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Just Released: Machine Translation Engine for Romansh

Covering the six varieties of the Romansh language.

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The Joy of Multiple-Choice

Box-ticking exams save ink and time.

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OpenAI's Speculative Decoding,
Reverse-Engineered

Why LLMs are faster if we give them a draft to complete.

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An Encoder Model for Swiss German

SwissBERT can now process written Swiss German.

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Wenn ChatGPT den Smartvote-Fragebogen ausfüllt

Sind Sprachmodelle politisch voreingenommen?

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Recent publications

Jannis Vamvas, Ignacio Pérez Prat, Angela Heldstab, Dominic P. Fischer, Sina Ahmadi and Rico Sennrich. 2026. Translation Asymmetry in LLMs as a Data Augmentation Factor: A Case Study for 6 Romansh Language Varieties. Accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2026. [cite] [data] [model] [code]

Michelle Wastl, Jannis Vamvas and Rico Sennrich. 2026. Scaling Unsupervised Word Alignment to Documents via Structural Constraints. Accepted to EMNLP 2026. [cite] [data] [codecode]

Hanxu Hu, Zdeněk Šnajdr, Pinzhen Chen, Jannis Vamvas and Rico Sennrich. 2026. Reinforcement Learning Elicits Contextual Learning of Unseen Language Translation. Accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2026. [cite] [code]

Michelle Wastl, Jannis Vamvas and Rico Sennrich. 2026. SwissGov-RSD: A Human-annotated, Cross-lingual Benchmark for Token-level Recognition of Semantic Differences Between Related Documents. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 31134–31163, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [data] [code] ★ Selected as SAC Highlight

Apertus Team. 2026. Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 46877–46955, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [model]

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