MT Marathon this year organised by @helsinki-nlp.bsky.social was a great week - I presented my research on chain-of-thought for machine translation, worked on a mini-research project, and explored the wonderful city of Helsinki including a few trips to the sauna 🫠

My favourite ICLR paper so far. Methodology, findings and their implications are all very cool.

In particular Fig. 2 + this discussion point:

Can LLMs Really Learn to Translate a Low-Resource Language from One Grammar Book? Extremely low-resource (XLR) languages lack substantial corpora for training NLP models, motivating the use of all available resources such as dictionaries and grammar books. Machine Translation from ...

Pleased to announce our paper was accepted at ICLR 2025 as a Spotlight! I will present our poster on Saturday April 26, 3-5pm, Poster #241. Hope to see you there!
arxiv.org/abs/2409.19151