Tom Völker

I build things when I get annoyed enough.

mail@tomvoelker.de · github

Random Side Quests

TellerTratsch issues

Too many disappointing mensa meals. Built a place to share the pain with fellow students.

kptnUncook code

Couldn't share KptnCook recipes with friends. Now I can.

markdown-to-anki code

Wanted LLM-generated flashcards in Anki without the formatting nightmare.

acl-finder code

Built during ACL 2025 in Vienna because the poster sessions were impossible to navigate.

Publications

SALT

A SQL-based Approach for LLM-Free Entity-Aware-Translation

Won 1st place by keeping it simple. No LLMs, just SQL and constrained decoding.

SemEval @ ACL 2025
BARTABSA++

Revisiting BARTABSA with Decoder LLMs

BART-Large beats GPT-4o at structured sentiment extraction. Encoders still matter.

XLLM @ ACL 2025
BibSonomy Meets ChatLLMs

From Chat to Publication Management

Chat-based literature management. We submitted this in late 2023, before every YC startup pivoted to "AI for X".

CHIIR 2024