Publications

@inproceedings{ji2026mala,
  title={MaLA: A Corpus and Data Mix for Massive Language Adaptation of Large Language Models},
  author={Ji, Shaoxiong and Li, Zihao and Paavola, Jaakko and Lin, Peiqin and Chen, Pinzhen and O'Brien, Dayy{\'a}n and Luo, Hengyu and Schuetze, Hinrich and Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg and Haddow, Barry},
  booktitle={Third Conference on Language Modeling},
  year={2026}
}

@inproceedings{ji2026data,
  title={Data-Centric Continual Pre-training for 500+ Languages: A New Bilingual Translation Corpus and Multilingual Models},
  author={Ji, Shaoxiong and Li, Zihao and Paavola, Jaakko and Luo, Hengyu and Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg},
  booktitle={Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026},
  pages={18776--18807},
  year={2026}
}

@article{pei2026reasoning,
  title={Reasoning over Grammar: Can Synthetic Linguistic Reasoning Traces Enhance Low-Resource Machine Translation?},
  author={Pei, Renhao and Liu, Yihong and Pyysalo, Sampo and Sch{\"u}tze, Hinrich and Ji, Shaoxiong},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.03782},
  year={2026}
}

@article{ibrahim2026model,
  title={Model-Based Quality Assessment for Massively Multilingual Parallel Data},
  author={Ibrahim, Abdelaziz and Li, Zihao and Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg and Ji, Shaoxiong},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.00285},
  year={2026}
}

@inproceedings{li2026test,
  title={Test-Time Scaling of Reasoning Models for Machine Translation},
  author={Li, Zihao and Ji, Shaoxiong and Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)},
  pages={2902--2917},
  year={2026}
}

@article{ji2025massively,
  title={Massively Multilingual Adaptation of Large Language Models Using Bilingual Translation Data},
  author={Ji, Shaoxiong and Li, Zihao and Paavola, Jaakko and Luo, Hengyu and Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.00469},
  year={2025}
}

@inproceedings{luo2025gloteval,
  title={GlotEval: A Test Suite for Massively Multilingual Evaluation of Large Language Models},
  author={Luo, Hengyu and Li, Zihao and Attieh, Joseph and Devkota, Sawal and de Gibert, Ona and Huang, Xu and Ji, Shaoxiong and Lin, Peiqin and Mantina, Bhavani Sai Praneeth Varma and Sreenidhi, Ananda and others},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations},
  pages={602--614},
  year={2025}
}

@inproceedings{li2025rethinking,
  title={Rethinking Multilingual Continual Pretraining: Data Mixing for Adapting LLMs Across Languages and Resources},
  author={Li, Zihao and Ji, Shaoxiong and Luo, Hengyu and Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg},
  booktitle={Conference on Language Modeling (COLM)},
  year={2025}
}

@inproceedings{ji2025many,
  title={How Many Languages Make Good Multilingual Instruction Tuning? A Case Study on BLOOM},
  author={Ji, Shaoxiong and Chen, Pinzhen},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics},
  pages={2575--2581},
  year={2025}
}

@inproceedings{chen2024monolingual,
  title={Monolingual or multilingual instruction tuning: Which makes a better alpaca},
  author={Chen, Pinzhen and Ji, Shaoxiong and Bogoychev, Nikolay and Kutuzov, Andrey and Haddow, Barry and Heafield, Kenneth},
  booktitle={Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024},
  pages={1347--1356},
  year={2024}
}

@article{ji2024emma,
  title={EMMA-500: Enhancing Massively Multilingual Adaptation of Large Language Models},
  author={Ji, Shaoxiong and Li, Zihao and Paavola, Jaakko and Lin, Peiqin and Chen, Pinzhen and O'Brien, Dayy{\'a}n and Luo, Hengyu and Sch{\"u}tze, Hinrich and Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg and Haddow, Barry},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.17892},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{li2024comparison,
  title={A Comparison of Language Modeling and Translation as Multilingual Pretraining Objectives},
  author={Li, Zihao and Ji, Shaoxiong and Mickus, Timothee and Segonne, Vincent and Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg},
  booktitle={Proceedings of EMNLP},
  year={2024}
}

@inproceedings{ji2024can,
  title={Can Machine Translation Bridge Multilingual Pretraining and Cross-lingual Transfer Learning?},
  author={Ji, Shaoxiong and Mickus, Timothee and Segonne, Vincent and Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg},
  booktitle={Proceedings of LREC-COLING},
  year={2024}
}

@article{lin2024mala,
  title={MaLA-500: Massive Language Adaptation of Large Language Models},
  author={Lin, Peiqin and Ji, Shaoxiong and Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg and Martins, Andr{\'e} FT and Sch{\"u}tze, Hinrich},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.13303},
  year={2024}
}