Jan Niehues
jan-niehues.bsky.social
Jan Niehues
@jan-niehues.bsky.social
Prof. @ Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, NLP
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We’re collecting crowd-sourced translations in Piedmontese and Neapolitan.
🎯 Goal: see how well LLMs understand these languages.
👉 Participate here (in IT🇮🇹):
- Piedmontese: quest.ms.mff.cuni.cz/crowd-transl...
- Neapolitan: quest.ms.mff.cuni.cz/crowd-transl...
Anyone can join, no need to be fluent!
Welcome to CrowdTranslation
quest.ms.mff.cuni.cz
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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It was great seeing you all at EMNLP in Suzhou. 🤗🌆

I presented two papers, check them out if you are interested in
🎤 Speech (summarization) or
📊 MT evaluation with multiple candidates.

aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...
aclanthology.org/2025.wmt-1.63/
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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I am heading to Suzhou 🌆 for EMNLP, presenting two papers with Fabian Retkowski, @zouharvi.bsky.social and Tu Anh Dinh.

Looking forward to see you at our posters about
🎤 Speech Summarisation (Fri. Nov 7, 14:00-15:30) and
📊 Machine Translation Evaluation (Sat. Nov 8, 11:00-12:00).
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Excited to head over to #Suzhou to present 5 papers at #EMNLP2025 and affiliated venues!
Topics include quality estimation and evaluation 👩‍🔬, speech🗣️, and multilinguality🌐- see you soon! 🤩
@maikezufle.bsky.social @jan-niehues.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Wir bei AI4LT arbeiten täglich mit 🤖 KI und 🎤 Sprache. Aber wie funktioniert Künstliche Intelligenz eigentlich – und wie kann sie Texte und gesprochene Sprache erzeugen?
@maikezufle.bsky.social aus unserer Gruppe erklärt es in einem Vortrag in der Stadtbücherei #Wörth 📚.
English version below👇
October 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Am 30.10.25 lädt die VHS Wörth zu einem spannenden Abend rund um KI und Sprache ein. Maike Züfle, Doktorandin in der Forschungsgruppe Artificial Intelligence for Language Technologies am @kit.edu erklärt, wie große Sprachmodelle Texte verstehen, schreiben und übersetzen u. zeigt praktische Beispiele
October 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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🎉 Starting the week with some great news: 3 of our papers have been accepted to #EMNLP Main! 🧵👇

Big congratulations to all co-authors! 📚✨ Looking forward to presenting in #Suzhou!
August 25, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Our team is growing! Today, we’re excited to welcome our new colleague Yuka Ko, who joins us as a postdoc on the EU Project DVPS.

Looking forward to collaborating and achieving great things together. Welcome aboard! 🚀
August 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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#Interspeech2025 Excited to present our work on in-context language learning for endangered languages! 🤩

Come chat with Zhaolin Li today 14:30–16:30 (A09-P1-04)!

🔗 www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...
August 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Sara Papi, Maike Z\"ufle, Marco Gaido, Beatrice Savoldi, Danni Liu, Ioannis Douros, Luisa Bentivogli, Jan Niehues
MCIF: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19634
July 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
🚆 On my way to ACL 2025 in Vienna!

AI4LT (KIT) will present work at ACL, SRW, Gem Workshop, and IWSLT. If you're attending and would like to chat about our research, feel free to reach out or drop by one of the sessions below 🧵. Looking forward to see you there
July 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Excited to share 8 papers at #ACL2025 and affiliated venues! 🎉

Our team explored topics including multimodality, cross-lingual transfer, evaluation, decoding, and low-resource languages.

Looking forward to presenting our work and connecting with the community! See you soon! 🤩
July 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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🇦🇹 I’ll be in Vienna for #ACL2025NLP!

Interested in training a speech-aware LLM without a lot of parameteres or data? Come to my poster:
🖼️ Mon, 18:00

Also into Speech Summarization? Join my IWSLT talk in collab with @fbk-mt.bsky.social
🎤 Fri, 14:00

Happy to chat - come say hi! 😎

Papers in 🧵
July 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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🚀 Today marks the official start of the #HorizonEurope DVPS project (dvps.translated.com). Happy that @kit.edu is part of this collaboration with 20 leading AI organizations!

📍 This week we're in Rome for the kickoff meeting. Looking forward to exciting collaborations!
#DVPS #KIT #MultimodalAI
Homepage - DVPS
dvps.translated.com
July 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Excited to share 7 papers accepted at #ACL2025 and affiliated venues! 🎉

Topics include multimodality, cross-lingual transfer, benchmarks, decoding, low-resource languages and more.

See you in Vienna! 🤩 #nlproc #acl2025nlp
May 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Wir freuen uns, bei der diesjährigen #TagDerOffenenTür @kit.edu dabei zu sein! Kommt vorbei und lernt #KITCat, unseren interaktiven KI-Assistenten kennen, und erlebt unser mehrsprachiges Sprachübersetzungssystem in Aktion!
May 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Tag der offenen Tür mit Campus-Tag am #KIT am 17. Mai 2025, und wir sind auch dabei mit umfangreichem Programm: www.informatik.kit.edu/14708.php #TdoT
May 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Also proud of our collaboration with @juliuscheng.bsky.social and @zouharvi.bsky.social on Bayesian optimization for MT reranking! 🤝 aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-l...
April 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Excited to attend #NAACL in Albuquerque! 🎈🌞
We are presenting works on:

🌐 multilingual & multimodal representations in foundation models aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-s...

🔊 contextual learning for low-resource ASR (LM4UC workshop) aclanthology.org/2025.lm4uc-1.1
April 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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We had a great time hosting enthusiastic high schoolers at #GirlsDay2025! We explored #LLM basics, played "Break the AI" games, and shared study abroad opportunities at #KIT.

Thanks @maikezufle.bsky.social for organizing and @kit.edu @girls-day.de for this initiative! 👩‍💻🌟
April 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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The evaluation period has begun for our shared tasks!

The test data is now available on our website, and submissions are due Tuesday April 15! ⏰

Please email task organizers or the google group with any questions 🥳
April 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Just returning from Hannover Messe #HM25, where we had the chance to showcase the KIT Lecture Translator at the Baden-Württemberg Evening Reception.
April 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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📢 The evaluation period of the Instruction Following task at
@iwslt.bsky.social just started!

🖥️ Consider submitting your speech-to-text system!

The outputs can be easily uploaded on the SPEECHM platform developed in the Meetween project (www.meetween.eu)!
➡️ iwslt2025.speechm.cloud.cyfronet.pl
iwslt2025.speechm.cloud.cyfronet.pl
April 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Why participate?

🔓 Help make the world’s vast audiovisual heritage accessible to all!
🔍 Join the scientific effort to push forward multilingual subtitling and improve global communication! 🌎
#SpeechTranslation #AIforGood
February 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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🆕 For this year, Arabic joins the challenge!

✨ For the first time, we ask participants to generate subtitles for Arabic, covering the 5th most spoken language and one of the six UN 🌐 official languages.
Let’s break language barriers! 🌍
#Subtitling #IWSLT2025
February 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM