Rachel Bawden
@rachelbawden.bsky.social
Researcher in NLP in the ALMAnaCH team (Inria Paris)
@inriaparisnlp.bsky.social brought you CamemBERT, and we now bring you Gaperon (for non-cheese connoisseurs, it’s a cheese that’s flavoured with pepper and garlic 🧀 ).
We are proud to announce that we trained 1.5B, 8B, and 24B generative language models from scratch on 2 to 4 tera-tokens of carefully curated, high-quality data covering French, English and code. We release our models and code under open-source licences. Thread👇
November 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
@inriaparisnlp.bsky.social brought you CamemBERT, and we now bring you Gaperon (for non-cheese connoisseurs, it’s a cheese that’s flavoured with pepper and garlic 🧀 ).
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📊 Preliminary ranking of WMT 2025 General Machine Translation benchmark is here!
But don't draw conclusions just yet - automatic metrics are biased for techniques like metric as a reward model or MBR. The official human ranking will be part of General MT findings at WMT.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.14909
But don't draw conclusions just yet - automatic metrics are biased for techniques like metric as a reward model or MBR. The official human ranking will be part of General MT findings at WMT.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.14909
Preliminary Ranking of WMT25 General Machine Translation Systems
We present the preliminary ranking of the WMT25 General Machine Translation Shared Task, in which MT systems have been evaluated using automatic metrics. As this ranking is based on automatic evaluati...
arxiv.org
August 23, 2025 at 9:28 AM
📊 Preliminary ranking of WMT 2025 General Machine Translation benchmark is here!
But don't draw conclusions just yet - automatic metrics are biased for techniques like metric as a reward model or MBR. The official human ranking will be part of General MT findings at WMT.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.14909
But don't draw conclusions just yet - automatic metrics are biased for techniques like metric as a reward model or MBR. The official human ranking will be part of General MT findings at WMT.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.14909
Reposted by Rachel Bawden
Merci à l'équipe organisatrice des journées #istex pour l'invitation ! Très heureux d'avoir pu présenter les avancées de MaTOS à Nancy devant un public de connaisseurs. @cnrs-inist.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Merci à l'équipe organisatrice des journées #istex pour l'invitation ! Très heureux d'avoir pu présenter les avancées de MaTOS à Nancy devant un public de connaisseurs. @cnrs-inist.bsky.social
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We are excited for our next seminar, which will be given by Aina Garí Soler (Inria, @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social) on "Word Meaning Representation and Negotiation" on Friday 21st March at 11am CET. Connection link to be shared on the day. Details here: almanach.inria.fr/seminars-en....!
March 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
We are excited for our next seminar, which will be given by Aina Garí Soler (Inria, @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social) on "Word Meaning Representation and Negotiation" on Friday 21st March at 11am CET. Connection link to be shared on the day. Details here: almanach.inria.fr/seminars-en....!
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Lydia Nishimwe est finaliste du concours "Ma thèse en 180 secondes" à Sorbonne Université ! Venez la soutenir le lundi 10 mars à 18h 🎤 🎓👏
🎓 Découvrez les 12 doctorantes et doctorants qui tenteront de remporter le concours @mt180fr.bsky.social de Sorbonne Université le 10 mars prochain !
👉 Inscrivez-vous avant le 7 mars pour pouvoir assister à la finale et voter pour votre candidat préféré : swll.to/86A4m
#MT180 #ESR
👉 Inscrivez-vous avant le 7 mars pour pouvoir assister à la finale et voter pour votre candidat préféré : swll.to/86A4m
#MT180 #ESR
March 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Lydia Nishimwe est finaliste du concours "Ma thèse en 180 secondes" à Sorbonne Université ! Venez la soutenir le lundi 10 mars à 18h 🎤 🎓👏
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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:
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 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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:
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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We are thrilled to announce our next seminar by Syrielle Montariol @smontariol.bsky.social (EPFL) entitled "Multimodal perception and reasoning" on Friday 21st February at 11am CET. Connection link to be shared on the day. Details here: t.co/pPbWfkALM4!
February 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We are thrilled to announce our next seminar by Syrielle Montariol @smontariol.bsky.social (EPFL) entitled "Multimodal perception and reasoning" on Friday 21st February at 11am CET. Connection link to be shared on the day. Details here: t.co/pPbWfkALM4!
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I am happy to announce that our paper "In-context Example Selection via Similarity Search Improves Low-resource Machine Translation" was accepted to the #NAACL2025 Findings 🤩🔥.
What is this about?
TAGS: Machine Translation (MT), High/Low -resource languages (H/LRLs).
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What is this about?
TAGS: Machine Translation (MT), High/Low -resource languages (H/LRLs).
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February 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I am happy to announce that our paper "In-context Example Selection via Similarity Search Improves Low-resource Machine Translation" was accepted to the #NAACL2025 Findings 🤩🔥.
What is this about?
TAGS: Machine Translation (MT), High/Low -resource languages (H/LRLs).
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What is this about?
TAGS: Machine Translation (MT), High/Low -resource languages (H/LRLs).
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We are excited for our next seminar by Cécile Pierrot (Inria) & Camille Desenclos (Université de Picardie & Inria) entitled "Percer le secret des lettres chiffrées de Charles Quint: un travail interdisciplinaire" on Friday 7th February at 11am CET. Details here: t.co/pPbWfkALM4!
February 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
We are excited for our next seminar by Cécile Pierrot (Inria) & Camille Desenclos (Université de Picardie & Inria) entitled "Percer le secret des lettres chiffrées de Charles Quint: un travail interdisciplinaire" on Friday 7th February at 11am CET. Details here: t.co/pPbWfkALM4!