We are happy to announce that NoDaLiDa 2025 will be held jointly with the Baltic-HLT conference in Tallinn, Estonia, March 2–5, 2025. Mark the dates in your calendar! #NLProc

Open position of a permanent university lecturer in humanities data science / computational humanities in Helsinki: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-U… - apply by April 25

📢 NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 *call for papers* is up! 📢 Paper Deadline: *21 October 2024* Find more information on our ✨brand new website✨: nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/call-for-papers 165/166 days until deadline ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 0.6% #NLProc #nodalida_baltichlt

📝‼️Call for Workshop Proposals NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025‼️📝 🗓️ 2 and 5 March, before and after the main conference. Options are full or half-day workshops. Deadline: 26 August 2024. Find more information on our website: nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/call-for-works…

Will you be at LREC COLING 2024 next week? HPLT will! 🥳 Don't miss: - our poster on Thursday 23, 15:30, about FastSpell, one of the langID technologies of our dataset pipeline. (paper 1571) - our presentation on Friday 24, 9:20 for all details about HPLT massive dataset (paper 2199)

LREC COLING 2024 has arrived! We will presenting our work on how we built the HPLT datasets! 📅 Friday 24th of May ⏰ 9.20h-9.40h 📍Room Londra ⌛️Session D3-S1-R3 - Multilinguality, Machine Translation, and Translation Aids II

We are pleased to announce that SHROOM has been selected as the Best Task Paper for SemEval 2024! 🥳🤯🍄 semeval.github.io/SemEval2024/aw… Thank you to all our participants for making this shared task a success! 🤗

A new round of fully funded PhD positions in AI in Finland!

Today Joseph Attieh and I presented KD4MT in the MT Marathon in Prague organized by Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, one of my favourite events of the year! Helsinki-NLP HPLT

The next big release of data is out from our HPLT project!

📣 Two weeks until the paper submission deadline (21 October) 📣 We have reached the submission month and we're hoping to see all your work submitted 😄 Happy writing everyone ✍️!! More info here: nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/call-for-papers #NLProc

The new ELLIS Institute is excellent news for Europe and Finland. A significant investment to the future of Europe - its growth, and security of supply of expertise. Visionary act by Finnish Government, Ministry of Education and Culture, and Peter Sarlin!

Work from Zihao Li, with the help of Shaoxiong Ji vs and Jörg Tiedemann — how good is machine translation as a pretraining multilingual objective? Looking forward to the #EMNLP2024 poster session, Nov 12, 14h00!

The 18th MT marathon will be organized in beautiful Helsinki in the end of August, 2025. We invite you to a week-long gathering of researchers, developers and students with lectures, labs and hacking projects. More information will come - stay tuned!

Postdoc, research fellow and PhD positions: the call to join the Finnish Center for #ArtificialIntelligence is now open. Check out our research areas and supervisors and apply by Feb 2, 2025: fcai.fi/winter-2025-re…

New funding from the European Research Council (ERC) for “Multilingual Assets and Resources for Modular Translation” (MARMoT) blogs.helsinki.fi/language-techn…

We are happy to announce the second release of HPLT bilingual datasets: - 50 English-centric language pairs = 380M parallel sentences (HPLT) 🤩 - 1,275 non-English-centric language pairs = 16.7B parallel sentences (MultiHPLT) 😮 Available at the HPLT dataset catalogue and OPUS.

It's happening now. Our HPLT v2 dataset language coverage is awesome, provides competitive and stable results and complements other data beautifully. We are at ACL 2025, come and say hi! #hplt #datasets