Francesca Padovani
2nd year PhD Student at @gronlp.bsky.social 🐮 - University of Groningen
Language Acquisition - NLP
- Reposted by Francesca PadovaniMy latest on Substack -- a write-up of the talk I gave at NeurIPS in December. aiguide.substack.com/p/on-evaluat...
- Reposted by Francesca PadovaniThrilled to announce the 1st Workshop on Computational Developmental Linguistics (CDL) at ACL 2026 🎉 A new venue at the intersection of development linguistics × modern NLP, spearheaded by @fredashi.bsky.social @marstin.bsky.social, and and outstanding team of colleagues! A thread 🧵
- We are thrilled to officially announce the dates of the 46th edition of 𝗧𝗮𝗯𝘂𝗗𝗔𝗚! Save the date for 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭𝟭–𝟭𝟮 💫
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- Reposted by Francesca Padovani👀 Look what 🎅 has broght just before Christmas 🎁: a brand new Research Master in Natural Language Processing at @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl Program: www.rug.nl/masters/natu... Applications (2026/2027) are open! Come and study with us (you will also learn why we have a 🐮 in our logo)
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- Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a fantastic friend and researcher, @mdhk.net , who came to visit us in Groningen for a couple of days from Amsterdam! 🎉
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- Reposted by Francesca Padovani📣 Save the date 🗓️ to present your exciting statistical learning research at the 6th Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning Conference June 10-12 2026 in San Sebastián 🇪🇸 Keynotes by @jennysaffran.bsky.social @noranewcombe.bsky.social @pyoudeyer.bsky.social More info to follow #IASL26
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- 𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞? 🇨🇳🇮🇩🇸🇪 Here’s the proof! 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐋𝐌 is the first Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data available for 45 languages to the NLP community 🎉 arxiv.org/abs/2510.10159
- This was made possible thanks to the dedication of each language-specific expert and the coordination of senior researchers, @jumelet.bsky.social and @lchoshen.bsky.social among others.
- Reposted by Francesca PadovaniComputational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 cpl2025.sites.uu.nl When: December 18–19, 2025 Where: Utrecht, the Netherlands Abstract submission deadline: June 15, 2025 Organizers: Jakub Dotlačil, Lena Jäger, Bruno Nicenboim, Ece Takmaz
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- The 𝗜𝗟𝗖𝗕 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 in Marseille went beyond all my expectations! 💯 A week has already flown by since I had one of the most formative experiences of my PhD so far. 👩🎨
- Reposted by Francesca PadovaniWe recharged our batteries with a wonderful weekend together in the province of Drenthe! 🌳🍃 As per tradition, we kick off the academic year with plenty of sharing, smiles, and sports 💘 We wish everyone a wonderful start of the academic year <3 may it be inspiring and exciting 🎓
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- Reposted by Francesca Padovani#ACL2025 has just finished and it was great to meet with old friends and connect with new colleagus. In case you missed our papers/presentations, this was us 🐮👇 @facultyofartsug.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Francesca PadovaniChildren are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/ www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social
- Excited to welcome a new member to the family of language-specific BLiMPs 🎊 this time putting Turkish in the spotlight! Thanks to the meticulous, linguistically grounded work of the brilliant @ezgibasar.bsky.social. We hope will help push forward research on typologically diverse languages!
- “Child-Directed Language Does Not Consistently Boost Syntax Learning in Language Models” I’m happy to share that the preprint of my first PhD project is now online! 🎊 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.23689
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- Small delay, but critical not to overlook the importance of it. ✊🏻 On March 18th, the academic community in Groningen took to the streets to protest the Dutch government's crazy direction to substantially cut funding to university and higher education. ✂️
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- The words I usually spend explaining to friends, family, and lay people what I am about and what the focus of my PhD is... here they are condensed into a concise and clear article. 🖌️ Small is good, small is precious, small has potential ! 👶✨ www.quantamagazine.org/why-do-resea...
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- Critical Language Awareness, Democratic Engagement, and Sustainability A few days ago, I had the opportunity to present my PhD project and some preliminary research findings at the first edition of CLADES 🚀
