It was fun to do a bit of science outreach, but I also found it super interesting to get a look behind the scenes of how a tv segment is made 😃
Interested in developing LLMs that work for dialectal Arabic? Introducing the AMIYA shared task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent, just accepted to VarDial 2026. Please consider submitting and joining us in Morocco if you do! sites.google.com/view/vardial...
📄DistaLs: A Comprehensive Collection of Language Distance Measures
👥 Rob van der Goot, Esther Ploeger, @verenablaschke.bsky.social Tanja Samardžic
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🎯A convenient toolkit for obtaining distance measures across languages
▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSk9...
The work I talked about is mainly described in this paper on German dialect ASR:
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MaiNLP will be at #LREC2026 to present multiple conference & workshop papers, as well as a workshop keynote! See you in Palma ☀️
🎥 @barbaraplank.bsky.social, Hinrich Schütze, and I were featured on tv, talking about how AI tools struggle with dialects!
www.ardmediathek.de/video/capric...
MaiNLP is happy to be part of @eaclmeeting.bsky.social with several papers, talks, a panel, and a workshop ☀️ Looking forward to seeing you in Rabat! #EACL2026
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Verena Blaschke
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AMIYA (عامية) Shared Task: Arabic Modeling In Your Accent
The AMIYA shared task will offer a chance for researchers to demonstrate innovations and improvements in language modeling of dialectal Arabic...
Künstliche Intelligenz verändert die Sprache, denn sie übernimmt nicht nur unser Vokabular, sondern prägt auch andersherum unsere Ausdrucksweise. Nur mit Dialekten tut sich die KI nachweislich schwer,...
At #Interspeech2025 I'm going to present Betthupferl, a dataset for German dialect ASR & dialect-to-standard speech translation! We analyze differences between dialectal & Standard German transcriptions, benchmark ASR models, and examine shortcomings of current ASR models & evaluation metrics.
