Rob van der Goot

@yoavgo Example presentation?, practice reading/presenting of a shorter text? it could also be shorter and just have the logistics, but then it could make more sense to share them before in text/video etc., depending on the whether students actually look at it..

@robvanderg no no, you are right, the first lecture does not have student presentation. but the question is, what *does* it include, beyond presenting the topic, the list of potential papers, and the logistics?

cs/ml/ai profs: do you have tips for not wasting the first class of a seminar course on purely logistics ("these are the topics, these are the papers, here is how the course works, who will present next week and what")? (this year we were graced by end of class being interrupted by incoming missile alert from Iran, but hopefully future years will be different)

@yoavgo Ah I was somehow assuming the first lecture doesn't have a students presentation. Are the logistics still important then?, if the first group already prepared their presentation it sounds too late anyways?

@robvanderg but in a seminar course, based on students presenting papers. what do you do in the first session which is not the practicalities?

The Workshop on Natural User-generated Text (WNUT) will be at EMNLP this year (noisy-text.github.io/2026/), with a shared task on lexical normalization with a focus on Asian languages (noisy-text.github.io/2026/multi-lex…)

I am hiring: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni… So if you are interested in training/evaluating LMs and language/linguistics, consider applying!

📄: bitbucket.org/robvanderg/dis… 🔗: bitbucket.org/robvanderg/dis… 🖥️ : pypi.org/project/distal… 🌍: distals.streamlit.app 📹: youtube.com/watch?v=SSk9xb…

DistaLs is a toolkit that provides access to a wide variety of language distance metrics, available on the web, pip, cli, and csv!

Wondering how "distant" or "diverse" your languages are?, need different perspectives on distance? DistaLs v0.1.1 is now out!

@NLPnorth Paper now available: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.…

📄Identifying Open Challenges in Language Identification 👥 @robvanderg 🎯 We identify and quantify a variety of challenges for language classification and identify cross-domain evaluation as a main bottleneck, where n-gram based models outperform transformer-based LMs.

📣 Next week we will be in Vienna for @aclmeeting to present a couple of works from our lab! Find more about each of them below 🧵👇 #NLP #NLProc #ACL2025NLP

Have a Findings paper accepted at #NAACL2025? 🎉 Share your work at the W-NUT Workshop! You can submit your info via the form by Feb 28th. Form: forms.gle/sJd6buUNckiMYD… W-NUT Homepage: noisy-text.github.io

CfP: W-NUT 2025 @naaclmeeting Topics: NLP tasks over user-generated text, such as that found on social media, online reviews, or digital health records. noisy-text.github.io Deadline: Jan 30, 2025 (AoE; dual-submission OK) Final ARR Submission Date: Feb 15, 2025

We also host MultiLexNorm 2: a shared task on multi-lingual lexical normalization focusing on non-Indo-european languages. noisy-text.github.io/2025/multi-lex…

Call for Papers: The 10th Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text (W-NUT) @ #NAACL2025 The WNUT workshop focuses on NLP tasks over user-generated text, such as that found on social media, web forums, online reviews, or digital health records. noisy-text.github.io

Now officially Dr. @mjjzha 🎉 #NLProc @ITUkbh

📢 Looking for a PhD student to start in Sep 2024! Applications due April 15 This project is about LLM competence in interpreting prompts and responding to them: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationIni… If you're at @eaclmeeting, you can catch @robvanderg who will co-supervise this project!

@NLPnorth @annargrs If you are interested and in Malta (EACL), lets meet!, if you can't find me, just send me an e-mail

📢 We are looking for a new PhD candidate to join the group! 📢 The candidate will work with @annargrs and @robvanderg on a project about LLM competence in interpreting prompts and responding to them. If you are at #EACL2024 you can reach out to Rob! #NLProc

@mjjzha @toinebogers @dianamaynard @barbara_plank Congratulations and thanks for the nice collaboration Dr Mike!

🥳 Last week, I defended my PhD and officially #PhDone. A big milestone. Thanks to my committee @toinebogers, @dianamaynard, and Chris Biemann for coming to CPH. Additional gratitude to my advisors @barbara_plank and @robvanderg for making this journey very enjoyable!! #NLProc

📣Hi #NLProc, we are looking for new colleagues! 📣 Assistant/Associate Professorships in NLP in Copenhagen 🇩🇰: tinyurl.com/5a7cfyp4 Come join us! @ITUkbh #NLProc

Workshop on Noisy and User-Generated Text (WNUT) is collocated with EACL (@eacmeeting) this year, Looking forward to your submissions!, submission deadline: 18th of December

Introducing... the Subspace Chronicles (ft. @robvanderg, @barbara_plank, @iatitov)—a riveting tale of linguistic information emerging, shifting and disentangling across LM training! Coming to an #EMNLP2023 near you! 📜⏳ 📑personads.me/x/emnlp-2023-p… 📽personads.me/x/emnlp-2023-v…