November 2023 – Language Technology

15.11.202314.2.2024

Public examination of Raúl Vázquez’ PhD thesis

Our FoTran team member Raúl Vázquez will defend the doctoral dissertation entitled “Representation Learning in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation”

The public examination will take place in the Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, on 17 November 2023 at 10:00 in the lecture hall at Unioninkatu 33, (room 303). Senior Researcher Dr. Cristina España i Bonet, DFKI, will serve as the opponent, and Jörg Tiedemann as the custos.

The defense will also be streamed on Unitube: https://video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live-stream.html?room=l44

The dissertation will be published in the series Dissertationes Universitatis Helsingiensis (http://hdl.handle.net/10138/566538)

8.11.20238.11.2023

Helsinki-NLP is busy at the FCAI AI day

The language technology group from Helsinki has substantial presence at the AI day organized by the Finnish Center for AI (FCAI). Check out the program and see our presentations about

SHROOM, a shared-task on hallucinations and related observable overgeneration mistakes,
Unsupervised Feature Selection for Effective Parallel Corpus Filtering using OpusFilter,
Uncertainty-Aware Natural Language Inference with Stochastic Weight Averaging from the project on Uncertainty-Aware NLP,
The OPUS-MT Dashboard A Toolkit for a Systematic Evaluation of Open Machine Translation Models,
Grammatical Error Correction for Sentence-level Assessment in Language Learning
HPLT: High Performance Language Technologies
Releasing the MAMMOTH – a framework for modular multilingual translation models
Is implicit assessment of language learning during practice as accurate as assessment through testing?

Come and see us at the presentations and posters!