Marzena Karpinska

prospective students

I plan to take ~1 PhD student every year in the Fall (provided there will be a suitable candidate). You should apply throught the standard SFU application process and there is no need to notify me by email about your application.

If you would like to work with me please fill in this form. I am checking it periodically and will get back to you if there is a good fit. Sadly, I cannot respond to individual emails from prospective students due to the volume I receive.

Important: If you are sending me an email anyway please do NOT generate it. Generated emails will be delated without consideration.

SFU students are welcomed to sign up for research through CMPT 415/416.

What is CMPT 415/416?

This is ultimately the same class, which allows you to do research project for credits for two semesters. You will be expected to meet with me once a week and report your progress. We will be working as a team and while it may be a lot of work it is also a lot of fun.

Can I help with research without taking CMPT 415/416?

Yes, you can if you are motivated and serious about it.

about me

I am currently an assistant professor at the Simon Fraser University in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. Before that, I was a senior researcher at Microsoft based in Redmond. I did my postdoc at the Manning College of Information & Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst working with Prof. Mohit Iyyer.

I hold a Ph.D. from the Department of Language and Information Sciences at the University of Tokyo.

research

I am interested in how well natural language processing (NLP) systems handle long-form content, both as input and output. My work includes areas like machine translation of creative texts, story generation, summarizing long texts, verifying claims about book-length content, and multilingual long-form question answering.

media

mentions refers to our findings · discusses features our work

FUTURISM
Study: New York Times Has Published Extensive AI-Generated Articles mentions
THE ATLANTIC
How AI Is Creeping Into The New York Times discusses
WSJ
An AI Upheaval Is Coming for Media. This Journalist Is Already All In mentions
PRESS GAZETTE
Study claims 9% of US newspaper articles at least partly AI generated discusses
FORBES
Study Shows Experienced Humans Can Spot Text Created By AI discusses
THE ECONOMIST
GPT, Claude, Llama? How to tell which AI model is best mentions
TECH CRUNCH
Gemini's data-analyzing abilities aren't as good as Google claims discusses
UMASS MAGAZINE
Literary Device discusses
SLATOR
In Literary Translation, Humans Prefer Humans and Machines Prefer Machines discusses

news

Aug 2026 Our paper on long-context literary machine translation was accepted to EMNLP Findings 🎉
Aug 2026 Our lab received a 5-year NSERC Discovery Grant & Launch Supplement 🎉
Apr 2026 Our paper on AI-generated text in US news articles was accepted to ACL 2026 (oral, 3.9% papers) 🎉
Jan 2026 Started as an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
Oct 2025 New paper on AI-generated text in US news articles is out
Aug 2025 Papers on interdisciplinary approach to MT, cross-lingual memorization, and quantization effects on long-context tasks accepted to EMNLP 2025 🎉
Jul 2025 Our work on multilingual long-context processing was accepted to COLM 🎉
Jun 2025 Preprint on interdisciplinary approach to machine translation is out
Jun 2025 Serving as a Senior Area Chair at EMNLP
May 2025 Our preprint on cross-lingual memorization is out
May 2025 Our preprint on the effect of quantization on long-context tasks is out
May 2025 Our works on AI-generated text and multilingual long-form QA were accepted to ACL 🎉
Mar 2025 Our preprint on multilingual long-context processing is out
Jan 2025 Our preprint on machine generated text detection is out
Jan 2025 New preprint on slow-down attacks on reasoning models is out
Nov 2024 Recognized as an outstanding AC at EMNLP 2024
Sep 2024 NoCha was accepted to EMNLP 2024 🎉
Sep 2024 ESA was accepted to WMT 2024 🎉
Aug 2024 Presented our work on the evaluation of long-context language models at UNSW
Jul 2024 Presented our work on the evaluation of long-context language models at RMIT
Jul 2024 Presented our work on the evaluation of long-context language models at the University of Melbourne
Jul 2024 FABLES was accepted to COLM 2024 🎉
Jun 2024 Our preprint on LONG-CONTEXT processing capabilities of language models is out
Jun 2024 Our preprint on MULTI-LINGUAL/CULTURAL performance of language models is out
Jun 2024 Our preprint on more robust evaluation for machine translation is out
Apr 2024 Our preprint on faithfulness in book-length summaries is out
Mar 2024 NarrativeTime was accepted to LREC-COLING 2024 🎉
Dec 2023 Presented our work at WMT in Singapore.
Nov 2023 Launched litmt.org, a platform for sharing machine-translated world literature.
May 2023 Virtual talk at Instituto Superior Técnico & Unbabel Seminar on translation with Large Language Models.
Apr 2023 Virtual talk at Microsoft MT Reading Group on translation with Large Language Models.
Jan 2023 Virtual talk at Polish Academy of Sciences on Evaluation of Long-form Text Generation.
Dec 2022 Presented our work on diagnosing automatic evaluation metrics at EMNLP in Abu Dhabi.
Dec 2022 Presented our work on document-level MT at EMNLP in Abu Dhabi.
Nov 2022 Slator on literary MT and our PAR3 work