Machine translation is not solved and it will take a while for it to be done arxiv.org/abs/2609.04173

Last Translation Benchmark

For scientific progress, we need benchmarks that test the limits of state-of-the-art models, and evaluation methods that inform us about failure cases. As models get stronger, standard benchmarks for ...

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We are pleased to announce the winner of the ACL Computational Linguistics Doctoral Dissertation Award (ACL Dissertation Award)! Congratulations, Verna Dankers! @vernadankers.bsky.social #NLproc #CLJournal

What a blast! 🎉 We won one 🏆Test of Time Award and two 🏆🏆SAC Highlight Awards at #ACL2026! Congratulations to our award winners: @ricosennrich.bsky.social, @michellewastl.bsky.social, @vamvas.bsky.social, @sinaahmadi.bsky.social and their (co-)authors! Links to the winning papers in the comments.

Excited to be at #ACL2026NLP in San Diego with two papers! Come by to learn about cross-lingual semantic differences from work with @vamvas.bsky.social & @ricosennrich.bsky.social, and how LLMs respond to expressions of belief, with Kevin Du, @clarakuempel.bsky.social, and @alexwarstadt.bsky.social

📣 Join the 4th Terminology Translation Shared Task @ #WMT2026! ✨ New this year: 🌍 ES→EU, EN→PL, ZH-Hant→EN 📄 2 document-level tracks (explicit dictionaries & seed bitexts) 📊 MT, terminology, grammaticality eval 🗓️ Deadline: 31 Jul (AoE) 🔗 www2.statmt.org/wmt26/termin... @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social

Congratulations to @zifanjiang.bsky.social , who just successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Fundamentals of Sign Language Processing". With special thanks to the external examiner, Jonas Beskow.

Congratulations to @patrickhaller.bsky.social , who yesterday successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Reliability in Human Language Processing and Language Models". Special thanks to the external examiner @stefanfrank.bsky.social .

⚠️⚠️CORRECTION: the ARR deadline is **3 August** not 6. Apologies for the mistake.

📢 Postdoc Position in NLP @ UTN in Nuremberg, Germany I am looking for a full-time postdoctoral researcher (A13/E13, initial contract for 3 years) starting July 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. Focus on implicit & underspecified language, background knowledge and/or biases in NLU.

Attention #NLProc researchers, the EACL 2027 website is officially LIVE: 2027.eacl.org! 🎉 🇬🇷 Join us in Athens, Greece (Mar 9-13, 2027) at #EACL2027 📅 ARR submission deadline: Aug 6, 2026. Open to all areas of CL/NLP + related fields. Stay tuned for the detailed CfP soon!

Das Institut für Computerlinguistik der Universität Zürich hat mit der Lia Rumantscha ein Sprachmodell für die rätoromanischen Sprachvarianten entwickelt.

Sprachmodell übersetzt in fünf rätoromanische Idiome

Das Programm "Alas" übersetzt Deutsch ins Rätoromanische. Es kann als Webapp und Open-Source-Modell benutzt werden.

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Looking forward to the ACL 2026 conference in San Diego, California! Several accepted papers have involvement from our department: 1/7

My lab is recruiting one PhD student and one post-doctoral researcher for a start as soon as this Summer! Apply by April 1 / March 31 to be among first candidates considered. jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie... jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

UZH: PhD in Language AI / Natural Language Processing

You will be joining the Department of Computational Linguistics, which has 6 Research Groups and around 70 postdoctoral and student researchers in the areas of Text Technologies, Phonetics and Speech ...

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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...

Computational Linguistics @ UZH@cl-uzh.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣 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... (1/3)

📣 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... (1/3)

🏆 ACL is now accepting nominations for the 2026 Test-of-Time (ToT) Paper Awards. Up to four papers from ACL-affiliated events in 2001 and 2016 (including workshops) will be honored for lasting impact on computational linguistics. 📨 Submit nominations by Mar 16: forms.gle/ZdsALz3RBS97... #NLProc

Nominations for ACL 2026 Test-of-Time Paper Award

Test-of-Time papers in Computational Linguistics should describe research that has had long-lasting influence on the field. That is, they should have had a significant impact on a subarea of CL, acros...

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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/ #NLProc #UZHai #CompLing

📣 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... (1/4)

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in computational linguistics at UNIGE / @nccrlanguage.bsky.social The application deadline is around the corner (Jan 15)- don't miss it! linguistlist.org/issues/36/37...

LINGUIST List 36.3752 Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Professor of Computational Linguistics, University of Geneva, Switzerland

The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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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... #NLProc

Congratulations to Iuliia Thorbecke (Nigmatulina), who just passed the viva of her PhD on using contextual information to improve automatic speech recognition, for example using radar flight information to better transcribe air traffic communication.

💥Introducing new paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.17715, QueST — train specialized generators to create challenging coding problems. From Qwen3-8B-Base ✅ 100K synthetic problems: better than Qwen3-8B ✅ Combining with human written problems: matches DeepSeek-R1-671B 🧵(1/5)

📢 Announcing the First Workshop on Multilingual and Multicultural Evaluation (MME) at #EACL2026 🇲🇦 MME focuses on resources, metrics & methodologies for evaluating multilingual systems! multilingual-multicultural-evaluation.github.io 📅 Workshop Mar 24–29, 2026 🗓️ Submit by Dec 19, 2025

I am recruiting PhD students to start in 2026! If you are interested in robustness, training dynamics, interpretability for scientific understanding, or the science of LLM analysis you should apply. BU is building a huge LLM analysis/interp group and you’ll be joining at the ground floor.

Naomi Saphra@nsaphra.bsky.social · last yr.

Life update: I'm starting as faculty at Boston University @bucds.bsky.social in 2026! BU has SCHEMES for LM interpretability & analysis, I couldn't be more pumped to join a burgeoning supergroup w/ @najoung.bsky.social @amuuueller.bsky.social. Looking for my first students, so apply and reach out!

It is with deep sorrow that we bid farewell to Prof. Dr. Martin Volk, who passed away on 15 September 2025 at the age of 64 after a brief and sudden illness. www.cl.uzh.ch/en/about-us/...

🚨New Preprint! In multilingual models, the same meaning can take far more tokens in some languages, penalizing users of underrepresented languages with worse performance and higher API costs. Our Parity-aware BPE algorithm is a step toward addressing this issue: 🧵

Congratulations to @sinaahmadi.bsky.social and co-authors for receiving an ACL 2025 Outstanding Paper Award for PARME: Parallel Corpora for Low-Resourced Middle Eastern Languages! aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...

Test of time awards at #acl2025

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!

And here is the Winner: 🏆 Sewon Min: Rethinking Data Use in Large Language Models. Min’s dissertation provides key insights into the behavior and capabilities of large language models, in particular in-context learning. Its findings have impacted the core of NLP today.