Ona de Gibert

PhD Student @HelsinkiNLP / Low-resource, Machine Translation, Knowledge Distillation, Multilinguality

[Ona de Gibert @OnadeGibert]

The CfP for the SRW at ACL 2026 is out!

[ACL 2026 Student Research Workshop @ACL_SRW_2026]

🎉 We’re excited to announce the ACL 2026 Student Research Workshop (SRW) website is live!

🌐 https://t.co/AOjgbMV6MC

brings together students across NLP to present research, receive mentorship, and engage with the global research community.

🧵 Key details ⬇️

#ACL2026 #NLProc

[HPLT @hplt_eu]

We are happy to announce the second release of HPLT bilingual datasets:

- 50 English-centric language pairs = 380M parallel sentences (HPLT) 🤩
- 1,275 non-English-centric language pairs = 16.7B parallel sentences (MultiHPLT) 😮

Available at the HPLT dataset catalogue and OPUS.

[Ona de Gibert @OnadeGibert]

It's happening! Will you join us? 😉

[Helsinki-NLP @HelsinkiNLP]

The 18th MT marathon will be organized in beautiful Helsinki in the end of August, 2025. We invite you to a week-long gathering of researchers, developers and students with lectures, labs and hacking projects. More information will come - stay tuned!

[Ona de Gibert @OnadeGibert]

Here's the link to the paper: https://t.co/eUBZ8xTuw0
And if you want to listen to me talking about it: https://t.co/iR1AsC10A4

[Ona de Gibert @OnadeGibert]

This week I won't be able to present in person at #WMT #EMNLP, so here's our poster on our participation to the Shared Task on Translation into Low-resource Languages of Spain organized by @transducens We produce fast models that translate Flores+ in 4 seconds and can run on CPU!

[Ona de Gibert @OnadeGibert]

A tragedy in two acts:

[HPLT @hplt_eu]

🚀 INTRODUCING THE LATEST HPLT MONOLINGUAL DATASETS! TL;DR:
🔍 4.5 PB of web crawls
📄 21 billion documents
💝 careful extraction, dedup, annotation and cleaning
💥 193 languages!

Explore and download the new HPLT Monolingual Datasets NOW! https://t.co/Kj5XNjfjFQ

#HPLT

[Helsinki-NLP @HelsinkiNLP]

🚀 Excited to introduce EMMA-500! 🌍✨
A multilingual model continue-trained on 546 languages, enhancing coverage for low-resource languages. With the MaLA corpus and Llama 2 7B, we're pushing boundaries in cross-lingual transfer. Check it out: https://t.co/FBSbuy3qft

[Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal_cuni]

@OndrejBojar @prajdabre1 @zouharvi @esalesk We continued with great talks by @RicardoRei7, @julius_gulius, @onadegibert, @josephnlp, @very_laurie, @khetamalsharou, and @Lam19Tk. Thanks for coming to Prague 🙌. ➕ Throughout the week, people worked on 👉7 🤩 exciting hacking projects.

[Ona de Gibert @OnadeGibert]

Today @josephnlp and I presented KD4MT in the MT Marathon in Prague organized by @ufal_cuni, one of my favourite events of the year!

@HelsinkiNLP @hplt_eu

[Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal_cuni]

The MT Marathon continues on its third day! We already had great talks by @OndrejBojar, @prajdabre1, @zouharvi, and @esalesk 👏 and a poster session with 10 posters 🖼️. Today, we continue with more talks, and of course, the week-long hackathon continues with interesting projects.

[Ona de Gibert @OnadeGibert]

Let's meet in Prague!

[Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics @ufal_cuni]

Last call for participation! MT Marathon 🏃🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ starts in less than a week. 🤩 If you plan to attend, please do not forget to register https://t.co/e3xtkRg28Y

[Ona de Gibert @OnadeGibert]

Today I'm excited to present at @wikimania 2024! Let's talk about minority languages, language technology and open-source initiatives :)

@Wikimedia @hplt_eu @HelsinkiNLP @helsinkiuni

[Ona de Gibert @OnadeGibert]

Did you miss the presentation? No worries, you can check out our video here: https://t.co/SWsd3z3gSr
A New Massive Multilingual Dataset for High-Performance Language Technologies @ LREC-COLING 2024

[Ona de Gibert @OnadeGibert]

@LrecColing has arrived! We will presenting our work on how we built the HPLT datasets!
📅 Friday 24th of May
⏰ 9.20h-9.40h
📍Room Londra
⌛️Session D3-S1-R3 - Multilinguality, Machine Translation, and Translation Aids II

[HPLT @hplt_eu]

We will be presenting the HPLT datasets HOW-TO and insights at @LrecColing in Torino. Paper already in https://t.co/JiXooVNzvz: https://t.co/iPlRX7Cfj5.

[Ona de Gibert @OnadeGibert]

Still recovering from the excitement of #lreccoling2024, where we presented the @hplt_eu resources! We introduce:
- monoHPLT: monolingual collection covering 75 languages
- biHPLT: parallel data for 18 language pairs
- multiHPLT: synthetic data obtained through pivoting

[Ona de Gibert @OnadeGibert]

Nothing says Italy like 𝐺𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑜! Spending the week in beautiful Torino for @LrecColing #LRECCOLING2024 #lreccoling Can't wait to listen to great research, reunite with old friends and make new ones!

[HPLT @hplt_eu]

Will you be at @LrecColing next week? HPLT will! 🥳
Don't miss:
- our poster on Thursday 23, 15:30, about FastSpell, one of the langID technologies of our dataset pipeline. (paper 1571)
- our presentation on Friday 24, 9:20 for all details about HPLT massive dataset (paper 2199)

[Transducens @transducens]

🚀 Attention MT scientists and developers! We announce the #WMT2024 shared task on machine translation into these underrepresented Romance languages of Spain: Aragonese, Aranese, and Asturian. Joint effort @UA_Universidad+@UOCuniversidad. Details here:
https://t.co/PrCfGJwEHR

[Viquipèdia 2️⃣5️⃣ @Viquipedia]

☑️ Gràcies a l'esforç comunitari, la Viquipèdia en català ja ha arribat a 40.000 articles sobre dones!

La biografia que ha culminat aquesta fita és la de Miriam Tey.

Ara mateix, el 21% de biografies de l'enciclopèdia són sobre dones. El 0,22% són sobre persones no binàries. 📈