Reposted by Rico SennrichJindřich Libovický @jlibovicky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I 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... 072
Reposted by Rico SennrichVilém Zouhar @zouhar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Machine translation is not solved and it will take a while for it to be done arxiv.org/abs/2609.04173arxiv.orgLast Translation BenchmarkFor 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 ... 34612
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational Linguistics Journal @complingjournal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026We 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 0132
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026What 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. 3104
Reposted by Rico Sennrichmichellewastl.bsky.social @michellewastl.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Excited 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 093
Reposted by Rico SennrichKirill 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.socialwww2.statmt.orgTerminology Translation Task 043
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Congratulations 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. 062
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Congratulations 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 . 081
Reposted by Rico SennrichEACL 2027 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · 05/05/2026⚠️⚠️CORRECTION: the ARR deadline is **3 August** not 6. Apologies for the mistake. 0115
Reposted by Rico SennrichMichael 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. 134
Reposted by Rico SennrichEACL 2027 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Attention #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! 23922
Reposted by Rico SennrichInside IT @inside-it.ch · 28/04/2026Das Institut für Computerlinguistik der Universität Zürich hat mit der Lia Rumantscha ein Sprachmodell für die rätoromanischen Sprachvarianten entwickelt.inside-it.chSprachmodell übersetzt in fünf rätoromanische IdiomeDas Programm "Alas" übersetzt Deutsch ins Rätoromanische. Es kann als Webapp und Open-Source-Modell benutzt werden. 083
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Looking forward to the ACL 2026 conference in San Diego, California! Several accepted papers have involvement from our department: 1/7 153
Rico Sennrich @ricosennrich.bsky.social · 23/03/2026My 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...jobs.uzh.chUZH: PhD in Language AI / Natural Language ProcessingYou 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 ... 046
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational 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...openreview.netSwissText 2026 ConferenceWelcome to the OpenReview homepage for SwissText 2026 Conference 022
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational 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)swisstext.org2026 Call for Papers | SwissText 152
Reposted by Rico SennrichACL 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... #NLProcforms.gleNominations for ACL 2026 Test-of-Time Paper AwardTest-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... 085
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational 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 #CompLingswisstext.org2026 | SwissText 054
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational 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)swisstext.org2026 Call for Papers | SwissText 163
Reposted by Rico SennrichValentina Borghesani @vborghesani.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Tenure-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...linguistlist.org LINGUIST List 36.3752 Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Professor of Computational Linguistics, University of Geneva, Switzerland The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online. 177
Reposted by Rico Sennrichmichellewastl.bsky.social @michellewastl.bsky.social · 09/12/2025Take 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 063
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Congratulations 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. 032
Reposted by Rico SennrichHanxu 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) 143
Reposted by Rico SennrichVilém 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 13415
Reposted by Rico SennrichNaomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 16/10/2025I 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. 15718
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 19/09/2025It 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/... 195
Reposted by Rico SennrichNegar 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: 🧵 3287
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Congratulations 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... 0156
Reposted by Rico SennrichRoman Klinger @romanklinger.de · 30/07/2025Test of time awards at #acl2025 071
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 29/07/2025We'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! 0174
Reposted by Rico SennrichACL 2027 @aclmeeting.bsky.social · 28/07/2025And 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. 151
Reposted by Rico Sennrichmichellewastl.bsky.social @michellewastl.bsky.social · 26/07/2025Arrived 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 172
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 06/06/2025We 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...www2.statmt.orgTerminology Translation Task 051
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational Linguistics Journal @complingjournal.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Researchers 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... 082
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Congratulations 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. 0111
Reposted by Rico Sennrichmichellewastl.bsky.social @michellewastl.bsky.social · 19/05/2025I 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! ✨ 093
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Our 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! 063
Reposted by Rico SennrichTomasz Limisiewicz @tomlim.bsky.social · 15/04/2025It’s finally official: the long-awaited Tokenization Workshop is here! 011
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Congratulations 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! 2123
Reposted by Rico SennrichMarianne Hundt @hundtmariann.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Please repost - the position is part of an SNF-funded project (equivalent of an ERC starting grant) jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...jobs.uzh.chUZH: Postdoc in Computational LinguisticsCome 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... 089
Reposted by Rico SennrichIsabelle Augenstein @iaugenstein.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Massive 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 0293
Reposted by Rico SennrichHanxu Hu @hanxuhu.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I'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] 183
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Congratulations 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! 0111
Reposted by Rico SennrichComputational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Happening now: @marinecarpuat.bsky.social giving a talk on "Human-Centered NLP for Cross-Lingual Communication". 041
Reposted by Rico SennrichPeter Selb @pselb.bsky.social · 10/12/2024We @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...stellen.uni-konstanz.deJunior Professorship (W1, non tenured) in Computational Social ScienceDeadline: 7th of January 2025 01820
Rico Sennrich @ricosennrich.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Congratulations 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! 0195
Rico Sennrich @ricosennrich.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Call 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.docs.google.comVolunteer to join ACL 2025 Programme CommitteeUse 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... 000
Rico Sennrich @ricosennrich.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Hello world! Checking if the grass is greener (the sky is bluer?) on the other side... 2120