Computational Linguistics @ UZH

Congratulations to our PhD student, Cui Ding, and Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Giovanni Acampa, Tiago Pimentel, Alex Warstadt, Tamar I. Regevon on winning a SAC highlight award at #ACL2025! 👏
2025.aclweb.org/program/awar...

Sina Ahmadi receiving award.

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...

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!

Attending ACL 2025? Looking for a new multimodal modeling challenge? Interested in cognitive modeling and NLP for science? Excited about human centered applications of NLP?
Join our tutorial on Eye Tracking and NLP!!
🗓️ Sunday July 27, 2025, 09:00 - 12:30, Hall M.
#ACL2025 #NLP #EyeTracking

Listeners are biased towards voices of young speakers and female speakers when discriminating voices - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications In face processing, an own-age recognition advantage has frequently been reported whereby observers are better at recognizing faces of their own compared to other age groups. We wanted to know whether...

Our new paper @cl-uzh.bsky.social shows that when listeners compare voices of young or female speakers, they show a bias toward judging them as the same. This might be relevant for forensic voice experts when comparing such voices: cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10....

We invite you to take part in the third Terminology shared task at WMT, co-organized by one of our students @kiryukhasemenov.bsky.social . This year, it features more language pairs, domains and subtracks than the last one in 2023.

More details at the website: www2.statmt.org/wmt25/termin...

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Zurich, Supertext, and Microsoft introduce ACES, a challenging benchmark spanning 146 language pairs, in their 'Machine Translation Meta Evaluation through Translation Accuracy Challenge Sets'.

Read: direct.mit.edu/coli/article...

Congratulations to Alessia Battisti, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on the "Analysis and assessment of continuous Swiss German Sign Language production of adult learners". Special thanks to the external examiner Johanna Mesch.

Congratulations to Marek Kostrzewa, who just successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Monolingual sentence alignment using deep learning". Special thanks to the external examiner Andreas Fischer!

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!

Congratulations to Dr. @shaitarova.bsky.social , who just successfully defended her thesis on "Generated Text as the Locus of Language Contact: Exploring the Impact of Generative AI on English and German". Special thanks to the external examiner Natalia Resende!

UZH: Postdoc in Computational Linguistics Come work with me! I am inviting applications for a postdoc-position in the field of Computational/Historical/English Linguistics as part of a Swiss National Science Fund (SNSF)-funded project on 'Who...

Please repost - the position is part of an SNF-funded project (equivalent of an ERC starting grant)
jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

Excited to share that our group will present 9 papers at this year's ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA) in Tokyo!

We will post summaries of each paper in the coming weeks, but here's a quick sneak peek 👀

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht Universiteit Utrecht

Correct link: cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

Hello Bluesky world! This is our very first post from the Digital Linguistics (DiLi) team — and we’re kicking things off with exciting news:

🖥️ 🧠 We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission for the first Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 is now open!

I'm thrilled to share my first PhD project, a joint work with
@vamvas.bsky.social and @ricosennrich.bsky.social
Paper link:
arxiv.org/pdf/2503.10494
Long context LLMs have paved the way for document translation, but is simply inputting the whole content the optimal way?
Here's the thread 🧵 [1/n]

Congratulations to Jason Armitage, who just successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Embodied AI in Virtual Environments with Alignment of Visual and Linguistic Inputs." Special thanks to the external examiner Sina Zarrieß!

Happy to share that our paper, "Natural Language Processing RELIES on Linguistics," will appear in Computational Linguistics!

Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2405.05966

Happening now: @marinecarpuat.bsky.social giving a talk on "Human-Centered NLP for Cross-Lingual Communication".

Oliver Cory, Ozge Mercanoglu Sincan, Matthew Vowels, Alessia Battisti, Franz Holzknecht, Katja Tissi, Sandra Sidler-Miserez, Tobias Haug, Sarah Ebling, Richard Bowden
Modelling the Distribution of Human Motion for Sign Language Assessment
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10073

Lukas Fischer, Yingqiang Gao, Alexa Lintner, Sarah Ebling
SwissADT: An Audio Description Translation System for Swiss Languages
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14967

Masoumeh Chapariniya, Hossein Ranjbar, Teodora Vukovic, Sarah Ebling, Volker Dellwo
Two-Stream Spatial-Temporal Transformer Framework for Person Identification via Natural Conversational Keypoints
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20803

We have to PhD positions in Voice Communication Sciences (VoCS) vailble right now. Deadline for applications is mid March. Contact me if you want to discuss your application.