📣 SwissText 2026 – 2nd Call for Papers!

🎯 Special theme: #ReproducibleNLP
📅 Deadline approaching: 17 March 2026
📍 Zurich, Switzerland, 10 June 2026

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📣 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...

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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

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

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Sina Ahmadi, Rico Sennrich, Michelle Wastl, Jannis Vamvas, Andrianos Michail from the Department of Computational Linguistics posing in front of the at ACL 2025 Vienna step-and-repeat banner

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!

UPDATED SLOT TIME:

Machine Translation Models are Zero-Shot Detectors of Translation Direction

will now be presented in Session 10:

Tuesday, July 28, 16:00 - 17:30

Arrived in Vienna ready for #ACL2025NLP!

Excited to present papers with @vamvas.bsky.social @ricosennrich.bsky.social on Unsupervised Translation Direction Detection and Multilingual Hallucination Detection!

Come say hi! 👋
#NLProc #NLP #NMT #LLMs

I had the pleasure of presenting our paper “20min-XD: A Comparable Corpus of Swiss News Articles (arxiv.org/abs/2504.21677) ”, a joint work with @vamvas.bsky.social , Selena Calleri and @ricosennrich.bsky.social , at SwissText 2025 last week.

We are honored to receive Best Paper Award for it! ✨

Michelle Wastl at the SwissNLP Expo

Our Michelle Wastl is demonstrating her invention, the Translation Direction Detector, at the SwissNLP Expo!
Michelle's paper: arxiv.org/abs/2401.06769
Demo: huggingface.co/spaces/Zuric...
If you're at the expo, make sure to stop by the Department of Computational Linguistics UZH!