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Dr Haithem Afli has taken on new research leadership roles within Rinn Artificial Intelligence – Research & Innovation in Data Science and AI. He serves as Institutional Co-Lead at MTU, Deputy Theme Lead for Inclusive Language Model & Translation Methods, and Principal Investigator. His work in the centre focuses on inclusive and multilingual language models, translation methods, culturally aware AI, reliable evaluation and human-centred approaches to artificial intelligence.

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A paper by Pournima Sonawane and Haithem Afli was published at IWSLT 2026. The work examines robust cascaded speech translation for Bhojpuri–Hindi and Irish–English, combining Whisper-based ASR with NLLB-200 translation and evaluating routing strategies for low-resource pairs.

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Manuel Frank and Haithem Afli published PTEB, a dynamic text-embedding evaluation protocol using stochastic paraphrasing at evaluation time, at EACL 2026 (Long Papers).

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The HAI group contributed GASE (generative augmentation for sentence encoding) and a study on signer dependence in sign language translation evaluation to Findings of EMNLP 2025.

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The Cork Independent featured Dr Haithem Afli on Ireland’s opportunity to lead in ethical, human-centred AI — covering AI literacy and inclusion, and the use of AI in precision medicine and healthcare.