Yves Scherrer

46 papers · 2007–2026 · 5 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐝 Cross-Pollinator (8) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (60) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (5) 🏃 Academic Marathon (18) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (6) 🐺 Lone Wolf (3) 🏆 Keyword Champion (2) 🔬 Deep Specialist (14) 🤝 Dynamic Duo (12) 💎 Century Club (45) 🗃️ Keyword Collector (177) ⚡ Prolific Year (6) 🔥 Unstoppable (8) 📈 Trend Setter

Conferences

EMNLP (16) ACL (9) COLING (9) NAACL (7) EACL (5)

Top co-authors

Jörg Tiedemann (12) Nikola Ljubešić (8) Marcos Zampieri (5) Sami Virpioja (5) Radu Tudor Ionescu (5) Alessandro Raganato (5) Tanja Samardžić (4) Raúl Vázquez (4) Petter Mæhlum (4) Tommi Jauhiainen (4)

Research topics

Linguistics (2) Natural Language Processing (1)

Keywords

neural machine translation (13) multilingual nlp (8) dialect identification (8) language identification (7) low-resource language (6) machine translation (6) intent detection (4) shared task (4) knowledge distillation (3) multilingual translation (3) language variety (3) low-resource translation (3) data augmentation (3) multilingual model (3) norwegian dialect (3) transfer learning (2) representation learning (2) subword tokenization (2) social media (2) parallel corpus (2)

Papers

OpenLID-v3: Improving the Precision of Closely Related Language Identification – An Experience Report EACL 2026

Improved Norwegian Bokmål Translations for FLORES EMNLP 2025

EdinHelsOW WMT 2025 CreoleMT System Description: Improving Lusophone Creole Translation through Data Augmentation, Model Merging and LLM Post-editing EMNLP 2025

LTG at VarDial 2025 NorSID: More and Better Training Data for Slot and Intent Detection COLING 2025

Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2025: The NorSID Shared Task on Norwegian Slot, Intent and Dialect Identification COLING 2025

Functional Lexicon in Subword Tokenization NAACL 2025

Dialects, Topic Models, and Border Effects: The Rusyn Case ACL 2025

Explaining novel senses using definition generation with open language models EMNLP 2025

Hybrid Distillation from RBMT and NMT: Helsinki-NLP’s Submission to the Shared Task on Translation into Low-Resource Languages of Spain EMNLP 2024

Definition generation for lexical semantic change detection ACL 2024

VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2024: Commonsense Reasoning in Dialects and Multi-Label Similar Language Identification NAACL 2024

System Description of the NordicsAlps Submission to the AmericasNLP 2024 Machine Translation Shared Task NAACL 2024

NoMusic - The Norwegian Multi-Dialectal Slot and Intent Detection Corpus NAACL 2024

Character alignment methods for dialect-to-standard normalization ACL 2023

The Helsinki-NLP Submissions at NADI 2023 Shared Task: Walking the Baseline EMNLP 2023

Dialect-to-Standard Normalization: A Large-Scale Multilingual Evaluation EMNLP 2023

Dialect Representation Learning with Neural Dialect-to-Standard Normalization EACL 2023

Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2023 EACL 2023

Four Approaches to Low-Resource Multilingual NMT: The Helsinki Submission to the AmericasNLP 2023 Shared Task ACL 2023

Changing usage of Low Saxon auxiliary and modal verbs EMNLP 2023

Low Saxon dialect distances at the orthographic and syntactic level ACL 2022

Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2022 COLING 2022

OcWikiDisc: a Corpus of Wikipedia Talk Pages in Occitan COLING 2022

Sesame Street to Mount Sinai: BERT-constrained character-level Moses models for multilingual lexical normalization EMNLP 2021

The Helsinki submission to the AmericasNLP shared task NAACL 2021

Findings of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2021 EACL 2021

Social Media Variety Geolocation with geoBERT EACL 2021

The MUCOW word sense disambiguation test suite at WMT 2020 EMNLP 2020

A Report on the VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2020 COLING 2020

LSDC - A comprehensive dataset for Low Saxon Dialect Classification COLING 2020

HeLju@VarDial 2020: Social Media Variety Geolocation with BERT Models COLING 2020

Fixed Encoder Self-Attention Patterns in Transformer-Based Machine Translation EMNLP 2020

The University of Helsinki and Aalto University submissions to the WMT 2020 news and low-resource translation tasks EMNLP 2020

The University of Helsinki Submissions to the WMT19 News Translation Task ACL 2019

Analysing concatenation approaches to document-level NMT in two different domains EMNLP 2019

Measuring Semantic Abstraction of Multilingual NMT with Paraphrase Recognition and Generation Tasks NAACL 2019

A Report on the Third VarDial Evaluation Campaign NAACL 2019

The University of Helsinki Submissions to the WMT19 Similar Language Translation Task ACL 2019

The MuCoW Test Suite at WMT 2019: Automatically Harvested Multilingual Contrastive Word Sense Disambiguation Test Sets for Machine Translation ACL 2019

The WMT’18 Morpheval test suites for English-Czech, English-German, English-Finnish and Turkish-English EMNLP 2018

Language Identification and Morphosyntactic Tagging: The Second VarDial Evaluation Campaign COLING 2018

The University of Helsinki submissions to the WMT18 news task EMNLP 2018

The University of Helsinki submissions to the IWSLT 2018 low-resource translation task EMNLP 2018

On-line Multilingual Linguistic Services COLING 2016

Word-Based Dialect Identification with Georeferenced Rules EMNLP 2010

Adaptive String Distance Measures for Bilingual Dialect Lexicon Induction ACL 2007