Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing at Montclair State University #NLProc #Montclair_NLP #Montclair_CL #NLP4IF
Montclair, NJ
Joined May 2019
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New Japanese euphemism benchmark (JP-PET): models do well on seen euphemisms, but performance drops hard on unseen PETs, suggesting reliance on lexical familiarity over pragmatic understanding. XLM-R generalized best.
#NLP #JapaneseNLP #LLM
#LREC2026
An NLP study on detecting Ukrainian war euphemisms like “бавовна” (“explosion”) and “пташка” (“drone”). GPT-4o performs well on a newly annotated dataset, but the harder problem remains contextual disambiguation, sarcasm, and shifting euphemistic meaning over time. #UkrainianNLP
Semantic overlap alone may not be enough for cross-lingual euphemism transfer. Interesting results on Turkish↔English euphemism detection showing strong asymmetries even when expressions appear semantically aligned.
#NLP #MultilingualAI #LLM #SIGTURK2026
Scrambling hurts MLMs across languages, but morphology sensitivity varies a lot by language.
#NLP #LLM #MultilingualAI
NLPLab@Montclair retweeted
Oct 27 at Montclair: @zawadzkanatalka on how European media racializes and genders refugee crises—same violence, different headlines. youtube.com/watch?v=riObdPdU…
@Montclair_CHSS #montclair #linguistics @lab_nlp
NLPLab@Montclair retweeted
Looking for scholars whose work addresses real-world language challenges in educational, clinical, or communicative contexts, grounded in strong theoretical foundations.
🚨 We’re hiring!
Tenure-track Assistant Professor (start: Aug 2026). Real-world language challenges, grounded in strong theory & methods.
Apply here 👉 [montclair.wd1.myworkdayjobs.…]
📩 [email protected]
#Linguistics #AcademicJobs #HigherEd #LinguistJobs
🎉 We’re proud of our recent graduate Julia Sammartino linkedin.com/in/julia-sammar…, who presented her paper “When Does Language Transfer Help? Sequential Fine-Tuning for Cross-Lingual Euphemism Detection” at #RANLP2025!
📄 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.11831
🧩 Findings:
• XLM-R → bigger boosts, but more catastrophic forgetting when languages differ.
• mBERT → steadier, smaller gains, less forgetting.
Transfer helps, but only in the right conditions.
Takeaway: cross-lingual transfer isn’t “more is better.”
Success depends on the model, language pair, and training order.
Great work by Julia Sammartino advancing research on multilingual euphemism detection! 👏
#RANLP2025 #TransferLearning #LowResource #AIResearch
NLPLab@Montclair retweeted
Linguistics kicked off its new Book Club with Algospeak by @adam_aleksic how people twist words like “unalive” or “seggs” to dodge algorithms. Takeaway: platforms don’t just host language -- they shape it. Next up: Cultish by @amandamontell ! #MontclairLinguistics #Algospeak
NLPLab@Montclair retweeted
See this Instagram post by @montclair_linguistics instagram.com/p/DPzzh83CYWE/…
New Talk on YouTube!
"Discovering Implicit Social Biases in Large Language Models" by @sharonlevy21 . Explore how hidden biases in AI affect decisions in healthcare, education, and more! youtu.be/-weamEyPiQY #NLPMontclair #GenderBias #FairAI @LinguisticsMSU @montclairstateu
NLPLab@Montclair retweeted
🌟 Excellent presentations today at the Graduate Mini-Conference Fall 2024! 🎓👏 Huge congratulations to all the students who shared their work. Excited to see your future endeavors.🚀 #GradConference2024 #ResearchExcellence @Montclair_CHSS @MSUCSAM @lab_nlp @LibbyBarak
Today!
Join us Nov 21, 2024, at 3:30 PM for a talk by Dr. Sharon Levy @sharonlevy21: "Discovering Implicit Social Biases in Large Language Models".
Explore how AI biases arise unexpectedly in domains like healthcare, education, and decision-making.
#NLPMontclair #ResponsibleAI
Join us Nov 21, 2024, at 3:30 PM for a talk by Dr. Sharon Levy @sharonlevy21: "Discovering Implicit Social Biases in Large Language Models".
Explore how AI biases arise unexpectedly in domains like healthcare, education, and decision-making.
#NLPMontclair #ResponsibleAI
Great to see both new and returning students collaborating at the NLP lab! Exciting discussions ahead.@LibbyBarak @FeldmanMSU @Montclair_CHSS @MSUCSAM @montclairstateu @LinguisticsMSU #MontclairNLP
Our own Dr. Aparna Varde and the Prime Minister of Lithuania, Ingrida Šimonytė @IngridaSimonyte at the ECML-PKDD @ECMLPKDD conference! @MSUCSAM @Montclair_CHSS #MontclairNLP
