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Rico Sennrich

@ricosennrich.bsky.social
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SNSF Professor at University of Zurich. #NLP / #ML. www.cl.uzh.ch/sennrich

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Jindřich Libovický @jlibovicky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I really enjoyed giving a talk at the Machine Translation Marathon 2026 about our research on tokenization evaluation. Thank you for having me! For those interested, the slides from my presentation are available here: docs.google.com/presentation...
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Vilém Zouhar @zouhar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Machine translation is not solved and it will take a while for it to be done arxiv.org/abs/2609.04173
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Last Translation Benchmark
For scientific progress, we need benchmarks that test the limits of state-of-the-art models, and evaluation methods that inform us about failure cases. As models get stronger, standard benchmarks for ...
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Computational Linguistics Journal @complingjournal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We are pleased to announce the winner of the ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award (ACL Dissertation Award)! Congratulations, Verna Dankers! @vernadankers.bsky.social #NLproc #CLJournal
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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 · 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 presenting his PhD work.Patrick Haller wearing his doctoral cap.
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EACL 2027 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
⚠️⚠️CORRECTION: the ARR deadline is **3 August** not 6. Apologies for the mistake.
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Michael Roth @microth.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
📢 Postdoc Position in NLP @ UTN in Nuremberg, Germany I am looking for a full-time postdoctoral researcher (A13/E13, initial contract for 3 years) starting July 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. Focus on implicit & underspecified language, background knowledge and/or biases in NLU.
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EACL 2027 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Attention #NLProc researchers, the EACL 2027 website is officially LIVE: 2027.eacl.org! 🎉 🇬🇷 Join us in Athens, Greece (Mar 9-13, 2027) at #EACL2027 📅 ARR submission deadline: Aug 6, 2026. Open to all areas of CL/NLP + related fields. Stay tuned for the detailed CfP soon!
Picture of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece
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Inside IT @inside-it.ch · 28/04/2026
Das Institut für Computerlinguistik der Universität Zürich hat mit der Lia Rumantscha ein Sprachmodell für die rätoromanischen Sprachvarianten entwickelt.
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Sprachmodell übersetzt in fünf rätoromanische Idiome
Das Programm "Alas" übersetzt Deutsch ins Rätoromanische. Es kann als Webapp und Open-Source-Modell benutzt werden.
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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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ACL 2027 @aclmeeting.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🏆 ACL is now accepting nominations for the 2026 Test-of-Time (ToT) Paper Awards. Up to four papers from ACL-affiliated events in 2001 and 2016 (including workshops) will be honored for lasting impact on computational linguistics. 📨 Submit nominations by Mar 16: forms.gle/ZdsALz3RBS97... #NLProc
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Nominations for ACL 2026 Test-of-Time Paper Award
Test-of-Time papers in Computational Linguistics should describe research that has had long-lasting influence on the field. That is, they should have had a significant impact on a subarea of CL, acros...
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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 · 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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Valentina Borghesani @vborghesani.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in computational linguistics at UNIGE / @nccrlanguage.bsky.social The application deadline is around the corner (Jan 15)- don't miss it! linguistlist.org/issues/36/37...
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LINGUIST List 36.3752 Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Professor of Computational Linguistics, University of Geneva, Switzerland
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
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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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Hanxu Hu @hanxuhu.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
💥Introducing new paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.17715, QueST — train specialized generators to create challenging coding problems. From Qwen3-8B-Base ✅ 100K synthetic problems: better than Qwen3-8B ✅ Combining with human written problems: matches DeepSeek-R1-671B 🧵(1/5)
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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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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I am recruiting PhD students to start in 2026! If you are interested in robustness, training dynamics, interpretability for scientific understanding, or the science of LLM analysis you should apply. BU is building a huge LLM analysis/interp group and you’ll be joining at the ground floor.
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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/...
recent picture of Martin Volk
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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 · 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...
Sina Ahmadi receiving award.
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Roman Klinger @romanklinger.de · 30/07/2025
Test of time awards at #acl2025
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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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ACL 2027 @aclmeeting.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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.
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michellewastl.bsky.social @michellewastl.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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
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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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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!
Michelle Wastl at the SwissNLP Expo
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Tomasz Limisiewicz @tomlim.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
It’s finally official: the long-awaited Tokenization Workshop is here!
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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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Marianne Hundt @hundtmariann.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Please repost - the position is part of an SNF-funded project (equivalent of an ERC starting grant) jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
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UZH: Postdoc in Computational Linguistics
Come work with me! I am inviting applications for a postdoc-position in the field of Computational/Historical/English Linguistics as part of a Swiss National Science Fund (SNSF)-funded project on 'Who...
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Isabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
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
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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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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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Peter Selb @pselb.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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...
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Junior Professorship (W1, non tenured) in Computational Social Science
Deadline: 7th of January 2025
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Rico Sennrich @ricosennrich.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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!
Tannon Kew presenting during his viva.
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Rico Sennrich @ricosennrich.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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.
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Volunteer to join ACL 2025 Programme Committee
Use this form to express your interest in joining the ACL 2025 programme committee as a reviewer or area chair (AC). The review period is 1st to 20th of March 2025. ACs need to be available for variou...
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Rico Sennrich @ricosennrich.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Hello world! Checking if the grass is greener (the sky is bluer?) on the other side...
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