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Nils Feldhus @nfel.bsky.social · Jul 26

We introduce the TableEval benchmark and investigate the effectiveness and robustness of text-based and multimodal LLMs on table understanding through a cross-domain & cross-modality evaluation.

Joint work by DFKI SLT incl. Fabio Barth, Raia Abu Ahmad, @malteos.bsky.social @pjox.bsky.social

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Pedro Ortiz Suarez @pjox.bsky.social · Jul 21

If you want to help us improve language and cultural coverage, and build an open source LangID system, please register to our shared task on Language Identification! 💬

Registering is easy! All the details are on the shared task webpage: wmdqs.org/shared-task/

Deadline: July 23, 2025 (AoE) ⏰

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Catherine Arnett @ 🍁COLM🍁 @catherinearnett.bsky.social · Jul 9

Just a few days left to contribute annotations before the first release of training data. We have over 17,000 document annotations so far!

Catherine Arnett @ 🍁COLM🍁 @catherinearnett.bsky.social · Jun 9

One of the biggest obstacles to improving language technologies for low-resource languages is the lack of data. To address this, we need better language identification tools. So, we're organizing a shared task on Language Identification for Web Data! #NLP #NLProc

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Common Crawl Foundation @commoncrawl.bsky.social · Jul 8

In June 2025 the Common Crawl Foundation, MLCommons, and EleutherAI had the pleasure of hosting a virtual hackathon in partnership with Masakhane in order to collect language identification annotations for African languages.

commoncrawl.org/blog/the-fir...

Common Crawl - Blog - The First WMDQS-Masakhane LangID Hackathon

In June 2025 the Common Crawl Foundation, MLCommons, and EleutherAI had the pleasure of hosting a virtual hackathon in partnership with Masakhane in order to collect language identification annotation...

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Common Crawl Foundation @commoncrawl.bsky.social · Jul 1

The Common Crawl Foundation team took part in the United Nations Open Source Week in New York City this June, meeting with global developers, researchers, and policymakers to discuss all things open source and AI.

commoncrawl.org/blog/common-...

Common Crawl - Blog - Common Crawl at the United Nations Open Source Week, June 2025

The Common Crawl Foundation team took part in the United Nations Open Source Week in New York City this June, meeting with global developers, researchers, and policymakers to discuss all things open s...

commoncrawl.org

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Common Crawl Foundation @commoncrawl.bsky.social · Jun 23

The deadline for paper submissions has been extended!

The new deadline is July 3, 2025. AoE.

For more information, please visit: wmdqs.org

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Common Crawl Foundation @commoncrawl.bsky.social · Jun 10

The Common Crawl Foundation, together with IBM, the AI Alliance, and BrightQuery will be hosting an "UN Conference" at IBM's new flagship NYC HQ at One Madison Avenue on Friday, June 20, from 12:30-5pm.

If you are in NYC, it would be great to see you there!

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AI Alliance @ IBM One Madison (UN Open Source Week 2025) · Luma

This year’s UN Open Source Week 2025, June 16-20) will once again bring together a global “who is who” of Open Source leaders. As part of the official…

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Common Crawl Foundation @commoncrawl.bsky.social · May 29

Call for papers!
We are organising the 1st Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals with @mlcommons.org and @eleutherai.bsky.social, held in tandem with @colmweb.org. Submit your research on multilingual data quality!

Submission deadline is 23 June, more info: wmdqs.org

1st Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals

wmdqs.org

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Pedro Ortiz Suarez @pjox.bsky.social · Apr 11

I’ll be running the Paris Marathon this Sunday for cancer research and treatment 🏃🏻‍♂️

Please donate if you can! Every donation no matter how small, helps immensely.

marathon-paris.dossards-solidaires.org/fundraisers/...

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netpreserve.bsky.social @netpreserve.bsky.social · Apr 8

We would like to welcome all of our attending members to Oslo, with a special welcome to two of our newest members, the Publications Office of the European Union and @commoncrawl.bsky.social!

@nettarkivet.bsky.social | #iipcGA25 | #webarchiving

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Pedro Ortiz Suarez @pjox.bsky.social · Mar 10

I don’t know if it is good (and I haven’t tried it), but I found this the other day: www.cherico.fr

CHERICO®, la chicorée comme vous ne l'avez jamais bue !

