News
2026
- New group leader
Oscar William Lithgow-Serrano is the new leader of the NLP group. We thank Fabio Rinaldi, who founded the group in 2019 and led it until 2026.
- New SNF project TaxoMine starts in March
Our new project on mining taxonomic knowledge from the scientific literature starts in March 2026 (working title: TaxoMine). We have two open positions.
2025
- Award at EMNLP 2025
Our paper on tokenization and representation biases in multilingual models for dialects received a Senior Area Chair award at EMNLP 2025.
- New SNF project approved
We will continue our collaboration with Robert Waterhouse on extracting taxonomic information from the scientific literature.
- New team members
Tanja Samardžić and Samuel Corecco are joining the group.
- Press coverage of QUADRATIC
SUPSI published an article on our pharmacovigilance project QUADRATIC: L’IA al servizio della farmacosorveglianza (in Italian).
- Featured in IDSIA video
Our group appears in a new IDSIA video.
- Interview on DeepSeek
Fabio Rinaldi and IDSIA director Andrea Rizzoli were interviewed about DeepSeek.
2024
- Innosuisse project AutoDischarge approved
AutoDischarge will develop tools that help doctors draft discharge summaries.
- SNF project M2P2 approved
M2P2 brings modern NLP to the Swiss health sector, together with Michael Krauthammer (University of Zurich) and Jean Louis Raisaro (CHUV).
- Talk at the Giornata della democrazia
Invited presentation at the Giornata della democrazia in Locarno.
- Paper accepted at NAACL 2024
Our benchmark for evaluating detectors of machine-generated text, BUST, was accepted at NAACL 2024.