Niyati Bafna

niyatibafna.bsky.social

14 October 2026 20:04

Multilinguality seems to be shrinking and exploding at the same time. Here's a list of open directions I put together while project hunting. I'd love to chat about any of these at #EMNLP; come find me! niyatibafna.github.io/blog/making_...

Maite Taboada

mtaboada.bsky.social

01 October 2026 09:54

Our paper now out with Findings of EMNLP 2026! Some of our conclusions about AI translation of literary texts: 🤖 AI translation into English is readable and often ‘fine’ ✍️ But human translation is valued more ‼️Both vary in quality BUT AI more, even within a single book arxiv.org/abs/2606.26040

Steven Bird 🍉

steven-bird.bsky.social

01 October 2026 09:54

_Supporting and Performing Culture from the Inside_, my EMNLP Findings paper with @lea-frermann.bsky.social. We apply the emic/etic distinction to NLP, covering task selection, data, system design, and evaluation. We suggest some ways towards a more culturally-attuned NLP. arxiv.org/abs/2609.32281

Margaret Mitchell

mmitchell.bsky.social

15 September 2026 00:42

🪶 Captured this great little video of a native Bewick's wren singing to its friends in the forest and it has made my week.

Niyati Bafna

niyatibafna.bsky.social

04 September 2026 13:40

Colourful idioms, false friends, garden paths, cultural experience, signboards, menus, dialectal slang, archaic language, minority scripts, self-referential logic, social conventions, audio dialogue, daily life - find it in Last Translation Benchmark. Join us for the next one :-)