University Assistant and 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
Forthcoming
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
Findings of the WMT26 General Machine Translation Shared Task: Contrastive Dynamic Human Evaluation at Scale
Tom Kocmi, Ekaterina Artemova, Eleftherios Avramidis, Rachel Bawden, Ondřej Bojar, Sergey Dukanov, Anton Dvorkovich, Mark Fishel, Markus Freitag, Samuel Frontull, Thamme Gowda, Roman Grundkiewicz, Barry Haddow, Stan Kharevich, Philipp Koehn, Zheng Li, Jean Maillard, Christof Monz, Alexander Murauski, Kenton Murray, Masaaki Nagata, Stefano Perrella, Martin Popel, Maja Popović, Lorenzo Proietti, Sara Rajaee, Parker Riley, Mariya Shmatova, Steinthór Steingrímsson, Lisa Yankovskaya, Vilem Zouhar
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2026), 2026
Grammatist at WMT 2026 General MT Task: An Agentic LLM Framework for Machine Translation with Explicit Linguistic Knowledge
Samuel Frontull, Jean Maillard, Christopher R. Haberland, Ruth Videsott, Stefano Lusito
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2026), 2026
LiLa at WMT 2026 General MT Task: Exploring Beyond NMT and Learning the Limits of LLM Adaptation for Ligurian and Ladin
Mirelle Candida Bueno, Lucas Domingues, Samuel Frontull, Jean Maillard, Sushil Garg
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2026), 2026
Adding ciofs and ciüfs to BOUQuET: Benchmark Extension to Ladin
Samuel Frontull, Lara Castlunger, Maximilian Oberhollenzer, Karin Comploj, Ruth Videsott, Robert Sama, Gabriel Perathoner, Carlo Zoli, Paul Videsott
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2026), 2026
Key Research & Active Projects
- RhaetoChat (Jul 2026 – Present): Project led by the University of Zurich in collaboration with the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Curating LLM instruction-tuning datasets for Rhaeto-Romance dialects; recipient of the Microsoft LINGUA Open Call Award.
- Intelligent Writing Assistant & MT for Ladin (Apr 2025 – Present): Directing development of domain-adapted NMT engines and writing assistants for Gardena Ladin, alongside improvements to the Val Badia machine-translation system, in collaboration with the Istitut Ladin "Micurá de Rü".
- DIDI Project (Sep 2026 – Present): Media-framing and NLP analysis of majority/minority community perceptions, in collaboration with Eurac Research.
Teaching
UE Einführung in die Theoretische Informatik (2026W)
LV-Nr: 703215
Department of Computer Science
Bachelor Computer Science
SL Einführung in die Theoretische Informatik (2022W, 2023W, 2024W, 2025S, 2026S)
LV-Nr: 703062
Department of Computer Science
Bachelor Computer Science
PS Automaten und Logik (2025W)
LV-Nr: 703303
Department of Computer Science
Master Computer Science
PS Diskrete Strukturen (2024W)
LV-Nr: 703070
Department of Computer Science
Bachelor Computer Science
AG Spezielle Aspekte des computergestützten Übersetzens (2024S)
LV-Nr: 613038
Department of Translation Studies
Master Translation Studies
PS Daten und Wahrscheinlichkeiten (2021W)
LV-Nr: 703068
Department of Computer Science
Bachelor Computer Science
PS Datenbanksysteme (2019W, 2020W)
LV-Nr: 703021
Department of Computer Science
Bachelor Computer Science
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Conference & Workshop Proceedings
Inferring Empirical Sound Resource Bounds via Symbolic Execution and Linear Programming
Samuel Frontull, Manuel Meitinger, Georg Moser
Static Analysis (SAS), Springer Nature Switzerland, 2027
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
Software & Datasets
Artifact for "Inferring Empirical Sound Resource Bounds via Symbolic Execution and Linear Programming"
Samuel Frontull, Manuel Meitinger, Georg Moser
Zenodo, 2026
Tradutur Ladin (Machine Translation System for Ladin)
Samuel Frontull
University of Innsbruck, 2026
AlignFix
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
Litra
Samuel Frontull
GitHub, 2026
Hugging Face Datasets
Samuel Frontull
Hugging Face, 2026