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Julia Kreutzer @juliakreutzer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🤨"But why linguistics" is the most common question when talking about linguistic reasoning benchmarks. Last year we organized a shared task at WMT...and no one participated 🤣 🤯Let me change your mind why this is one of the most challenging, focused and best reasoning benchmarks right now.

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Julia Kreutzer @juliakreutzer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🔥Possibly the most fun and underrated AI challenge this summer: Compete on unseen linguistic reasoning problems and present your solutions to the expert jury in a month!

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Google for Developers @developers.google.com · 09/06/2026

Gemini 3.5 Live Translate is now available in public preview on the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. 💬 This model translates speech as it streams, giving developers a blazing-fast, low-latency engine to build some seriously cool audio apps. See it in action 👇

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Julia Kreutzer @juliakreutzer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

💭We need more research that focuses on aspects beyond accuracy, especially in multilingual AI. 👉Help us explore the importance of culture in building and testing AI, with a few minutes of your time. Happy to have a chat as well with anyone who's interested in that space!

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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Re-OCR'd the complete 1771 Encyclopaedia Britannica (2,724 pages) with a single command on @hf.co Jobs. - 0.9B model (GLM-OCR) ~$0.002/page ~$5 total on an L4 GPU Before (old Tesseract ocr) → After

Screenshot of old vs new ocr.

old ocr text is garbled. New ocr much cleaner.

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Julia Kreutzer @juliakreutzer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

🌱Very proud of our team's latest release 😊 meet Tiny Aya, a massively multilingual model with 3.35B parameters. Tech report here: github.com/Cohere-Labs/...

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Daan van Esch @daanvanesch.nl · 13/02/2026

Great to see this amazing collaborative work on an absolutely key problem in building tech that works well across the world's languages: language classification in web text. Often ignored, it's still one of my personal favorite areas to work in. Congrats and thank you to everyone who worked on this!

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eleutherai.bsky.social @eleutherai.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Why care about LangID on crawled data? It's the first gate in the multilingual data pipeline. If your LID model misclassifies a low-resource language as noise or confuses it with a related high-resource one, that language doesn't make it into your corpus. Bad LangID = no data.

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Interspeech 2026 @interspeech.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

What are roles of speech science and technology projects in advancing Indigenous cultural vitality and self-determination? Participate in this important discussion in the Special Session 'Indigenous Voices in Speech Sciences and Technology' at #Interspeech2026 indigenousvoicesinterspeech.github.io

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The intelligence part suddenly feels quite a bit ahead of all the rest of it - integrations (tools, knowledge), the necessity for new organizational workflows, processes, diffusion more generally. 2026 is going to be a high energy year as the industry metabolizes the new capability."

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Abdoulaye Diack @diack.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Meet TranslateGemma. 💎 ✅ Open weights (4B, 12B, 27B) ✅ 55 languages + 100s more in training data ✅ Multimodal capabilities (image text) Blog: blog.google/innovation-a... Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2601.09012 Model: huggingface.co/collections/... Cookbook: colab.research.google.com/github/googl...

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TranslateGemma: A new suite of open translation models

TranslateGemma is a new family of open translation models built on Gemma 3.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 28/11/2025

Couldn't have built them without the AI assistance? Yes, if I had unlimited time - but I don't have unlimited time, so I'm happy to settle with being able to read through, understand and explain what they did in my behalf instead

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 28/11/2025

AI assistance entirely changes that equation - if I can reduce a problem to something that a coding agent can go and crunch away at while I'm doing other things I can say "yes" to all manner of learning exercises that I previously didn't have enough time to take on

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Verena Blaschke @verenablaschke.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

VarDial 2026 will be colocated with @eaclmeeting.bsky.social! We're looking forward to your papers on NLP for similar languages, varieties and dialects :) Deadline: Dec 19 (Jan 2 for pre-reviewed ARR papers) sites.google.com/view/vardial...

VarDial @ EACL 2026, with important dates (see next post for text version).
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Morris Alper @malper.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

The ConlangCrafter pipeline harnesses an LLM to generate a description of a constructed language and self refines it in the process. We decompose language creation into phonology, grammar, and lexicon, and then translate sentences while constructing new needed grammar points.

