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@helekuul.bsky.social
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PhD in NLP // language modeling // evaluation // low-resource languages // tartunlp.ai & cs.ut.ee // 🇪🇪 🏡 helehh.github.io

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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
this is the way
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"what's up?" - "not much, just this ridiculously photogenic sky" #nofilter #estonia #sunset #redsky
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
a random snap from an evening walk. The bushes look like they are from an oil painting
Bellis perennis in the foreground. Bushes that look like an oil painting in the background.
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
lost my prescription sunglasses, the cap that I bought just a few months ago and the conference booklet. At least I made it back home myself ☺️ sad about the sunglasses tho
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I’ll be at #LREC in Palma de Mallorca this week. Let’s hang out? Until then, enjoy some pictures of Mallorca cats.
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
ma ei raatsi kohe mitte kuidagi neid ära visata, ehk peaksin rohkem kingitusi tegema, et neist lahti saada 🤔
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
kinkekotte on hea edasi kinkimiseks kasutada 😉
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
📷 of me by Anu Toom
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
A bit late with this announcement, but I’m super happy to share that I successfully defended my PhD thesis recently 🎉🥂
a picture of a fresh phd graduate holding flowers up in the haira PhD candidate at her defencea picture of a printed phd thesis
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I'll be there but you probably don't know me 😀. Looking forward to the Perspectivists workshop!
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
can't wait for the AI to go and find me the exact piece of furniture I want but am too lazy to look for
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I don't remember why exactly I followed you but probably because something interesting you had posted appeared in my feed. But recently I haven't been able to understand anything you're saying 🤷
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
a sailboat perfectly aligned with a rain cloud in Malta #bluesky #bluewater
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
(the site works best on desktop)
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Do you speak Estonian? 🇪🇪 If yes, please consider contributing to the Estonian Chatbot Arena at baromeeter.ai. Your votes help us map the strengths and weaknesses of current SOTA models and guide future research. Thank you! 🙏
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I'm testing Gemini 3 Flash (thinking_level=low) on a reasoning task and occasionally the output is prepended with tens of thousands of tokens ̶o̶f̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶o̶t̶i̶c̶ ̶r̶a̶m̶b̶l̶i̶n̶g̶s̶ of what seems to be a cut off of its internal thinking process. What's up with that?
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
that moment when the random snap of snowy trees taken from the train on the way to Tartu turns out oddly aesthetic
a photo of snowy trees
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
superficial intelligence
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
congratulations! 🎉
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Congratulations on the paper acceptance! 🎉 Btw, is this photo taken from the Forum?
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
manneken pis (is meh irl)
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
thanks! yup, it might not work that well on mobile, unfortunately :/
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
could you share what problem you ran into?
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I would not do it again
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I was trying to meet a specific deadline that I found out about quite late
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
announcing that I have just completed a challenge of doing all my thesis revisions in 3 days
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
mõned praksised on õnneks nõus järjekorda võtma, kui hetkel vabu aegu ei ole. Soovitan võtta ette tervisekassa lepingupartnerid ja järjest kirjutama (helistama) hakata: www.tervisekassa.ee/inimesele/ar...
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
superficial intelligence
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
võib-olla see halb pilt on statement 🙂
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
🥲
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EACL 2027 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
👀 Have you heard? #EACL2026 will be in beautiful Rabat, Morocco 🇲🇦 🏖️🕌🌴🌊 Get ready for great research, inspiring talks, and stunning views!
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
hate when this happens
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Alternatively you could use syncthing. Works great, once it's set up.
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I won't be there sadly. Hopefully some other conference! 😁
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Super cool work! 😊 Were you in Albuquerque?
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Huge thanks to Taido for the great collaboration and Prof. Mark Fišel for supervising us! Read the paper here: aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
One week ago today, I was at #NAACL in Albuquerque, New Mexico presenting a poster on our work about creating LLMs for extremely low-resource Finno-Ugric languages. It was an experience for sure — and likely my last conference as a PhD student 🥹 #NAACL25
Two people holding a poster
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Exploring Sandia Peak and enjoying the last days in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Sandia PeakSandia PeakSandia Peak Sandia Peak
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
We’re presenting our poster today at #NAACL25 in Albuquerque! We're in Session C (Oral/Poster 2), 14:00–15:30, Hall 3. Stop by and say hi! 😊
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Doesn't work for me in Google search but I created one using Google AI studio
AI describing the meaning of an idiom that doesn't exist
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Exploring Kallaste and enjoying +12°C while others are enjoying +25°C 😁 Something haunting but beautiful about this place at this time of the year.
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Same in Estonia 😌
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
👋 See you in Tallinn! 😊
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Anyway, I'll be presenting there my latest paper "How Well Do LLMs Know Finno-Ugric Languages? A Systematic Assessment." It was a fun paper to write (and allowed me to procrastinate on my thesis 😐). Link to the paper: dspace.ut.ee/items/c21c37...
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I'm actually quite excited that the Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (@nodalida.bsky.social) is so close to home this year. I thought I'd miss traveling, but I can see the perks of it now 😁
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Welcome to Estonia! 🙂
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
thank you! 😊
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Read more here: ut.ee/en/news/univ...
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Our research group, together with our collaborators, received the University of Tartu's annual language award for the Neurotõlge translation engine that supports 23 Finno-Ugric languages, many of which are endangered. Proud to be part of this inspiring team! 😊 Congratulations to everyone! 🎉
Researchers from the Institute of Computer Science and the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics
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hele @helekuul.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Translation: kindergarten children made one big heart with their little hearts
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