PhD defence done. Honoured to have Vered Shwartz as the opponent!

Helsinki-NLP is proud to see another PhD coming out of the FoTran project (blogs.helsinki.fi/fotran-project/). Congrats Dr. Talman!

We want to thank our participants for their efforts in SHROOM! 🍄 Remember that reviews of system papers are due on ✨15 March AoE (23:59 UTC-12)✨

First datasets, then models! Initial HPLT models (LLMs and MT) are out: hplt-project.org/models, some still running 🏃 We explain what we are doing in the deliverables section: hplt-project.org/deliverables Meanwhile, we keep cooking IA peta-data-bytes 🥘, enriching, dashboarding 📊

Join us Helsinki-NLP with this call for doctoral researchers!

The mammoth demo is running at #EACL2024. Check out our modular framework at github.com/Helsinki-NLP/m…

We will be presenting the HPLT datasets HOW-TO and insights at LREC COLING 2024 in Torino. Paper already in Arxiv.org: arxiv.org/pdf/2403.14009….

Deadline approaching for the 100 fully funded AI-related PhD positions in Finland! Language and speech technology is one of the focus areas!

Researchers from University of Helsinki, Silo AI, NVIDIA introduce MAMMOTH 🦣, a toolkit designed to simplify the training of massively #multilingual modular #MT systems at scale. Timothee Mickus Ona de Gibert Shaoxiong Ji Alessandro Raganato Jörg Tiedemann Helsinki-NLP slator.com/how-to-train-m…

We received 2532 applications for the Finnish AI doctoral program! Thank you to all applicants. Potential interviews will be late-April to mid-May. cc Aalto University University of Helsinki Tampere University Turun yliopisto - University of Turku LUT University 🚀 University of Vaasa University of Oulu University of Eastern Finland University of Jyväskylä Åbo Akademi University

Good news for small languages and LLMs. Paper on open Poro 34B model shows how training on Finnish, English and programming languages creates a very strong Finnish model, that excels in translation and is competitive in generating English and code: arxiv.org/abs/2404.01856

We are happy to announce that NoDaLiDa 2025 will be held jointly with the Baltic-HLT conference in Tallinn, Estonia, March 2–5, 2025. Mark the dates in your calendar! #NLProc

Open position of a permanent university lecturer in humanities data science / computational humanities in Helsinki: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-U… - apply by April 25

📢 NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 *call for papers* is up! 📢 Paper Deadline: *21 October 2024* Find more information on our ✨brand new website✨: nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/call-for-papers 165/166 days until deadline ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 0.6% #NLProc #nodalida_baltichlt

📝‼️Call for Workshop Proposals NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025‼️📝 🗓️ 2 and 5 March, before and after the main conference. Options are full or half-day workshops. Deadline: 26 August 2024. Find more information on our website: nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/call-for-works…

Will you be at LREC COLING 2024 next week? HPLT will! 🥳 Don't miss: - our poster on Thursday 23, 15:30, about FastSpell, one of the langID technologies of our dataset pipeline. (paper 1571) - our presentation on Friday 24, 9:20 for all details about HPLT massive dataset (paper 2199)

LREC COLING 2024 has arrived! We will presenting our work on how we built the HPLT datasets! 📅 Friday 24th of May ⏰ 9.20h-9.40h 📍Room Londra ⌛️Session D3-S1-R3 - Multilinguality, Machine Translation, and Translation Aids II

We are pleased to announce that SHROOM has been selected as the Best Task Paper for SemEval 2024! 🥳🤯🍄 semeval.github.io/SemEval2024/aw… Thank you to all our participants for making this shared task a success! 🤗

A new round of fully funded PhD positions in AI in Finland!

Today Joseph Attieh and I presented KD4MT in the MT Marathon in Prague organized by Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, one of my favourite events of the year! Helsinki-NLP HPLT