Jannis Vamvas, PhD
Language AI Researcher at University of Zurich
Recent posts
Just Released: Machine Translation Engine for Romansh
Covering the six varieties of the Romansh language.
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OpenAI's Speculative Decoding,
Reverse-Engineered
Why LLMs are faster if we give them a draft to complete.
Read postWenn ChatGPT den Smartvote-Fragebogen ausfüllt
Sind Sprachmodelle politisch voreingenommen?
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Michelle Wastl, Jannis Vamvas and Rico Sennrich. 2026. SwissGov-RSD: A Human-annotated, Cross-lingual Benchmark for Token-level Recognition of Semantic Differences Between Related Documents. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [data] [code]
Apertus Team. 2026. Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments. In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, San Diego, California, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [model]
Charlotte Model, Sina Ahmadi and Jannis Vamvas. 2026. Robust Language Identification for Romansh Varieties. In Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference, pages 101–110, Zurich, Switzerland. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [code]
Dominic P. Fischer, Zachary Hopton and Jannis Vamvas. 2026. RUMLEM: A Dictionary-Based Lemmatizer for Romansh. In Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference, pages 125–132, Zurich, Switzerland. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [code] [demo]
Elina Stüssi and Jannis Vamvas. 2026. How Good is AI on Swiss Voting Booklets? A Multilingual OCR and Alignment Benchmark. In Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference, pages 232–242, Zurich, Switzerland. Association for Computational Linguistics. [cite] [data, data]
Recent teaching
| Fall 2026 | Lecturer Fundamentals of Large Language Models |
| Fall 2026 | Lecturer Mathematical Foundations for Language Technology 1 |
| Fall 2026 | Co-instructor Ethics of AI for Language and Speech |
| Spring 2026 | Lecturer CAS Generative AI |
| Spring 2026 | Lecturer Text Generation with Language Models |