Marcel Bollmann
@marcel.bollmann.me
Associate professor at @liu.se 🇸🇪, site development lead for @aclanthology.org, editor-in-chief at @nejlt.bsky.social. Mildly obscure #NLP researcher.
I like coffee and board games.
🏠 https://marcel.bollmann.me/
I like coffee and board games.
🏠 https://marcel.bollmann.me/
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Marcel Bollmann
@marcel.bollmann.me
· Nov 24
Hi, I’m Marcel! I work on #NLP for lesser-resourced languages, multilingual NLP, cross-lingual transfer, tokenisation, and trying to keep up with the flood of LLM-related research. Joining Bluesky seems like a good opportunity for a new & shiny #introduction, so here goes!
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This is terrifying.
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
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"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
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"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is terrifying.
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
...
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
...
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" [email protected]
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My mind is clearly dominated by weird words.
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My mind is clearly dominated by weird words.
November 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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My mind is clearly dominated by weird words.
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My mind is clearly dominated by weird words.
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📢 Open Positions at the Uppsala NLP Group! 📢
Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months).
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months).
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
November 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
📢 Open Positions at the Uppsala NLP Group! 📢
Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months).
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months).
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Every time.
I was having an emotion, and I hate that.
October 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Every time.
I often long for a place to just post whimsical personal updates for friends, but that kind of place doesn’t exist anymore. In my personal bubble, social media has long become too fragmented and/or abandoned for that purpose.
October 3, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I often long for a place to just post whimsical personal updates for friends, but that kind of place doesn’t exist anymore. In my personal bubble, social media has long become too fragmented and/or abandoned for that purpose.
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Just found out that yet another paper on North African Arabizi didn't find our work worth citing. they even wrote "No Arabizi-specific metric or resource exists for our dialect selection ». We were the first to release an annotated dataset for this dialect, published at acl and shit. Discouraging.
![Your dataset looks very cool, but I don't understand why you say “no Arabizi-specific metric or resource exists for our dialect selection”? When you contacted me, it seemed to me that you were aware of my work on Arabizi (e.g., [1,2], not to mention the cross-lingual work with Maltese [2] or character-based language models for Arabizi [4]). One of the crucial points of this work was also to propose translations into French from Algerian Arabizi, which could have helped you use a ground truth for your translation models. I'll be honest with you, I find it extremely discouraging to see that pioneering work in the processing of a language with such limited resources as Algerian Arabic dialect is not cited, even though it has been published in the major conference in the field and the data is freely available (unlike the vast majority of dialectal resources for Arabic). If even colleagues working on the same language don't find it necessary to cite us, what's the point of investing so much time and money in this type of work?
In short, I hope your work doesn't encounter the same pitfalls.
[1] https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.acl-main.107.pdf
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14866
[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00318
[4] https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.13658
(deepL translated, from French)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jjfethf2y735ux2mhcy46crq/bafkreihshvjyywsjh67r4huabhseu4rlohoamiynhgbgdt2opejhzrdnuq@jpeg)
October 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Just found out that yet another paper on North African Arabizi didn't find our work worth citing. they even wrote "No Arabizi-specific metric or resource exists for our dialect selection ». We were the first to release an annotated dataset for this dialect, published at acl and shit. Discouraging.
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📄 New article published:
“Controlling Language and Style of Multi-lingual Generative Language Models with Control Vectors” by Julius Leino & Jussi Karlgren
nejlt.ep.liu.se/article/view...
“Controlling Language and Style of Multi-lingual Generative Language Models with Control Vectors” by Julius Leino & Jussi Karlgren
nejlt.ep.liu.se/article/view...
September 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
📄 New article published:
“Controlling Language and Style of Multi-lingual Generative Language Models with Control Vectors” by Julius Leino & Jussi Karlgren
nejlt.ep.liu.se/article/view...
“Controlling Language and Style of Multi-lingual Generative Language Models with Control Vectors” by Julius Leino & Jussi Karlgren
nejlt.ep.liu.se/article/view...
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I'm conducting research on how ACL's peer review policies impact NLP research quality, career trajectories, and inclusivity within our community. I am running a survey, which would take around 7-10 mins to complete: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/j2jr9nH3X0
I would really appreciate insights from y'all!
I would really appreciate insights from y'all!
September 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I'm conducting research on how ACL's peer review policies impact NLP research quality, career trajectories, and inclusivity within our community. I am running a survey, which would take around 7-10 mins to complete: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/j2jr9nH3X0
I would really appreciate insights from y'all!
I would really appreciate insights from y'all!
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September 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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📢Life update📢
🥳I'm excited to share that I've started as a postdoc at Uppsala University NLP @uppsalanlp.bsky.social, working with Joakim Nivre on topics related to constructions and multilinguality!
🙏Many thanks to the Walter Benjamin Programme of the DFG for making this possible.
🥳I'm excited to share that I've started as a postdoc at Uppsala University NLP @uppsalanlp.bsky.social, working with Joakim Nivre on topics related to constructions and multilinguality!
🙏Many thanks to the Walter Benjamin Programme of the DFG for making this possible.
September 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
📢Life update📢
🥳I'm excited to share that I've started as a postdoc at Uppsala University NLP @uppsalanlp.bsky.social, working with Joakim Nivre on topics related to constructions and multilinguality!
🙏Many thanks to the Walter Benjamin Programme of the DFG for making this possible.
🥳I'm excited to share that I've started as a postdoc at Uppsala University NLP @uppsalanlp.bsky.social, working with Joakim Nivre on topics related to constructions and multilinguality!
🙏Many thanks to the Walter Benjamin Programme of the DFG for making this possible.
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🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
September 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
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Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists
September 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists
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OpenAI is discovering what every social media company has also discovered: content moderation is hard and AI content moderation is also hard.
