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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · 2d

If you were able to join us, let us know about your experience: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you everyone for coming to WMDQS (pronounced "whim ducks")!

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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · 2d

Then we had our second poster session for our paper submissions. The full papers are available on our website!

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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · 2d

After lunch, @sebnagel.bsky.social gave a keynote about the data collected by @commoncrawl.bsky.social!

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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · 2d

David Adelani gave a keynote about text quality for low-resource languages.

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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · 2d

We had our first poster session, hearing from some of our shared task participants!

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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · 2d

We presented the results of our shared task! We received annotations for over 30,000 document representing over 60 languages. We also showed the results of our LangID dataset and system shared task tracks. Thank you everyone who participated!

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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · 2d

We started with a keynote from @juliakreutzer.bsky.social about multilingual fine-tuning data!

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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · 2d

WMDQS is underway! Come join us in Room 520A at @colmweb.org! #COLM2025

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Julia Kreutzer @juliakreutzer.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to tomorrow's #COLM2025 workshop on multilingual data quality! 🤩

Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · 3d

In collaboration with @commoncrawl.bsky.social, MLCommons, and @eleutherai.bsky.social, the first edition of WMDQS at @colmweb.org starts tomorrow in Room 520A! We have an updated schedule on our website, including a list of all accepted papers.

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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · 3d

See our updated website for more details: wmdqs.org

1st Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals (WMDQS)

A workshop addressing multilingual data quality. Held on the 10th October 2025 in Montréal.

wmdqs.org

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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · 3d

We will also have a session on our shared task, which was about improving language identification models. Participants of the shared task contributed annotations to create a new LangID dataset and also submitted new LangID systems.

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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · 3d

Our third and final keynote will be from @sebnagel.bsky.social about the data in Common Crawl.

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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · 3d

Our second keynote will be by David Adelani about text quality for low-resource languages.

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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · 3d

Our first keynote will be from @juliakreutzer.bsky.social about data for multilingual fine-tuning.

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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · 3d

In collaboration with @commoncrawl.bsky.social, MLCommons, and @eleutherai.bsky.social, the first edition of WMDQS at @colmweb.org starts tomorrow in Room 520A! We have an updated schedule on our website, including a list of all accepted papers.

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Pedro Ortiz Suarez @pjox.bsky.social · Jul 21

If you want to help us improve language and cultural coverage, and build an open source LangID system, please register to our shared task on Language Identification! 💬

Registering is easy! All the details are on the shared task webpage: wmdqs.org/shared-task/

Deadline: July 23, 2025 (AoE) ⏰

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Common Crawl Foundation @commoncrawl.bsky.social · Jul 21

The Common Crawl Foundation, MLCommons, EleutherAI, and John Hopkins' Center for Language and Speech Processing have the pleasure of inviting you to register for the 1st shared task on Language Identification for web data.

commoncrawl.org/blog/wmdqs-s...

Common Crawl - Blog - WMDQS Shared Task on Language Identification

The Common Crawl Foundation, MLCommons, EleutherAI, and John Hopkins' Center for Language and Speech Processing have the pleasure of inviting you to register for the 1st shared task on Language Identi...

commoncrawl.org

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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · Jul 21

Contribute annotations here: dynabench.org/tasks/text-l...

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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · Jul 21

For context: bsky.app/profile/cath...

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Workshop on Multilingual Data Quality Signals @wmdqs.bsky.social · Jul 21

We've added lots more documents/languages and extended the deadline for the first round of annotations until July 23rd. Check out the details below 👇

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Catherine Arnett @ 🍁COLM🍁 @catherinearnett.bsky.social · Jun 9

One of the biggest obstacles to improving language technologies for low-resource languages is the lack of data. To address this, we need better language identification tools. So, we're organizing a shared task on Language Identification for Web Data! #NLP #NLProc

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