Rico Sennrich
@ricosennrich.bsky.social
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💥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)
From Qwen3-8B-Base
✅ 100K synthetic problems: better than Qwen3-8B
✅ Combining with human written problems: matches DeepSeek-R1-671B
🧵(1/5)
October 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
💥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)
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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📢 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
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
October 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
📢 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
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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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.
Life update: I'm starting as faculty at Boston University
@bucds.bsky.social in 2026! BU has SCHEMES for LM interpretability & analysis, I couldn't be more pumped to join a burgeoning supergroup w/ @najoung.bsky.social @amuuueller.bsky.social. Looking for my first students, so apply and reach out!
@bucds.bsky.social in 2026! BU has SCHEMES for LM interpretability & analysis, I couldn't be more pumped to join a burgeoning supergroup w/ @najoung.bsky.social @amuuueller.bsky.social. Looking for my first students, so apply and reach out!
October 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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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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/...
September 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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/...
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🚨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: 🧵
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: 🧵
August 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
🚨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: 🧵
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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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...
aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...
July 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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...
aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...
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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!
If you’re at #ACL, stop by to learn more!
July 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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!
If you’re at #ACL, stop by to learn more!
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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.
🏆 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.
July 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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.
🏆 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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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
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
July 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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
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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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...
More details at the website: www2.statmt.org/wmt25/termin...
Terminology Translation Task
www2.statmt.org
June 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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...
More details at the website: www2.statmt.org/wmt25/termin...
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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...
Read: direct.mit.edu/coli/article...
May 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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...
Read: direct.mit.edu/coli/article...
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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.
May 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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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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! ✨
We are honored to receive Best Paper Award for it! ✨
May 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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! ✨
We are honored to receive Best Paper Award for it! ✨
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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'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!
May 13, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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'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!
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It’s finally official: the long-awaited Tokenization Workshop is here!
April 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
It’s finally official: the long-awaited Tokenization Workshop is here!
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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!
April 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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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Please repost - the position is part of an SNF-funded project (equivalent of an ERC starting grant)
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
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...
jobs.uzh.ch
April 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Please repost - the position is part of an SNF-funded project (equivalent of an ERC starting grant)
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...
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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
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
March 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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
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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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]
@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]
March 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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]
@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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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!
March 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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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Happening now: @marinecarpuat.bsky.social giving a talk on "Human-Centered NLP for Cross-Lingual Communication".
March 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Happening now: @marinecarpuat.bsky.social giving a talk on "Human-Centered NLP for Cross-Lingual Communication".
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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...
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...
Junior Professorship (W1, non tenured) in Computational Social Science
Deadline: 7th of January 2025
stellen.uni-konstanz.de
December 10, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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...
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...
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!
December 6, 2024 at 10:34 AM
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!
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.
I'm especially grateful for volunteers in the area of machine translation.
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...
docs.google.com
November 27, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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.
I'm especially grateful for volunteers in the area of machine translation.