It is with deep sorrow that we bid farewell to Prof. Dr. Martin Volk, who passed away on 15 September 2025 at the age of 64 after a brief and sudden illness. www.cl.uzh.ch/en/about-us/...

🚨New Preprint! In multilingual models, the same meaning can take far more tokens in some languages, penalizing users of underrepresented languages with worse performance and higher API costs. Our Parity-aware BPE algorithm is a step toward addressing this issue: 🧵

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...

Test of time awards at #acl2025

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!

And here is the Winner: 🏆 Sewon Min: Rethinking Data Use in Large Language Models. Min’s dissertation provides key insights into the behavior and capabilities of large language models, in particular in-context learning. Its findings have impacted the core of NLP today.

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

We invite you to take part in the third Terminology shared task at WMT, co-organized by one of our students @kiryukhasemenov.bsky.social . This year, it features more language pairs, domains and subtracks than the last one in 2023. More details at the website: www2.statmt.org/wmt25/termin...

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Zurich, Supertext, and Microsoft introduce ACES, a challenging benchmark spanning 146 language pairs, in their 'Machine Translation Meta Evaluation through Translation Accuracy Challenge Sets'. Read: direct.mit.edu/coli/article...

Congratulations to Alessia Battisti, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on the "Analysis and assessment of continuous Swiss German Sign Language production of adult learners". Special thanks to the external examiner Johanna Mesch.

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!

It’s finally official: the long-awaited Tokenization Workshop is here!

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!

Please repost - the position is part of an SNF-funded project (equivalent of an ERC starting grant) jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Massive congrats to @nadavb.bsky.social for passing his PhD defence yesterday! 👏👏👏 Thanks to Anders Søgaard, @radamihalcea.bsky.social @ricosennrich.bsky.social for serving as examiners. You can find his thesis here, which the committee characterised as "a joy to read": arxiv.org/abs/2503.07395

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 Jason Armitage, who just successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Embodied AI in Virtual Environments with Alignment of Visual and Linguistic Inputs." Special thanks to the external examiner Sina Zarrieß!

Happening now: @marinecarpuat.bsky.social giving a talk on "Human-Centered NLP for Cross-Lingual Communication".

We @unikonstanz.bsky.social are hiring a junior professor in computational social science with a specialization in text-as-data methods and LLMs. Please share and contact me if you are interested! stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...

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!

Call for volunteers for #ACL2025 programme committee. You can self-nominate as a reviewer or area chair via this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... I'm especially grateful for volunteers in the area of machine translation.

Hello world! Checking if the grass is greener (the sky is bluer?) on the other side...