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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 19h

A memorial service, followed by a reception, will take place on Friday, 14 November at 5:00 PM in the Aula (KOL-G-201) of the main building of the University of Zurich (Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich).

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · 19d

It is with deep sorrow that we bid farewell to Prof. Dr. Martin Volk, who passed away on 15 September 2025 at the age of 64 after a brief and sudden illness. www.cl.uzh.ch/en/about-us/...

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · Aug 20

On September 11, 2025, our department will hold a Welcome Day for new students. Don't miss this opportunity to get to know your new university, study program, and fellow students! Find out more:
www.cl.uzh.ch/en/studies/s...

Essential Tips for First-Year Students

www.cl.uzh.ch

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · Aug 20

We are proud to announce that Lena Jäger, Head of Digital Linguistics at our department, has also been appointed as a professor in the Department of Informatics. Congratulations!
Find out more about her interdisciplinary work: www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news/lena...

Lena Jäger takes over dual Professorship

www.ifi.uzh.ch

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Negar Foroutan @negarforoutan.bsky.social · Aug 11

🚨New Preprint!

In multilingual models, the same meaning can take far more tokens in some languages, penalizing users of underrepresented languages with worse performance and higher API costs. Our Parity-aware BPE algorithm is a step toward addressing this issue: 🧵

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · Aug 3

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...

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · Jul 30

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...

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · Jul 29

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!

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

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · Jul 20

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

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Volker Dellwo @volkerdellwo.bsky.social · Jun 27

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....

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...

cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · Jun 6

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...

Terminology Translation Task

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Computational Linguistics Journal @complingjournal.bsky.social · May 30

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...

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · May 22

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.

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · May 21

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!

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michellewastl.bsky.social @michellewastl.bsky.social · May 19

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! ✨

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · May 13

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!

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · Apr 11

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!

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Marianne Hundt @hundtmariann.bsky.social · Apr 1

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

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...

jobs.uzh.ch

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Digital Linguistics Lab @dili-lab.bsky.social · Mar 26

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 👀

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Digital Linguistics Lab @dili-lab.bsky.social · Mar 24

Correct link: cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht

Universiteit Utrecht

cpl2025.sites.uu.nl

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Digital Linguistics Lab @dili-lab.bsky.social · Mar 24

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!

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Hanxu Hu @hanxuhu.bsky.social · Mar 14

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]

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · Mar 13

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!

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Juri Opitz @nlopitz.bsky.social · Mar 11

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

Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2405.05966

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Computational Linguistics @ UZH @cl-uzh.bsky.social · Mar 10

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

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