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Seth Aycock
@sethjsa.bsky.social
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PhD student in NLP, focusing on low-resource translation with LLMs. University of Amsterdam
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Seth Aycock @sethjsa.bsky.social · 29d
MT Marathon this year organised by @helsinki-nlp.bsky.social was a great week - I presented my research on chain-of-thought for machine translation, worked on a mini-research project, and explored the wonderful city of Helsinki including a few trips to the sauna 🫠
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Raphaël Merx @rapha.dev · May 8
My favourite ICLR paper so far. Methodology, findings and their implications are all very cool.

In particular Fig. 2 + this discussion point:
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Seth Aycock @sethjsa.bsky.social · Apr 25
Pleased to announce our paper was accepted at ICLR 2025 as a Spotlight! I will present our poster on Saturday April 26, 3-5pm, Poster #241. Hope to see you there!
arxiv.org/abs/2409.19151
Can LLMs Really Learn to Translate a Low-Resource Language from One Grammar Book?
Extremely low-resource (XLR) languages lack substantial corpora for training NLP models, motivating the use of all available resources such as dictionaries and grammar books. Machine Translation from ...
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