MilaNLP Lab
milanlp.bsky.social
MilaNLP Lab
@milanlp.bsky.social
The Milan Natural Language Processing Group #NLProc #AI

milanlproc.github.io
“Teacher Demonstrations in a BabyLM’s Zone of Proximal Development for Contingent Multi-Turn Interaction” selected for an Outstanding Paper Award at the BabyLM Challenge & Workshop!
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
🗓️ Nov 6 – Oral Presentation (TACL)
IssueBench: Millions of Realistic Prompts for Measuring Issue Bias in LLM Writing Assistance
⚖️ A foundation for measuring LLM political bias in realistic user conversations.
📍 A303 | 10:30–12:00
October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🗓️ Nov 8 – STARSEM Workshop
Generalizability of Media Frames: Corpus Creation and Analysis Across Countries
📰 We investigate how well media frames generalize across different media landscapes. The 15 MFC frames remain broadly applicable, with minor revisions of the guidelines.
October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🗓️ Nov 8 – BabyLM Workshop
Teacher Demonstrations in a BabyLM's Zone of Proximal Development for Contingent Multi-Turn Interaction
👶 ContingentChat, a Teacher–Student framework that benchmarks and improves multi-turn contingency in a BabyLM trained on 100M words.
October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🗓️ Nov 8 – NLPerspectives Workshops
Balancing Quality and Variation
🧮 For datasets to represent diverse opinions, they must preserve variation while filtering out spam. We evaluate annotator filtering heuristics and show how they often remove genuine variation.
October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
🗓️ Nov 8 – WiNLP Workshops
No for Some, Yes for Others
🤖 We investigate how sociodemographic persona prompts affect false refusal behaviors in LLMs. Model and task type are the dominant factors driving these refusals.
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🗓️ Nov 7 – Main Conference Posters
TrojanStego: Your Language Model Can Secretly Be a Steganographic Privacy-Leaking Agent
🔒 LLMs can be fine-tuned to leak secrets via token-based steganography!
📍 Hall C | 10:30–12:00
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🗓️ Nov 7 – Main Conference Posters
Principled Personas: Defining and Measuring the Intended Effects of Persona Prompting on Task Performance
🧍 Discussing different applications for LLM persona prompting, and how to measure their success.
📍 Hall C | 10:30–12:00
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
🗓️ Nov 6 – Findings Posters
The “r” in “woman” stands for rights.
💬 We propose a taxonomy of social dynamics in implicit misogyny (EN,IT), auditing 9 LLMs — and they consistently fail. The more social knowledge a message requires, the worse they perform.
📍 Hall C | 12:30–13:30
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM