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We are at @eaclmeeting.bsky.social in Rabat! Check out our work and collaborations: 📊 "Early-Exit and Instant Confidence Translation Quality Estimation" — Poster Session 2 (Wed 14:30) 🚀 "BOOM: Beyond Only One Modality — KIT's Multimodal Multilingual Lecture Companion" — Demo Session 1 (Wed 11:30)

📢 Fully-funded #PhD position in #NLProc, focusing on #SpeechLLMs & multimodal language processing. Reposts appreciated! 🙏 📅 Apply by March 15! 🔗 ai4lt.iar.kit.edu/english/team...

Quality estimation (automated metrics) are amazing. Truly. We would like to use them everywhere. That gets compute-expensive very quickly. We also don't know when they don't know. In "Early-Exit and Instant Confidence Translation Quality Estimation" (at EACL26) we fix that.

Last week @ecekt.bsky.social gave a great talk on her recent work "Model Merging to Maintain Language-Only Performance in Developmentally Plausible Multimodal Models"! Thank you so much for joining us, Ece! 🌟

聖誕老人究竟如何理解來自世界各地的眾多願望清單上的內容呢？ फादर क्रिसमस वास्तव में दुनिया भर की कई इच्छा-सूचियों पर लिखा हुआ कैसे समझ सकते हैं? How can Santa actually understand what is written on the many wish lists from all over the world? Find out at: ai4lt.iar.kit.edu #kitinformatik #ai4lt #llm #machinelearning #adventskalender #advent

It was great seeing you all at EMNLP in Suzhou. 🤗🌆 I presented two papers, check them out if you are interested in 🎤 Speech (summarization) or 📊 MT evaluation with multiple candidates. aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m... aclanthology.org/2025.wmt-1.63/

Excited to head over to #Suzhou to present 5 papers at #EMNLP2025 and affiliated venues! Topics include quality estimation and evaluation 👩‍🔬, speech🗣️, and multilinguality🌐- see you soon! 🤩 @maikezufle.bsky.social @jan-niehues.bsky.social

Let's talk about eval (automatic or human) and multilinguality at #EMNLP in Suzhou! 🇨🇳 - Efficient evaluation (Nov 5, 16:30, poster session 3) - MT difficulty (Nov 7, 12:30, findings 3) - COMET-poly (Nov 8, 11:00, WMT) (DM to meet 🌿 )

Am 30.10.25 lädt die VHS Wörth zu einem spannenden Abend rund um KI und Sprache ein. Maike Züfle, Doktorandin in der Forschungsgruppe Artificial Intelligence for Language Technologies am @kit.edu erklärt, wie große Sprachmodelle Texte verstehen, schreiben und übersetzen u. zeigt praktische Beispiele

Our team is growing! Today, we’re excited to welcome our new colleague Yuka Ko, who joins us as a postdoc on the EU Project DVPS. Looking forward to collaborating and achieving great things together. Welcome aboard! 🚀

#Interspeech2025 Excited to present our work on in-context language learning for endangered languages! 🤩 Come chat with Zhaolin Li today 14:30–16:30 (A09-P1-04)! 🔗 www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...

Sara Papi, Maike Z\"ufle, Marco Gaido, Beatrice Savoldi, Danni Liu, Ioannis Douros, Luisa Bentivogli, Jan Niehues MCIF: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talks https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19634

Neat year #NLP conferences: 📍 #EACL2026: 24–29 March 🇲🇦 Rabat (ARR deadline: 6 Oct) 📍 #LREC2026: 11–16 May 🇪🇸 Palma de Mallorca (deadline: 17 Oct) 📍 #ACL2026: 2–7 July 🇺🇸 San Diego (ARR deadline: 6 Jan) 📍 #COLING2027: 9–14 May 2027 🇲🇴 Macao

🇦🇹 I’ll be in Vienna for #ACL2025NLP! Interested in training a speech-aware LLM without a lot of parameteres or data? Come to my poster: 🖼️ Mon, 18:00 Also into Speech Summarization? Join my IWSLT talk in collab with @fbk-mt.bsky.social 🎤 Fri, 14:00 Happy to chat - come say hi! 😎 Papers in 🧵

