🗓️ SwissText 2026 keynote speakers announced & registration open!
We are delighted to welcome Prof. Dr. Alexandra Birch and Dr. Valentina Pyatkin as our keynote speakers.
📋 Register here: ema.uzh.ch/RHK4W
Early-bird rates available throughout April, with additional student discounts.
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🔵 Michelle Wastl, Jannis Vamvas, Rico Sennrich. SwissGov-RSD: A Human-annotated, Cross-lingual Benchmark for Token-level Recognition of Semantic Differences Between Related Documents. 🔵 Zifan Jiang, Youngjoon Jang, Liliane Momeni, Gül Varol, Sarah Ebling, Andrew Zisserman. Segment, Embed, and Align: A Universal Recipe for Aligning Subtitles to Signing. 🔵 Kevin Du, Clara Kümpel, Michelle Wastl, Alex Warstadt. It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It: Evaluating LLM Responses to Expressions of Belief. 🔵 Negar Foroutan, Clara Meister, Debjit Paul, Joel Niklaus, Sina Ahmadi, Antoine Bosselut, Rico Sennrich. Parity-Aware Byte-Pair Encoding: Improving Cross-lingual Fairness in Tokenization. 🔵 Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments. https://lnkd.in/eFTh-5m7 🔵 (Findings:) Elias Schuhmacher, Andrianos Michail, Juri Opitz, Rico Sennrich, Simon Clematide. Information Representation Fairness in Long-Document Embeddings: The Peculiar Interaction of Positional and Language Bias.
Looking forward to the ACL 2026 conference in San Diego, California!
Several accepted papers have involvement from our department:
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📣 SwissText 2026 submission deadline has been extended until 24 March 2026 (AoE)!
Submit your work here: openreview.net/group?id=Swi...
📣 SwissText 2026 – 2nd Call for Papers!
🎯 Special theme: #ReproducibleNLP
📅 Deadline approaching: 17 March 2026
📍 Zurich, Switzerland, 10 June 2026
www.swisstext.org/call-for-pap...
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📣 SwissText 2026 – Call for Papers is open!
🎯 Special theme: #ReproducibleNLP
📅 Submission deadline: 17 March 2026
📍 Zurich, Switzerland · 10 June 2026
www.swisstext.org/call-for-pap...
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📣 We’re pleased to announce that our department will co-organize the 11th edition of the SwissText conference!
#SwissText2026 will take place on 10 June 2026, hosted at the University of Zurich (Campus Oerlikon). Save the date!
www.swisstext.org/current/
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Take a look at how we challenge state-of-the-art NLP systems to recognize token-level semantic differences across languages with our new SwissGov-RSD dataset! @vamvas.bsky.social @ricosennrich.bsky.social
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2512.075...
Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/Zur...
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Sina Ahmadi, Rico Sennrich, Michelle Wastl, Jannis Vamvas, Andrianos Michail from the Department of Computational Linguistics posing in front of the at ACL 2025 Vienna step-and-repeat banner
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!
UPDATED SLOT TIME:
Machine Translation Models are Zero-Shot Detectors of Translation Direction
will now be presented in Session 10:
Tuesday, July 28, 16:00 - 17:30
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
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! ✨
Michelle Wastl at the SwissNLP Expo
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!