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Masao Utiyama

113 papers · 2000–2026 · 12 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🌍 Conference Polyglot (12) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (9) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (14) πŸƒ Academic Marathon (25) πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (10) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🏠 Conference Loyalist (33) 🀝 Dynamic Duo (75) πŸ‘₯ Mega-Team (29) πŸ”¬ Deep Specialist (55) πŸ† Keyword Champion (6) πŸ“ˆ Trend Setter ⚑ Prolific Year (5) ❓ The Questioner (3) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (329) πŸ’Ž Century Club (110) πŸš€ Conference Pioneer πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (16)

Conferences

ACL (33) EMNLP (31) COLING (13) IJCNLP (11) NAACL (8) AACL (5) IJCAI (4) EACL (3) AAAI (2) CONLL (1) ICCV (1) ICLR (1)

Top co-authors

Eiichiro Sumita (75) Rui Wang (31) Hai Zhao (23) Kehai Chen (20) Hideki Tanaka (18) Chenchen Ding (15) Zuchao Li (13) Taro Watanabe (10) Tiejun Zhao (9) Haiyue Song (9)

Research topics

Linguistics (2) Applications (1)

Keywords

neural machine translation (44) machine translation (12) low-resource language (7) domain adaptation (6) statistical machine translation (6) transfer learning (5) zero-shot learning (5) unsupervised machine translation (4) contrastive learning (4) representation learning (4) large language model (4) attention mechanism (4) unsupervised neural machine translation (4) constrained decoding (3) multilingual model (3) recurrent neural network (3) prompt engineering (3) transformer architecture (3) multilingual translation (3) knowledge distillation (3)

