ilkerkesen.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Scientist at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. I am currently more focused on developing pixel language models. #nlproc #multilinguality #multimodality
👤 Joined on 11 November 2024
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@ilkerkesen.bsky.socialACL Sustainable Reviewing Policy: We are introducing changes in the @ReviewAcl reviewing and submissions. The changes will cap authors and introduce changes in the reviewing to keep our community sustainable. #NLProc #NLP
Show PostNew blog: AI for Healthcare: Great benchmarks but minimal impact AI in healthcare benchmarks show soaring perf, but in the real world AI is not actually helping people much. Reasons include messy real world, weak eval, deployment, and lack of utility ehudreiter.com/2026/08/05/a...
Show PostThe SAC highlight felt particularly sweet after the paper got desk-rejected by TACL, and 6 months later, rejected with a D* based on two reviews, one of which was 70% factually incorrect, meta-reviewed in one sentence. *we had appealed the DR, it was an extensively reworked and rebutted resubmission
Show PostJuly has been a good month: * Our ACL paper about Wikipedia quality was awarded an SAC highlight (aclanthology.org/2026.acl-lon...) * @colemanhaley.bsky.social joined our lab as a postdoc * Coleman's CoNLL paper about impossible languages won the best paper award (aclanthology.org/2026.conll-m...)
Show PostCommon Crawl has joined Project Tapestry, a global initiative led by the AI Alliance to advance open, sovereign AI. We will contribute our expertise in responsible web data, multilingual coverage and culturally informed AI development. commoncrawl.org/blog/common-...
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