PhD @ UniMelb
NLP, with a healthy dose of MT
Based in 🇮🇩, worked in 🇹🇱 🇵🇬 , from 🇫🇷
Raphaël Merx
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—> it’s paradigm replacement, not task automation, that causes widespread job displacement
from substack.com/home/post/p-...
cool analogy for AI & jobs:
- when ATMs came, the number of bank tellers rose, bc ATMs lowered the cost of running bank branches, so more branches opened
- but in the 2010s, the number of bank tellers plummetted, bc mobile banking made branches unnecessary
a *great* chart to teach confounding variables
This is some legit really impressive work!!
Introducing Global PIQA, a new multilingual benchmark for 100+ languages. This benchmark is the outcome of this year’s MRL shared task, in collaboration with 300+ researchers from 65 countries. This dataset evaluates physical commonsense reasoning in culturally relevant contexts.
the paper www2.statmt.org/wmt25/pdf/20...
They say it's because (1) test sets have become more challenging, (2) include more lang pairs, (3) are longer, and (4) used ESA instead of MQM. But we need an ablation study!
Whoa the #WMT25 results on MT Evaluation are wild! ChrF outperforms pretty much all neural metrics 🙀
in Vienna for ACL, presenting Tulun, a system for low-resource in-domain translation, using LLMs
Tuesday @ 4pm
Working w 2 real use cases: medical translation into Tetun 🇹🇱 & disaster relief speech translation in Bislama 🇻🇺