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Daan van Esch @daanvanesch.nl · 03/09/2025

Great to see this highly multilingual model: 1,000+ languages!

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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

AI efficiency is important. The median Gemini Apps text prompt in May 2025 used 0.24 Wh of energy (<9 seconds of TV watching) & 0.26 mL (~5 drops) of water. Over 12 months, we reduced the energy footprint of a median text prompt 33x, while improving quality: cloud.google.com/blog/product...

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Interspeech 2026 @interspeech.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

⏳ Just 1 week to go! 🎉 #Interspeech2025 kicks off next week in Rotterdam, the Netherlands 🗣️🌍 We can’t wait to welcome everyone for a week full of talks, posters, workshops & networking. 📅 See you soon! Comment below, are you joining? 🥰

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Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands @clin35-2025.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

🥳 Happy to open up the registrations for the CLIN conference! You can find more information here: clin35.ccl.kuleuven.be/registration The website has also been updated with more information for the presenters, with a programme, and with information about the venue. See you soon at #CLIN35!

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Leonie Weissweiler @weissweiler.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Hi #NLP community, I'm urgently looking for an emergency reviewer for the ARR Linguistic Theories track. The paper investigates and measures orthography across many languages. Please shoot me a quick email if you can review!

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Marianne de Heer Kloots @mdhk.net · 13/06/2025

The @interspeech.bsky.social early registration deadline is coming up in a few days! Want to learn how to analyze the inner workings of speech processing models? 🔍 Check out the programme for our tutorial: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter... & sign up through the conference registration form!

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Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models — Tutorial @ Interspeech 2025

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Catherine Arnett @catherinearnett.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

One of the biggest obstacles to improving language technologies for low-resource languages is the lack of data. To address this, we need better language identification tools. So, we're organizing a shared task on Language Identification for Web Data! #NLP #NLProc

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Maureen de Seyssel @maureendeseyssel.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Now that @interspeech.bsky.social registration is open, time for some shameless promo! Sign-up and join our Interspeech tutorial: Speech Technology Meets Early Language Acquisition: How Interdisciplinary Efforts Benefit Both Fields. 🗣️👶 www.interspeech2025.org/tutorials ⬇️ (1/2)

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Odette Scharenborg @odettes.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

And you can now register as well! Don't hesitate, but sign up for @interspeech.bsky.social Interspeech 2025 now through www.interspeech2025.org/registration and be part of the largest speech science and technology conference in the world!

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Miryam de Lhoneux @mdlhx.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Interested in multilingual tokenization in #NLP? Lisa Beinborn and I are hiring! PhD candidate position in Göttingen, Germany: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... PostDoc position in Leuven, Belgium: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Deadline 6th of June

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Stellen OBP - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Webseiten der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Want to check out the source for the "AlexNet" paper? Google has made the code from Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Hinton's seminal "ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks" paper open source, in partnership with the Computer History Museum. computerhistory.org/press-releas...

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

How I’ve run major projects by Ben Kuhn www.benkuhn.net/pjm/

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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Introducing our Gemma 3 open models, the most capable models that you can run on a single GPU or TPU. Multimodal, multilingual, 128k context length, and exceeds quality of other open models that are an order of magnitude larger in terms of hardware footprint. 🎉 blog.google/technology/d...

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Introducing Gemma 3: The most capable model you can run on a single GPU or TPU

Today, we're introducing Gemma 3, our most capable, portable and responsible open model yet.

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Steren @steren.fr · 12/03/2025

Tris, product lead for Gemma, on stage in Paris to introduce Gemma 3. 140 languages , Multi-modal, Best single GPU model

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Steren @steren.fr · 12/03/2025

Introducing Gemma 3. The most capable model you can run on a single GPU. Cloud Run offers 1 GPU per instance, it is a perfect fit. Deploy it in one simple command. Blog: cloud.google.com/blog/product... Tutorial: cloud.google.com/run/docs/tut...