September 4, 2025 at 1:48 AM
OpenAI is discovering what every social media company has also discovered: content moderation is hard and AI content moderation is also hard.
Why does every social media feed eventually end up looking like:
[outrageous thing happening in the US]
[extremely polarizing AI take]
[random semi-funny meme]
[shocking thing happened to person I don't know]
[yet another reason climate change is worse than we thought]
It's so emotionally tiring.
[outrageous thing happening in the US]
[extremely polarizing AI take]
[random semi-funny meme]
[shocking thing happened to person I don't know]
[yet another reason climate change is worse than we thought]
It's so emotionally tiring.
August 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Why does every social media feed eventually end up looking like:
[outrageous thing happening in the US]
[extremely polarizing AI take]
[random semi-funny meme]
[shocking thing happened to person I don't know]
[yet another reason climate change is worse than we thought]
It's so emotionally tiring.
[outrageous thing happening in the US]
[extremely polarizing AI take]
[random semi-funny meme]
[shocking thing happened to person I don't know]
[yet another reason climate change is worse than we thought]
It's so emotionally tiring.
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Idk who needs to hear this, but you do *not* need to glaze the reviewers of your papers when you respond to their feedback.
Be grateful, sure, but don't wax poetic about how insightful and magical their farts are.
It's just professional correspondence, my guy.
Be grateful, sure, but don't wax poetic about how insightful and magical their farts are.
It's just professional correspondence, my guy.
August 29, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Idk who needs to hear this, but you do *not* need to glaze the reviewers of your papers when you respond to their feedback.
Be grateful, sure, but don't wax poetic about how insightful and magical their farts are.
It's just professional correspondence, my guy.
Be grateful, sure, but don't wax poetic about how insightful and magical their farts are.
It's just professional correspondence, my guy.
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Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
Speech and Language Processing
Speech and Language Processing
web.stanford.edu
August 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...
German is infamous for its compound words, but one of my personal favorites that amazes me every time is "Haltewunschtaste", the button that you push on a bus or tram to indicate you want to get off, a.k.a. the "stopping wish button".
August 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
German is infamous for its compound words, but one of my personal favorites that amazes me every time is "Haltewunschtaste", the button that you push on a bus or tram to indicate you want to get off, a.k.a. the "stopping wish button".
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New blog post: AI Allergy.
On my increasing disgust with the AI discourse, even though I still like the technical and philosophical. And how I wish I could be excited about AI again.
togelius.blogspot.com/2025/08/ai-a...
On my increasing disgust with the AI discourse, even though I still like the technical and philosophical. And how I wish I could be excited about AI again.
togelius.blogspot.com/2025/08/ai-a...
AI Allergy
I remember being excited about AI. I remember 20 years ago, being excited about neuroevolutionary methods for learning adaptive behaviors in...
togelius.blogspot.com
August 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
New blog post: AI Allergy.
On my increasing disgust with the AI discourse, even though I still like the technical and philosophical. And how I wish I could be excited about AI again.
togelius.blogspot.com/2025/08/ai-a...
On my increasing disgust with the AI discourse, even though I still like the technical and philosophical. And how I wish I could be excited about AI again.
togelius.blogspot.com/2025/08/ai-a...
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"Hang on a moment while we sign you out." - sign me in, outlook, IN!
July 30, 2025 at 6:39 AM
"Hang on a moment while we sign you out." - sign me in, outlook, IN!
Writing on any kind of social network always feels like approaching strangers in the Wild West – they always react like you might pull a gun at them any second. I'm so tired of it.
July 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Writing on any kind of social network always feels like approaching strangers in the Wild West – they always react like you might pull a gun at them any second. I'm so tired of it.
DeepL when translating to Swedish: Have you considered writing in Japanese?
July 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
DeepL when translating to Swedish: Have you considered writing in Japanese?
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🎓 Looking for PhD opportunities in #NLProc for a start in Spring 2026?
🗒️ Add your expression of interest to join @copenlu.bsky.social here by 20 July: forms.office.com/e/HZSmgR9nXB
Selected candidates will be invited to submit a DARA fellowship application with me: daracademy.dk/fellowship/f...
🗒️ Add your expression of interest to join @copenlu.bsky.social here by 20 July: forms.office.com/e/HZSmgR9nXB
Selected candidates will be invited to submit a DARA fellowship application with me: daracademy.dk/fellowship/f...
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
🎓 Looking for PhD opportunities in #NLProc for a start in Spring 2026?
🗒️ Add your expression of interest to join @copenlu.bsky.social here by 20 July: forms.office.com/e/HZSmgR9nXB
Selected candidates will be invited to submit a DARA fellowship application with me: daracademy.dk/fellowship/f...
🗒️ Add your expression of interest to join @copenlu.bsky.social here by 20 July: forms.office.com/e/HZSmgR9nXB
Selected candidates will be invited to submit a DARA fellowship application with me: daracademy.dk/fellowship/f...
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a man throws a glass apple at a concrete egg, causing it to shatter
June 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
a man throws a glass apple at a concrete egg, causing it to shatter
ICYMI – still a few days left to apply! ⤵️
📣 We’re looking for postdocs in computational social science at Linköping University, Sweden!
Positions can be based at the LiU NLP group (though the call is not limited to NLP). Two years full-time, with possibility of a third year. Deadline is June 3, 2025.
More info here: liu.se/en/work-at-l...
Positions can be based at the LiU NLP group (though the call is not limited to NLP). Two years full-time, with possibility of a third year. Deadline is June 3, 2025.
More info here: liu.se/en/work-at-l...
Postdoc in Computational Social Science
liu.se
May 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
ICYMI – still a few days left to apply! ⤵️