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Bill Byrne

69 papers · 2014–2026 · 8 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🌍 Conference Polyglot (8) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (7) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (8) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge πŸƒ Academic Marathon (11) πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (13) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🏠 Conference Loyalist (23) 🀝 Dynamic Duo (22) πŸ”¬ Deep Specialist (22) πŸ† Keyword Champion (4) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (12) πŸš€ Conference Pioneer ⚑ Prolific Year (6) ❓ The Questioner (2) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (245) πŸ’Ž Century Club (68) πŸ“ˆ Trend Setter

Conferences

ACL (23) EMNLP (19) NAACL (10) EACL (7) IJCNLP (5) COLING (3) AACL (1) NIPS (1)

Top co-authors

AdriΓ  de Gispert (23) Felix Stahlberg (16) Weizhe Lin (12) Danielle Saunders (12) Eva Hasler (9) Gonzalo Iglesias (7) Bo-Hsiang Tseng (7) Xiaoyu Shen (6) Jinghong Chen (6) Jingbiao Mei (5)

Keywords

neural machine translation (24) dialogue system (7) machine translation (6) large language model (5) domain adaptation (4) elastic weight consolidation (4) dialogue state tracking (4) beam search (4) task-oriented dialogue (4) transfer learning (4) dialog system (4) visual question answering (3) ensemble learning (3) minimum bayes risk (3) retrieval-augmented generation (3) constrained decoding (3) information retrieval (3) question answering (3) grammatical error correction (3) retrieval augmented generation (3)

