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📅 The #AT4SSL workshop on the automatic translation for signed and spoken translation will be happening in exactly one week! Are you as excited as we are to learn more about #SignLanguage, SL datasets, and #machinetranslation?

Story time! Amit Moryossef presenting #opensource work on gloss-based #signlanguage translation! #MT #at4ssl #eamt2023

Our AT4SSL workshop was a success at #eamt2023! Some fruitful discussions and different perspectives on data collection, translation, and linguistics of sign language! Thank you to all participants, reviewers and interpreters! #MT #signlanguage cc SignON EASIER project

Papers are funded by public money, produced on the back of volunteers. How utterly ridiculous indeed for an uninvolved third party to come in and charge a horrendous amount, whithout adding any value.

We are looking for a PhD student for a project on MT for Signed and Spoken Languages! For more details: tiu.nu/21710

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Two #ACL2023 Outstanding Paper Awards in our group! Congratulations to Mathias Müller, Zifan Jiang, Amit Moryossef, Annette Rios, @ebling_sarah, Rico Sennrich, and all co-authors! aclanthology.org/2023.acl-short… aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.…

Can highly recommend the EASIER Autumn School in Hamburg! Basic idea: teaching sign language to NLP people, and NLP to sign language people. You can apply for fiancial support. sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/easier/easier-…

I'm hiring a post-doctoral researcher to work on multitask/multilingual/multimodal NLP at the University of Zurich. Fully funded until July 2025. Apply by September 15! jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen…

🌟 Just published "SignBank+: Multilingual Sign Language Translation Dataset" (w/ Zifan Jiang). Just $500 in dirty dataset cleanup with ChatGPT, leads to a 20-30 BLEU score boost—no changes to the models required. Check out the paper! arxiv.org/abs/2309.11566

It has been shown that MBR decoding significantly outperforms MAP decoding, but its high cost makes it impractical for most applications. Can we harvest the quality gains of MBR at train time w/o sacrificing inference-time efficiency? TLDR: yes! arxiv.org/abs/2309.10966…

Check out our paper on segmentation for sign languages! We are one step closer to being able to provide basic NLP tools for sign languages. Great work by Amit and Zifan!

We're looking for interns interested in doing research on MT / speech translation in Aachen: jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/…

Minimum Bayes Risk decoding has recently gained momentum in #NLProc. However, a generic implementation for Hugging Face Transformers was missing. Check out our new 𝗺𝗯𝗿 🔥repo, which is designed to work with any model and metric on the Hub: github.com/ZurichNLP/mbr