Debora Nozza

So happy to have received an Outstanding Senior Area Chair Award at #EMNLP2026! 🎉 And it feels extra special to receive it for the second year in a row after #EMNLP2025!

🌶️ @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

Thought-provoking perspectives from @dirkhovy.bsky.social during the #EMNLP2026 panel! “The future of NLP is social science.” “What’s important for researchers is not what the field requires. Maybe fewer deadlines would allow researchers to work longer and better on their research.”

#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

#TBT #NLProc 'Capturing Regional Variation with Distributed Place Representations and Geographic Retrofitting' by @dirkhovy.bsky.social and Christoph Purschke (2018) highlights how social class and background impact technology performance. #TechInclusion aclanthology.org/D18-1469

For today's reading group, Carlos Diez-Fenoy presented "Your Students Don't Use LLMs Like You Wish They Did" by Kobler et al. (2026). Paper: aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon... #NLProc

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

For our weekly seminar, it was a great pleasure to hear @chahatsaidit.bsky.social 's work about social bias and #responsibleAI. #NLProc

Our lab @milanlp.bsky.social has 6 papers accepted at EMNLP and workshops! 🎉 See you in Budapest 🇭🇺

📄 I Am Multitudes: A Survey and Roadmap for Rethinking Identity in NLP. Identity is much more than sociodemographics! 🎤 Arianna Muti · Poster 🗓️ 25 October, 16:00–17:30 📍 Hall H

WildSEEK: Evaluating Language Models for Information-Seeking 🔎 A dataset and evaluation framework for assessing the reliability, fairness and safety of LLMs in information-seeking. 📍 Hall H 🎤 Tanise Ceron 🗓️ 26 October 2026, 16:45–18:15 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2608.30683

Overreliance on AI in Information-seeking from Video Content 📺 AI-mediated information access improves accuracy and efficiency, but users quickly become overreliant, leaving them vulnerable. 📍 Hall H 🎤 Elisa Bassignana · Poster 🗓️ 27 October 2026, 11:00–12:30 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2603.19843

The Role of Implicit and Explicit Demographic Signals in LLM-based Student Assessment 🎓 Explicit demographic information and cues inferred from conversation history can systematically change LLM assessments. 📍 Hall H 🎤 Donya Rooein 🗓️ 26 October 2026, 16:45–18:15 📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2609.16993

Can LLMs Model Incorrect Student Reasoning? 🧩 A reasoning taxonomy applied to math/science LLM traces reveals domain adaptation, learning-science alignment, and failures in solution recovery. 📍 Hall H 🎤 Yanick Zengaffinen 🗓️ 26 October 2026, 11:00–12:30 📄 openreview.net/forum?id=sQ4...

SEAL: SocioEconomic Alignment in LLMs 🦭 How does LLM service quality vary across users’ socioeconomic statuses? We evaluate helpfulness, sycophancy, human likeness, emotion features and text complexity. 📍 NLP for Positive Impact 🗓️ 28 October 2026 📄 openreview.net/forum?id=3Yt...

Couldn't be prouder of our @milanlp.bsky.social team and all the amazing work behind these papers! I'll be at #EMNLP2026 in Budapest and I'm also looking for a postdoc to join our lab! If you're interested, feel free to DM me so we can meet and chat! 🔗 jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=1004

#MemoryMonday #NLProc 'Impoverished Language Technology: The Lack of (Social) Class in NLP' by Curry, Talat, @dirkhovy.bsky.social (2024). New tools target harmful content! #OnlineSafety arxiv.org/pdf/2403.03874

📢 I’m hiring! Excited about NLP & Computational Social Science? I have an open 2-year postdoc at @milanlp.bsky.social on personalized & subjective NLP, focusing on everyday language technology use and their social & ethical impact 📅 Deadline: Nov 15, 2026 🔗 jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=1004

#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...

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

In the current issue: ‘Research Similarity and Women in Academia’ by Piera Bello, Alessandra Casarico, Debora Nozza doi.org/10.1093/ej/u... @pierabello.bsky.social @deboranozza.bsky.social @resmedia.bsky.social #EconSky

#MemoryMonday #NLProc Hung et al.'s 2023 paper, 'Can Demographic Factors Improve Text Classification?' finds demographic adaptations of Transformer NLP models don't notably boost performance. aclanthology.org/2023.finding...

#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

#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/2024.emnlp-t...

