Fred Blain

Today I am joining @TilburgU & @TilburgU_DCA as Assistant Professor in AI. Can't wait to see what this next chapter entails! Stay tune and get in touch if you are interested in collaborating on topics such as MT, QE, PE and explore CogScience for Human Interpreting.

This 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗨𝗗𝗘.𝗺𝗱 file will make you 10x engineer 👇 It combines all the best practices shared by Claude Code creator: Boris Cherny (creator of Claude Code at Anthropic) shared on X internal best practices and workflows he and his team actually use with Claude Code daily. Someone turned those threads into a structured 𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗨𝗗𝗘.𝗺𝗱 you can drop into any project. It includes: • Workflow orchestration • Subagent strategy • Self-improvement loop • Verification before done • Autonomous bug fixing • Core principles This is a compounding system. Every correction you make gets captured as a rule. Over time, Claude's mistake rate drops because it learns from your feedback. If you build with AI daily, this will save you a lot of time.

We are delighted to announce our next #EAMT2026 keynote speaker: @antoniotoral, from Universitat d'Alacant, Spain. As a Distinguished MT Researcher, Antonio’s work bridges the gap between #CreativeLanguage and #Computation. Looking forward to his talk at #EAMT2026!

The #EAMT2026 workshops are official! We are diving deep into three critical areas: - TAITT: Pedagogy & Teaching AI Translation - GITT: Gender-Inclusive Translation, 4th Ed. - StyGenAI: Style & Voice in GenAI Explore workshops and calls at: eamt2026.org/workshops #EAMT2026 #NLP

🚀 Second Call for Papers: 🚀 The 2026 edition @EAMTee conference #EAMT2026 is on its way... to Tilburg, Netherlands! We welcome submissions in four tracks: Technical, Translators & users, Implementations & case studies, Products & Projects More info: eamt2026.org

!DEADLINE EXTENSION! We have decided to extend the EAMT2026 workshop proposal submission deadline with a week! New deadline: 12 November 2025! You can find the call for papers and read more on our website: eamt2026.org Submission link: easychair.org/my/conference?…

Workshop proposal ready? With a week to go we are thrilled for all great proposals! Submission due: 05/11/2025 Notification: 01/12/2025 Submission via: easychair.org/my/conference?… Track Chairs: Thierry Etchegoyhen & Dagmar Gromann More info: eamt2026.org

🚀 Call for Papers: EAMT 2026 We welcome submissions in four tracks: Technical, Translators & users, Implementations & case studies, Products & Projects 📅 Submission deadline: 18 March 2026 Notification: 24 April 2026 Event: 15-18 June 2026 📩 More info: eamt2026.org

Dear MT enthusiast, Here comes the 2nd Call for Tutorial proposal for the EAMT 2026! Have something amazing you wish to demonstrate to or show to the EAMT crowd? We are open to host your event! Check for more information: eamt2026.org/calls-for-tuto…

Hey MT enthusiasts, 2nd Call for Workshop proposal for EAMT 2026! Have an awesome idea related to new (and old) trends in MT you wish to discuss with amazing people? We are open to host your event! Submit by 05-11-2025: easychair.org/my/conference?… Info: eamt2026.org

Our Google Translate team is bringing a strong presence to #ACL2025 in Vienna this week! 🇦🇹 My group is excited to present several of our latest papers. 👇 Don't miss them!

The 2025 MT Evaluation shared task brings together the strengths of the previous Metrics and Quality Estimation tasks under a single, unified evaluation framework. The following tasks are now open (deadline July 31st but participation has never been easier 🙂)

We have a funded PhD position available at @imperialcollege , to research LLMs specialised for healthcare. Co-supervised by Aldo Faisal and myself. Applicable only for UK home students and would have to start already in Feb 2025. If interested, please contact me. @imperial_nlp

📢job alert📢🚨PhD vacancy🚨the #vacancy for a #PhD position (4 yrs, 1 fte) in my Vidi-project #Metaphor in #MachineTranslation is now online: universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024… Apply before 31 January 2025 🤩

Goed nieuws! 🎉In de Keuzegids Universiteiten 2025 krijgt onze bacheloropleiding Filosofie het kwaliteitslabel ‘topopleiding’ toegekend. Studenten hebben daarnaast vijf bacheloropleidingen van @TilburgU beoordeeld als de beste in hun vakgebied. Lees meer: tilburguniversity.edu/nl/actueel/nie…

We just open-sourced MetricX-24, our SOTA automatic metric for MT with clear improvements over MetricX-23. One of the highlight is is language coverage and how well it performs even for language pairs it was not fine-tuned for!

The 9B version of EuroLLM is out! Made in 🇪🇺 and covering all EU 🇪🇺 languages

And here it is, our (with @tarfandy from @DCU, @leesonl, @tcddublin, @AdaptCentre, and I from @TilburgU, @ISMT_TiU) long-awaited Sign language machine translation book published by @SpringerNature :)

I am very excited to be giving a talk tomorrow at the @AnalyticsInsIre at their Inspire event series! I will talk about sign language data and the challenges we came across and the lessons learned in @SignONEU. To attend check here: analyticsinstitute.org/event-calendar…

Just arrived at the Irish Times Innovation Awards 2024 #itinnovate in Dublin after the nomination of @SignONEU. Extremely happy to be at this event with @leesonl 😊