Papers

Exploring Fine-Tuning for In-Context Retrieval and Efficient KV-Caching in Long-Context Language Models EACL 2026
Learning to Reason Over Time: Timeline Self-Reflection for Improved Temporal Reasoning in Language Models ACL 2025
XRAG: Cross-lingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation EMNLP 2025
Robust Adaptation of Large Multimodal Models for Retrieval Augmented Hateful Meme Detection EMNLP 2025
RAGferee: Building Contextual Reward Models for Retrieval-Augmented Generation EMNLP 2025
Direct Preference Optimization for Neural Machine Translation with Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding NAACL 2024
Improving Hateful Meme Detection through Retrieval-Guided Contrastive Learning ACL 2024
A Preference-driven Paradigm for Enhanced Translation with Large Language Models NAACL 2024
Retrieving Contextual Information for Long-Form Question Answering using Weak Supervision EMNLP 2024
The Fine-Tuning Paradox: Boosting Translation Quality Without Sacrificing LLM Abilities ACL 2024
Control-DAG: Constrained Decoding for Non-Autoregressive Directed Acyclic T5 using Weighted Finite State Automata NAACL 2024
PreFLMR: Scaling Up Fine-Grained Late-Interaction Multi-modal Retrievers ACL 2024
An Inner Table Retriever for Robust Table Question Answering ACL 2023
xPQA: Cross-Lingual Product Question Answering in 12 Languages ACL 2023
Neural Ranking with Weak Supervision for Open-Domain Question Answering : A Survey EACL 2023
More Robust Schema-Guided Dialogue State Tracking via Tree-Based Paraphrase Ranking EACL 2023
FVQA 2.0: Introducing Adversarial Samples into Fact-based Visual Question Answering EACL 2023
Fine-grained Late-interaction Multi-modal Retrieval for Retrieval Augmented Visual Question Answering NIPS 2023
LI-RAGE: Late Interaction Retrieval Augmented Generation with Explicit Signals for Open-Domain Table Question Answering ACL 2023
Product Answer Generation from Heterogeneous Sources: A New Benchmark and Best Practices ACL 2022
uFACT: Unfaithful Alien-Corpora Training for Semantically Consistent Data-to-Text Generation ACL 2022
First the Worst: Finding Better Gender Translations During Beam Search ACL 2022
From Rewriting to Remembering: Common Ground for Conversational QA Models ACL 2022
Retrieval Augmented Visual Question Answering with Outside Knowledge EMNLP 2022
FocusQA: Open-Domain Question Answering with a Context in Focus EMNLP 2022
The Devil is in the Details: On the Pitfalls of Vocabulary Selection in Neural Machine Translation NAACL 2022
Transferable Dialogue Systems and User Simulators ACL 2021
TicketTalk: Toward human-level performance with end-to-end, transaction-based dialog systems IJCNLP 2021
Transferable Dialogue Systems and User Simulators IJCNLP 2021
GCDF1: A Goal- and Context- Driven F-Score for Evaluating User Models EMNLP 2021
Improving the Quality Trade-Off for Neural Machine Translation Multi-Domain Adaptation EMNLP 2021
Knowledge-Aware Graph-Enhanced GPT-2 for Dialogue State Tracking EMNLP 2021
TicketTalk: Toward human-level performance with end-to-end, transaction-based dialog systems ACL 2021
Reducing Gender Bias in Neural Machine Translation as a Domain Adaptation Problem ACL 2020
Neural Machine Translation Doesn’t Translate Gender Coreference Right Unless You Make It COLING 2020
Inference-only sub-character decomposition improves translation of unseen logographic characters AACL 2020
Using Context in Neural Machine Translation Training Objectives ACL 2020
Addressing Exposure Bias With Document Minimum Risk Training: Cambridge at the WMT20 Biomedical Translation Task EMNLP 2020
The Teacher-Student Chatroom Corpus COLING 2020
Taskmaster-1: Toward a Realistic and Diverse Dialog Dataset EMNLP 2019
UCAM Biomedical Translation at WMT19: Transfer Learning Multi-domain Ensembles ACL 2019
Semi-Supervised Bootstrapping of Dialogue State Trackers for Task-Oriented Modelling EMNLP 2019
On NMT Search Errors and Model Errors: Cat Got Your Tongue? EMNLP 2019
CUED@WMT19:EWC&LMs ACL 2019
Neural and FST-based approaches to grammatical error correction ACL 2019
The CUED’s Grammatical Error Correction Systems for BEA-2019 ACL 2019
Domain Adaptive Inference for Neural Machine Translation ACL 2019
Semi-Supervised Bootstrapping of Dialogue State Trackers for Task-Oriented Modelling IJCNLP 2019
On NMT Search Errors and Model Errors: Cat Got Your Tongue? IJCNLP 2019
Taskmaster-1: Toward a Realistic and Diverse Dialog Dataset IJCNLP 2019
Neural Grammatical Error Correction with Finite State Transducers NAACL 2019
An Operation Sequence Model for Explainable Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2018
Multi-representation ensembles and delayed SGD updates improve syntax-based NMT ACL 2018
Accelerating NMT Batched Beam Decoding with LMBR Posteriors for Deployment NAACL 2018
Neural Machine Translation Decoding with Terminology Constraints NAACL 2018
The University of Cambridge’s Machine Translation Systems for WMT18 EMNLP 2018
Neural Machine Translation by Minimising the Bayes-risk with Respect to Syntactic Translation Lattices EACL 2017
Unfolding and Shrinking Neural Machine Translation Ensembles EMNLP 2017
Break it Down for Me: A Study in Automated Lyric Annotation EMNLP 2017
SGNMT – A Flexible NMT Decoding Platform for Quick Prototyping of New Models and Search Strategies EMNLP 2017
Speed-Constrained Tuning for Statistical Machine Translation Using Bayesian Optimization NAACL 2016
Syntactically Guided Neural Machine Translation ACL 2016
Fast and Accurate Preordering for SMT using Neural Networks NAACL 2015
The Geometry of Statistical Machine Translation NAACL 2015
Transducer Disambiguation with Sparse Topological Features EMNLP 2015
Word Ordering with Phrase-Based Grammars EACL 2014
Proceedings of the ACL 2014 Student Research Workshop ACL 2014
Source-side Preordering for Translation using Logistic Regression and Depth-first Branch-and-Bound Search EACL 2014
Effective Incorporation of Source Syntax into Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation COLING 2014