Maria Leonor Pacheco

In this paper, we went beyond cross disciplinary citations and author composition, and looked at the way authors actually engaged with prior work from other disciplines. Come talk to Bagyasree! She's also looking to start a PhD in Fall 2027!

I'm not at #EMNLP2026 this year, but some of our students and faculty are! check out the work from our group!

Find us at #EMNLP2026 to learn about narrative qualities of pretraining data! 🌟 📊 Via our Explorer tool, you can interact with 13M pretraining passages and 11 narrative dimensions, plus upload your own data for analysis: cls-lab.colorado.edu/tejo9855/dol... We'd love to see what you discover! 👀

Not at COLM, but these students are! Come talk to them!

Come join us in Boulder! Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Can we get rid of "describe what this paper is about" in ARR meta-reviews?

Alvin Chen will be presenting our work on collaborative interactive theme discovery at the HCI-NLP session right now at Harbor B-C aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon... #ACL2026 #ACL2026NLP

Come talk to @rohandas.net about our work on structured narrative induction at Grand Hall right now! #ACL2026 #ACL2026NLP

I still need one emergency reviewer for a paper on LLM evaluation

Come talk to @obed-junias.bsky.social about our work on logical composition in common sense reasoning at the poster session on the 4th floor right now! #ACL2026 #ACL2026NLP

I need *several* emergency reviewers on on mech interp for NLP. I also need emergency reviewers for papers on neuro-symbolic language reasoning, for a paper extracting symbolic structures from text, and for a paper on knowledge collapse in LLMs. Many missing reviews this cycle

I'll be at #ACL2026 starting this afternoon, let me know if you'd like to catch up. Check out all the work to be presented by our students in the next few days ⬇️

Boulder NLP has 19 papers accepted to #ACL2026 across the main conference, findings and workshops! 🚀 We'll be presenting work on morphology, machine translation, narratives, low-resource languages, CSS, HCI, LLMs, fairness/bias, and more. See you in San Diego! 🌊 ☀️ 🌮

Recent earthquakes in northern Venezuela have caused an emergency the country is not equipped to handle. The state has lagged behind and citizens have been self-organizing. @caracaschronicles.tierra-de-gracia.com collected a list of trustworthy organizations to donate to if you are wanting to help:

Welp, doing the AC checklists for ARR was a little depressing. After all the discourse around desk-rejections you'd think authors would double and triple check their references. How can we stop this craziness?

We don’t always know what problems are hard for LLMs. So devs evaluate on tasks HUMANS find hard or on broad benchmarks. What if we could instead anticipate which scenarios a model will fail on—all without evaluating specific input examples? 🧵NEW PAPER by @jenniferlumeng.bsky.social

I'll be presenting my student Chloe's @chloenlp.bsky.social work constructing a dataset of YouTube channels and their historical subscribers counts today at ICWSM. 3:30 pm poster session, 4 pm session. We have a pip package! github.com/blast-cu/tub...

I'll be in LA at ICWSM this week! I've never been to this conference before, so looking forward to it. Let me know if you're around and want to connect :)

Someone should write something more about this because this myth that people are just using models for info retrieval and code generation keeps coming back, fueled by our own discomfort and company reports that omit or downplay erotic usages of chatbots.

Did LLMs ruin the em-dash forever?

The #NLProc reciprocal reviewing policies are killing me as junior faculty with a mid-size group of junior students. At least one of them will submit to every cycle / relevant conference, but most of them are not qualified to review yet, so all of the reviewing burden falls on me 😭

Would love to get some colleagues at the intersection of NLP and CogSci. Reach out if you have any questions! Deadline: 31-Jul-2026

The paper acceptance notifications will be out by the 6th of April, AoE. The PCs are working hard throughout the holiday season to finalize the decisions. Apologies for the delay!

Can structured inference improve structured prediction with LLMs? BLAST Lab's Matt Pauk has answers! 💡 Read the paper: aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-lo... Find him at #EACL2026 🇲🇦✨ — Poster Session 6, March 27, 11:00–12:30.

We're thrilled to celebrate our own Martha Palmer, who has been appointed to the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI! Here's what she had to say: 🧵⬇️

Thinking about what makes me so mad about people's takes on Venezuela. Something clicked. It's fucking dehumanizing. All your takes on oil, international law, Trump. And our people? Dead, imprisoned, displaced, persecuted, impoverished, silenced. Don't expect us to shed any tears for the dictator.

"For the first time since this tragedy began, it felt like Venezuelans were finally given a voice on the world stage to tell our story without the noise of global electoral politics or distortions of activist ecosystems. Quite simply, our moment to speak."

Want to be an intern at Microsoft Research in the Computational Social Science group in NYC (Jake Hofman, David Rothschild, Dan Goldstein) Follow this link and do your thing! Deadline approaching soonish! apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...

Strong showing from Boulder NLP at #EMNLP2025! 🚀 Come find us at these sessions to discuss morphology, semantics, LLMs, cultural analytics, HCI, and more. See you in Suzhou! 🇨🇳

I'm ded #NAACL25

We have a faculty panel about to start at San Miguel at 10:45am. See you there! Faculty panel: James Martin, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Graham Neubig, Lu Wang #NAACL2025

I'll be at #NAACL25 all week, reach out if you'd like to catch up!

My phone keeps thinking that my Spanglish texts are in Filipino and keeps asking me if I want to translate them. I thought we'd reached super intelligence.

This ARR cycle, we resubmitted 4 papers addressing (meta)reviewer feedback. They all got lower scores than they had before (requesting same reviewers), and all had the exact same borderline scores (~2.5). All papers in my AC batch (about 16) also have the same borderline scores. It looks very odd.

I need an emergency reviewer for a paper on language to logic translation, anyone available to do it? #NLProc

Another joyful day existing as Venezuelans in the world.

A group of us came together to challenge the dominant narrative of AI research - paper out today. We posit that “AGI” is as nebulous to define as its supposed benefits, and we argue that principled scientific, engineering and societal needs should drive AI research instead. Read 👇

What is the difference between 2 (substantial revisions) and 3 (major revisions) in the ARR meta-reviewer form? Why do we keep both of these?

Our workshop has been extended till Feb 20. We are looking forward for your papers at NAACL's Queer in AI workshop.

I'm going to print this out and hang it in my office.

I have seen some anti-peer-review takes on here, and, believe me, I understand the frustrations, but I would urge caution before doing or publicly saying anything too drastic. We live in age rife with misinformation and anti-intellectualism—not everyone wants academia to survive