Today’s “NLP@Michigan” keynote by the amazing @MonaDiab77 gave me a LOT to think about: the field of NLP is going through an identity crisis. Many of the deeply human layers of meaning associated with language have been conflated by treating language as “data,” and we often end up optimizing for the wrong things — benchmark performance, commercial revenue & other such narrow objectives. But there are ways to address this, and we can still “steer the ship” by recognizing there is more to language than just “data.” ✨

Last week marked the final conference of the #Hatedemics project, with Marco Guerini (@m_guerini ) as coordinator and Helena Bonaldi (@helena_bonaldi ). A great opportunity to share our results and celebrate the impact and success of the project 🎉

Exciting day at #INLG2025 in Hanoi! 🇻🇳 Daniel Russo (@russ_eau) and Stefano Menini (@stefano_menini) presented "Face the Facts! Evaluating RAG-based Pipelines for Professional Fact-Checking" 🔗 tinyurl.com/3w8jykhd

We're looking for a Founding Growth Lead! We pivot fast. Making big bets, forcing our way towards PMF. Here are four facts that make Twain special. Why you should join 1/4 🧵 Raised $8M from @sequoia @TQVentures but kept the team to only 7 FTE (incl. me)

What happens when Harry meets Superman instead of Sally for a chat? 🧔🦸‍♂️ We explore how LLMs adapt their responses not just to their given persona, but also to their interlocutors’. Excited to share our #ACL2025NLP (main) paper by @docchipinti8 @m_guerini @MalvinaNissim 1/🧵

We are happy to announce our tutorial, "NLP for Counterspeech against Hate and Misinformation". It will be held on July 27, 2025, at #ACL2025NLP in Vienna, Austria! Stay tuned for more details 👀 sites.google.com/view/nlp4cs…

This year we are organising a tutorial for all those who want to have a better understanding on how counterspeech can be used in #NLProc for fighting both Hate and Misinformation. If you are at #ACL2025NLP and interested join us!

My very first time in a technical meeting with female researchers only 💪💪💪#NLProc #womenintech @LanD_FBK @chub_fbk

🚨 Our paper “Is Safer Better? The Impact of Guardrails on the Argumentative Strength of LLMs in Hate Speech Countering” has been accepted at #EMNLP2024! With @grexit_ @NBenjaminOcampo @ECabrio @serena_villata @m_guerini arxiv.org/abs/2410.03466 A thread 🧵

#LT2024FBK day. Some pictures of our students from LanD presenting their work. Well done folks!

The Language Technology Research Highlights @ FBK 2024 has just started. Our keynote speaker @barbara_plank is ready to present "Are LLMs narrowing our Horizon? Let's embrace variation in NLP!" 😌👉lt-highlights.fbk.eu/ #nlproc #LT2024FBK

6 papers accepted at #EMNLP2024 submitted by @FBK_research: 2 from our group, plus others from @DH_FBK, @fbk_stek and @fbk_mt… congrats to all! 🥳

Kudos to @docchipinti8! During her virtual poster presentation at #NAACL2024 she introduced our PRODIGy dataset and she gave many insights into how profile representations impact dialogue models! For sure this is just the first step of a successful career in #NLProc! 💡

A great work from LanD 💗

🌟 Ever wondered how to make dialogue agents more natural? Provide them with a profile! It is easy to experiment with various profile representations using our PRODIGy dataset, accepted at #NAACL2024! 🥳 Authors: @docchipinti8 @serrasinem @m_guerini 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2311.05195

You guys never disappoint 😄

📢Interested in working with us? Do you want to build LLMs? We have a research position in the field of Italian Language Models for dialogical interaction in the Public Administration. Application deadline: 4th of December 2023 👉 bit.ly/40G7Brl

📢 *Looking for a PhD student!* @hedderik and I are starting a super exciting project on using LLMs and adaptive methods to improve learning of complex knowledge, and address implicit biases. Want to do a PhD with us? Get in touch (asap)! @GroNlp @univgroningen @JTSchool_UG

📢 Our last paper “Benchmarking the Generation of Fact Checking Explanations” just got accepted at #TACL and is now available on #arXiv. Authors: Daniel Russo (@russ_eau), Serra Sinem Tekiroğlu (@serrasinem), Marco Guerini (@m_guerini) A thread 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2308.15202

CS4OA was a success, as you can notice from the smiles of our amazing organisers 😌