about

I'm Seth Aycock, a PhD candidate in multilingual NLP at the University of Amsterdam. I work with Christof Monz and Khalil Sima'an. My research interests can be summarised by these keywords:
machine translation, multilinguality, low-resource, linguistics, typology, reasoning, data.

I studied Linguistics (BA, Cambridge), and Speech & Language Processing (MSc, Edinburgh). I've worked in multilingual NLP research at Booking.com, Inria Paris, City University London, and the UK Government.

news

  • 🇳🇱 06/26 Attending EAMT 2026 in Tilburg
  • 🇭🇺 04/26 Co-organising WMT26 multilingual instruction shared task
  • 🇲🇦 03/26 Perfect English paper accepted at EACL Findings
  • 🇲🇦 03/26 LLM-as-a-qualitative-judge paper accepted at MME @ EACL
  • 🇫🇮 02/26 Gave a talk at University of Helsinki
  • 🇫🇮 01/26 Research visit at University of Helsinki with Jörg Tiedemann, working on linguistic reasoning
  • 💰 01/26 Received individual EAMT grant for linguistic reasoning research
  • 💰 12/25 Received UniDive COST Action STSM grant for visit in Helsinki
  • 🇨🇳 11/25 Attended EMNLP & WMT25 in Suzhou, China, presenting Please Translate Again paper and WMT25 Shared Task paper
  • 🇫🇮 08/25 Attended MT Marathon in Helsinki
  • 🇳🇱 06/25 Internship at Booking.com in Amsterdam, working on multilingual model merging
  • 🇸🇬 04/25 Attended ICLR in Singapore, presenting Can LLMs Really Translate...? paper
  • 🇫🇷 03/25 Attended ALPS winter school in Aussois
  • 🇨🇿 02/25 Gave a talk at ÚFAL, Charles University
  • 💰 01/25 Received EAMT grant for LLM brittleness project
  • 🇨🇿 08/24 Attended MT Marathon in Prague
  • 🇲🇹 03/24 Attended EACL in Malta, presenting Topic-guided examples paper
  • 🇳🇱 11/23 Started PhD at University of Amsterdam
  • 🇫🇷 08/23 Research engineer at Almanach, Inria Paris with Rachel Bawden
  • 🇬🇧 03/23 Research assistant at City, University of London