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 06/03/2025

OK, every year I try to explain to my students how LLMs work, and every year I have to do a big trawl for good resources and activities. Here's this year's haul of *introductory* materials. (In-class activities + visualizations, not so much readings.)

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

NEW: Gaelic language broadcasting will receive a £1.8 million funding boost to build on the success of BBC Alba’s crime thriller An t-Eilean

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Kate Forbes announces £1.8m for Gaelic broadcasting after success of crime thriller

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Interspeech 2026 @interspeech.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

🌍🎙️ Call for Participation – Multilingual Speech AI Challenge! 🤖🔊 Join our #Interspeech2025 workshop on Multilingual Conversational Speech Language Models! 🏆 💡 Tasks: 📌 Multilingual ASR 📝 📌 Speaker diarization + recognition 🎙️ 🚀 Push the boundaries of speech AI! 🔗 www.nexdata.ai/competition

interspeech2025.org satellite Workshop on Multilingual Conversational Speech Language Model
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Tom Kocmi @kocmitom.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Guess what? The jubilee 🎉 20th iteration of WMT General MT 🎉 is here, and we want you to participate - as the entry barrier to make an impact is so low! This isn’t just any repeat. We’ve kept what worked, removed what was outdated, and introduced many exciting new twists! Among the key changes are:

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 20/02/2025

Internet use has grown rapidly but unevenly across Asia's largest countries

A graph titled "Internet usage has surged in Asia's four most populous countries" shows the percentage of the population that used the Internet in the last three months across four countries: China, India, Indonesia, and Pakistan.

- In China, the percentage increased from 2% in 2000 to 77% in 2023, with a steadily rising line.
- India shows a rise from 1% in 2000 to 43% in 2023, with a gradual upward trend.
- Indonesia's internet usage jumped from 1% in 2000 to 69% in 2023, following a similar growth pattern.
- Pakistan also increased its usage from 1% in 2000 to 33% in 2023, showcasing an upward trend.

At the bottom, there is a note indicating the data source is the International Telecommunication Union via the World Bank, along with additional information that India's latest data is from 2020 and Pakistan's is from 2022. The graphic has a Creative Commons BY attribution.

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Interested in studying ancient, extinct and endangered languages from Akkadian and Aramaic to Xhosa and Zulu on the beautiful island of San Servolo in Venice this summer? Check out the fantatstic programme by the Université d’été en Langues de l’Orient of UNIL here: www.unil.ch/unil/fr/home...

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Langues de l’Orient - UNIL

Cours de français durant les vacances, Summer et Winter schools pour vous mettre à niveau, acquérir des compétences transversales, multidisciplinaires et monter en compétence sur des sujets de fond.

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iseeaswell.bsky.social @iseeaswell.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

😼SMOL DATA ALERT! 😼Anouncing SMOL, a professionally-translated dataset for 115 very low-resource languages! Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.12301 Huggingface: huggingface.co/datasets/goo...

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Abdoulaye Diack @diack.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

PaliGemma 2 mix is out! This model can now handles short/long captioning, OCR, image Q&A, object detection, and segmentation. Available in 3B, 10B, and 28B parameter sizes and 224px/448px resolutions. Frameworks: Hugging Face Transformers, Keras, PyTorch, JAX, and Gemma.cpp. goo.gle/4i1jOOU

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Introducing PaliGemma 2 mix: A vision-language model for multiple tasks- Google Developers Blog

PaliGemma 2 mix, Google’s new vision-language model, solves tasks like image captioning, OCR, object detection, and segmentation.

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Words of Type @wordsoftype.com · 07/02/2025

There is still time to apply!!! Are you studying a script considered as digitally disadvanted? Meaning: a script that has very few or hardly any presence in the digital world, due to missing encoding, none or complex keyboard implementation or use, etc. +info and application 👉 link in bio

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 24/01/2025

Papua New Guinea has 840 living languages — more than any other country. A living language is one that is spoken by at least one person as their first language. The chart shows the ten countries with the most living languages as of 2024.

