Congratulations to BrockNLP Undergraduate Researchers Robert Morabito, Sangmitra Madhusudan, and Tyler McDonald on their recent feature in the Brock News!

The three students sat down with Cathy Majtenyi to discuss the many benefits of mentorship within the BrockNLP Lab, their initial collaboration on STOP! Benchmarking Large Language Models with Sensitivity Testing on Offensive Progressions (EMNLP 2024, Social Impact Paper Award), and the lasting effects of strong peer support within the Department of Computer Science at Brock University.

Congratulations to BrockNLP Researchers Sangmitra Madhusudan (Undergraduate Researcher), Robert Morabito (MSc Student), Skye Reid (Undergraduate Researcher), Nikta Gohari Sadr (MSc Student), and Ali Emami (Director) on being featured in New Scientist alongside their upcoming publication, Fine-Tuned LLMs are “Time Capsules” for Tracking Societal Bias Through Books*!

Congratulations to BrockNLP Researchers Angel Yahir Loredo Lopez (Mitacs Globalink Intern 2024), Tyler McDonald (Undergraduate Researcher), and Ali Emami (Director) on receiving the COLING 2025 Best Dataset Paper Award for their work, NYT-Connections: A Deceptively Simple Text Classification Task that Stumps System-1 Thinkers!

Congratulations to BrockNLP Researchers Sangmitra Madhusudan (Undergraduate Researcher), Robert Morabito (MSc Student), Skye Reid (Undergraduate Researcher), Nikta Gohari Sadr (MSc Student), and Ali Emami (Director) for the acceptance of their upcoming publication, Fine-Tuned LLMs are “Time Capsules” for Tracking Societal Bias Through Books*, to NAACL 2025!

Congratulations to the teams behind two accepted publications at COLING 2025! The BrockNLP Lab will be presenting two oral presentations at COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE:

Can We Afford The Perfect Prompt? Balancing Cost and Accuracy with the Economical Prompting Index - Tyler McDonald (Undergraduate Researcher), Anthony Colosimo (Undergraduate Researcher), Yifeng Li, and Ali Emami (Director)