The NAACL Student Research Workshop is short a few reviewers! Please consider volunteering to review. This is a great way to give back to the community and help students publish at their first *CL conference! We really appreciate it forms.gle/vX94qdAz2MTNEr…

We need emergency mentors for the NAACL Student Research Workshop!
Mentoring is like a chill, co-operative version of reviewing, where you give pre-submission feedback to a student paper.
It's a great way to help the research community!
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Do LLMs learn impossible languages (that humans wouldn’t be able to acquire) just as well as they learn possible human languages?

We find evidence that they don’t! Check out our new paper…

💥 Mission: Impossible Language Models 💥
ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2401.06416

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Looking to crispen up your research narrative, present an in-progress idea, or get supportive feedback on your paper? And present at NAACL?

Submit to the Student Research Workshop! naacl2024-srw.github.io/cfp We have tracks for both papers and draft thesis proposals. See you there!

A fun paper we wrote, with a benchmark + simple ways to check that your data is mostly languagey and not mostly boilerplate! Thanks Isaac R Caswell for leading!

Amazing work by John Thickstun and Megha Srivastava, and a great read as a blog post! Creative research and great resource, that expands how we think about the role of LMs

Isaac as always pioneering in imaginative ways of helping multilingual NLP. Use FUN-LangID as a quick sanity check to make sure your data is actually in the languages it claims to be in, it's so easy there's no excuse!

What are Yelp reviewers' attitudes toward immigrant cuisines? 🍙🌮

Our analysis of 2.1M reviews finds that immigrant cuisines are 'exotic' & 'authentic,' and Asian + Latin American cuisines are lower status than European cuisine: arxiv.org/abs/2307.07645

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Please do some crosswords for science! iliad.stanford.edu/experiments/te…
We're studying how people solve xwords, and we are looking for solvers of all experience levels: from novices to ACPTers. High-quality puzzles generously provided by the wonderful boswords.org team.

Whenever I read a news article about NLP or about greece (the two things I know anything about)...🤦‍♀️ They are not center-right! This is a very dark day, and many greek people are feeling similarly to how you may have felt in 2016. theguardian.com/world/2023/may…

I'm at NAACL in person (come chat!) and very excited to be giving a keynote at the SIGTYP workshop! I'll talk about What we can learn about language from exploring multilingual language models. Bold title, will she hedge in the talk? Come see for yourself this Thursday at 3:30!

Lovely to work on this with Zhengxuan Wu and Alex Tamkin 🦣!

Check out our controlled studies if you've ever wondered about the effects of tokenization, embedding reinitialization, and structural shift in cross-lingual transfer 🍵