Barry Haddow
bazril.bsky.social
Barry Haddow
@bazril.bsky.social
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Call for participation: We just opened the registration for this year's MT Marathon in August in Helsinki, Finland: blogs.helsinki.fi/language-tec..., featuring:

- Ayodele Awokoya
- Wilker Aziz
- Marta Costa-Jussa
- Barry Haddow
- Amit Moryosse
- Sara Papi
- Jörg Tiedemann
- Marco Turchi
blogs.helsinki.fi
March 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Reposted by Barry Haddow
I'm part of this! There's also a paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.10267
** New parallel data set ** . We've just released HPLT v2.0, a parallel data set of 50 languages paired with English, 380M sentence pairs in total. Extracted from the Internet Archive and Common Crawl hplt-project.org/datasets/v2.0
HPLT - High Performance Language Technologies
A space that combines petabytes of natural language data with large-scale model training
hplt-project.org
March 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Big news from WMT! 🎉 We are expanding beyond MT and launching a new multilingual instruction shared task. Our goal is to foster truly multilingual LLM evaluation and best practices in automatic and human evaluation. Join us and build the winning multilingual system!
www2.statmt.org/wmt25/multil...
Multilingual Instruction Shared Task
www2.statmt.org
March 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
** New parallel data set ** . We've just released HPLT v2.0, a parallel data set of 50 languages paired with English, 380M sentence pairs in total. Extracted from the Internet Archive and Common Crawl hplt-project.org/datasets/v2.0
HPLT - High Performance Language Technologies
A space that combines petabytes of natural language data with large-scale model training
hplt-project.org
February 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Can't believe WMT General MT shared task is 20 years old!
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 We’ve kept what worked, removed what was outdated, and introduced many exciting new twists!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:
February 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
MT Summit 2025 - deadline extended!
The deadline for all papers (technical/user/translator/products/projects) has been extended to February 10th. MT Summit will be in Geneva, June 23--27. mtsummit2025.unige.ch/index.html
MT Summit 2025
The 20th Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit 2025) will take place in Geneva, Switzerland from June 23-27 2025.
mtsummit2025.unige.ch
February 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
EAMT best thesis award - closes on January 31st. Completed an MT-related PhD in 2024? In Europe, Africa or Middle East. Then why not submit your thesis. eamt.org/2024/11/28/t...
The Anthony C. Clarke Award for the 2024 EAMT Best Thesis – European Association for Machine Translation
eamt.org
January 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM