Prof. Danushka Bollegala

✈️ Off to Zhuhai for #AACL2026!

🚨 We are hiring! I’m looking for NLP talent at all levels:

🏛️ @LivUniCS (PhD students to Full Prof in AI)
📦 Amazon (Applied Scientists)

My DMs are open—let's catch up on roles or research!

Catch our work this week 👇

🗓️ Nov 7 | 10:30am (Interpretability)
Oral: Decoupling Internal Representational Changes & Causal Importance in Fine-Tuned LLMs
🔗 aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long…
w/ @prochetasen @li_lingfang Subham Das

🗓️ Nov 8 | 10:30am (Semantics)
Oral: WiC is not WSD: A Study on LLMs & Lexical Ambiguity Resolution
🔗 aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long…
w/ @jodieyzhou Kiamehr Rezaee @tpilehvar @CamachoCollados

🗓️ Nov 10 | 2:00pm
Tutorial: Diffusion Language Models
🔗 dllm-aacl.github.io
w/ @dai0NLP

See you there! @aaclmeeting #aacl2026 #LiverpoolNLP @AmazonScience

Thanks for everyone who attended and engaged with us at the Diffusion Language Model Tutorial yesterday at @aaclmeeting Both @dai0NLP and I had a wonderful time explaining what has been done so far in DLM research and what the NLP community can contributed to in the future. The slides are available at dllm-aacl.github.io in case you missed the talk. #diffusionmodels #NLProc

@aaclmeeting is coming to an end but we saved the best for the last!

Please drop by our tutorial on Diffusion Language Models from 14:00 at Muhe Hall B. The opportunities are immense for the NLP community to contribute to this growing field. Multilinguality, multimodality, interpretability, diversity, safety evals are all pretty much open topics in DLMs and we promise to explain everything that you need to know to get started.

slides and reading list at dllm-aacl.github.io #diffusionmodels

生成AIツールを使って論文を書くのは確かに楽で、高速で皆やっているのは分かりますが、査読をしていて思うのは、必ずしもそれは「読みやすい」論文にならないという点です。文節が複数含まれている非常に複雑な文が生成されたり、言葉は丁寧で綺麗ですが何を言ってるかさっぱり分からない文書が生成されたりします。なお、実験結果の説明がやたら細かく、ドライな論文になっていることもあります。照応関係も曖昧でLLMは分かっているかもしれませんが、普通の人間は何回も読まないと追えない。もう２５年以上前ですが、自分が初めてTeXで論文を書いたころのことを思い出します。その時こんなに綺麗に整っている文書は完璧であるに違いないという錯覚に落ちいました。

For some reason I feel immensely proud when I get to put this in my meta reviews