Simon Ostermann

Simon Ostermann

NLP & AI Researcher @ DFKI. Mechanistic interpretability and multilingual NLP, with a focus on low-resource languages.

Separating Syntax from Language: A Mechanistic Account of Translation in Multilingual LLMs

Published in Accepted at the Findings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2026

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Recommended citation: Mikhail Sonkin, Tanja Baeumel, Daniil Gurgurov, Josef van Genabith, and Simon Ostermann. (2026). "Separating Syntax from Language: A Mechanistic Account of Translation in Multilingual LLMs." Accepted at the Findings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
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