🗓️ SwissText 2026 keynote speakers announced & registration open! We are delighted to welcome Prof. Dr. Alexandra Birch and Dr. Valentina Pyatkin as our keynote speakers. 📋 Register here: ema.uzh.ch/RHK4W Early-bird rates available throughout April, with additional student discounts. #NLProc 1/3

Looking forward to the ACL 2026 conference in San Diego, California! Several accepted papers have involvement from our department: 1/7

📣 SwissText 2026 submission deadline has been extended until 24 March 2026 (AoE)! Submit your work here: openreview.net/group?id=Swi...

📣 SwissText 2026 – 2nd Call for Papers! 🎯 Special theme: #ReproducibleNLP 📅 Deadline approaching: 17 March 2026 📍 Zurich, Switzerland, 10 June 2026 www.swisstext.org/call-for-pap... (1/3)

📣 SwissText 2026 – Call for Papers is open! 🎯 Special theme: #ReproducibleNLP 📅 Submission deadline: 17 March 2026 📍 Zurich, Switzerland · 10 June 2026 www.swisstext.org/call-for-pap... (1/4)

📣 We’re pleased to announce that our department will co-organize the 11th edition of the SwissText conference! #SwissText2026 will take place on 10 June 2026, hosted at the University of Zurich (Campus Oerlikon). Save the date! www.swisstext.org/current/ #NLProc #UZHai #CompLing

Take a look at how we challenge state-of-the-art NLP systems to recognize token-level semantic differences across languages with our new SwissGov-RSD dataset! @vamvas.bsky.social @ricosennrich.bsky.social Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2512.075... Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/Zur... #NLProc

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

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!