PhD Candidate in Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
University of Innsbruck
ICT Building, Room 2W04 (2nd Floor)
Technikerstraße 21a, 6020 Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
Email: samuel.frontull@uibk.ac.at
Links: Google Scholar | ORCID | GitHub
Key Research & Active Projects
- RhaetoChat (Jul 2026 – Present): Curating LLM instruction-tuning datasets for Rhaeto-Romance dialects (Microsoft LINGUA Open Call Award recipient).
- Intelligent Writing Assistant & MT for Ladin (Apr 2025 – Present): Directing development of domain-adapted NMT engines and writing assistants for the Gardena Ladin variety.
- DIDI Project (starts Sep 2026): Media framing and NLP analysis of majority/minority community perceptions.
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Conference & Workshop Proceedings
Every Word Presented in Context: Syntactic Coverage as Objective for Low-Resource Machine Translation with Large Language Models
Samuel Frontull, Thomas Ströhle
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), 2026
AlignFix: A Tool for Parallel Corpora Augmentation and Refinement
Samuel Frontull, Simon Haller-Seeber
Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations (EACL 2026), 2026
KI-gestützte Transkription, Übersetzung Und Zusammenfassung in Echtzeit: Eine Selbstgehostete Konferenzlösung Auf Basis Freier Software
Simon Haller-Seeber, Samuel Frontull
Streifzüge an Den Nahtstellen Von Medien, Bildung Und Philosophie (2. Auflage), 2026
LaTeXMT: Machine Translation for LaTeX Documents
Calvin Hoy, Samuel Frontull, Georg Moser
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations (EMNLP 2025), 2025
Bringing Ladin to FLORES+
Samuel Frontull, Thomas Ströhle, Carlo Zoli, Werner Pescosta, Ulrike Frenademez, Matteo Ruggeri, Daria Valentin, Karin Comploj, Gabriel Perathoner, Silvia Liotto, Paolo Anvidalfarei
Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2025), 2025
Data-Driven Runtime Complexity Analysis
Samuel Frontull, Manuel Meitinger, Georg Moser
International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems (FroCoS 2025), LNCS 15979, 2025
Rule-Based, Neural and LLM Back-Translation: Comparative Insights from a Variant of Ladin
Samuel Frontull, Georg Moser
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2024), 2024
α-Avoidance
Samuel Frontull, Georg Moser, Vincent van Oostrom
8th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2023), LIPIcs 260, 2023
Journal Articles
Traduzione automatica "neurale" per il ladino della Val Badia
Samuel Frontull, Georg Moser
Ladinia, Vol. XLVIII, 2024
Arbeitsbericht: Maschinelle Übersetzung für das Gadertalische
Samuel Frontull, Tobias Hell
Ladinia, Vol. XLVI, 2022
Forthcoming & Accepted Manuscripts
How Far Can an Agentic Framework Close the Gap between LLMs and Specialised MT for Low-Resource Languages?
Jean Maillard, Samuel Frontull, Christopher Haberland, Ruth Videsott, Stefano Lusito
Twelfth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2026) (To appear), 2026
Inferring Empirical Sound Resource Bounds via Symbolic Execution and Linear Programming
Samuel Frontull, Manuel Meitinger, Georg Moser
33rd Static Analysis Symposium (SAS 2026) (To appear), 2026
Software & Datasets
Artifact for "Inferring Empirical Sound Resource Bounds via Symbolic Execution and Linear Programming"
Samuel Frontull, Manuel Meitinger, Georg Moser
Zenodo, 2026