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Jaap Jumelet @jumelet.bsky.social · 21h

🌍Introducing BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data!

LLMs learn from vastly more data than humans ever experience. BabyLM challenges this paradigm by focusing on developmentally plausible data

We extend this effort to 45 new languages!

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 23h

I will be presenting this work at the @iccv.bsky.social
2025 workshop MemVis: The 1st Workshop on Memory and Vision! 🌺 Work done with Albert Gatt & Jakub Dotlacil arxiv.org/abs/2509.01453

Traces of Image Memorability in Vision Encoders: Activations, Attention Distributions and Autoencoder Losses

Images vary in how memorable they are to humans. Inspired by findings from cognitive science and computer vision, this paper explores the correlates of image memorability in pretrained vision encoders...

arxiv.org

Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 23h

What makes an image memorable? And can we predict image memorability using pretrained vision encoders? We explored activations, attention distributions, image patch uniformity and sparse autoencoder losses using image representations across the layers of CLIP, DINOv2 and SigLIP2.

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 2d

taking the NS train, I do that multiple times a week :)

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 7d

Could it be the HPLT v3.0 multilingual dataset? list.elra.info/mailman3/hyp...

Release of the massive HPLT v3.0 multilingual dataset - Corpora - ELRA lists

list.elra.info

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · 8d

Hi all, there is a postdoc position open in the group I'm currently based in! ✨ Let me know if you are interested or have questions 🙂 Please share if you know someone who might be interested www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Memory access in language

Help uncover how memory shapes language use. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Language Sciences, you will join the ERC-funded MEMLANG project.

www.uu.nl

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Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net · Aug 19

Had such a great time presenting our tutorial on Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models at #Interspeech2025! 🔍

For anyone looking for an introduction to the topic, we've now uploaded all materials to the website: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter...

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Aug 3

Some amazing @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social people in Vienna💫#acl2025 Raquel Fernández Sandro Pezzelle Katia Shutova @esamghaleb.bsky.social @veraneplenbroek.bsky.social @annabavaresco.bsky.social + @leobertolazzi.bsky.social

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Aug 3

with @duyguislakoglu.bsky.social and Ozge Alacam at the ACL 2025 social event✨ #acl2025

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Aug 1

CoNLL audience today ✨ @conll-conf.bsky.social

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Jul 27

together with some Utrecht NLP people at ACL 2025! #acl2025 #acl2025NLP

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Jul 24

I'll be attending ACL 2025 in Vienna! Looking forward to seeing people there!😊🇦🇹 We are going to present 'LLMs instead of Human Judges? A Large Scale Empirical Study across 20 NLP Evaluation Tasks' aclanthology.org/2025.acl-sho... #acl2025 #acl2025nlp

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Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net · Jun 13

The @interspeech.bsky.social early registration deadline is coming up in a few days!

Want to learn how to analyze the inner workings of speech processing models? 🔍 Check out the programme for our tutorial:
interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter... & sign up through the conference registration form!

Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models — Tutorial @ Interspeech 2025

interpretingdl.github.io

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Jun 10

Abstract submission deadline extended to June 29!

Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Mar 20

Abstract submissions for the 1st Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting is now open! cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht

Universiteit Utrecht

cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · May 16

@melaniemitchell.bsky.social giving a talk at UvA! @amsterdamnlp.bsky.social

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · May 1

CMCL will take place on May 3! Unfortunately, I am not in New Mexico, but I will be online! We have a nice selection of papers, and keynote talks by John Hale and Tessa Verhoef @naaclmeeting.bsky.social
@grambelli.bsky.social
@byungdoh.bsky.social & Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Philipp Wicke, Jixing Li

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Mar 20

Abstract submissions for the 1st Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting is now open! cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht

Universiteit Utrecht

cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

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Arianna Bisazza @arianna-bis.bsky.social · Apr 4

The PhD call is out! Apply by 24 April here:

www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Mar 20

See cpl2025.sites.uu.nl for details!

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht

Universiteit Utrecht

cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Mar 20

Keynote Speakers: Stefan Frank (Radboud University), Vera Demberg (Saarland University)

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Mar 20

It aims to connect researchers using (neuro-)symbolic, Bayesian, deep-learning, connectionist, and mechanistic models (e.g., ACT-R) in studying human language production, perception, and processing

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Mar 20

Abstract submissions for the 1st Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting is now open! cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht

Universiteit Utrecht

cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

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Ece Takmaz @ecekt.bsky.social · Mar 15

We are looking for emergency reviewers for the CMCL workshop! Send me a message if you would like to volunteer! @cmclworkshop.bsky.social @naaclmeeting.bsky.social

CMCL Workshop (@cmclworkshop.bsky.social)

Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics http://cmclorg.github.io/

cmclworkshop.bsky.social

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CoNLL 2025 @conll-conf.bsky.social · Mar 4

🚨 Guest Speaker Alert! 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce that #CoNLL2025 will feature: 🥁

Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam)
&
Jean-Rémi King (@jeanremiking.bsky.social, CNRS / Meta AI)!
🎤✨

Check out their awesome work!👇

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Rens Bod @rensbod.bsky.social · Mar 4

Almost all Dutch universities will go on strike next week, against the budget cuts. Join us!

10 March: Leiden
11 March: Utrecht
13 March: Nijmegen
17 March: Amsterdam
18 March: Groningen
25 March: Twente
8 April: Rotterdam
10 April: Tilburg
14 April: Wageningen
15 April: Maastricht

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