Call for participation: We just opened the registration for this year's MT Marathon in August in Helsinki, Finland: blogs.helsinki.fi/language-tec..., featuring: - Ayodele Awokoya - Wilker Aziz - Marta Costa-Jussa - Barry Haddow - Amit Moryosse - Sara Papi - Jörg Tiedemann - Marco Turchi

I'm part of this! There's also a paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.10267

Barry Haddow@bazril.bsky.social · last yr.

** New parallel data set ** . We've just released HPLT v2.0, a parallel data set of 50 languages paired with English, 380M sentence pairs in total. Extracted from the Internet Archive and Common Crawl hplt-project.org/datasets/v2.0

Big news from WMT! 🎉 We are expanding beyond MT and launching a new multilingual instruction shared task. Our goal is to foster truly multilingual LLM evaluation and best practices in automatic and human evaluation. Join us and build the winning multilingual system! www2.statmt.org/wmt25/multil...

** New parallel data set ** . We've just released HPLT v2.0, a parallel data set of 50 languages paired with English, 380M sentence pairs in total. Extracted from the Internet Archive and Common Crawl hplt-project.org/datasets/v2.0

Can't believe WMT General MT shared task is 20 years old!

Tom Kocmi@kocmitom.bsky.social · last yr.

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 We’ve kept what worked, removed what was outdated, and introduced many exciting new twists!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:

MT Summit 2025 - deadline extended! The deadline for all papers (technical/user/translator/products/projects) has been extended to February 10th. MT Summit will be in Geneva, June 23--27. mtsummit2025.unige.ch/index.html

EAMT best thesis award - closes on January 31st. Completed an MT-related PhD in 2024? In Europe, Africa or Middle East. Then why not submit your thesis. eamt.org/2024/11/28/t...