New resources for Swiss German dialect: We release 4 text encoder models trained on written Swiss German. • Blogpost: vamvas.ch/swiss-german-e… All the models are up on the Hugging Face hub, ready to be downloaded and used: hf.co/models?author=…

📢SPAN-ACES is here! We annotated the error spans in the incorrect-translation for every example in the ACES dataset. 🤗huggingface.co/datasets/nikit… with Arnisa Fazla, @chantalamrhein, @KocmiTom, Mark Steedman, alexandra birch, Rico Sennrich, Liane Guillou

Happy to announce this will be presented at #EACL2024 . Special thanks to the anonymous reviewer who suggested measuring oscillatory hallucinations with TNG: our method reduces oscillatory hallucinations by 75-92% on average!

Really excited about our new preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2402.04251 Generating high-quality machine translations can be accelerated by using reference aggregation – a new technique for MBR utility estimation that is in 𝒪(𝑛) instead of 𝒪(𝑛²). Work with Rico Sennrich at Zurich Computational Linguistics Group

Excited to have Bryan Eikema at our colloquium to discuss the inadequacy of the mode in Natural Language Generation!

double-feature: also very happy to have Mario Giulianelli @EMNLP visit our colloquium from neighboring ETH to talk about measuring utterance uncertainty and predictability.

My favorites on machine translation and multilingual from February's arXiv are on my blog jlibovicky.github.io/2024/03/06/MTM… and on medium.com/@jlibovicky/hi…

Now at #EACL2024: Rico Sennrich presenting our work on source-contrastive and language-contrastive decoding. Read the paper here: aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-shor… (with Alireza Mohammadshahi Zurich Computational Linguistics Group)

Our work on speeding up MBR decoding will be presented at the ACL 2024 conference. Looking forward to insightful discussions and feedback! #NLProc #ACL2024NLP

Congratulations to Dr. Noëmi Aepli, who just passed her viva on "Challenges & Opportunities in Low-Resource Non-Standardized Language Varieties"! Special thanks to the external examiner @dirk_hovy!

kicking off the farewell party for Manfred Klenner with a guest talk by Nora Hollenstein.

We're thrilled to celebrate 3 awards at this year's SwissText: 1/4

Excited to teach at the IFI Summer School (University of Zurich) on Advances in #NProc , AI Alignment and Natural Language Reasoning ifi.uzh.ch/en/studies/phd… Thanks to Rico Sennrich for inviting!

>95% of languages are low-resourced in language technology, with languages in the Middle East especially underrepresented. Help us change this! 🆘🚨📢 If you speak Mazandarani, Gilaki, Tati, Luri, Laki, Shabaki, Achomi, Southern Kurdish, or Hawrami, we need your help! #NLProc

I will soon be hiring PhDs/postdocs for a new university lab in Germany! If you have strong CL/NLP skills and are interested in modeling implicit/underspecified language, misunderstandings, or commonsense vs. individual background knowledge, let's connect. Please DM me or RT! :)

This paper is going to be presented during the next hour as a poster at the ACL 2024 Virtual Day. #ACL2024nlp See you in Gathertown! :)

We released mbrs v0.1.3 and the demo paper🎉 GitHub: github.com/naist-nlp/mbrs Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2408.04167 Docs: mbrs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/inde… Recent changes: - Reference aggregation (DeNero+, 2009; Vamvas+ Jannis Vamvas, 2024) - Diverse MBR (Jinnai+ Yuu Jinnai, 2024) - YAML-based config

Finally official: I am looking for PhDs/postdocs to join the NLU Lab at UTN in Nuremberg, Germany. Focus on research, 3(+1) years contract, salary according to A13/E13 (100%), deadline 3 Nov '24. Here is a translation of the full ad (please share!): raw.githubusercontent.com/microth/temp/r…

I am at #EMNLP2024 #EMNLP Miami to present our new work SignCLIP Zurich Computational Linguistics Group, come and talk if you are interested in SignCLIP or sign language processing in general! Session: In-Person Poster Session G (Jasmine) 14 November 2024 @ 14:00 Paper: aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-mai…

congratulations to Amit Moryossef for winning the outstanding demo paper award at #EMNLP2024!