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Today we celebrate 40 year of Humanities Computing and Computational Linguistics in Groningen! @gronlp.bsky.social We started in 1986 with Alfa-Informatika and in 1993 John Nerbonne had the chair in Humanities Computing (first in the world?!). #NLProc #DigitalHumanities

This morning I started our Machine Learning course for the university-wide minor in AI @rug.nl The minor welcomes all students excluding very few programs. This means: assume zero coding skills and math background. A four-hour lecture, we all survived, students left smiling @gronlp.bsky.social

🗓️ We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the conference+journal track of the 6th annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, July 8-9, 2027, in #Groningen, #TheNetherlands! #CCLS2027 #CfP Submit your article by February 1, 2027! 🥳🥳🥳 jcls.io/site/cfp/

It is with great sadness that we announce the recent loss of a dear GroNLP group member. Gosse Bouma will always remain in our hearts! If you would like to write down memories or your condolences, you are welcome to do so via this www.condoleance.nl/19800.

We were missing kimchy 🥘 so bad that this week we are back to South Korea 🇰🇷 in #Daejeon for #DH2026 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social We have four contributions 😍 - come and say "hi" (look for the cow 🐮) @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

Well done @yevgenm.bsky.social ! @gronlp.bsky.social

ICLA-DCL special issues on Digital Comparative Literature. Srnd your abstract by 7 September 2026. Full CFP and submission details: icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/news/20... #DigitalComparativeLiterature #ICLA #DigitalHumanities #ComparativeLiterature

From San Diego to Seul for #ICML2026 🇰🇷🏯🍜 We have 2 papers accepted at the main and 1 workshop - come and say "hi" @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl

Summer conference season is starting and it will be busy! First up: #ACL2026 - We have 4 papers accepted (3 Main, 1 Findings) + 1 CoNLL. Congratulations to the authors! See you (virtually) in San Diego 🌊 🌴 🦭 @aclmeeting.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl

Spraaktechnologie voor het Nedersaksisch en het mobiele Spraaklab: Martijn @wieling.bsky.social is veelvoudig bezig met het gebruik en behoud van streektaal 🗣️ Hij spreekt erover met @wimbrons.nl en Hanna van Loo in de nieuwe aflevering van de In de Wetenschap-podcast 👇 www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

New at @aclmeeting.bsky.social: GOLEMcoref, a multilingual coreference dataset of fiction. 827k tokens across 7 languages (Chinese, Dutch, English, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, and Spanish) built from contemporary fanfiction. Led by @andreasvc.bsky.social and Xiaoyan Yang🧵 1/ @gronlp.bsky.social

Acceptance received! It will be a hot DH summer in Korea! @gronlp.bsky.social @rug.nl @facultyofartsug.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities #CulturalAI

Happy to host people interested in Computational Literary Studies and Digital Humanities. I've been an evaluator for 5 years but this year I'm taking a break and will support applicants who want to come to work with @gronlp.bsky.social For me it's been a career changing experience.

Interested in Digital and Computational Humanities for your Master's? The University of Groningen (Netherlands) offers three masters at different levels, from humanities grads with no coding experience to aspiring NLP researchers. Strong interaction with a leading NLP group @gronlp.bsky.social 🧵

Today I gave a talk at the 6th #ROMCIR workshop at @ecir2026.eu reflecting on what has been done so far and suggesting future directions for more proactive approaches to counter and combat misinformation. Thanks to the attendees and the organizers @gronlp.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social

on my way to #EVALITA2026 where I’ll present team TiGRO  ‘s work (Stefano Azzeni, Malvina Nissim @gsarti.com) on fallacy detection (btw, we ranked #1) @gronlp.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @ailc-nlp.bsky.social

Are you based in Groningen and want to help us evaluate the Generative AI puzzle? 🍫 We are looking for participants of every age between 16 and 60 years old. 📊 Contact us and we will deliver the puzzle and cards to you in person :)

Happy #SaferInternetDay! We asked Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Rik van Noord @rug.nl, who researches artificial intelligence, how university and high school students can safely use language models like ChatGPT. Read more 👉 www.rug.nl/let/onze-fac...

What if AI-driven models could help people with language disorders – e.g. with a smartphone app? 🗣️ Researcher Frank Tsiwah (@facultyofartsug.bsky.social) is exploring various ways to make this happen. ‘If it can make a single life better, then it will be worth it.’ 👇 www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

👀 Look what 🎅 has broght just before Christmas 🎁: a brand new Research Master in Natural Language Processing at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu... Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)

📣 I'm hiring 📣 Post-doc position at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social as part of @rug.nl CIT Innovation Fun "A3i – Artificial Intelligence Innovation Identifier" Full call is available here: lnkd.in/esdQ7YGD 📅 Application deadline: Jan. 15 2026

Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a fantastic friend and researcher, @mdhk.net , who came to visit us in Groningen for a couple of days from Amsterdam! 🎉

✨ It's happening ✨ Curious to meet our new colleague? Stay tuned! #HAICu @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @gronlp.bsky.social #NLProc #LLMs #CulturalHeritage

Interested in developmentally plausible LMs, and the role of child-directed language data? Come to our poster TODAY (Fr 7 Nov, 10.30-12.00) #EMNLP!

I'm in Suzhou to present our work on MultiBLiMP, Friday @ 11:45 in the Multilinguality session (A301)! Come check it out if your interested in multilingual linguistic evaluation of LLMs (there will be parse trees on the slides! There's still use for syntactic structure!) arxiv.org/abs/2504.02768

Benchmarks of linguistic minimal pairs are key for LM evaluation & help us overcome the English-centric bias in NLP research Come to our poster TODAY (Fr 7 Nov 10.30-12.00) #EMNLP to meet TurBLiMP, a new benchmark for Turkish, revealing how LLMs deal with free-order, morphologically rich languages

Interested in agent simulations of language change & pragmatic naming behavior? Come check our poster TODAY (Fri, Nov 7, 12:30 - 13:30) #EMNLP!

As part of this year's BabyLM challenge, we (researchers from @gronlp.bsky.social and @clausebielefeld.bsky.social diverged from established pretraining paradigm by training only on dialogue data from CHILDES.

With only a week left for #EMNLP2025, we are happy to announce all the works we 🐮 will present 🥳 - come and say "hi" to our posters and presentations during the Main and the co-located events (*SEM and workshops) See you in Suzhou ✈️

Great tips from @jiruiqi.bsky.social about how to choose your reinforcement learning strategy. @gronlp.bsky.social