📢 Fully-funded #PhD position in #NLProc, focusing on #SpeechLLMs & multimodal language processing. Reposts appreciated! 🙏 📅 Apply by March 15! 🔗 ai4lt.iar.kit.edu/english/team...

Quality estimation (automated metrics) are amazing. Truly. We would like to use them everywhere. That gets compute-expensive very quickly. We also don't know when they don't know. In "Early-Exit and Instant Confidence Translation Quality Estimation" (at EACL26) we fix that.

Last week @ecekt.bsky.social gave a great talk on her recent work "Model Merging to Maintain Language-Only Performance in Developmentally Plausible Multimodal Models"! Thank you so much for joining us, Ece! 🌟

聖誕老人究竟如何理解來自世界各地的眾多願望清單上的內容呢？ फादर क्रिसमस वास्तव में दुनिया भर की कई इच्छा-सूचियों पर लिखा हुआ कैसे समझ सकते हैं? How can Santa actually understand what is written on the many wish lists from all over the world? Find out at: ai4lt.iar.kit.edu #kitinformatik #ai4lt #llm #machinelearning #adventskalender #advent

It was great seeing you all at EMNLP in Suzhou. 🤗🌆 I presented two papers, check them out if you are interested in 🎤 Speech (summarization) or 📊 MT evaluation with multiple candidates. aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m... aclanthology.org/2025.wmt-1.63/

Excited to head over to #Suzhou to present 5 papers at #EMNLP2025 and affiliated venues! Topics include quality estimation and evaluation 👩‍🔬, speech🗣️, and multilinguality🌐- see you soon! 🤩 @maikezufle.bsky.social @jan-niehues.bsky.social

Let's talk about eval (automatic or human) and multilinguality at #EMNLP in Suzhou! 🇨🇳 - Efficient evaluation (Nov 5, 16:30, poster session 3) - MT difficulty (Nov 7, 12:30, findings 3) - COMET-poly (Nov 8, 11:00, WMT) (DM to meet 🌿 )

Am 30.10.25 lädt die VHS Wörth zu einem spannenden Abend rund um KI und Sprache ein. Maike Züfle, Doktorandin in der Forschungsgruppe Artificial Intelligence for Language Technologies am @kit.edu erklärt, wie große Sprachmodelle Texte verstehen, schreiben und übersetzen u. zeigt praktische Beispiele

Wir bei AI4LT arbeiten täglich mit 🤖 KI und 🎤 Sprache. Aber wie funktioniert Künstliche Intelligenz eigentlich – und wie kann sie Texte und gesprochene Sprache erzeugen? @maikezufle.bsky.social aus unserer Gruppe erklärt es in einem Vortrag in der Stadtbücherei #Wörth 📚. English version below👇

🎉 Starting the week with some great news: 3 of our papers have been accepted to #EMNLP Main! 🧵👇 Big congratulations to all co-authors! 📚✨ Looking forward to presenting in #Suzhou!

Our team is growing! Today, we’re excited to welcome our new colleague Yuka Ko, who joins us as a postdoc on the EU Project DVPS. Looking forward to collaborating and achieving great things together. Welcome aboard! 🚀

#Interspeech2025 Excited to present our work on in-context language learning for endangered languages! 🤩 Come chat with Zhaolin Li today 14:30–16:30 (A09-P1-04)! 🔗 www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...

Sara Papi, Maike Z\"ufle, Marco Gaido, Beatrice Savoldi, Danni Liu, Ioannis Douros, Luisa Bentivogli, Jan Niehues MCIF: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talks https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19634

Neat year #NLP conferences: 📍 #EACL2026: 24–29 March 🇲🇦 Rabat (ARR deadline: 6 Oct) 📍 #LREC2026: 11–16 May 🇪🇸 Palma de Mallorca (deadline: 17 Oct) 📍 #ACL2026: 2–7 July 🇺🇸 San Diego (ARR deadline: 6 Jan) 📍 #COLING2027: 9–14 May 2027 🇲🇴 Macao

🇦🇹 I’ll be in Vienna for #ACL2025NLP! Interested in training a speech-aware LLM without a lot of parameteres or data? Come to my poster: 🖼️ Mon, 18:00 Also into Speech Summarization? Join my IWSLT talk in collab with @fbk-mt.bsky.social 🎤 Fri, 14:00 Happy to chat - come say hi! 😎 Papers in 🧵

