💫Do Inuit languages really have many words for snow? Which languages have higher proportion of terms for "smell"? ✨Excited to share our joint work with Charles Kemp, Temuulen Khishigsuren and Terry Regier: https://t.co/kSsZtuwq8y ✨The Conversation: https://t.co/HtNUdRXyyL

We’re the NLP Group at @Unimelb! Our goal is to push the boundaries of language and AI. Follow us for research updates, papers, and a peek into life in NLP at Melbourne! ✨ #NLP #AI #UniMelb

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📢 First CFP: The Ninth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2026) ⏰Submit Your Papers By: Dec 19 2025, at 23:59 (AoE) 👉More details: https://t.co/JeT678Bc65 @eaclmeeting @aclmeeting @insight_centre @ivrik @chstoneliu

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors https://t.co/wn6Tr3UK5y The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia, says that it’s seeing a significant decline in human traffic to the online encyclopedia because more people are

🔥Great example of collaboration btw @UniMelb PhD students @RaphaelMerx, Aso Mahmudi and A/Prof Nick Thieberger resulting in transcription, correction and translation of recordings in Bislama and helping Australians who work on humanitarian missions after disasters in Vanuatu!

📢📢The submission deadline for #LREC2026 Main conference papers, workshop and tutorial proposals is extended to October 24, 2025. All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”) Contact us @ info@lrec2026.info https://t.co/EeUv29LOGE #nlp #NLProc

11/ He wore socks with sandals (regardless if it was snowing), and announced that lecture was beginning by kicking his sandals off with full force, having them SLAM into the side wall, sometimes just barely missing a student's head.

⚕️Incorrect translation in healthcare can have serious consequences. This is esp critical for low-resource languages that often lack sufficient amount of data in this domain. We release a novel dataset derived from #WHO professional translations for MT/LLM evaluation 👇 #NLProc

This is incredible 🤯. Sora 2 passes the glass refraction test.

Opportunities to join my group in fall 2026: * PhD applications direct or via @ELLISforEurope ( https://t.co/NdG57c3doS) * Post-doc applications direct or via Azrieli @azrielifdn ( https://t.co/gzyYfN0z34) or Zuckerman @stem_program ( https://t.co/ZqCEbb9o4C)

Maximum Likelihood seems like such a natural idea, but it has historically been highly controversial, with an epic and turbulent history with numerous assaults on the idea, culminating in a beautiful and complicated theory. A highly entertaining read:

🔥How is knowledge preserved and transmitted across generations in oral traditions? How is it incorporated in language? What's "mother-in-law' language? Sharing slides from the 1st joint work with my son where we discuss fascinating properties of Indigenous Languages of Australia

Teaching a new course @Stanford this quarter on explainable AI, motivated by neuroscience. I have curated a paper list 4 pages long (link in comment). What are your favorite papers on explainable AI/mechanistic interpretability that I am missing? Please comment or DM. thanks!

🗣️Mozilla Common Voice users!🗣️ Important notice: the client ID does not always correspond to a single speaker ID! Every so often, a single client ID contains more than one speaker’s voice. Our #Interspeech2025 paper examines the extent of this problem and proposes a solution

THE HIGH ENERGY MANIFESTO It is not enough to be high iq. You must also be high energy.

In high school I had a physics class where the teacher had us do the experiments *before* explaining the concepts they were meant to demonstrate, as God intended. So we measured the temperature of a hot glass of water and a cold block of aluminum of equal mass, then put the

💫Slides in English: https://t.co/ItQVbfnGLY 💫Slides in Russian:

🔥How is knowledge preserved and transmitted across generations in oral traditions? How is it incorporated in language? What's "mother-in-law' language? Sharing slides from the 1st joint work with my son where we discuss fascinating properties of Indigenous Languages of Australia

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here:

Introducing two new tokenizer-free LLM checkpoints from our research lab: TFree-HAT 7B Built on our Hierarchical Autoregressive Transformer (HAT) architecture, these models achieve top-tier German and English performance while processing text on a UTF-8 byte level.