Help us break LLMs! The test suite sub-task will be included for the sixth time in the General MT Shared Task of the Conference on Machine Translation (WMT24). This year's theme is to reveal weaknesses of LLMs when translating #LLMs #EMNLP #NLProc | www2.statmt.org/wmt24/testsuit…

🌐 NLP & Machine Translation Educators:
I’m João, doing my PhD on MT quality assessment teaching! Your insights are crucial. Will you help me out? 📊

✔️ 10-15 min survey
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Link: dcueducation.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_23…

#NLP #MachineTranslation

NMT, SMT, RBMT are all AI

Oh yeaaah - this is happening again! ❤️
GITT 👇

Organised by the same lovely bunch of people of #gitt2023 (@BeatriceSavoldi, Luisa Bentivogli, Joke Daems, Janica Hackenbuchner) and a little extra awesomess since Jasmijn Bastings also joined the team 🙌!

We have a lectureship position to fill. (Near-)native command of English is a must, very good command of German is also required, see details in the official announcement (in German):
bewerbung.uni-hildesheim.de/jobposting/365…

Application *deadline*: 22nd of March 2024.

Please, spread a word!

I'm thrilled to share that the WMT General MT Shared Task for 2024 is now officially open!
This year, we've introduced several changes to further advance the field of machine translation (MT) research and align with LLMs shift. Here’s what’s new:

Roundtable: Translation Automation and Sustainability
Joss Moorkens, Dr. Sheila Castilho, Federico Gaspari, Antonio Toral, Maja Popović ( @[email protected] )

The Journal of Specialised Translation 41 (2024)

jostrans.org/article/view/4…

JoSTrans Issue 41, January 2024
Joss Moorkens, Dr. Sheila Castilho, Federico Gaspari, Antonio Toral, Maja Popović ( @[email protected] )
Proposal for a Triple Bottom Line for Translation Automation and Sustainability: An Editorial Position Paper
doi.org/10.26034/cm.jo…

Our coedited special issue of JoSTrans - The Journal of Specialised Translation on #translation automation and #sustainability is out today!
It comprises our position paper/editorial + video roundtable and 9 great articles plus 5 book reviews. Dr. Sheila Castilho fedegasp Maja Popović ( @[email protected] ) Antonio Toral
jostrans.org/issue/view/492

related work section which is not immediately after (or part of) the introduction makes a paper *very* difficult to read

evolution of NLP

WMT General MT (former News) submission week just started. Translate blind test sets and complete for the best performing MT system. Let's discover what techniques are helpful and if LLMs can perform well on unseen data. Details can be found here: www2.statmt.org/wmt23/translat…

Final cal for the 3rd HumEval workshop about any aspect of human evaluation in NLP humeval.github.io, Varna, Bulgaria, 7 September 2023 at RANLP 2023

deadline: 20 July 2023

Is one single experiment enough for conclusions? Look at our paper at Findings of ACL 2023!

Ireland ☘️ from above

back in green Finland 🇫🇮 for the 3rd time, but first time in Tampere, and first time for @EAMT

And there she is now, Maja Popović ( @[email protected] ) presenting her work on #MT and the different textual features of different #translation types
#ASC2023 Dublin City University The ADAPT Centre

🚨 Excited to present my paper with JohnDK and Vasudevan at MWE Workshop eaclmeeting
If you’re in the gorgeous Dubrovnik drop by to learn more about how idioms are encoded in vector space! 🧵 1/n
Preprint here: arxiv.org/pdf/2304.14333…
#NLProc #eacl2023 ACL 2024

We at CLASSLA (clarin.si/info/k-centre/) started benchmarking GPT models on various South Slavic datasets. On our beloved COPA (people.ict.usc.edu/~gordon/copa.h…) the gpt-3.5-turbo has set new state-of-the-art on all available languages: Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian. 🧵