💥Introducing new paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.17715, QueST — train specialized generators to create challenging coding problems. From Qwen3-8B-Base ✅ 100K synthetic problems: better than Qwen3-8B ✅ Combining with human written problems: matches DeepSeek-R1-671B 🧵(1/5)

Congratulations to @sinaahmadi.bsky.social and co-authors for receiving an ACL 2025 Outstanding Paper Award for PARME: Parallel Corpora for Low-Resourced Middle Eastern Languages! aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...

We're proud to see our researchers sharing their latest work: @sinaahmadi.bsky.social, @ricosennrich.bsky.social, @michellewastl.bsky.social, @vamvas.bsky.social and Andrianos Michail (pictured) and many others. If you’re at #ACL, stop by to learn more!

Arrived in Vienna ready for #ACL2025NLP! Excited to present papers with @vamvas.bsky.social @ricosennrich.bsky.social on Unsupervised Translation Direction Detection and Multilingual Hallucination Detection! Come say hi! 👋 #NLProc #NLP #NMT #LLMs

Can you solve my exam question? I've come to believe that multiple-choice exams are underrated. More in my blog post, “The Joy of Multiple-Choice.” vamvas.ch/the-joy-of-m...

I had the pleasure of presenting our paper “20min-XD: A Comparable Corpus of Swiss News Articles (arxiv.org/abs/2504.21677) ”, a joint work with @vamvas.bsky.social , Selena Calleri and @ricosennrich.bsky.social , at SwissText 2025 last week. We are honored to receive Best Paper Award for it! ✨

Our Michelle Wastl is demonstrating her invention, the Translation Direction Detector, at the SwissNLP Expo! Michelle's paper: arxiv.org/abs/2401.06769 Demo: huggingface.co/spaces/Zuric... If you're at the expo, make sure to stop by the Department of Computational Linguistics UZH!

Blogged: Reverse-engineering OpenAI's Speculative Decoding. I was curious how GPT-4o can make use of predicted outputs to speed up text generation. vamvas.ch/openai-predi...

Congratulations to Dr. @shaitarova.bsky.social , who just successfully defended her thesis on "Generated Text as the Locus of Language Contact: Exploring the Impact of Generative AI on English and German". Special thanks to the external examiner Natalia Resende!

I'm thrilled to share my first PhD project, a joint work with @vamvas.bsky.social and @ricosennrich.bsky.social Paper link: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.10494 Long context LLMs have paved the way for document translation, but is simply inputting the whole content the optimal way? Here's the thread 🧵 [1/n]

Congratulations to Dr. @tannonk.bsky.social, who just successfully defended his thesis on "Leveraging Data, Decoding, and Context for Controlling Text Generation from Pretrained Language Models". Special thanks to the external examiner @feralvam.bsky.social!

Rico Sennrich (University of Zurich) is hiring a PhD student to work on representations of knowledge in multilingual language models, starting September 2024. Rico is my former advisor and I can greatly recommend working with him. Apply by January 4: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

Minimum Bayes Risk decoding has recently gained momentum in #NLProc. However, a generic implementation for @huggingface.bsky.social Transformers has been missing. Check out our new 𝗺𝗯𝗿🔥 repo, which is designed to work with any model and metric on the Hub: github.com/ZurichNLP/mbr

Can NLP be used for highlighting differences between two documents? Our EMNLP paper investigates the task of Recognizing Semantic Differences (RSD) with simple, unsupervised approaches. • Demo: huggingface.co/spaces/Zuric... • Paper: huggingface.co/papers/2305.... #NLProc