Marzena Karpinska

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We still need help. If you can spare 30-45 min after #EMNLP to chat about your language experience in Hungary please reach out!

Hello #NLP Anyone is going to #EMNLP and can help?

This is complex — and likely a bit fragile — but very cool. Actually less interested in the ostensible end goal (Pangram for Ideas) and more in the problems you have to solve to get there (separating ideas from style, and learning to recognize more/less predictable ideas).

This is a really fascinating research demo, from the lab of Mohit Iyyer at the University of Maryland: It predicts the likelihood that the ideas contained in a piece of text are AI-generated versus human-generated. A couple of examples in this thread.

Anyone going to #EMNLP2026? Please consider helping us understand how people use machine translation tools when abroad! (and if you can't, please share!)

Going to EMNLP 2026 in Budapest? We are looking for 20-30 EMNLP attendees to help us understand how you handle language barriers during a conference trip. Contact Yujun Wang: y.wang2.25@abdn.ac.uk @weizhaonlp.bsky.social, @markar.bsky.social, Pinzhen Chen, Yujun Wang

Happy to see these papers accepted #Neurips2026 🎊 🎊 🎊 Please come and find us at the conference! More details & links in 🧵

EMNLP 2026 is coming up soon and we will be there! See you in Budapest 🇭🇺 Oct 24–29 #EMNLP2026 Check out our work!

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to join our lab in Fall 2027, through either Computer Science or Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for people with interests in NLP plus [healthcare | literary studies | narratives | social media | etc.]. Join us! 🏔️☀️

still high, but better than allowing for 40+ per person, not sure how (who) will the shared first authorship be checked....

ACL Sustainable Reviewing Policy: We are introducing changes in the @ReviewAcl reviewing and submissions. The changes will cap authors and introduce changes in the reviewing to keep our community sustainable. #NLProc #NLP

My first PhD student (Weidong Zhang, yet to come to blsky) brought us new lab's gadgets and sweets 😍😍😍😍 I'm so happy! Thank you 🥰

🌉NAACL 2027 will be June 1-5 in San Francisco, CA!🌉 ARR submission deadline: Oct. 12, 2026

Regular reminder that we have an alt-ARR slack workspace where ACs and SACs can support each other through the sometimes confusing process of the ARR cycle! Post or DM me a good email address for a Slack invitation and I will add you. #EMNLP2026

this checkbox at #arr really seems like a get-out-of-jail-free card; if we really need to allow for lang edits, why not require the reviewers to submit their pre-GPTed draft along with the edited one? 😭😭😭

I've been getting tired of people arguing they 'only translated' or 'lightly edited' their reviews/papers #ARR so I decided to check whether that's really detected as 100% AI by @pangram.com ... Spoiler alert, it's not: marzenakarpinska.substack.com/p/no-ai-tran...

Text as Data is happening at Berkeley right before COLM. Please share!

Peer review was one of the most-discussed topics at #ACL2026 . Many folks were concerned about the incredible growth in the number of ARR submissions (17K for the May26 ARR cycle 😱), and even more shocked that ~40% didn't have any authors qualified to review. What is going on?? I did some digging...

hot take: don’t even use it for polishing your reviews. as an AC and SAC, the last thing i care about is your grammar, spelling, or formatting. i get the presentation issues with papers, where you might face reviewers’ language biases, but you really don’t need to worry about this for reviews.

ACL 2027 will be in Kyoto, Japan 🇯🇵 🤩

5 years later MTurk is on its way out. A lot has improved in open-ended gen eval, but it still suffers from underreporting, lack of statistical analysis, and sometimes sloppy design. Perhaps authors should always do their own tasks to understand the implications of how they designed evals.

A great lesson learned from #ACL2026 test of time award winner: sometimes it just takes time for people to appreciate your work

In the spirit of #paperoverflow looking for emergency reviewers: - aspect-based summarization - hallucination detection - evaluation invariance - evaluation, evaluation bias - fine-grained evaluation for some, the reviewers filled in delay but became unresponsive later HELP, this house is on fire 🔥

Great message from @barbaraplank.bsky.social unifying CL & NLP

Only 17% of May #ARR authors are qualified for reviewing, and almost 40% of papers have no qualified people?!?!

Spotted by @jennarussell.bsky.social at #ACL2026 A sober reminder to check the output when using Claude et al to generate your presentation. Context, the user likely prompted for 8 min long presentation since that was the limit. The model, just added this silly "8 minutes" to all slides.

For the last few months, I've been working with my new colleague at SFU @markar.bsky.social, students @yvesfrtl.bsky.social, @adampodoxin.bsky.social, Ty Brassington, and Roman Grundkiewicz of Microsoft, trying to understand the quality of machine translation for literary texts. ...

Excited to share this. @neel2112.bsky.social, @mariaa.bsky.social, and I analyzed 500K anonymous ChatGPT convos (shared w/ consent from WildChat) to see if people were generating fiction. We found tons of stories, fanfiction & erotica. Many users iterated on the same stories for days and weeks.

It's invaluable in good literature to have someone who has actual, lived experience and a deep cultural and historical understanding of the literature performing the translation @jricole.bsky.social translation of the Rubaiyat is a great example. Omar's words ring out with truth and subtle humor.

A lot of people focus on AI-written fiction, but what about AI literary translation? 📚 We find that AI translation can be readable.. ‼️BUT it also flattens characters' voices 🧙and is less immersive 🫣 than published human translations. Below is my favorite quote from a reader 📖 lait.cs.sfu.ca

📚 AI-written stories get attention, but AI-translated literature is quietly shaping how readers experience the author So what gets lost ⁉️ 🤖 AI translation into English is readable and often ‘fine’ ✍️ But human translation is valued more ‼️Both vary in quality BUT AI more, even within a single book

Slop-eds are on the rise and seem to remain undisclosed. Please check out update to our audit of AI in news: ainewsaudit.github.io This work will be presented next week at #ACL2026 (Sunday 4:00-5:30 oral session)

AI NEWS UPDATE We've added 200k+ recent news articles and 5k op-eds from Oct 2025 - June 2026. Local news is up to ~10.81% AI-generated.

One more thing @tuhinchakr.bsky.social 's post reminded me of... people tend to rationalize and see things not there. We saw it already in GPT-2 stories - we *expect* things to *mean* something, so we tend to see things that are not there... (link to this old paper: aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-m...)

this is how massive illusion of 'creativity' gets crushed... please read it to understand why models may appear to produce coherent text but are in fact Frankenstein factory ...

"Load bearing," "I keep coming back to," "Not just X, but Y" A curse of using AI a lot is that you realize how much of the writing around you is just AI, now People who don't use AI have historically been unable to identify AI prose on sight, but those who use it a lot can spot the tells easily

We were happy to be part of the B.C. AI Research-to-Adoption Summit last week co-hosted by @sfu.ca School of Computing Science and @science.ubc.ca 🎊🎊🎊 It was great to see this event so well attended!