CS-NLP Group, Utrecht University

R. Burema, A. Schuth, C. Spelt, D. Nguyen
A Dutch Benchmark to Assess Social Bias in LLMs within a Hiring Decision Setting.

Grounded Misunderstandings in Asymmetric Dialogue: A Perspectivist Annotation Scheme for MapTask Collaborative dialogue relies on participants incrementally establishing common ground, yet in asymmetric settings they may believe they agree while referring to different entities. We introduce a per...

Nan Li, Albert Gatt, Massimo Poesio
Grounded Misunderstandings in Asymmetric Dialogue: A Perspectivist Annotation Scheme for MapTask
arxiv.org/abs/2511.03718

Human Label Variation in Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition There is growing recognition that many NLP tasks lack a single ground truth, as human judgments reflect diverse perspectives. To capture this variation, models have been developed to predict full anno...

Frances Yung, Daniil Ignatev, Merel Scholman, Vera Demberg, Massimo Poesio
Human Label Variation in Implicit Discourse Relation Recognition
arxiv.org/abs/2602.22723

Patrick Paetzold, Lukas Beiske, Mark-Matthias Zymla, Massimo Poesio, Miriam Butt, Daniel Weiskopf and Oliver Deussen
AmbiCoRefVis: A Tool for Visualizing Coreferential Ambiguity

A humble bundle of submissions by our group & friends to appear in LREC proceedings. Meet you in the merry month of May!

#LREC2026 #NLP

Aditya K Surikuchi

In the latest Vision & Language Lab meeting, @akskuchi.bsky.social told us about his new project, which investigates how well multimodal models can identify important moments in videos as well as the effects of including different modalities. Thank you, @akskuchi.bsky.social, for coming to Utrecht!

NLP@U period-2 meeting The 2025-2026 period-2 meeting of NLP@U will be hosted by the Faculty of Science. There will be presentations by Jelle Zuidema and Hosein Mohebbi. After the talks, there will be a round of short pitch...

Join the meeting of the Utrecht NLP Hub on 29.01 in the Science Park library. The programme features talks by Jelle Zuidema and Hosein Mohebbi and focuses on speech model interpretability.
📅 29-01-2026 ⏰ 09:00
utrechtnlphub.sites.uu.nl/2025/11/06/n...

#UniversiteitUtrecht #UtrechtUniversity #UU

İlker

İlker and friends

This week, it was our pleasure to welcome @ilkerkesen.bsky.social, who shared some of his and his group's latest findings with our group.
It shows how multimodal learning can help models transcend the boundaries of writing systems.
We enjoyed İlker's company and look forward to his future work!

This week I’m in Utrecht! I’m visiting Utrecht University to give an invited seminar talk on pixel language models, hosted by the NLP Research Group led by Albert Gatt. Note: Don’t be fooled by the image; the weather is cloudy as expected! #NLProc

We Need to Measure Data Diversity in NLP — Better and Broader Dong Nguyen, Esther Ploeger. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2025.

New opinion paper out with Esther Ploeger (Aalborg University): We Need to Measure Data Diversity in NLP — Better and Broader at #EMNLP2025 (main) aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...

I will be attending EMNLP in China to present our paper with @bylinina.bsky.social (who will be in China, too) and Jakub Dotlacil in the BabyLM workshop! Looking forward to meeting people there! ✨ 😊 #EMNLP2025 @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social

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I successfully defended my PhD in Dutch fashion and required a PhD certificate in Latin. Thank you to the amazing people that got me here, a.o. @dongng.bsky.social and the ones I blur here.

Check out our group's contributions to #EMNLP2025! All details on Linkedin due to character limit: www.linkedin.com/posts/nlp-gr...