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Academic news: publications, talks, projects and research-group activity. Each item is sourced and dated; where a professional LinkedIn or X post announced the activity, the original post is linked alongside the authoritative source.

• 2026-07-17 · publication
  New IWSLT 2026 paper on low-resource cascaded speech translation
  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. Authoritative source
• 2026-06 · leadership
  Dr Haithem Afli joins Rinn Artificial Intelligence as Institutional Co-Lead at MTU and Deputy Theme Lead
  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. Authoritative source
• 2026-01 · publication
  PTEB accepted at EACL 2026
  Manuel Frank and Haithem Afli published PTEB, a dynamic text-embedding evaluation protocol using stochastic paraphrasing at evaluation time, at EACL 2026 (Long Papers). Authoritative source
• 2025-11 · publication
  Two papers in Findings of EMNLP 2025
  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. Authoritative source
• 2025-05-08 · media
  Media coverage: “Ireland at AI ‘crossroads’” — Cork Independent
  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. Authoritative source

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