Jannis Vamvas

My PhD thesis has been published! #PhDone It’s about NLP systems that process multiple languages and how we can evaluate them. Check out the summary: vamvas.ch/phd-thesis Special thanks go to my main supervisor @RicoSennrich and my colleagues @cl_uzh

If you want to help us improve language and cultural coverage, and build an open source LangID system, please register to our shared task! 💬 Registering is easy! All the details are on the shared task webpage: wmdqs.org/shared-task/ Deadline: July 23, 2025 (AoE) ⏰

Can you solve my exam question? I've come to believe that multiple-choice exams are underrated. More in my blog post, “The Joy of Multiple-Choice.” vamvas.ch/the-joy-of-mul…

University of Zurich and @Huawei researchers explore how #LLMs can improve document-level 📄 #AI #translation by preserving context across segments 🔁 and integrating additional knowledge layers 💡 @UZH_en @UZH_ch @cl_uzh @huhanxu1 @j_vamvas @RicoSennrich slator.com/how-large-lang…

I am hiring a Student Researcher for our Modularity team at the Google DeepMind office in Zurich🇨🇭 Please fill out the interest form if you would like to work with us! The role would start mid/end 2025 and would be in-person in Zurich with 80-100% at GDM forms.gle/N94ViTmKHCCAcv…

I'm thrilled to share my first PhD project, a joint work with @j_vamvas and @RicoSennrich. Paper link: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.10494 Long context LLMs have paved the way for document translation, but is simply inputting the whole content the optimal way? Here's the thread 🧵 [1/n]

Find cl-uzh where the skies are blue!

Join Mu-SHROOM 🍄, a SemEval 2025 shared task on detecting hallucination spans in multilingual LLM outputs! 🌍 Includes Czech with regional Czech questions 🇨🇿. Do you think you can spot when something isn’t true? 🤔 Try it out! 👉 helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom #SemEval2025 #NLProc

Congratulations to @MichelleWastl on receiving an UZH Semester Award for her Master's thesis, «Unsupervised Translation Direction Detection», completed under the supervision of Professor @RicoSennrich.

Join my lab! I’m currently recruiting new students (MSc & PhD) for admission in the fall of 2025 at @Mila_Quebec mila.quebec/en/prospective… Are you interested in multilingual NLP? I would encourage you to apply. Deadline: December 1

Excited for tomorrow to present our work on LLM response stability in the context of political bias assessment at @COLM_conf! Stop by between 9 and 11 at poster #39. Joint work w/@j_vamvas and @LenaAJaeger. 🔗 openreview.net/pdf?id=7xUtka9…