A horizontal bar chart displaying the number of living languages spoken in various countries. The countries listed from highest to lowest number of languages are:

1. Papua New Guinea: 840 languages
2. Indonesia: 710 languages
3. Nigeria: 530 languages
4. India: 453 languages
5. China: 306 languages
6. Mexico: 293 languages
7. Cameroon: 279 languages
8. United States: 236 languages
9. Australia: 224 languages
10. Brazil: 222 languages

The chart is titled "How many living languages are spoken in each country?" and states that a living language has at least one person speaking it as their first language. Data source is cited as Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) International, 2024, with a note referencing Our World in Data.

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Newly established Robert van Gulik Fellowship supporting research using the Leiden University sinological collections: www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/special-coll...

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Tom Mullaney @tsmullaney.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

📢 Attn Stanford Grad Students (incl. Co-Term MAs) SILICON, a new Stanford President’s Office-funded initiative focused on advancing Digitally Disadvantaged Languages in the 21st c., is thrilled to announce the 1st-ever SILICON-UNESCO Internship (Deadline Feb 4). solo.stanford.edu/opportunitie...

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Neerlandistiek @neerlandistiek.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Het Limburgs kampt al jaren met een groot tekort aan digitale middelen en technische systemen om de taal en al haar dialecten te ondersteunen, bestuderen en toegankelijk te maken. neerlandistiek.nl/2025/01/limb...

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Limburgs op de digitale kaart

Het Limburgs kampt al jaren met een groot tekort aan digitale middelen en technische systemen om de taal en al haar dialecten te ondersteunen, bestuderen en toegankelijk te maken.

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Language Technologies Institute | CMU @ltiatcmu.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Are you a pre-doctoral student interested in language technologies, especially focusing on safe, fair and inclusive AI? Our Summer 2025 Language Technology for All Internship could be a great fit. See the link below for more info, and to apply: lti.cs.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

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CMU LTI Language Technology for All Internship 2025 - Language Technologies Institute - School of Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University

The LTI is currently seeking applicants for the summer 2025 Language Technology for All Internship

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Heiga Zen (全炳河) @heigazen.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Calling researchers! The Google.org Scientific Advancement team is accepting applications for Research Scholar Program. It provides funding & support to researchers working on projects that have the potential to make positive impacts on the world. research.google/programs-and...

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Research scholar program

Overview

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Ahmad Beirami @abeirami.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Echoing Theertha Suresh We are hiring! Our team at Google Research NY is seeking a Research Scientist! Our recent research efforts include developing algorithms for improving inference efficiency and alignment of LLMs. If you are interested, please consider applying! www.google.com/about/career...

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Research Scientist, Speech and Language Algorithms, Research — Google Careers

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Interspeech 2026 @interspeech.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

💢Special Session: Challenges in Speech Data Collection, Curation, and Annotation at #Interspeech2025 📊 Speech Data is the backbone of innovation. Share lessons & explore new workflows for better data collection, curation, & annotation. 🔗 Learn more: sites.google.com/view/speech-...

interspeech2025.org special challenge Challenges in Speech Data Collection, Curation, and Annotation
Beena Ahmed, Mostafa Shahin, Tan Lee, Mark Liberman, Mengyue Wu, Thomas Schaaf, Ahmed Ali, Carlos Busso

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Rebekah White @rebekahwhite.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Another beautiful story from New Zealand, about the revitalisation of our indigenous language alongside the restoration of the natural world. Because it sucks when your important proverbs involve species that are extinct. Via @hakaimagazine.com: hakaimagazine.com/features/to-...

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To Speak the Language of the Land | Hakai Magazine

Māori people are reclaiming their native language, even in the face of growing threats to the natural world on which it depends.

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David Adger @davidadger.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Permanent computational linguistics job @ QM. Deadline 5th January. We're looking for a linguist w/ computational focus, to teach on new MSc Linguistics&AI who fits our research (phon, syn, sem, socio, neuro, exper). linguistlist.org/issues/35.33... (salary on scale w/ annual increases) #linguistics

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LINGUIST List 35.3363 Jobs: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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