Jörg Tiedemann

Don’t forget the call for PostDocs in the @ellisinstitute.fi with a deadline on February 9: www.ellisinstitute.fi/postdoc-recr.... Up to 10 positions in various areas of ML including NLP.

Another opportunity to join ELLIS in Finland. All fields of ML are welcome including work on NLP

Don't forget the deadline on Monday, January 12! Join us at @helsinki-nlp.bsky.social as a new ELLIS PI.

More information about the call: www.ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit-2...

Come and join us at @helsinki-nlp.bsky.social to work on robust, efficient and trustworthy AI across languages and domains. You will be part of the @ellisinstitute.fi as one of the prestigious PIs in their top-level research unit.

Application deadline is January 12: tinyurl.com/ye6ceywv

Scaling Low-Resource MT via Synthetic Data Generation with LLMs We investigate the potential of LLM-generated synthetic data for improving low-resource Machine Translation (MT). Focusing on seven diverse target languages, we construct a document-level synthetic co...

See you next week at EMNLP!
We will be presenting our work: Scaling Low-Resource MT via Synthetic Data Generation with LLMs

📍 Poster Session 13
📅 Fri, Nov 7, 10:30-12:00 - Hall C
📖 Check it out! arxiv.org/abs/2505.14423

@helsinki-nlp.bsky.social @cambridgenlp.bsky.social @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social

Timeline:
- Paper submission: Dec 19
- Commitment for pre-reviewed papers: Jan 2
- Acceptance notifs: Jan 23
- Camera-ready: Feb 3
- Workshop: TBD (Mar 24-29)

Organizers:
Yves Scherrer, Noëmi Aepli, @tosaja.bsky.social, Nikola Ljubešić, Preslav Nakov, @tiedeman.bsky.social, Marcos Zampieri & me

🧠 We explore how monolingual, bilingual, and code-augmented data shape multilingual continual pretraining across high- to low-resource languages.

Big thanks to my supervisor @tiedeman.bsky.social man.bsky.social, who will be presenting our poster — come say hi!

It’s happening, the 18th MT Marathon (blogs.helsinki.fi/language-tec...) will start tomorrow with a great line-up in our program. Looking forward to see you all in Helsinki!

Hello from Helsinki

📢 First release: 38 monolingual reference LLMs (2.15B params) via #HPLT + #OpenEuroLLM

⚙️Trained on 100B tokens from HPLT v2 dataset
🌍 Cover EU langs + others
⚙️ Based on LLaMA, trained on #LUMI
📈 Useful for evaluation

Downloads + more info at openeurollm.eu/blog/hplt-oe...

EMNLP 2025 Demo: Reviewer self-nomination This is an open call to reserchers from industry and academia to help us with peer-reviewing in the EMNLP 2025 Demo Track. Requirements: * Publication record in EMNLP/ACL/NAACL/EACL-affiliated venues...

Wanna read great demo papers at EMNLP 2025? You can, because remember: It's *YOUR* community too! So roll up your sleeves and join our program committee as a reviewer: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

MaLA-LM/mala-opus-dedup-2410 · Datasets at Hugging Face We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

📢 [**mala-opus-dedup-2410**](huggingface.co/datasets/MaL...) 🎉

Part of the [**MaLA Corpus**](huggingface.co/collections/...), deduplicated dataset from [OPUS](opus.nlpl.eu) (cutoff Oct 2024) features **16,829 language pairs** with deduplication, normalization, and noise filtering

Join us on May 16 at 10:00 EEST (Helsinki time) for a session hosted by GreenNLP and the NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC) Finland on developments in NLP technologies using the NeMo framework. greennlp.github.io/news/2025/04...

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

NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 - Proceedings The proceedings of NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025, the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies, are published by the University of...

The NoDaLiDa x Baltic-HLT Proceedings are up!

See here: www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/proceedings

See you also soon in Tallinn!

#NLP #NLProc #nodalida #baltichlt

Separating me from the @helsinki-nlp.bsky.social account is probably a good idea, is it?

There is an open position for a postdoc in our lab in this call. The focus will be on scalable modular NLP with funding from the ERC PoC project MARMoT

Principal Investigator positions at ELLIS Institute Finland | ELLIS Institute Finland Now recruiting new PIs in artificial intelligence and machine learning

I have big news: @ellis.eu has launched its 2nd major research center, @ellisfinland.bsky.social! I have agreed to start as founding director & the first call for PI positions is open. This is a major opportunity for outstanding researchers, join us! ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit

Logo of ELLIS Institute Finland (line drawn map of Europe)

ELLIS Institute Finland is hiring Principal Investigators in AI + machine learning. World-class resources for research incl. LUMI supercomputer, generous starting package & professorship affiliation with a university in the world’s happiest country! Apply by March 9: ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit

It's time for transparent AI in Europe. It's time for open LLMs as a robust foundation for developing future private and public AI services. It's time for:

OPEN = open-source
Euro = under EU regulations, representing EU values
LLM = LLMs

openeurollm.eu

Time for the first post on Bluesky: the ERC decided to give funding to our proof-of-concept project MARMoT blogs.helsinki.fi/language-tec...