Researcher in Informatics at University of Edinburgh. Mainly working on machine translation.
Joined April 2010
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Barry Haddow retweeted
11 Mar 2025
📣 Excited to share our latest research: "Demystifying Multilingual Chain-of-Thought in Process Reward Modeling" where we explore process reward models beyond English to improve multi-step reasoning in 11 languages!
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.12663
Code: github.com/weixuan-wang123/M…
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New paper on the HPLT v2 dataset making-of:
- pipeline documentation and code
- extensive analysis of the quality and characteristics
- evaluation of the performance of language models and machine translation systems trained on it
🤓Happy reading! arxiv.org/pdf/2503.10267
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We are happy to announce the second release of HPLT bilingual datasets:
- 50 English-centric language pairs = 380M parallel sentences (HPLT) 🤩
- 1,275 non-English-centric language pairs = 16.7B parallel sentences (MultiHPLT) 😮
Available at the HPLT dataset catalogue and OPUS.
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1 Feb 2025
MT Summit 2025 - deadline extended!
The deadline for all papers (technical/user/translator/products/projects) has been extended to February 10th. MT Summit will be in Geneva, June 23--27. mtsummit2025.unige.ch/index.…
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26 Jan 2025
EAMT best thesis award - closes on January 31st. Completed an MT-related PhD in 2024? In Europe, Africa or Middle East. Then why not submit your thesis. eamt.org/2024/11/28/the-anth…
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🥳 Amazing performance of the #HPLT v2 dataset!
HuggingFace multilingual evaluation HPLT English internal evaluation show that HPLT v2 is one of the best datasets to train LLMs.
Downloads and more at either HPLT ➡️ hplt-project.org/hplt-v2-dat… or HF ➡️huggingface.co/datasets/HPLT…
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2 Dec 2024
Very exciting to see the 9B EuroLLM model released - made in Europe and supporting all official EU languages. More and bigger models to come ...
2 Dec 2024
Today we release EuroLLM-9B: the best EU-made multilingual LLM of its size!
Check the blog post for more info and results: huggingface.co/blog/eurollm-….
Stay tuned for the technical report and bigger and more powerful models!
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2 Dec 2024
EAMT Best thesis award - now open! Have you defended an MT-related thesis in 2024, in EMEA? Then why not submit to the prestigious EAMT BTA? eamt.org/2024/11/28/the-anth… . Deadline: 2025-01-31
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Join us on a new edition of the Winter School!
"Pretraining Data Quality 🧐 and Multilingual Evaluation of LLMs👀"
🪂Feb. 3–5, 2025, Norway
More info and registration: wiki.nlpl.eu/Community/train…
Jointly organised by @hplt_eu and the Nordic Language Processing Laboratory (NLPL)
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Barry Haddow retweeted
20 Nov 2024
The 18th MT marathon will be organized in beautiful Helsinki in the end of August, 2025. We invite you to a week-long gathering of researchers, developers and students with lectures, labs and hacking projects. More information will come - stay tuned!
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17 Nov 2024
*Update:* Deadline for EAMT project grants is extended by 1 week - to November 25th. Details here: eamt.org/2024/10/21/eamt-spo…
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Only 5 days left to apply for EAMT project grants
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13 Nov 2024
Only 5 days left to apply for EAMT project grants
22 Oct 2024
Have an MT-related idea and looking for funding? EAMT are offering project grants of up to €10k (main track) or €4k (students). Apply by Nov. 18th. eamt.org/2024/10/21/eamt-spo… eamt.org/2024/10/21/eamt-spo…
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Barry Haddow retweeted
12 Sep 2024
📢 𝗠𝗧 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: Calls for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗢𝘂𝘁!
You'll find all the details on our website mtsummit2025.unige.ch/
Deadlines:
📆WS&Tutorials = 25 Nov 2024
📆CfP = 27 Jan 2025
#machinetranslation #users #researchers #translators #AI #LLM
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22 Oct 2024
Have an MT-related idea and looking for funding? EAMT are offering project grants of up to €10k (main track) or €4k (students). Apply by Nov. 18th. eamt.org/2024/10/21/eamt-spo… eamt.org/2024/10/21/eamt-spo…
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2 Oct 2024
New HPLT data release is out!
🚀 INTRODUCING THE LATEST HPLT MONOLINGUAL DATASETS! TL;DR:
🔍 4.5 PB of web crawls
📄 21 billion documents
💝 careful extraction, dedup, annotation and cleaning
💥 193 languages!
Explore and download the new HPLT Monolingual Datasets NOW! hplt-project.org/datasets/v2…
#HPLT
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Barry Haddow retweeted
1 Oct 2024
Have you recently used COMET for MT evaluation? ☄️
- Did you report the specific model? ≥12% of papers don't!
- Did you report the package version? Makes a difference.
- `pip install sacrecomet` generates a nice version model signature. Not too late for WMT/EMNLP camera-ready!
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Barry Haddow retweeted
27 Sep 2024
❗Are We Truly Achieving Multilingualism in LLMs or Just Relying on Translation?❗
Need multilingual instruction data and benchmarks? Just translate from English. LLM multilingualism can be easily solved!
If you agree, check out our #EMNLP 2024 paper which says this is sub-optimal. arxiv.org/abs/2406.12822
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Barry Haddow retweeted
25 Sep 2024
Today we release the first EuroLLM paper and models: EuroLLM-1.7B and EuroLLM-1.7B-Instruct!
The EuroLLM project will develop open-weight multilingual LLMs that understand and generate text in all official EU languages.
Stay tuned for the bigger and stronger EuroLLMs (9B, 22B)!
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Barry Haddow retweeted
16 Sep 2024
We know LLMs are poor at MT in low-resource languages (LRLs): curious how to adapt them to perform better? 🚀
Our new paper explores the interplay between scale (of MT data) and diversity (of tasks/langs) in instruction tuning in determining LLM-MT performance for LRLs💡
arxiv.org/abs/2408.12780
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