Check NorOLMo 1.0 - our new 13B language model aimed at Norwegian language tasks.

https://huggingface.co/HPLT/NorOLMo-13B

We took English OLMo2-13B as the base model and continually pre-trained it on Norwegian data.
NorOLMo is the only modern fully open
#llm specifically adapted for #norwegian […]

#integreat and #trust have jointly announced several new PhD projects on AI / ML.

One of the projects will focus on analyzing ideological bias in multimodal text–image models.

Supervisors from LTG Oslo include Erik Velldal and Lilja Øvrelid. Other collaborators and co-supervisors include Ali […]

This week LTG Oslo members will be attending #lrec2026 in Mallorca to present several new papers . #nlproc
Come chat with us and check out our papers now available from the conference proceedings (https://lrec.elra.info/conference/2026)👇🧵

Fresh impressions from #iclr26, with David Samuel, Lucas Charpentier and Andrey Kutuzov presenting their papers last week.

https://iclr.cc/virtual/2026/poster/10008017
https://iclr.cc/virtual/2026/poster/10010905

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We have a 2-year postdoc-level research fellowship in #nlproc available at the University of #oslo. Part of a cross-disciplinary collab between social science + NLP on changes in moral values and political discourse over time.
Full announcement […]

Today David Samuel brilliantly defended his PhD thesis "Data-Constrained Language Modeling". 🦾

The adjudication committee consisted of David Salinas, Anna Rogers and Ali Ramezani-Kebrya. The thesis was supervised by Andrey Kutuzov, Lilja Øvrelid and Erik […]

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The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (#eacl'26) is just around the corner.
Come join us in #rabat or remotely this week!
https://2026.eacl.org/

LTG #oslo has a strong presence, with four papers (co-)authored by the LTG members 🧵 […]

Language Technology Group at the University of Oslo has two papers accepted at #iclr2026!

- Dual Language Models: Balancing Training Efficiency and Overfitting Resilience by David Samuel and Lucas Charpentier

- Fluent Alignment with Disfluent Judges: Post-training for Lower-resource Languages […]

🤖 Ny norsk praterobot fra #ltg med chat-grensesnitt! NorMistral-11B-thinking er en åpen språkmodell (#llm) finjustert for å følge instruksjoner og å resonnere før den svarer.

💬 For tilgang til chat: https://chat.llm.sigma2.no
🤗 Nedlasting fra #hf […]

Today we hosted a seminar on open Norwegian LLMs, thanks to everyone who joined and for the lively discussion!
Through a series of talks, various perspectives on #llm research were presented, highlighting the importance of open models and the particular […]

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Intentionally blurry impressions from the very early Language Technology Group (LTG) X-Mas party at the University of #oslo

#nlproc #uio #norway #norge

The #emnlp2025 conference is starting in two weeks in Suzhou, #china.

Language Technology Group #oslo will be there with at least four papers, see the thread🧵 :

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20000 authors! #acl2025

Language Technology Group #oslo at the #acl2025 conference in #vienna today

#nlproc

If you are attending the ACL 2025 conference in Vienna, come to the poster presenting the latest #hplt v2 datasets (the paper is available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10267).

You can find the HPLT folks on Wednesday, July 30, 11:00 at the in-person poster session, Level 0, Exhibit Halls X4 […]

We're hiring! A postdoc-level researcher position in NLP, focusing on generative approaches to event extraction, is open at the University of Oslo. The contract is for 30 months. Closing date 11 Aug. Come join us! […]

This is how Language Technology Group at the University of Oslo looks like these days :)

#nlproc #norway #oslo

Language Technology Group #oslo will be presenting five papers at the #acl2025nlp conference this summer in #vienna: 🧵

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