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Did you know that #MachineTranslation models can be used as #ZeroShot detectors of translation direction in parallel texts? Take a look at this #preprint, in which Jannis Vamvas, Rico Sennrich and I describe how to do so: arxiv.org/abs/2401.06769 #TranslationDirectionDetection #NLP

Check out this wonderful result of Michelle's master thesis! Controlled experiments and anecdotal evidence suggest that translation direction of parallel data can matter for MT training, but how to execute filtering at scale? This works shows an effective zero-shot strategy.

Congratulations to Michelle Wastl on receiving an UZH Semester Award for her Master's thesis, «Unsupervised Translation Direction Detection», completed under the supervision of Professor Rico Sennrich.