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20 Sep 2025
Our #WMT2025 paper got accepted 🙌
We release a dataset for health low-res MT... and find that Gemini 2.5 beats NLLB 54B, if given full document context.
Seeya in Suzhou!
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Raphaël Merx retweeted
19 Sep 2025
Did you know?
❌77% of language models on @huggingface are not tagged for any language
📈For 95% of languages, most models are multilingual
🚨88% of models with tags are trained on English
In a new blog post, @tylerachang and I dig into these trends and why they matter! 👇
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27 Jul 2025
in Vienna for ACL, presenting Tulun, a system for low-resource in-domain translation, using LLMs
Working w 2 real use cases: medical translation into Tetun 🇹🇱 & disaster relief speech translation in Bislama 🇻🇺
27 Jul 2025
✨TULUN: Transparent and Adaptable Low-resource Machine Translation
By: Raphael Merx, Hanna Suominen, Lois Yinghui Hong, Nick Thieberger, Trevor Cohn, Kat Vylomova
Paper: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-de…
Demo: bislama-trans.rapha.dev
#ACL2025NLP #NLProc #ACL2025
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27 Jul 2025
paper: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-de…
demo: youtu.be/fQFwOxzR4MI
Grateful for all the help and advice from my supervisors Hanna Suominen, Nick Thieberger, Trevor Cohn, Katerina Vylomova, and special thanks to Maluk Timor & Lois Hong for the great joint work!
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5 Dec 2024
Our paper on generating bilingual example sentences with LLMs got best paper award @altanlp !
arxiv.org/abs/2410.03182
We work with French / Indonesian / Tetun, find that annotators don't agree about what's a "good example", but that LLMs can align with a specific annotator.
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Raphaël Merx retweeted
12 Sep 2024
Translation is a complex task involving pre-translation research and post-translation stages. Can #LLMs handle this process step-by-step, relying solely on their internal knowledge?
✨We show that decomposing the translation process significantly improves #Gemini translation quality of long-form texts across all #WMT24 languages!
📜arxiv.org/pdf/2409.06790
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16 Aug 2024
Life update: after 10 years in industry, I'm going back to school for a PhD at Uni. of Melbourne!
Started last week, lots of work to do which i'm really looking forward to !
16 Aug 2024
✨A very warm welcome to @RaphaelMerx who is joining #UniMelb #NLProc group to work on enhancing Machine Translation for Medical Education in Timor-Leste! Recently Rapha has presented his first paper on MT for the Mambai Language: aclanthology.org/2024.eurali… !
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27 Jun 2024
Coming to Google Translate: Tetun, Tok Pisin, Balinese, Fijian, Acehnese, and many other languages of SEA & the Pacific!
Let's test quality when they release, but potentially a small revolution in MT for our region
blog.google/products/transla…
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10 Jun 2024
First paper published!
We create a first corpus for the Mambai language (from Timor-Leste), and try teach an LLM to translate into Mambai using examples selected to match the source, all from one language manual.
arxiv.org/abs/2404.04809
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10 Jun 2024
Anyways, goes to show the importance of working with native speakers for low resource NLP work, especially in the LLM era, when benchmarks are less trustworthy than ever!
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10 Jun 2024
Also, the #EURALI folks are very cool and i'm looking forward to more work with them! x.com/sina_ahm/status/179439…
#nlproc #lreccoling2024
25 May 2024
Thanks all for attending #EURALI today! Let’s hope that such research communities along with language enthusiasts and linguists change the landscape of #nlproc for under-resourced languages in the near future! 🙂
#lreccoling2024
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12 Mar 2024
High internet use but low social media use, hats off to 🇩🇪!
Survey by @pewresearch pewresearch.org/short-reads/…
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Raphaël Merx retweeted
8 Mar 2024
This #InternationalWomensDay we pay tribute to the wonder women of Catalpa, who are not just smart and skilled but also fearless, funny and feisty!
We spoke to 7 women about their jobs, their career paths and their wishes for women and girls on this day.
catalpa.io/blog/celebrating-…
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4 Feb 2024
Woke up watching this series of short videos on Papuan languages, very nice: youtube.com/watch?v=1l5jJE-1…
Lots of trivia, like the Bukiyip system having two counting systems, one in base 3 (for coconuts and fish), one in base 4 (for betel nuts and bananas)
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