What if AI systems weren’t chatbots? 💬 @elisabassignana.bsky.social sparked a lively discussion at our reading group with Ghosh et al.’s FAccT paper (2026). Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... #NLProc #NLPEthics #AIEthics

#TBT #NLProc 'Welcome to the Modern World of Pronouns: Identity-Inclusive Natural Language Processing beyond Gender' by Anne Lauscher, Archie Crowley, Dirk Hovy (2022) discusses non-binary representation in tech and NLP's pronouns issue. aclanthology.org/2022.coling-...

We're excited to welcome Maite Heredia to our lab! 👋 She will be visiting us for the upcoming months. She works on developing resources and evaluating models for code-switching and non-standard language varieties. #NLProc

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

#MemoryModay #NLProc 'Two Contrasting Data Annotation Paradigms for Subjective NLP Tasks' by @paul-rottger.bsky.social et al. (2022) explores descriptive and prescriptive data labeling paradigms. aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-m...

#TBT #NLProc 'Data-Efficient Strategies for Expanding Hate Speech Detection into Under-Resourced Languages' funnels limited target-language data to fine-tune models & enhance effectiveness. By @paul-rottger.bsky.social et al. aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-m...

For today's reading group, @deboranozza.bsky.social presented "LLMs as Oracles: Reliance on LLMs for Subjective Personal Questions" by @myra.bsky.social et al. (2026) Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2609.14849 #NLProc

#MemoryModay #NLProc 'SocioProbe: What, When, and Where Language Models Learn about Sociodemographics' - Lauscher et al. delve into language models' grasp of sociodemographics. Their findings? Models learn, but don't apply it. aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-m...

👋 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!

#TBT #NLProc 'Detecting Misogynous Memes with Text & Image Modalities' by Attanasio, @deboranozza.bsky.social, Bianchi. Their novel system uses Perceiver IO, surpassing all previous benchmarks. #AI #ScienceUpdate aclanthology.org/2022.semeval...

#MemoryModay #NLProc #AI #MachineLearning #SafetyFirst 'Safety-Tuned LLaMAs: Improving LLMs Safety' by Bianchi et al. explores training LLMs for safe refusals, warns of over-tuning. arxiv.org/pdf/2309.07875

I spent the last few days in Ghent to celebrate @cerveza-inglesa.bsky.social brilliant and socially relevant Marie Curie project, with amazing researchers @deboranozza.bsky.social Greta Damo and @elslefever.bsky.social, whom I deeply, truly admire Thanks @lt3-ugent.bsky.social for having us! 🇧🇪

#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...

We're back with the reading group! Today Lorena Calvo-Bartolomé presented "The Alternative Annotator Test for LLM-as-a-Judge: How to Statistically Justify Replacing Human Annotators with LLMs" Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon... #NLProc #LLMasajudge

#MemoryModay #NLProc Outstanding Paper at ACL 2024! @paul-rottger.bsky.social et al. evaluate LLM values and opinions in 'Political Compass or Spinning Arrow?' aclanthology.org/2024.acl-lon...

We are back with #TBT #NLProc Best Paper at NeurIPS D&B 2024: Hanna Rose Kirk, @paul-rottger.bsky.social et al. introduce 'The PRISM Alignment Dataset' arxiv.org/pdf/2404.16019

📢 Deadline Extension! The direct paper submission deadline for the 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP has been extended to September 7, 2026 (AoE). Take advantage of the extra 5 days and send us your submissions: t.co/TLFxh5VaXm #NLProc #AACL2026

Very excited that @bocconi.bsky.social will host IC2S2 next year in Milan. Stay tuned!!! Thanks to the organizing committee already very active @mtizzoni.bsky.social @duiliobalsamo.bsky.social @lorenzolucchini.bsky.social @deboranozza.bsky.social @Raya Muttarak @BrunoLepri

Very happy that #IC2S22027 will be in Milan at Università Bocconi! I’m really looking forward to welcoming the computational social science community to my university and to Milan, and excited to be part of the team organizing it. See you in 2027! 🇮🇹✨

That's a wrap on IC2S2 2026... we'll see you next year in Milan! 😍

#TBT #NLProc "Narratives at Conflict" by Sinelnik and @dirkhovy.bsky.social looks at hidden tactics of disinformation campaigns! They analyzed 8,000 news articles across 4 languages to reveal how disinformation campaigns adapt narratives for different audiences. 🕵️‍♀️ aclanthology.org/2024.acl-srw...

It was a pleasure to host @radamihalcea.bsky.social at our weekly lab seminar. Thank you for the inspiring talk and thought-provoking discussion on the importance of the long tail in NLP. We really enjoyed the conversation!