Blog

September 30, 2026

Looking Back on 2025–2026: Research, Supervision and Community

Papers at NeurIPS, COLM, EMNLP and ACL, the FINe-Health Foundry project, FineOPUS, the junior researchers I work with, and the shared task and workshop we organized.

September 24, 2026

Human- and Agent-Written Rules That Machine Translators Fail for the Last Translation Benchmark

Twenty items written by hand for the Last Translation Benchmark and 452 drafted with an agentic pipeline, screened against fourteen translation systems: what still defeats every one of them, and what only looked hard.

July 24, 2026

The MaLA-LM Journey: Scaling Multilingual Large Language Models to 500+ Languages

The MaLA-LM project scales multilingual large language models (LLMs) to over 500 languages, addressing challenges in data collection, tokenization, and cross-lingual transfer.