Bluesky · Hashtag

#NLP

118
posts · 30d
61
users
4
posts / day
1.9
posts / user
-36% vs last week

#NLP is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 61 people shared 118 posts with it — around 4 a day. Activity is down 36% versus the previous week, peaking on Sep 1 with 10 posts.

#NLP posts per day (last 30 days)

Posts with #NLP

Maria Antoniak
@mariaa.bsky.social
almost 2 years ago
I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics. Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎 Apply by December 15th!
A photo of Boulder, Colorado, shot from above the university campus and looking toward the Flatirons.
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Christian Rauh
@chrauh.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky
11 107 263
Julia Mendelsohn
@jmendelsohn2.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
New preprint! Metaphors shape how people understand politics, but measuring them (& their real-world effects) is hard. We develop a new method to measure metaphor & use it to study dehumanizing metaphor in 400K immigration tweets Link: bit.ly/4i3PGm3 #NLP #NLProc #polisky #polcom #compsocialsci 🐦🐦
Screenshot of top half of first page of paper. The paper is titled: "When People are Floods: Analyzing Dehumanizing Metaphors in Immigration Discourse with Large Language Models". The authors are Julia Mendelsohn (University of Chicago) and Ceren Budak (University of Michigan). The top right corner contains a visual showing the sentence "They want immigrants to pour into and infest this country". The caption says: Figure 1: Dehumanizing sentence likening immigrants to the source domain concepts of Water and Vermin via the words "pour" and "infest". 

The abstract text on the left reads: Metaphor, discussing one concept in terms of another, is abundant in politics and can shape how people understand important issues. We develop a computational approach to measure metaphorical language, focusing on immigration discourse on social media. Grounded in qualitative social science research, we identify seven concepts evoked in immigration discourse (e.g. "water" or "vermin"). We propose and evaluate a novel technique that leverages both word-level and document-level signals to measure metaphor with respect to these concepts. We then study the relationship between metaphor, political ideology, and user engagement in 400K US tweets about immigration. While conservatives tend to use dehumanizing metaphors more than liberals, this effect varies widely across concepts. Moreover, creature-related metaphor is associated with more retweets, especially for liberal authors. Our work highlights the potential for computational methods to complement qualitative approaches in understanding subtle and implicit language in political discourse.
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Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra.bsky.social
almost 2 years ago
Taking a stand that we aren’t doing the #nlproc tag here. It’s #nlp. We used #nlproc because a decade ago the #nlp tag was full of sleazy scammers selling guides for hypnotizing women into sleeping with you. But guess what? We won. All the sleazy scammers are doing natural language processing now.
11 29 181
Naomi Saphra
@nsaphra.bsky.social
almost 2 years ago
Transformer LMs get pretty far by acting like ngram models, so why do they learn syntax? A new paper by sunnytqin.bsky.social, me, and @dmelis.bsky.social illuminates grammar learning in a whirlwind tour of generalization, grokking, training dynamics, memorization, and random variation. #mlsky #nlp
Sometimes I am a Tree: Data Drives Unstable Hierarchical Generalization

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Sometimes I am a Tree: Data Drives Unstable Hierarchical Generalization

Language models (LMs), like other neural networks, often favor shortcut heuristics based on surface-level patterns. Although LMs behave like n-gram models early in training, they must eventually learn...

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Julian Garritzmann
@garritzmannj.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.
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Maria Antoniak
@mariaa.bsky.social
almost 2 years ago
Playing around more with feeds, trying to capture NLP paper threads. Right now it's only looking for ACL Anthology paper links (using a regex included in the feed description), but it could include more. Maybe links + #NLP hashtag? Not sure how to do that though.
10 12 84
Joe Stacey
@joestacey.bsky.social
almost 2 years ago
After going to NAACL, ACL and #EMNLP2024 this year, here are a few tips I’ve picked up about attending #NLP conferences. Would love to hear any other tips if you have them! This proved very popular on another (more evil) social media platform, so sharing here also 🙂 My 10 tips:
14 16 83
Catherine Arnett
@catherinearnett.bsky.social
almost 2 years ago
✨New pre-print!✨ Successful language technologies should work for a wide variety of languages. But some languages have systematically worse performance than others. In this paper we ask whether performance differences are due to morphological typology. Spoiler: I don’t think so! #NLP #linguistics
2 14 76
Dirk Hovy
@dirkhovy.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Over the last few years, several people from the @milanlp.bsky.social lab went onto the academic job market in #NLP. Based on the conversations with them, I collected some observations we shared internally. In case they are useful for others, though, here they are: dirkhovy.com/post/2025_01...
How to professor | Dirk Hovy

dirkhovy.com

How to professor | Dirk Hovy

It feels not long ago that I was worried about my job applications, but in reality, I have done this long enough that some of my first MSc supervisees are professors of their own now. Every few months...

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