LTG OsloThe #EMNLP2025 conference is starting in two weeks in Suzhou, #China.
Language Technology Group #Oslo will be there with at least four papers, see the thread🧵 :
1. "Explaining novel senses using definition generation with open language models" by Mariia Fedorova, Andrey Kutuzov, Francesco Periti, Yves Scherrer
(in EMNLP Findings)
Explaining novel senses using definition generation with open language models
We apply definition generators based on open-weights large language models to the task of creating explanations of novel senses, taking target word usages as an input. To this end, we employ the datasets from the AXOLOTL'24 shared task on explainable semantic change modeling, which features Finnish, Russian and German languages. We fine-tune and provide publicly the open-source models performing higher than the best submissions of the aforementioned shared task, which employed closed proprietary LLMs. In addition, we find that encoder-decoder definition generators perform on par with their decoder-only counterparts.
2. "Improved Norwegian Bokmål Translations for FLORES" by Petter Mæhlum, Anders Næss Evensen and Yves Scherrer
(in proceedings of WMT 2025 workshop)
3. "EdinHelsOW WMT 2025 CreoleMT System Description: Improving Lusophone Creole Translation through Data Augmentation, Model Merging and LLM Post-editing" by Jacqueline Rowe, Ona de Gibert, Mateusz Klimaszewski, Coleman Haley, Alexandra Birch and Yves Scherrer
(in proceedings of WMT 2025 workshop)
4. #BabyLM challenge description paper, co-authored by Lucas Georges Gabriel Charpentier