🌊 The UC Santa Barbara NLP Group is recruiting Ph.D. students for Fall 2026!
Work with our faculty in NLP, AI, ML, multimodality, and agents, and join a vibrant community on the California coast.
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- The UCSB NLP group is having a great time at COLM 2025 in Montreal! #COLM2025
- #SoCalNLP 2022 was a massive success! Thanks everyone who submitted, reviewed, presented, joined for a fantastic time! Thank you to our speakers, @YejinChoinka @srush_nlp, @yanning_shen @swabhz @zhoubolei and William Cohen! And congrats to our sponsored best paper winners.. 1/4
- We're excited to have @denny_zhou from @GoogleAI here visiting UCSB to share with us his work on "Teaching Language Models to Reason!"
- We did it! 🎉 12 papers from UCSB NLP accepted at #EMNLP2025 (7 Main + 5 Findings) Proud of everyone’s hard work—poster below 👇
- Exciting open to #SoCalNLP 2022 with a talk by MacArthur Genius Grant winner @YejinChoinka! Stay tuned to the live feed for @srush_nlp, @yanning_shen, and @swabhz between now and 12pm PST on our livestream! youtu.be/hwXA7x5KoCo
- If you're a PhD student or early career scientist working on NLP in Southern California looking to network with your peers, please sign up to join the program committee of the 2022 SoCal NLP symposium! Link belowWe're excited to host the 2022 SoCal NLP Symposium at UC Santa Barbara this November and the PC co-chairs (@yujielu_10 and I) are looking for PhD students and early career scientists to serve as program committee members! Please sign up and RT for reach! forms.gle/E4wPWTovkAAFNk…
- Replying to @UCSB_AIOur @AppFolio Best Paper Award winner was "CONDAQA: A Contrastive Reading Comprehension Dataset for Reasoning About Negation" from Abhilasha Ravichander et al from CMU/AllenAI! Paper link: arxiv.org/abs/2211.00295 Thank you to sponsor @AppFolio for supporting our event! (3/4)
- We're very excited to host @wzhao_nlp for a talk on her research on understanding the behavior of real-world users of chat systems!
- Congratulations to our @ucsbcs undergrads @matt_seb_ho, @realadityas, and @just_in_chang for their oral presentation at #ICLR2023! Their WikiWhy benchmark is a promising and innovative first step toward objective assessments of LLM reasoning capabilities!
- Replying to @UCSB_AIOur @amazon Best Paper Award winner was "Contrastive Novelty Learning: Anticipating Outliers with Large Language Models" by Albert Xu et al from USC! Thank you to award sponsor @AmazonScience for supporting our event! (2/4)
































