Available tracks:
🔹 Scientific Track (archival research)
🔹 Corpus Track (focus on datasets)
🔹 Applied Track (real-world NLP applications)
🔹 Demonstration Track (live system demos)
Less than 3 weeks left – don't miss your chance to present in Zurich!
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Still working on that #NLProc paper? Time to submit! We welcome work on foundational research, #Swiss-centric language resources, and real-world NLP applications submitted via #OpenReview:
openreview.net/group?id=Swi...
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📣 SwissText 2026 – 2nd Call for Papers!
🎯 Special theme: #ReproducibleNLP
📅 Deadline approaching: 17 March 2026
📍 Zurich, Switzerland, 10 June 2026
www.swisstext.org/call-for-pap...
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Congratulations to @ricosennrich.bsky.social on his dual Professorship at our department and at the Department of Informatics.
www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news/rico...
All submissions are handled via #OpenReview
openreview.net/group?id=Swi...
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We welcome submissions across multiple tracks, including:
🔹 Scientific Track (archival research)
🔹 Corpus Track (focus on datasets)
🔹 Applied Track (real-world NLP applications)
🔹 Demonstration Track (live system demos)
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Whether you’re advancing foundational #NLProc research, releasing new Swiss-centric #language resources, or showcasing cutting-edge NLP applications, we’d love to see your work!
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📣 SwissText 2026 – Call for Papers is open!
🎯 Special theme: #ReproducibleNLP
📅 Submission deadline: 17 March 2026
📍 Zurich, Switzerland · 10 June 2026
www.swisstext.org/call-for-pap...
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📣 We’re pleased to announce that our department will co-organize the 11th edition of the SwissText conference!
#SwissText2026 will take place on 10 June 2026, hosted at the University of Zurich (Campus Oerlikon). Save the date!
www.swisstext.org/current/
#NLProc #UZHai #CompLing
UZH Postdoc Team Award: When Spirituality Meets AI Group photo of the winning team consisting of Patrick Montjouridès, Anastassia Shaitarova, Fabian Winiger and Yingqiang Gao.
Congratulations to @shaitarova.bsky.social and Yingqiang Gao from our department, and to their collegues Fabian Winiger (Department of Theology) and Patrick Montjouridès (Institute of Education) for winning the UZH Postdoc Team Award!
www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/...
Best Talk Award CPL 2025
Congratulations to our PhD student @cuiding.bsky.social for winning the Best Talk Award in the Computational Psycholinguistics Meeting 2025 (CPL 2025) lnkd.in/euTX89gi!
Take a look at how we challenge state-of-the-art NLP systems to recognize token-level semantic differences across languages with our new SwissGov-RSD dataset! @vamvas.bsky.social @ricosennrich.bsky.social
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2512.075...
Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/Zur...
#NLProc
Iuliia Thorbecke wearing her Docotor's hat that was decorated by other PhD students of our department
Congratulations to Iuliia Thorbecke (Nigmatulina), who just passed the viva of her PhD on using contextual information to improve automatic speech recognition, for example using radar flight information to better transcribe air traffic communication.
Congratulations to Ann-Sophie Gnehm, who just passed the viva of her PhD on "Bridging the Gap between Job Ad Texts and Labor Market Ontologies with Adaptation and Contextualization Techniques". With many thanks to the external examiners @dirkhovy.bsky.social and Einat Minkov.
UZH group picture at #EMNLP2025!
If you're here, catch us for a chat!
🎉 Terminology Shared Task @WMT25: Paper Out 🎉
Highlights:
- sentence translation seems solvable, document translation is still challenging
- better systems benefit more from proper terminologies
- term-based metrics correlate poorly with general translation quality
www2.statmt.org/wmt25/pdf/20...
Upcoming panel discussion on Nov 12 moderated by our @tevuko.bsky.social: What Does and What Should AI Know?
More info and registration link: www.ema.uzh.ch/de/register/...
📢 Announcing the First Workshop on Multilingual and Multicultural Evaluation (MME) at #EACL2026 🇲🇦
MME focuses on resources, metrics & methodologies for evaluating multilingual systems! multilingual-multicultural-evaluation.github.io
📅 Workshop Mar 24–29, 2026
🗓️ Submit by Dec 19, 2025
A memorial service, followed by a reception, will take place on Friday, 14 November at 5:00 PM in the Aula (KOL-G-201) of the main building of the University of Zurich (Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich).
recent picture of Martin Volk
It is with deep sorrow that we bid farewell to Prof. Dr. Martin Volk, who passed away on 15 September 2025 at the age of 64 after a brief and sudden illness. www.cl.uzh.ch/en/about-us/...
On September 11, 2025, our department will hold a Welcome Day for new students. Don't miss this opportunity to get to know your new university, study program, and fellow students! Find out more:
www.cl.uzh.ch/en/studies/s...
We are proud to announce that Lena Jäger, Head of Digital Linguistics at our department, has also been appointed as a professor in the Department of Informatics. Congratulations!
Find out more about her interdisciplinary work: www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/news/lena...
🚨New Preprint!
In multilingual models, the same meaning can take far more tokens in some languages, penalizing users of underrepresented languages with worse performance and higher API costs. Our Parity-aware BPE algorithm is a step toward addressing this issue: 🧵
Congratulations to our PhD student, Cui Ding, and Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox, Giovanni Acampa, Tiago Pimentel, Alex Warstadt, Tamar I. Regevon on winning a SAC highlight award at #ACL2025! 👏
2025.aclweb.org/program/awar...
Sina Ahmadi receiving award.
Congratulations to @sinaahmadi.bsky.social and co-authors for receiving an ACL 2025 Outstanding Paper Award for PARME: Parallel Corpora for Low-Resourced Middle Eastern Languages!
aclanthology.org/2025.acl-lon...
Sina Ahmadi, Rico Sennrich, Michelle Wastl, Jannis Vamvas, Andrianos Michail from the Department of Computational Linguistics posing in front of the at ACL 2025 Vienna step-and-repeat banner
We're proud to see our researchers sharing their latest work: @sinaahmadi.bsky.social, @ricosennrich.bsky.social, @michellewastl.bsky.social, @vamvas.bsky.social and Andrianos Michail (pictured) and many others.
If you’re at #ACL, stop by to learn more!
Attending ACL 2025? Looking for a new multimodal modeling challenge? Interested in cognitive modeling and NLP for science? Excited about human centered applications of NLP?
Join our tutorial on Eye Tracking and NLP!!
🗓️ Sunday July 27, 2025, 09:00 - 12:30, Hall M.
#ACL2025 #NLP #EyeTracking
Our new paper @cl-uzh.bsky.social shows that when listeners compare voices of young or female speakers, they show a bias toward judging them as the same. This might be relevant for forensic voice experts when comparing such voices: cognitiveresearchjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10....
We invite you to take part in the third Terminology shared task at WMT, co-organized by one of our students @kiryukhasemenov.bsky.social . This year, it features more language pairs, domains and subtracks than the last one in 2023.
More details at the website: www2.statmt.org/wmt25/termin...
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Zurich, Supertext, and Microsoft introduce ACES, a challenging benchmark spanning 146 language pairs, in their 'Machine Translation Meta Evaluation through Translation Accuracy Challenge Sets'.
Read: direct.mit.edu/coli/article...
