Publications

Patrick Haller, Jannis Vamvas, Rico Sennrich and Lena Ann Jäger. 2025. Leveraging In-Context Learning for Political Bias Testing of LLMs. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite]

Michelle Wastl, Jannis Vamvas and Rico Sennrich. 2025. Machine Translation Models are Zero-Shot Detectors of Translation Direction. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [code] [demo]

Michelle Wastl, Jannis Vamvas, Selena Calleri and Rico Sennrich. 2025. 20min-XD: A Comparable Corpus of Swiss News Articles. In Proceedings of the 10th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [code] [data] ★ best paper award

Hanxu Hu, Jannis Vamvas and Rico Sennrich. 2025. Source-primed Multi-turn Conversation Helps Large Language Models Translate Documents. Pre-print. [cite] [code]

Patrick Haller, Jannis Vamvas and Lena A. Jäger. 2024. Yes, no, maybe? Revisiting language models' response stability under paraphrasing for the assessment of political leaning. In First Conference on Language Modeling, Philadelphia. [cite] [code]

Jannis Vamvas and Rico Sennrich. 2024. Linear-time Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Reference Aggregation. In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 790–801, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [code]

Juri Grosjean and Jannis Vamvas. 2024. Fine-tuning the SwissBERT Encoder Model for Embedding Sentences and Documents. In Proceedings of the 9th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference, pages 41–49, Chur, Switzerland. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [code] [model] ★ best scientific paper award

Anastassia Shaitarova, Nikolaj Bauer, Jannis Vamvas, and Martin Volk. 2024. Tracing Linguistic Footprints of ChatGPT Across Tasks, Domains and Personas in English and German. In Proceedings of the 9th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference, pages 102–112, Chur, Switzerland. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [code]

Jannis Vamvas, Noëmi Aepli and Rico Sennrich. 2024. Modular Adaptation of Multilingual Encoders to Written Swiss German Dialect. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Modular and Open Multilingual NLP (MOOMIN 2024), pages 16–23, St Julians, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [code] [model] [blog]

Rico Sennrich, Jannis Vamvas and Alireza Mohammadshahi. 2024. Mitigating Hallucinations and Off-target Machine Translation with Source-Contrastive and Language-Contrastive Decoding. In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 21–33, St. Julian’s, Malta. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [code]

Alireza Mohammadshahi, Jannis Vamvas and Rico Sennrich. 2024. Investigating Multi-Pivot Ensembling with Massively Multilingual Machine Translation Models. In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP, pages 169–180, Mexico City, Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [code]

Jannis Vamvas and Rico Sennrich. 2023. Towards Unsupervised Recognition of Token-level Semantic Differences in Related Documents. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 13543–13552, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [code] [model] [data] [demo]

Jannis Vamvas, Tobias Domhan, Sony Trenous, Rico Sennrich and Eva Hasler. 2023. Trained MT Metrics Learn to Cope with Machine-translated References. In Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Machine Translation, pages 983–995, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [code]

Jannis Vamvas. 2023. Model-based Evaluation of Multilinguality. Ph.D. thesis, University of Zurich. [cite] [blog] ★ EAMT 2024 highly commended thesis

Jannis Vamvas, Johannes Graën and Rico Sennrich. 2023. SwissBERT: The Multilingual Language Model for Switzerland. In Proceedings of the 8th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference, pages 54–69, Neuchatel, Switzerland. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [code] [model] [data] [blog]

Jannis Vamvas and Rico Sennrich. 2022. NMTScore: A Multilingual Analysis of Translation-based Text Similarity Measures. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, pages 198–213, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [code] [blog]

Jannis Vamvas and Rico Sennrich. 2022. As Little as Possible, as Much as Necessary: Detecting Over- and Undertranslations with Contrastive Conditioning. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 490–500, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [code] [blog]

Renate Hauser, Jannis Vamvas, Sarah Ebling and Martin Volk. 2022. A Multilingual Simplified Language News Corpus. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Tools and Resources to Empower People with REAding DIfficulties (READI) within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 25–30, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association. [cite] [data]

Jannis Vamvas and Rico Sennrich. 2021. On the Limits of Minimal Pairs in Contrastive Evaluation. In Proceedings of the Fourth BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, pages 58–68, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [code] [blog] ★ best paper award

Jannis Vamvas and Rico Sennrich. 2021. Contrastive Conditioning for Assessing Disambiguation in MT: A Case Study of Distilled Bias. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 10246–10265, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [code] [blog, blog]

Jannis Vamvas and Rico Sennrich. 2020. X-Stance: A Multilingual Multi-Target Dataset for Stance Detection. In Proceedings of the 5th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) & 16th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS), Zurich, Switzerland. [cite] [code] [data] [talk] [blog] ★ best video award