At #Interspeech2025 I'm going to present Betthupferl, a dataset for German dialect ASR & dialect-to-standard speech translation! We analyze differences between dialectal & Standard German transcriptions, benchmark ASR models, and examine shortcomings of current ASR models & evaluation metrics.

I’ll be at @icmlconf.bsky.social next week presenting NoLiMa! Poster on Tue July 15, 4:30–7pm (E-2312). Happy to grab a coffee and chat about long-context, memory, research, or just to catch up. I’ll be in Toronto for a couple of days after the conference, let me know if you’re around!

New paper: How does pretraining on programming languages + English shape LLMs' concept space? 🔍 Do LLMs use English or a programming language as a kind of pivot language? 🧠 Are neurons language-specific or shared across programming languages and English? 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2506.01074

📄 Collapse of Dense Retrievers Accepted to #ACL2025 main conference 🎉🎉 In this paper we uncover major vulnerabilities in dense retrievers like Contriever, showing they favor: 📌 Shorter docs 📌 Early positions 📌 Repeated entities 📌 Literal matches ...all while ignoring the answer's presence!

🥳 We are happy to share that CIS will be presenting 6 papers and talks at #NAACL2025! Find out about each of them below in the 🧵

On my way to #NAACL2025 where I'll give a keynote at the noisy text workshop (WNUT), presenting some of the challenges & methods for dialect NLP + also discussing dialect speakers' perspectives! 🗨️ Beyond “noisy” text: How (and why) to process dialect data 🗓️ Saturday, May 3, 9:30–10:30