Hüseyin Güngör - claude-introspection-activation-strength What does the strength of feature-activation in introspection mean for Claude? A recent blog post and a corresponding paper by Anthropic reports that Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 at times display introspecti...

This is my friend @hgungor.bsky.social's blog on the pragmatics of AI introspection. TIL that we are to yell at our LLM's to make them bamboozle and trigger a use, or whisper gently to them for profound introspection and trigger a mention. #langsky #compling

📣 We’re pleased to announce that our department will co-organize the 11th edition of the SwissText conference!
#SwissText2026 will take place on 10 June 2026, hosted at the University of Zurich (Campus Oerlikon). Save the date!

www.swisstext.org/current/

#NLProc #UZHai #CompLing

🚀 Hiring: Tenure Track Researcher at CiMeC,
UniTrento! 🧠💻

Field: #CompLing, #AI & Cognitive Modeling. Join an interdisciplinary hub (AI + Neuroscience + Psych) in beautiful Trentino! 🏔️✨

📅 Deadline: Feb 12, 12:00 CET
🔗 lavoraconnoi.unitn.it/bando-dr-val...

#AcademicJobs #NLP

LINGUIST List 36.3752 Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Professor of Computational Linguistics, University of Geneva, Switzerland The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

@complingjournal.bsky.social @linguistlist.bsky.social @academic-chatter.bsky.social #NLProc #CompLing #linguistics #jobs #academicjobs

Hi y'all interested in a tenure-track assistant professorship in #linguistics / #psycholinguistics / #NLP / #compling etc? There's a national competition in Sweden for funding for a position for which you need to be nominated to apply. If you have <5yr PhD age, please email or DM me...

Congratulations to this year's deserving winner, Prof. Julia B. Hirschberg, whose dedication has significantly shaped our field! Their service is an inspiration to us all. ✨ #ACL2025NLP #DistinguishedServiceAward #CompLing #Community

It’s really quite impressive what can be observed in a large (enough) and diverse (enough) dataset with the aid of automation. 3/3 #compling #linguistics #datasets #nlproc #typology

CLIN35 Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands (CLIN) is a yearly conference on computational linguistics. Each year the conference is organized by a different institution in the Dutch-speaking region. ...

📅 Don't forget! The deadline for submitting your abstract to the #CLIN conference in Leuven is coming: 13th of June! Submitting is easy: name, title of your work, 500-word abstract, done! #nlp #nlproc #compling #llm #ai #dutch clin35.ccl.kuleuven.be

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Dear NLP folks, if you have an account in the Fediverse (e.g., Mastodon), you can now follow us by this handle: @starsem.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy. To do this seamlessly, simply go to our followers page (fed.brid.gy/bsky/starsem...), put your Fediverse address and click Follow!

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🚨 DEADLINE ALERT!
Analogy–Angle II (co-located with #ACL2025 2025 in Vienna 🇦🇹) is accepting submissions on analogy, abstraction & AI across CL, cog psych, and more.

🗓️ Full paper deadline: April 21
🔗 analogy-angle.github.io

@aclmeeting.bsky.social
#CFP #AI #CompLing #CognitiveScience #Analogy

Position opening: #CompLing, #NLP, #CogSci

Junior Group Leader / PostDoc
(4y, German E14 salary scale) @ Uni Tübingen

- no teaching obligations
- PhD co-supervision
- dynamic interdisciplinary team in one of Germany’s top research universities

tinyurl.com/jhxb4wu2

Hello 🦋!

#nlproc #compling #machinelearning

Humans learn language from situated communicative interactions. And that makes all the difference! Find out why in our latest article in Computational Linguistics: doi.org/10.1162/coli... #CompLing #CxG #LLMs #NLProc

Humans Learn Language from Situated Communicative Interactions. What about Machines? Abstract. Humans acquire their native languages by taking part in communicative interactions with their caregivers. These interactions are meaningful, intentional, and situated in their everyday envir...

Out now in Computational Linguistics, volume 50, issue 4: "Humans Learn Language from Situated Communicative Interactions: What about Machines?"(w.
@katbeuls.bsky.social) #NLProc #LLMs #CompLing #CxG #linguistics doi.org/10.1162/coli...

A certificate that awards Hayley Ross, Kathryn Davidson, and Najoung Kim with "Best Paper Award".

Another exciting piece of news from the EMNLP conference:
Najoung Kim, along with two of her colleagues, won Best Paper Award at the GenBench workshop! You can read their paper online: Is artificial intelligence still intelligence?
arxiv.org/abs/2410.17482

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#bestpaper #emnlp #compling

It's graduate application season! See below for two resources that people have found useful:

- Blog post on writing a Ph.D. statement of purpose
- List of many North American linguistics departments with computational/NLP research

#NLProc #CompLing #phdchat

From wordfreq sunset doc:

“The field I know as "natural language processing" is hard to find these days. It's all being devoured by generative AI. Other techniques still exist but generative AI sucks up all the air in the room and gets all the money.”

github.com/rspeer/wordf... #LLM #NLP #CompLing

Haven't posted on here yet—

We're hiring a junior faculty member in computational linguistics at Georgetown! 🎓😎 There's a tremendous amount of talent in the field right now, so I can't wait to read the applications.

Apply by Nov. 1. DMs/email open for questions. #NLProc #CompLing