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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

For everyone interested in computational psycholinguistics, please feel encouraged to submit your work to the 2nd edition of the Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting, co-organized by our lenajaeger.bsky.social, to be held in Utrecht, NL. cpl2026.sites.uu.nl/2026/05/19/c...

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Call for Abstracts open! | Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2026

The call for abstracts for CPL 2026 is now open! We welcome contributions on any topic related to computational psycholinguistics, including both novel work and recently published research. Check the ...

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

What a blast! 🎉 We won one 🏆Test of Time Award and two 🏆🏆SAC Highlight Awards at #ACL2026! Congratulations to our award winners: @ricosennrich.bsky.social, @michellewastl.bsky.social, @vamvas.bsky.social, @sinaahmadi.bsky.social and their (co-)authors! Links to the winning papers in the comments.

Our award winners in front of the ACL backdrop

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michellewastl.bsky.social @michellewastl.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Excited to be at #ACL2026NLP in San Diego with two papers! Come by to learn about cross-lingual semantic differences from work with @vamvas.bsky.social & @ricosennrich.bsky.social, and how LLMs respond to expressions of belief, with Kevin Du, @clarakuempel.bsky.social, and @alexwarstadt.bsky.social

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Kirill Semenov @kiryukhasemenov.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

📣 Join the 4th Terminology Translation Shared Task @ #WMT2026! ✨ New this year: 🌍 ES→EU, EN→PL, ZH-Hant→EN 📄 2 document-level tracks (explicit dictionaries & seed bitexts) 📊 MT, terminology, grammaticality eval 🗓️ Deadline: 31 Jul (AoE) 🔗 www2.statmt.org/wmt26/termin... @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social

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Terminology Translation Task

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Thank you for an incredible #SwissText2026 with more than 130 participants gathered at University of Zurich, with 14 talks and dozens of posters and demos! Special thanks go to: (1/6)

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Congratulations to @zifanjiang.bsky.social , who just successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Fundamentals of Sign Language Processing". With special thanks to the external examiner, Jonas Beskow.

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Congratulations to @patrickhaller.bsky.social , who yesterday successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Reliability in Human Language Processing and Language Models". Special thanks to the external examiner @stefanfrank.bsky.social .

Patrick Haller wearing his doctoral cap.

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Only a few more days left to register for SwissText 2026 with early-bird rates!

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🗓️ 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

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SwissText 2026

10. Juni 2026 | UZH Campus Oerlikon

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

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

🔵 Michelle Wastl, Jannis Vamvas, Rico Sennrich. SwissGov-RSD: A Human-annotated, Cross-lingual Benchmark for Token-level Recognition of Semantic Differences Between Related Documents.

🔵 Zifan Jiang, Youngjoon Jang, Liliane Momeni, Gül Varol, Sarah Ebling, Andrew Zisserman. Segment, Embed, and Align: A Universal Recipe for Aligning Subtitles to Signing.

🔵 Kevin Du, Clara Kümpel, Michelle Wastl, Alex Warstadt. It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It: Evaluating LLM Responses to Expressions of Belief.

🔵 Negar Foroutan, Clara Meister, Debjit Paul, Joel Niklaus, Sina Ahmadi, Antoine Bosselut, Rico Sennrich. Parity-Aware Byte-Pair Encoding: Improving Cross-lingual Fairness in Tokenization.

🔵 Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments. https://lnkd.in/eFTh-5m7

🔵 (Findings:) Elias Schuhmacher, Andrianos Michail, Juri Opitz, Rico Sennrich, Simon Clematide. Information Representation Fairness in Long-Document Embeddings: The Peculiar Interaction of Positional and Language Bias.

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Rico Sennrich @ricosennrich.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

My lab is recruiting one PhD student and one post-doctoral researcher for a start as soon as this Summer! Apply by April 1 / March 31 to be among first candidates considered. jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

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UZH: PhD in Language AI / Natural Language Processing

You will be joining the Department of Computational Linguistics, which has 6 Research Groups and around 70 postdoctoral and student researchers in the areas of Text Technologies, Phonetics and Speech ...

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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

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SwissText 2026 Conference

Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for SwissText 2026 Conference

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

📣 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)

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2026 Call for Papers | SwissText

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Congratulations to @ricosennrich.bsky.social on his dual Professorship at our department and at the Department of Informatics. www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news/rico...

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Rico Sennrich takes over dual Professorship

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

📣 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)

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2026 Call for Papers | SwissText

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

📣 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

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2026 | SwissText

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Congratulations to @shaitarova.bsky.social and Yingqiang Gao from our department, and to their collegues Fabian Winiger (Department of Theology) and Patrick Montjouridès (Institute of Education) for winning the UZH Postdoc Team Award! www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/...

UZH Postdoc Team Award: When Spirituality Meets AI
Group photo of the winning team consisting of Patrick Montjouridès, Anastassia Shaitarova, Fabian Winiger and Yingqiang Gao.

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Congratulations to our PhD student @cuiding.bsky.social for winning the Best Talk Award in the Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 (CPL 2025) lnkd.in/euTX89gi!

