MaiNLP is happy to be part of @eaclmeeting.bsky.social with several papers, talks, a panel, and a workshop ☀️ Looking forward to seeing you in Rabat! #EACL2026
📢 New paper accepted at @eaclmeeting.bsky.social
2026:
Persistent Personas? Role-Playing, Instruction Following, and Safety in Extended Interactions
with
@mhedderich.bsky.social
@amodarressi.bsky.social
Hinrich Schuetze
& Benjamin Roth.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2512.12775
Expert persona prompting -- assigning roles such as expert in math to language models -- is widely used for task improvement. However, prior work shows mixed results on its effectiveness, and does not...
Congrats to our team member Diego Frassinelli on the SAC Highlights award!
MaiNLP will be at #LREC2026 to present multiple conference & workshop papers, as well as a workshop keynote! See you in Palma ☀️
Congrats to Pingjun, @beiduo.bsky.social , Siyao, Marie, and @barbaraplank.bsky.social for receiving the SAC Highlights reward!
Group photo at NeurIPS 2025 San Diego
MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich
MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich
MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich
MaiNLP lab, LMU Munich
✨New paper✨
We find script (e.g. Cyrillic, Latin) to be a linear direction in the activation space of Whisper, enabling transliteration at test-time by adding such script directions to the activations — producing e.g. Cyrillic Japanese transcriptions.
We are honoured to welcome Prof Barbara Plank (@barbaraplank.bsky.social ) from @mainlp.bsky.social @cislmu.bsky.social, as our keynote speaker.
LoResLM @eaclmeeting.bsky.social
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...
