Just hosted my first ever BoF session, I hope the first of many more to come! Engaging discussions and new ideas at #ALPS24

☑️ Gràcies a l'esforç comunitari, la Viquipèdia en català ja ha arribat a 40.000 articles sobre dones! La biografia que ha culminat aquesta fita és la de Miriam Tey. Ara mateix, el 21% de biografies de l'enciclopèdia són sobre dones. El 0,22% són sobre persones no binàries. 📈

🚀 Attention MT scientists and developers! We announce the #WMT2024 shared task on machine translation into these underrepresented Romance languages of Spain: Aragonese, Aranese, and Asturian. Joint effort Universidad de Alicante UA+UOCuniversidad. Details here: www2.statmt.org/wmt24/romance-…

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)

Nothing says Italy like 𝐺𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑜! Spending the week in beautiful Torino for LREC COLING 2024 #LRECCOLING2024 #lreccoling Can't wait to listen to great research, reunite with old friends and make new ones!

Today I'm excited to present at @wikimania 2024! Let's talk about minority languages, language technology and open-source initiatives :) Wikimedia Foundation HPLT Helsinki-NLP University of Helsinki

Let's meet in Prague!

The MT Marathon continues on its third day! We already had great talks by Ondrej Bojar, @prajdabre1, Vilém Zouhar, and Elizabeth Salesky 👏 and a poster session with 10 posters 🖼️. Today, we continue with more talks, and of course, the week-long hackathon continues with interesting projects.

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

Ondrej Bojar @prajdabre1 Vilém Zouhar Elizabeth Salesky We continued with great talks by Ricardo Rei, Julius Cheng, @onadegibert, Joseph Attieh, Laurie Burchell, @khetamalsharou, and Tsz Kin. Thanks for coming to Prague 🙌. ➕ Throughout the week, people worked on 👉7 🤩 exciting hacking projects.

🚀 Excited to introduce EMMA-500! 🌍✨ A multilingual model continue-trained on 546 languages, enhancing coverage for low-resource languages. With the MaLA corpus and Llama 2 7B, we're pushing boundaries in cross-lingual transfer. Check it out: huggingface.co/MaLA-LM

🚀 INTRODUCING THE LATEST HPLT MONOLINGUAL DATASETS! TL;DR: 🔍 4.5 PB of web crawls 📄 21 billion documents 💝 careful extraction, dedup, annotation and cleaning 💥 193 languages! Explore and download the new HPLT Monolingual Datasets NOW! hplt-project.org/datasets/v2.0 #HPLT

A tragedy in two acts:

It's happening! Will you join us? 😉

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.