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michellewastl.bsky.social @michellewastl.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

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

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Congratulations to Iuliia Thorbecke (Nigmatulina), who just passed the viva of her PhD on using contextual information to improve automatic speech recognition, for example using radar flight information to better transcribe air traffic communication.

Iuliia Thorbecke wearing her Docotor's hat that was decorated by other PhD students of our department

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Congratulations to Ann-Sophie Gnehm, who just passed the viva of her PhD on "Bridging the Gap between Job Ad Texts and Labor Market Ontologies with Adaptation and Contextualization Techniques". With many thanks to the external examiners @dirkhovy.bsky.social and Einat Minkov.

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

UZH group picture at #EMNLP2025! If you're here, catch us for a chat!

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Kirill Semenov @kiryukhasemenov.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

🎉 Terminology Shared Task @WMT25: Paper Out 🎉 Highlights: - sentence translation seems solvable, document translation is still challenging - better systems benefit more from proper terminologies - term-based metrics correlate poorly with general translation quality www2.statmt.org/wmt25/pdf/20...

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Upcoming panel discussion on Nov 12 moderated by our @tevuko.bsky.social: What Does and What Should AI Know? More info and registration link: www.ema.uzh.ch/de/register/...

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What Does and What Should AI Know?

Mittwoch, 12. November 2025 | DSI Event Room (SOC E-010)

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Vilém Zouhar @zouhar.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

📢 Announcing the First Workshop on Multilingual and Multicultural Evaluation (MME) at #EACL2026 🇲🇦 MME focuses on resources, metrics & methodologies for evaluating multilingual systems! multilingual-multicultural-evaluation.github.io 📅 Workshop Mar 24–29, 2026 🗓️ Submit by Dec 19, 2025

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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/...

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

On September 11, 2025, our department will hold a Welcome Day for new students. Don't miss this opportunity to get to know your new university, study program, and fellow students! Find out more: www.cl.uzh.ch/en/studies/s...

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Essential Tips for First-Year Students

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

We are proud to announce that Lena Jäger, Head of Digital Linguistics at our department, has also been appointed as a professor in the Department of Informatics. Congratulations! Find out more about her interdisciplinary work: www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news/lena...

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Lena Jäger takes over dual Professorship

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Negar Foroutan @negarforoutan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

🚨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: 🧵

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Congratulations to our PhD student, Cui Ding, and Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Giovanni Acampa, Tiago Pimentel, Alex Warstadt, Tamar I. Regevon on winning a SAC highlight award at #ACL2025! 👏 2025.aclweb.org/program/awar...

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

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...

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

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!

Sina Ahmadi, Rico Sennrich, Michelle Wastl, Jannis Vamvas, Andrianos Michail from the Department of Computational Linguistics posing in front of the at ACL 2025 Vienna step-and-repeat banner

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Attending ACL 2025? Looking for a new multimodal modeling challenge? Interested in cognitive modeling and NLP for science? Excited about human centered applications of NLP? Join our tutorial on Eye Tracking and NLP!! 🗓️ Sunday July 27, 2025, 09:00 - 12:30, Hall M. #ACL2025 #NLP #EyeTracking

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Volker Dellwo @volkerdellwo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Our new paper @cl-uzh.bsky.social shows that when listeners compare voices of young or female speakers, they show a bias toward judging them as the same. This might be relevant for forensic voice experts when comparing such voices: cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10....

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Listeners are biased towards voices of young speakers and female speakers when discriminating voices - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

In face processing, an own-age recognition advantage has frequently been reported whereby observers are better at recognizing faces of their own compared to other age groups. We wanted to know whether...

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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...

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Terminology Translation Task

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Computational Linguistics Journal @complingjournal.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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...

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

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.

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Congratulations to Marek Kostrzewa, who just successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Monolingual sentence alignment using deep learning". Special thanks to the external examiner Andreas Fischer!

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michellewastl.bsky.social @michellewastl.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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! ✨

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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!

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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!

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Digital Linguistics Lab @dili-lab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Excited to share that our group will present 9 papers at this year's ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) in Tokyo! We will post summaries of each paper in the coming weeks, but here's a quick sneak peek 👀

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Digital Linguistics Lab @dili-lab.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Hello Bluesky world! This is our very first post from the Digital Linguistics (DiLi) team — and we’re kicking things off with exciting news: 🖥️ 🧠 We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission for the first Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 is now open!

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Hanxu Hu @hanxuhu.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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]

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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!

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Juri Opitz @nlopitz.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Happy to share that our paper, "Natural Language Processing RELIES on Linguistics," will appear in Computational Linguistics! Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2405.05966

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

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

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arxiv cs.CV @arxiv-cs-cv.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Oliver Cory, Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Matthew Vowels, Alessia Battisti, Franz Holzknecht, Katja Tissi, Sandra Sidler-Miserez, Tobias Haug, Sarah Ebling, Richard Bowden Modelling the Distribution of Human Motion for Sign Language Assessment arxiv.org/abs/2408.10073

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