🚀 Today marks the official start of the #HorizonEurope DVPS project (dvps.translated.com). Happy that @kit.edu is part of this collaboration with 20 leading AI organizations! 📍 This week we're in Rome for the kickoff meeting. Looking forward to exciting collaborations! #DVPS #KIT #MultimodalAI

Excited to share 7 papers accepted at #ACL2025 and affiliated venues! 🎉 Topics include multimodality, cross-lingual transfer, benchmarks, decoding, low-resource languages and more. See you in Vienna! 🤩 #nlproc #acl2025nlp

Program und Lageplan beim Tag der offenen Tür am KIT (Campus Süd) am 17. Mai 2025 #Karlsruhe

@zouharvi.bsky.social and I had fun presenting our poster on efficient reranking for machine translation! Check out our paper with @juliuscheng.bsky.social aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-l...

📢 One week left to apply for a fully funded 3-year PhD position in our group! 📔Automatic translation with large multimodal models: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad... 📌Full details for application: iecs.unitn.it/education/ad... 📆 Deadline: 12 May 2025, 4pm CEST #NLProc #FBK

Fabian and I've landed in Albuquerque for #NAACL25🌞 Can’t wait to connect with everyone! 🎤 Talks & 🖼️Posters from @kit.edu on: - Efficient MT reranking - Length-controlled summaries - Cross-modal representations - Low-resource ASR - Annotation for qualitative research 🧵👇

We had a great time hosting enthusiastic high schoolers at #GirlsDay2025! We explored #LLM basics, played "Break the AI" games, and shared study abroad opportunities at #KIT. Thanks @maikezufle.bsky.social for organizing and @kit.edu @girls-day.de for this initiative! 👩‍💻🌟

The evaluation period has begun for our shared tasks! The test data is now available on our website, and submissions are due Tuesday April 15! ⏰ Please email task organizers or the google group with any questions 🥳

Just returning from Hannover Messe #HM25, where we had the chance to showcase the KIT Lecture Translator at the Baden-Württemberg Evening Reception.

📢 The evaluation period of the Instruction Following task at @iwslt.bsky.social just started! 🖥️ Consider submitting your speech-to-text system! The outputs can be easily uploaded on the SPEECHM platform developed in the Meetween project (www.meetween.eu)! ➡️ iwslt2025.speechm.cloud.cyfronet.pl

First up, a new task for 2025: *Instruction-following for speech processing!* Explore instruction-following for speech ⇨ Integrate speech foundation models with LLMs across tasks such as speech translation, recognition, summarization, and QA. 🔗: iwslt.org/2025/instruc...

Next up: simultaneous speech translation! 🎯 Goal: to explore ways to translate speech into another language like simultaneous interpreting. 🔗 Link: iwslt.org/2025/simulta...

Today's task: model compression!! 🆕 New at IWSLT! But no less exciting 🔥 🎯 Goal: Compress a large, general-purpose multimodal model, making speech translation more efficient ⚡️, deployable 📲, and sustainable ♻️, while preserving translation quality ⭐️ #AI #SpeechTech #ModelCompression #LLMcompression

Exciting news: IWSLT will be co-located with @aclmeeting.bsky.social 2025 again this year! 🎉 Interested in speech processing? Check out the new task on instruction following — any model can participate! 🚀 📅 Data release: April 1 ⏳ Submission deadline: April 15 💬 iwslt.org/2025/instruc...

Hello world! 👋 We're coming out of hibernation to bring you this happy news: 1) We're organising the 3rd edition of GITT at #MTSummit! Working on #gender & #translation #technology? We'll see you there! 2) We're moving away from Twitter, so share the news and help us find old and new GITT friends!

Check out the Instruction-following Speech Processing shared task at #iwslt 2025 ⏲️Deadline April 15th 🎈https://iwslt.org/2025/instruction-following

Hallo Bluesky! 🌞 We are the Artificial Intelligence for Language Technologies (AI4LT) Group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Looking forward to interacting with you here! 🤩