https://jessyli.com Associate Professor, UT Austin Linguistics. Part of UT Computational Linguistics https://sites.utexas.edu/compling/ and UT NLP https://www.nlp.utexas.edu/https://bsky.app/profile/jessyjli.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyjli.bsky.social/post/3mpjbejw6c22lI will miss #ACL2026 this year, but check out work from my students and collaborators! Kaijie (@kaijie-mo.bsky.social), Sebastian (@sebajoe.bsky.social), Asher (@asher-zheng.bsky.social), Lily, and Gauri will be there presenting the following: jessyli.com/acl202630 Jun 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:mncmdjjmwqn6eptiaa2wuzdn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpjbejw6c22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyjli.bsky.social/post/3modo4kkncc2aWant to know *how* novel/creative your LLM response is and why? Use GENIE! 🧞 [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 Jun 2026 16:07 +0000at://did:plc:mncmdjjmwqn6eptiaa2wuzdn/app.bsky.feed.post/3modo4kkncc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyjli.bsky.social/post/3mo56b2dfcs2eIntroducing Hero’s Journey, meticulously designed to test inductive generalization in a fun text game. ⚖️Verdict: all LLMs we tested trail far behind humans when induction involves generalization across procedures! [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Jun 2026 02:07 +0000at://did:plc:mncmdjjmwqn6eptiaa2wuzdn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo56b2dfcs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyjli.bsky.social/post/3mnzb7daed22iNew work on LLM safety in medicine 💊! Drug names have fixed morphological structure, so is that exploited by LLMs? Kaijie's paper reveals over-generalization that may pose safety risks if not handled carefully 👇 [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Jun 2026 12:49 +0000at://did:plc:mncmdjjmwqn6eptiaa2wuzdn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnzb7daed22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyjli.bsky.social/post/3mlcdm2szw22yQUDs going multimodal! With MQUD, we can train models to generate scientific questions❓that are inquisitive and insightful enough to be answered in the scientific paper! Huge thanks to the many paper authors who contributed to our data. Check out @yatingwu.bsky.social’s work: [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 23:10 +0000at://did:plc:mncmdjjmwqn6eptiaa2wuzdn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlcdm2szw22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyjli.bsky.social/post/3mknt5yahw22gIn multi-turn conversation, LLMs tend to repeat the same kind of things over and over again. They could have different words, but we found them to be the *same discourse moves*! Introducing @hongli-zhan.bsky.social’s new work: novel discourse-level diversity rewards in post-training: [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Apr 2026 19:23 +0000at://did:plc:mncmdjjmwqn6eptiaa2wuzdn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknt5yahw22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyjli.bsky.social/post/3miz72rd5sc2pIf you ask the same question with different framing/phrasing, do language models change their answers? This is super important in medicine because different info can have real consequences! Check out this new work from @hyesunyun.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Apr 2026 21:05 +0000at://did:plc:mncmdjjmwqn6eptiaa2wuzdn/app.bsky.feed.post/3miz72rd5sc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyjli.bsky.social/post/3mht7yj6h2c24Heading to #EACL2026! 🇲🇦 Friday 11a Poster Session 6: LMs struggle to perform inferences around discourse connectives https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-long.289/ Sunday 5p TeachingNLP workshop: new course on discourse+generation https://aclanthology.org/2026.teachingnlp-1.9/ w/ @kanishka.bsky.social + Daniel Brubaker24 Mar 2026 18:40 +0000at://did:plc:mncmdjjmwqn6eptiaa2wuzdn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mht7yj6h2c24https://bsky.app/profile/jessyjli.bsky.social/post/3mgxnxsoxf225Want to know how well the models can brainstorm connections across different concepts? Super excited about @manyawadhwa.bsky.social’s work on measuring associative creativity! [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Mar 2026 19:36 +0000at://did:plc:mncmdjjmwqn6eptiaa2wuzdn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgxnxsoxf225https://bsky.app/profile/jessyjli.bsky.social/post/3mgduhwj3422uCheck out our special theme: new missions for NLP research! [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Mar 2026 22:39 +0000at://did:plc:mncmdjjmwqn6eptiaa2wuzdn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgduhwj3422uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyjli.bsky.social/post/3mdq5vag6h22vCheck out @asher-zheng.bsky.social's work on quantifying strategic language in dialogue, just appeared in the Dialogue and Discourse journal. We study non-cooperative moves that are subtle to capture, where modern AI still have trouble comprehending. Work w/ David_Beaver [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Jan 2026 15:44 +0000at://did:plc:mncmdjjmwqn6eptiaa2wuzdn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdq5vag6h22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyjli.bsky.social/post/3mcxfr2ix4c25🚨Be careful with LLMs when you ask health related questions -- even when the model relies on "evidence"! Kaijie's paper reveals a key weakness and the tricky balance between safety and faithfulness 👉 [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Jan 2026 19:28 +0000at://did:plc:mncmdjjmwqn6eptiaa2wuzdn/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcxfr2ix4c25https://bsky.app/profile/jessyjli.bsky.social/post/3m53kuvh6ok2rIncredibly honored to serve as #EMNLP 2026 Program Chair along with @sunipadev.bsky.social and Hung-yi Lee, and General Chair @andre-t-martins.bsky.social. Looking forward to Budapest!! (With thanks to Lisa Chuyuan Li who took this photo in Suzhou!) 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