Jörg Tiedemann

We're hiring a PhD student (3y, fully funded), within Helsinki-NLP. The research topic has to do with factuality and multilinguality. Details and how to apply: helsinki-nlp.github.io/flam/open-po... Don't hesitate to forward this to potentially interested students!

Another round of PhD and PostDoc calls from the growing @ellisinstitute.fi. We welcome applicants with an NLP profile to work together with our @helsinki.fi lab as part of this call.

Missed the #EACL2027 deadline? Don’t worry! You can still submit: 💻 your #NLProc demo papers by 22 September, see 2027.eacl.org/calls/demos/ 🏭 your #NLProc industry papers by 11 September, see 2027.eacl.org/calls/indust...

📢 CFP: UncertaiNLP 2026 @ EMNLP The 3rd Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP will take place in Budapest on Oct 29. Topics include uncertainty, ambiguity, reliability, and hallucination detection. 📝 Deadline: Aug 7, 2026 🔗 uncertainlp.github.io #EMNLP2026 #UncertaiNLP

I will be presenting the latest edition of the massive parallel OpenSubtitles corpus at LREC. Pass by if you are attending the conference or check out the paper (doi.org/10.63317/4iv...) and our resource (links from github.com/Helsinki-NLP...)

Don’t forget the call for PostDocs in the @ellisinstitute.fi with a deadline on February 9: www.ellisinstitute.fi/postdoc-recr.... Up to 10 positions in various areas of ML including NLP.

Another opportunity to join ELLIS in Finland. All fields of ML are welcome including work on NLP

Don't forget the deadline on Monday, January 12! Join us at @helsinki-nlp.bsky.social as a new ELLIS PI.

See you next week at EMNLP! We will be presenting our work: Scaling Low-Resource MT via Synthetic Data Generation with LLMs 📍 Poster Session 13 📅 Fri, Nov 7, 10:30-12:00 - Hall C 📖 Check it out! arxiv.org/abs/2505.14423 @helsinki-nlp.bsky.social @cambridgenlp.bsky.social @emnlpmeeting.bsky.social

Timeline: - Paper submission: Dec 19 - Commitment for pre-reviewed papers: Jan 2 - Acceptance notifs: Jan 23 - Camera-ready: Feb 3 - Workshop: TBD (Mar 24-29) Organizers: Yves Scherrer, Noëmi Aepli, @tosaja.bsky.social, Nikola Ljubešić, Preslav Nakov, @tiedeman.bsky.social, Marcos Zampieri & me

🧠 We explore how monolingual, bilingual, and code-augmented data shape multilingual continual pretraining across high- to low-resource languages. Big thanks to my supervisor @tiedeman.bsky.social man.bsky.social, who will be presenting our poster — come say hi!

It’s happening, the 18th MT Marathon (blogs.helsinki.fi/language-tec...) will start tomorrow with a great line-up in our program. Looking forward to see you all in Helsinki!

📢 First release: 38 monolingual reference LLMs (2.15B params) via #HPLT + #OpenEuroLLM ⚙️Trained on 100B tokens from HPLT v2 dataset 🌍 Cover EU langs + others ⚙️ Based on LLaMA, trained on #LUMI 📈 Useful for evaluation Downloads + more info at openeurollm.eu/blog/hplt-oe...

Wanna read great demo papers at EMNLP 2025? You can, because remember: It's *YOUR* community too! So roll up your sleeves and join our program committee as a reviewer: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📢 [**mala-opus-dedup-2410**](huggingface.co/datasets/MaL...) 🎉 Part of the [**MaLA Corpus**](huggingface.co/collections/...), deduplicated dataset from [OPUS](opus.nlpl.eu) (cutoff Oct 2024) features **16,829 language pairs** with deduplication, normalization, and noise filtering

Join us on May 16 at 10:00 EEST (Helsinki time) for a session hosted by GreenNLP and the NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC) Finland on developments in NLP technologies using the NeMo framework. greennlp.github.io/news/2025/04...

Call for participation: We just opened the registration for this year's MT Marathon in August in Helsinki, Finland: blogs.helsinki.fi/language-tec..., featuring: - Ayodele Awokoya - Wilker Aziz - Marta Costa-Jussa - Barry Haddow - Amit Moryosse - Sara Papi - Jörg Tiedemann - Marco Turchi

The NoDaLiDa x Baltic-HLT Proceedings are up! See here: www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/proceedings See you also soon in Tallinn! #NLP #NLProc #nodalida #baltichlt

Separating me from the @helsinki-nlp.bsky.social account is probably a good idea, is it?

There is an open position for a postdoc in our lab in this call. The focus will be on scalable modular NLP with funding from the ERC PoC project MARMoT

I have big news: @ellis.eu has launched its 2nd major research center, @ellisfinland.bsky.social! I have agreed to start as founding director & the first call for PI positions is open. This is a major opportunity for outstanding researchers, join us! ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit

ELLIS Institute Finland is hiring Principal Investigators in AI + machine learning. World-class resources for research incl. LUMI supercomputer, generous starting package & professorship affiliation with a university in the world’s happiest country! Apply by March 9: ellisinstitute.fi/PI-recruit

It's time for transparent AI in Europe. It's time for open LLMs as a robust foundation for developing future private and public AI services. It's time for: OPEN = open-source Euro = under EU regulations, representing EU values LLM = LLMs openeurollm.eu

Time for the first post on Bluesky: the ERC decided to give funding to our proof-of-concept project MARMoT blogs.helsinki.fi/language-tec...