.02912

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For today's reading group, @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social presented "Old Habits Die Hard: How Conversational History Geometrically Traps LLMs" by Simhi et al. (2026) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.03308 #NLProc

[2603.03308] Old Habits Die Hard: How Conversational History Geometrically Traps LLMs arxiv.org
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  • A new arXiv paper introduces History-Echoes, a framework showing conversation history biases what large language models generate next.
  • Across three model families and six datasets, the authors find gaps in latent space form a 'geometric trap' confining a model's response trajectory.
  • The work suggests hallucinations from earlier turns can influence later responses, implying an early mistake tends to persist inside a session.
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#MemoryMonday #NLProc 'Comparing Bayesian Models of Annotation' by Paun et al. dives into corpus annotation, evaluating six models' predictiveness and accuracy. Essential for navigating annotators and item difficulties. aclanthology.org/Q18-1040

Comparing Bayesian Models of Annotation aclanthology.org
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For this week reading group, @arimuti.bsky.social presented "Ownership in AI-Assisted Everyday Tasks" by Megan Wei et al. (2026) Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.20658 #NLProc

Ownership in AI-Assisted Everyday Tasks arxiv.org
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  • In a qualitative survey, 42% of respondents said they could 'definitely' have done high-ownership tasks without AI, versus 63% for low-ownership tasks.
  • Researchers at Brown, Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley and the Artificiality Institute surveyed 64 participants, with 52 complete responses, on two recent AI-assisted tasks each.
  • Loss of personal voice and lack of comprehension both erode felt ownership; willingness to disclose AI use is decoupled from pride and shaped by community norms.
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#TBT #NLProc 'Understanding Political Discourse on Twitter through Election Manifestos' Maurer et al. (2024) present a method for predicting party positioning from tweets aclanthology.org/2024.finding...

Toeing the Party Line: Election Manifestos as a Key to Understand Political Discourse on Twitter aclanthology.org
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  • An EMNLP 2024 paper extends manifesto-based party-position modeling to Twitter, using hashtags as a fine-tuning signal in place of hand-labeled data.
  • The authors report that the resulting party positionings are stable and consistent with those derived from official manifestos.
  • The method holds up in low-resource settings, working when only smaller subsets from shorter time periods are available.
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Recent commentary

@taniseceron.bsky.social is presenting her work about political content in pre-training and post-training data at the AI & Society conference. #AIandSociety #NLProc

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🎉 Excited to welcome Lorena Calvo Bartolomé to our lab! Her expertise in NLP and signal processing will bring fresh perspectives to our research. She will be working on TOLD, a project exploring voice-based data collection as a richer alternative to written annotation. #NLProc

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👋 We’re delighted to welcome @celianri.bsky.social, who’ll be visiting our lab over the next few months! Her research explores moderation practices on Reddit, combining social-graph signals with NLP to predict moderation outcomes. Great to have you with us, Célia!

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🌶️ @dirkhovy.bsky.social from our @milanlp.bsky.social lab will be joining today's #EMNLP2026 plenary panel on "New Missions in NLP Research"! Don't miss it! 🕝 14:30 📍 P1-3

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🧠🤖 It was a pleasure to host @andreadevarda.bsky.social for his talk, "Large Language Models as Models of Human Language(s) and Higher-Level Cognition." A truly inspiring talk! #NLProc

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We had the pleasure of hosting @tresiwald.bsky.social and Alireza Salemi at our latest seminar. Andreas spoke about the reliability of language models through computational argumentation, while Alireza presented his work on personalizing LLMs. Thank you both for the inspiring talks! #NLProc

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We were honored to welcome Giulia Barbareschi to our lab for an inspiring conversation on inclusive technology and what NLP should learn from it. Thank you for sharing your insights and vision! #InclusiveTech #Accessibility #NLProc

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For last week's @milanlp.bsky.social seminar, we had the pleasure to host Hongyu Chen. She presented her upcoming EMNLP paper "Contrast Comes at a Cost: Prompting Large Language Models for Perception-Centered Gendered Style Transfer". #NLProc

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We're excited to welcome Tamara Quiroga as a visiting PhD researcher from Chile! She will be exploring how gender-inclusive language shapes gender representation in stories generated by large language models. #NLProc #genderbias

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Last Friday, we had the pleasure of hosting Clement Jonathan Mazet-Sonilhac and Monika Kaczorowska for an insightful discussion on AI adoption and its impact on the quality of financial services. #NLProc #AI

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