Interested in developing LLMs that work for dialectal Arabic? Introducing the AMIYA shared task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent, just accepted to VarDial 2026. Please consider submitting and joining us in Morocco if you do! sites.google.com/view/vardial...

📄DistaLs: A Comprehensive Collection of Language Distance Measures
👥 Rob van der Goot, Esther Ploeger, @verenablaschke.bsky.social Tanja Samardžic
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🎯A convenient toolkit for obtaining distance measures across languages
▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSk9...

🎥 @barbaraplank.bsky.social, Hinrich Schütze, and I were featured on tv, talking about how AI tools struggle with dialects!
www.ardmediathek.de/video/capric...

We're surveying researchers about name changes in academic publishing.

If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc.

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VarDial 2026 will be colocated with @eaclmeeting.bsky.social! We're looking forward to your papers on NLP for similar languages, varieties and dialects :)

Deadline: Dec 19 (Jan 2 for pre-reviewed ARR papers)
sites.google.com/view/vardial...

Moin! I'm on my way to Hamburg to meet the @ds-hamburg.bsky.social group and give a talk about dialect NLP! ⚓

#Interspeech2025 had a science fair today with lots of interactive speech tech demos, not just for conference attendees but also/especially for curious laypeople! The demos were fun, and I like the idea of combining a conference w/ a bit of scicomm for the local public

At #Interspeech2025 I'm going to present Betthupferl, a dataset for German dialect ASR & dialect-to-standard speech translation! We analyze differences between dialectal & Standard German transcriptions, benchmark ASR models, and examine shortcomings of current ASR models & evaluation metrics.

UPDATE: Our poster presentation got moved to Tuesday, 16:00–17:30 (session 10)! #ACL2025NLP

At #ACL2025NLP I'll present our analysis of the effect of linguistic similarity on cross-lingual transfer! We looked at how 10 similarity measures correlate w/ transfer results btwn 263 languages across 3 NLP tasks. Different similarity measures matter for diff. experiments (no one-size-fits-all)!

My ACL 2024 keynote talk on "Are LLMs Narrowing Our Horizon? Let’s Embrace Variation in NLP!" is online now:

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It was a huge honor to me to give last year's flagship-in-NLP-conference keynote in Bangkok 🇹🇭

Dei Boarisch heard ned bei "Servus" und "Pfiade" auf? Dann suach ma genau Di!
Wir suachan Bairischsprecher:innen, de a kurze Umfrage über KI-generierds Boarisch für a Masterarbeit beantwortn mechadn.
Mid jeder Teilnahme bring ma den boarischn Dialekt a Stickal weida in de digitale Weyd!

Bavarian dialect speakers needed! Our MSc student Miriam wants to find out 1. how good/bad LLM-generated "Bavarian" is, and 2. whether dialect speakers agree with each other on this. The survey takes <5 min: survey.ifkw.lmu.de/dialquali25/ Thank you for sharing/participating!

The first archival *CL Queer in AI workshop will kick off in about 15 min! Join us in-person if you're at NAACL or virtually 💜

We will have presentations from our amazing contributors and invited speakers. Read on for more details 🧵

Happening now at #NAACL2025 in room Pecos.

Kicking off with amazing talks and a panel by Monojit Choudhury, Isabelle Augenstein, and Katia Shutova

Happening now at @americasnlp.bsky.social 2025. Telegram in Aymara and how to translate tech terminology. #NAACL2025

📣 Join us tomorrow May 3rd for the 10th Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text #W-NUT at #NAACL2025 (📍 Room Navajo/Nambe)!

The workshop features 16 paper presentations and 2 exciting keynote talks by @verenablaschke.bsky.social and Su Lin Blodgett (titles+abstracts below)! #NLProc #NAACL

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On my way to #NAACL2025 where I'll give a keynote at the noisy text workshop (WNUT), presenting some of the challenges & methods for dialect NLP + also discussing dialect speakers' perspectives!

🗨️ Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data
🗓️ Saturday, May 3, 9:30–10:30

Are you attending NAACL 2025 and are you interested in low-resource languages and dialects?

Then don't miss our very own @verenablaschke.bsky.social's keynote talk at the WNUT 2025 workshop on May 3rd:

Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data

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noisy-text.github.io/2025/