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A blizzard is raging through Montreal when your friend says “Looks like Florida out there!” Humans easily interpret irony, while LLMs struggle with it. We propose a 𝘳𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭-𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘺-𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 probabilistic framework as a solution. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.09301 to appear @ #ACL2025 (Main)

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"Build the web for agents, not agents for the web" This position paper argues that rather than forcing web agents to adapt to UIs designed for humans, we should develop a new interface optimized for web agents, which we call Agentic Web Interface (AWI). arxiv.org/abs/2506.10953

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Excited to share the results of my recent internship! We ask 🤔 What subtle shortcuts are VideoLLMs taking on spatio-temporal questions? And how can we instead curate shortcut-robust examples at a large-scale? We release: MVPBench Details 👇🔬

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Exciting work on hallucinations from @ziling-cheng.bsky.social

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Incredibly proud of my students @adadtur.bsky.social and Gaurav Kamath for winning a SAC award at #NAACL2025 for their work on assessing how LLMs model constituent shifts.

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Congratulations to Mila members @adadtur.bsky.social , Gaurav Kamath and @sivareddyg.bsky.social for their SAC award at NAACL! Check out Ada's talk in Session I: Oral/Poster 6. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.05670

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Presenting ✨ 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐒𝐄: 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 ✨ Work w/ fantastic advisors Dima Bahdanau and @sivareddyg.bsky.social Thread 🧵:

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Super excited to finally announce our NAACL 2025 main conference paper “Language Models Largely Exhibit Human-like Constituent Ordering Preferences”! We examine constituent ordering preferences between humans and LLMs; we present two main findings… 🧵

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At McGill we have an NLP lab that works on a lot of things, from human-AI collaboration, to evaluation, to low resource NLP (me). @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social just happened in Miami, and my colleagues just presented six papers there:

submitted 216 days ago • 1 comment

It turns out we had even more papers at EMNLP! Let's complete the list with three more🧵

submitted 216 days ago • 1 comment

Our lab members recently presented 3 papers at @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social in Miami ☀️ 📜 From interpretability to bias/fairness and cultural understanding -> 🧵

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