Excited to share 8 papers at #ACL2025 and affiliated venues! 🎉 Our team explored topics including multimodality, cross-lingual transfer, evaluation, decoding, and low-resource languages. Looking forward to presenting our work and connecting with the community! See you soon! 🤩

🚀 Today marks the official start of the #HorizonEurope DVPS project (dvps.translated.com). Happy that @kit.edu is part of this collaboration with 20 leading AI organizations! 📍 This week we're in Rome for the kickoff meeting. Looking forward to exciting collaborations! #DVPS #KIT #MultimodalAI

Excited to share 7 papers accepted at #ACL2025 and affiliated venues! 🎉 Topics include multimodality, cross-lingual transfer, benchmarks, decoding, low-resource languages and more. See you in Vienna! 🤩 #nlproc #acl2025nlp

Program und Lageplan beim Tag der offenen Tür am KIT (Campus Süd) am 17. Mai 2025 #Karlsruhe

Thrilled to take part in this year's #TagDerOffenenTür @kit.edu! Come meet #KITCat, our interactive AI assistant, and experience our multilingual speech translation system in action!

@zouharvi.bsky.social and I had fun presenting our poster on efficient reranking for machine translation! Check out our paper with @juliuscheng.bsky.social aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-l...

📢 One week left to apply for a fully funded 3-year PhD position in our group! 📔Automatic translation with large multimodal models: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad... 📌Full details for application: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad... 📆 Deadline: 12 May 2025, 4pm CEST #NLProc #FBK

Fabian and I've landed in Albuquerque for #NAACL25🌞 Can’t wait to connect with everyone! 🎤 Talks & 🖼️Posters from @kit.edu on: - Efficient MT reranking - Length-controlled summaries - Cross-modal representations - Low-resource ASR - Annotation for qualitative research 🧵👇

Excited to attend #NAACL in Albuquerque! 🎈🌞 We are presenting works on: 🌐 multilingual & multimodal representations in foundation models aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-s... 🔊 contextual learning for low-resource ASR (LM4UC workshop) aclanthology.org/2025.lm4uc-1.1

We had a great time hosting enthusiastic high schoolers at #GirlsDay2025! We explored #LLM basics, played "Break the AI" games, and shared study abroad opportunities at #KIT. Thanks @maikezufle.bsky.social for organizing and @kit.edu @girls-day.de for this initiative! 👩‍💻🌟

The evaluation period has begun for our shared tasks! The test data is now available on our website, and submissions are due Tuesday April 15! ⏰ Please email task organizers or the google group with any questions 🥳

Just returning from Hannover Messe #HM25, where we had the chance to showcase the KIT Lecture Translator at the Baden-Württemberg Evening Reception.

📢 The evaluation period of the Instruction Following task at @iwslt.bsky.social just started! 🖥️ Consider submitting your speech-to-text system! The outputs can be easily uploaded on the SPEECHM platform developed in the Meetween project (www.meetween.eu)! ➡️ iwslt2025.speechm.cloud.cyfronet.pl

First up, a new task for 2025: *Instruction-following for speech processing!* Explore instruction-following for speech ⇨ Integrate speech foundation models with LLMs across tasks such as speech translation, recognition, summarization, and QA. 🔗: iwslt.org/2025/instruc...

Next up: simultaneous speech translation! 🎯 Goal: to explore ways to translate speech into another language like simultaneous interpreting. 🔗 Link: iwslt.org/2025/simulta...

Today's task: model compression!! 🆕 New at IWSLT! But no less exciting 🔥 🎯 Goal: Compress a large, general-purpose multimodal model, making speech translation more efficient ⚡️, deployable 📲, and sustainable ♻️, while preserving translation quality ⭐️ #AI #SpeechTech #ModelCompression #LLMcompression

Exciting news: IWSLT will be co-located with @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025 again this year! 🎉 Interested in speech processing? Check out the new task on instruction following — any model can participate! 🚀 📅 Data release: April 1 ⏳ Submission deadline: April 15 💬 iwslt.org/2025/instruc...

Hello world! 👋 We're coming out of hibernation to bring you this happy news: 1) We're organising the 3rd edition of GITT at #MTSummit! Working on #gender & #translation #technology? We'll see you there! 2) We're moving away from Twitter, so share the news and help us find old and new GITT friends!

Check out the Instruction-following Speech Processing shared task at #iwslt 2025 ⏲️Deadline April 15th 🎈https://iwslt.org/2025/instruction-following

Hallo Bluesky! 🌞 We are the Artificial Intelligence for Language Technologies (AI4LT) Group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Looking forward to interacting with you here! 🤩