CHERICO, la chicorée nouvelle génération : saine, gourmande, durable ! En 2023, on se lance dans la folle aventure de devenir micro torréfacteur de Chicorée convaincues que cette boisson à touts les a...

www.cherico.fr

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Pedro Ortiz Suarez @pjox.bsky.social · Feb 22

Same thing is true for coffee, prices haven’t increased much in the last 60 years, but the cost of living for the producers has skyrocketed in recent years 😢

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Internet Archive Europe @internetarchive.eu · Feb 14

Today is "I love Free Software Day".

Thank you to the @commoncrawl.bsky.social Foundation for all their hard work. Onwards! @pjox.bsky.social - So great to meet in person.

Two men Brewster and Pedro standing in front of a fireplace and mirror smiling and facing the camera.

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Pedro Ortiz Suarez @pjox.bsky.social · Feb 10

I’ll be today at the AI Action Summit in Paris, if you’re attending and want to discuss about @commoncrawl.bsky.social or about open data, please DM me!

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Pedro Ortiz Suarez @pjox.bsky.social · Jan 21

We're very happy to release cc-downloader, a new CLI tool to download Common Crawl data 📚🚀🧑‍💻

‍cc-downloader is still under active development, so if you find any issues or would like to submit a feature request, please visit its GitHub repository at github.com/commoncrawl/....

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Common Crawl Foundation @commoncrawl.bsky.social · Dec 11

Common Crawl - Blog - Expanding the Language and Cultural Coverage of Common Crawl

We aim to enhance linguistic diversity in our dataset by inviting community contributions of non-English URLs and collaborating with MLCommons on a Language Identification campaign.

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Pedro Ortiz Suarez @pjox.bsky.social · Nov 19

If you care about open data or anything related to crawling, The Common Crawl Foundation @commoncrawl.bsky.social is now on Bluesky 📊📈📚🥳

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Pedro Ortiz Suarez @pjox.bsky.social · Nov 15

😂 No worries, I do mostly Rust and Python these days 🦀

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Pedro Ortiz Suarez @pjox.bsky.social · Sep 30

Ran the Berlin marathon yesterday and while it was not my best marathon and I was recovering from injury, I had an amazing time. I really hope I can do better next year in Paris where I'll run for cancer research. If you can donate please do so: marathon-paris.dossards-solidaires.org/fundraisers/...

Report of Pedro's Berlin Marathon splits, first half time was 2:06:57 and second half was 2:44:01. Final time was 4:50:58.

Photo of Pedro holding his medal in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

Photo of Pedro's Bib number (26445) and his medal.

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Pedro Ortiz Suarez @pjox.bsky.social · Aug 30

If you can and want to give a donation to the Gustave Roussy Institute, however small, I'd be extremely grateful. If you cannot donate, resharing/boosting is always appreciated! Thank you! ❤️

Pedro Ortiz Suarez @pjox.bsky.social · Aug 30

I decided to run the 2025 Paris Marathon for the Gustave Roussy Institute, the Leading Cancer Centre in Europe. This is a cause close to my heart, as cancer has touched my family, my friends and colleagues:

marathon-paris.dossards-solidaires.org/fundraisers/...

Marathon for Gustave Roussy Institute

Chers amis et famille, J'ai décidé de courir le Marathon de Paris 2025, mais cette fois-ci j'ai choisi de courir pour l'Institut Gustave Roussy, premier centre de lutte contre le cancer en Europe tant...

marathon-paris.dossards-solidaires.org

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Pedro Ortiz Suarez @pjox.bsky.social · Apr 8

Ran the Paris Marathon yesterday. It was an amazing experience. Getting into running was probably the best decision I’ve made in recently. It has helped massively with both physical and mental health. I highly recommend any type of physical activity, especially for researchers 🏃🏻‍♂️

Pedro’s medal and bib (number 77156) for the Paris Marathon.

Pedro’s splits for the Paris Marathon and final time of 4:47:33. Full readable results should be available in https://resultscui.active.com/participants/45607218

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Pedro Ortiz Suarez @pjox.bsky.social · Sep 25

Thank you! 😄

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Pedro Ortiz Suarez @pjox.bsky.social · Sep 24

I still don’t know how, but I finished my first marathon in 5:03:04 🥹

Pedro at the Branderburg gate after finishing the Berlin Marathon.

Pedro’s medal for finishing the Berlin Marathon, time reads 5:03:04

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Pedro Ortiz Suarez @pjox.bsky.social · Aug 10

Very happy to announce this new release of @oscarproject.bsky.social 🥳. We're still working on documentation so please be patient, more details and features are coming soon! 👀

We're always open for feedback and collaboration, so please join our community: https://t.co/toLKAPje4E

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