The second edition of LoResLM will take place in Rabat, Morocco, alongside @eaclmeeting.bsky.social 2026. #NLProc #EACL2026 #LoResLM

The second edition of LoResLM will take place in Rabat, Morocco, alongside @eaclmeeting.bsky.social 2026.

Hansi Hettiarachchi | @tharindudr.bsky.social | @aplum.bsky.social | @perayson.bsky.social | Ruslan Mitkov | Mohamed Medhat Gaber | Damith Premasiri | Fiona Anting Tan | Lasitha Uyangodage

2. Sinhala Encoder-only Language Models and Evaluation
Hansi Hettiarachchi | Nadeesha Pathirana | Damith Premasiri | Lasitha Uyangodage | Isuri Anuradha | ‪@aplum.bsky.social‬ | ‪@perayson.bsky.social‬ | Ruslan Mitkov
📍 July 30 11:00-12:30 (Hall 4/5)
🔗https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.422/

Heading to Vienna to present two papers at the #ACL2025NLP main conference. #NLProc

1. MUSTS: MUltilingual Semantic Textual Similarity Benchmark
Hansi Hettiarachchi | ‪@di-tri-nel.bsky.social‬ | Ruslan Mitkov
📍 July 29 10:30-12:00 (Hall 4/5)
🔗 aclanthology.org/2025.acl-sho...

Alistair Plum will discuss generative models for Luxembourgish using a multilingual approach in his paper

„Text Generation Models for Luxembourgish with Limited Data: A Balanced Multilingual Strategy“

w/ @tharindudr.bsky.social & @questoph.bsky.social

The UK govt have today launched a new plan for growth and AI. It

- shifts away from the safety-centric vision of the last government
- promises new compute and data centres
- aims to drive adoption of the use of AI in the public sector

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Hello world, from the UCREL group at Lancaster University!