Come and join us at @helsinki-nlp.bsky.social to work on robust, efficient and trustworthy AI across languages and domains. You will be part of the @ellisinstitute.fi as one of the prestigious PIs in their top-level research unit. Application deadline is January 12: tinyurl.com/ye6ceywv

See you next week at EMNLP! We will be presenting our work: Scaling Low-Resource MT via Synthetic Data Generation with LLMs 📍 Poster Session 13 📅 Fri, Nov 7, 10:30-12:00 - Hall C 📖 Check it out! arxiv.org/abs/2505.14423 @helsinki-nlp.bsky.social @cambridgenlp.bsky.social @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social

Timeline: - Paper submission: Dec 19 - Commitment for pre-reviewed papers: Jan 2 - Acceptance notifs: Jan 23 - Camera-ready: Feb 3 - Workshop: TBD (Mar 24-29) Organizers: Yves Scherrer, Noëmi Aepli, @tosaja.bsky.social, Nikola Ljubešić, Preslav Nakov, @tiedeman.bsky.social, Marcos Zampieri & me

🧠 We explore how monolingual, bilingual, and code-augmented data shape multilingual continual pretraining across high- to low-resource languages. Big thanks to my supervisor @tiedeman.bsky.social man.bsky.social, who will be presenting our poster — come say hi!

It’s happening, the 18th MT Marathon (blogs.helsinki.fi/language-tec...) will start tomorrow with a great line-up in our program. Looking forward to see you all in Helsinki!

📢 First release: 38 monolingual reference LLMs (2.15B params) via #HPLT + #OpenEuroLLM ⚙️Trained on 100B tokens from HPLT v2 dataset 🌍 Cover EU langs + others ⚙️ Based on LLaMA, trained on #LUMI 📈 Useful for evaluation Downloads + more info at openeurollm.eu/blog/hplt-oe...

Wanna read great demo papers at EMNLP 2025? You can, because remember: It's *YOUR* community too! So roll up your sleeves and join our program committee as a reviewer: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📢 [**mala-opus-dedup-2410**](huggingface.co/datasets/MaL...) 🎉 Part of the [**MaLA Corpus**](huggingface.co/collections/...), deduplicated dataset from [OPUS](opus.nlpl.eu) (cutoff Oct 2024) features **16,829 language pairs** with deduplication, normalization, and noise filtering

Join us on May 16 at 10:00 EEST (Helsinki time) for a session hosted by GreenNLP and the NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC) Finland on developments in NLP technologies using the NeMo framework. greennlp.github.io/news/2025/04...

Call for participation: We just opened the registration for this year's MT Marathon in August in Helsinki, Finland: blogs.helsinki.fi/language-tec..., featuring: - Ayodele Awokoya - Wilker Aziz - Marta Costa-Jussa - Barry Haddow - Amit Moryosse - Sara Papi - Jörg Tiedemann - Marco Turchi

The NoDaLiDa x Baltic-HLT Proceedings are up! See here: www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/proceedings See you also soon in Tallinn! #NLP #NLProc #nodalida #baltichlt

Separating me from the @helsinki-nlp.bsky.social account is probably a good idea, is it?

There is an open position for a postdoc in our lab in this call. The focus will be on scalable modular NLP with funding from the ERC PoC project MARMoT

I have big news: @ellis.eu has launched its 2nd major research center, @ellisfinland.bsky.social! I have agreed to start as founding director & the first call for PI positions is open. This is a major opportunity for outstanding researchers, join us! ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit

ELLIS Institute Finland is hiring Principal Investigators in AI + machine learning. World-class resources for research incl. LUMI supercomputer, generous starting package & professorship affiliation with a university in the world’s happiest country! Apply by March 9: ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit

It's time for transparent AI in Europe. It's time for open LLMs as a robust foundation for developing future private and public AI services. It's time for: OPEN = open-source Euro = under EU regulations, representing EU values LLM = LLMs openeurollm.eu

Time for the first post on Bluesky: the ERC decided to give funding to our proof-of-concept project MARMoT blogs.helsinki.fi/language-tec...