In the Last Translation Benchmark we solve both by: - collecting hard-to-translate inputs (texts, images, audios) - requiring human-readable "verification rules", which enable provable evaluation of future translations Here are some cool examples:

📢 Call for Papers: YNLG 2026 The Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation workshop is a 2d in-person event part of INLG 2026 @inlg.bsky.social in Utrecht 🇳🇱, with poster sessions, keynote talks, roundtable discussions, and a one-day hackathon. Due: August 10, 2026 ynlg-workshop.github.io

Are you tired of getting meh results from LLMs in your native language and resorting to English instead? We are too!

We are at @eamt2026.bsky.social with a large-scale stealth project called "[redacted] Translation [redacted]". Looking for contributors across all languages to challenge MTs. Talk to @patuchen.bsky.social, @sethjsa.bsky.social and me to be a coauthor!

LLMs as Span Annotators: A Comparative Study of LLMs and Humans by @zdenekkasner.cz, @zouharvi.bsky.social, @patuchen.bsky.social, @ivankartac.bsky.social, K. Onderková, @oplatek.bsky.social, Dimitra Gkatzia, @saad.me.uk , @tuetschek.bsky.social & Simone Ballocu aclanthology.org/2026.mme-mai...

We are bringing social network trends to science communication. How do you do, fellow kids? Also, your LLM does not judge you for your grammar.

Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics@ufal.mff.cuni.cz · 4mo ago

How Important is ‘Perfect’ English for Machine Translation Prompts? by @patuchen.bsky.social, @niyatibafna.bsky.social, @sethjsa.bsky.social , @gianlucavico.bsky.social ,W. Kamzela, @kathaem.bsky.social & @zouharvi.bsky.social aclanthology.org/2026.finding... TL;DR: Prompt errors < prompt choice

Check out the slides from our SCAI'2025 #convsearch workshop collocated with @ijcai.org #IJCAI2025 on LLMs, retrieval & QA, recommendations, negotiations, evaluation and transparency scai.info/scai-2025 @patuchen.bsky.social @maik-froebe.bsky.social @tuetschek.bsky.social @mila-quebec.bsky.social

SCAI 2025

Online Event on Search-Oriented Conversational AI.

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Excited to announce the first-ever Workshop for Young Researchers in Natural Language Generation (YNLG), supported by @siggen.bsky.social, taking place on October 29, 2025 in Hanoi, Vietnam, co-located with INLG 2025. Call for Submissions is out now! ynlg-workshop.github.io

I'll be giving a talk on evaluating LLM-generated summaries at Ghost Day in Poland next week!

The 👉Machine Learning Prague 2025👈 is happening right now! Today, @patuchen.bsky.social and @navitas.bsky.social presented their posters on text generation with LLMs. Also, don't miss @tuetschek.bsky.social's invited talk tomorrow at 11 a.m.

Thanks to all my awesome collaborators! 👉️ Vilém @zouharvi.bsky.social 👉️ Patrícia @patuchen.bsky.social 👉️ Ivan @ivankartac.bsky.social 👉️ Kristýna Onderková 👉️ Ondřej P. @oplatek.bsky.social 👉️ Dimitra @dimitrag.bsky.social 👉️ Saad @saad.me.uk 👉️ Ondřej D. @tuetschek.bsky.social 👉️ Simone Balloccu

I am very happy to announce that myself, Simon Mille, and @patuchen.bsky.social have been elected to serve on the @siggen.bsky.social board. I want to thank the outgoing members @evanmiltenburg.bsky.social, @raquelhervas.bsky.social, and Javier González Corbelle for their service to the board.