Papers

Representation-Aware Prompting for Zero-Shot Marathi Text Classification: IPA, Romanization, Repetition EACL 2026
Text Filter Based on Automatically Acquired Vocabularies for Multilingual Machine Translation EACL 2026
Structured Document Translation via Format Reinforcement Learning AACL 2025
ImageTra: Real-Time Translation for Texts in Image and Video AACL 2025
Comprehensive Evaluation on Lexical Normalization: Boundary-Aware Approaches for Unsegmented Languages EMNLP 2025
Multilingual Iterative Model Pruning: What Matters? AACL 2025
Structured Document Translation via Format Reinforcement Learning IJCNLP 2025
Multilingual Iterative Model Pruning: What Matters? IJCNLP 2025
PrahokBART: A Pre-trained Sequence-to-Sequence Model for Khmer Natural Language Generation COLING 2025
Exploiting Word Sense Disambiguation in Large Language Models for Machine Translation COLING 2025
TikZero: Zero-Shot Text-Guided Graphics Program Synthesis ICCV 2025
Improving Language Transfer Capability of Decoder-only Architecture in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2025
Enhanced Zero-Shot Machine Translation via Fixed Prefix Pair Bootstrapping NAACL 2025
Can Explicit Gender Information Improve Zero-Shot Machine Translation? ACL 2025
Registering Source Tokens to Target Language Spaces in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation ACL 2025
ImageTra: Real-Time Translation for Texts in Image and Video IJCNLP 2025
Overcoming Early Saturation on Low-Resource Languages in Multilingual Dependency Parsing COLING 2024
Robust Neural Machine Translation for Abugidas by Glyph Perturbation EACL 2024
On Eliciting Syntax from Language Models via Hashing EMNLP 2024
An Empirical Study of Multilingual Vocabulary for Neural Machine Translation Models EMNLP 2024
Centroid-Based Efficient Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding ACL 2024
To be Continuous, or to be Discrete, Those are Bits of Questions ACL 2024
Language Model Pre-training on True Negatives AAAI 2023
24-bit Languages IJCNLP 2023
24-bit Languages AACL 2023
Subset Retrieval Nearest Neighbor Machine Translation ACL 2023
Japanese-to-English Simultaneous Dubbing Prototype ACL 2023
Effective Graph Context Representation for Document-level Machine Translation IJCAI 2022
Restricted or Not: A General Training Framework for Neural Machine Translation ACL 2022
What Works and Doesn’t Work, A Deep Decoder for Neural Machine Translation ACL 2022
Synchronous Refinement for Neural Machine Translation ACL 2022
FeatureBART: Feature Based Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-Training for Low-Resource NMT COLING 2022
Explicit Alignment Learning for Neural Machine Translation IJCAI 2022
A Japanese Corpus of Many Specialized Domains for Word Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging AACL 2022
A Text Editing Approach to Joint Japanese Word Segmentation, POS Tagging, and Lexical Normalization EMNLP 2021
MiSS@WMT21: Contrastive Learning-reinforced Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2021
NICT’s Neural Machine Translation Systems for the WAT21 Restricted Translation Task IJCNLP 2021
Smoothing Dialogue States for Open Conversational Machine Reading EMNLP 2021
NICT’s Neural Machine Translation Systems for the WAT21 Restricted Translation Task ACL 2021
Self-Training for Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation in Unbalanced Training Data Scenarios NAACL 2021
User-Generated Text Corpus for Evaluating Japanese Morphological Analysis and Lexical Normalization NAACL 2021
MiSS: An Assistant for Multi-Style Simultaneous Translation EMNLP 2021
Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation with Universal Grammar EMNLP 2021
Explicit Sentence Compression for Neural Machine Translation AAAI 2020
Content Word Aware Neural Machine Translation ACL 2020
A Three-Parameter Rank-Frequency Relation in Natural Languages ACL 2020
Knowledge Distillation for Multilingual Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation ACL 2020
Robust Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation with Adversarial Denoising Training COLING 2020
Improving Low-Resource NMT through Relevance Based Linguistic Features Incorporation COLING 2020
Bilingual Subword Segmentation for Neural Machine Translation COLING 2020
Reference Language based Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2020
A System for Worldwide COVID-19 Information Aggregation EMNLP 2020
SJTU-NICT’s Supervised and Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation Systems for the WMT20 News Translation Task EMNLP 2020
Neural Machine Translation with Universal Visual Representation ICLR 2020
Neural Machine Translation with Reordering Embeddings ACL 2019
Unsupervised Bilingual Word Embedding Agreement for Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation ACL 2019
Incorporating Word Attention into Character-Based Word Segmentation NAACL 2019
Improving Neural Machine Translation with Neural Syntactic Distance NAACL 2019
MY-AKKHARA: A Romanization-based Burmese (Myanmar) Input Method IJCNLP 2019
Recurrent Positional Embedding for Neural Machine Translation IJCNLP 2019
Recurrent Positional Embedding for Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2019
MY-AKKHARA: A Romanization-based Burmese (Myanmar) Input Method EMNLP 2019
Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Translation for Myanmar-English and Khmer-English EMNLP 2019
English-Myanmar Supervised and Unsupervised NMT: NICT’s Machine Translation Systems at WAT-2019 EMNLP 2019
SJTU-NICT at MRP 2019: Multi-Task Learning for End-to-End Uniform Semantic Graph Parsing CONLL 2019
NICT’s Unsupervised Neural and Statistical Machine Translation Systems for the WMT19 News Translation Task ACL 2019
NICT’s Supervised Neural Machine Translation Systems for the WMT19 News Translation Task ACL 2019
Sentence-Level Agreement for Neural Machine Translation ACL 2019
NICT’s Corpus Filtering Systems for the WMT18 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task EMNLP 2018
Simplified Abugidas ACL 2018
Guiding Neural Machine Translation with Retrieved Translation Pieces NAACL 2018
Dynamic Sentence Sampling for Efficient Training of Neural Machine Translation ACL 2018
Exploring Recombination for Efficient Decoding of Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2018
CytonMT: an Efficient Neural Machine Translation Open-source Toolkit Implemented in C++ EMNLP 2018
NICT’s Neural and Statistical Machine Translation Systems for the WMT18 News Translation Task EMNLP 2018
Forest-Based Neural Machine Translation ACL 2018
Sentence Embedding for Neural Machine Translation Domain Adaptation ACL 2017
Key-value Attention Mechanism for Neural Machine Translation IJCNLP 2017
Improving Neural Machine Translation through Phrase-based Forced Decoding IJCNLP 2017
Instance Weighting for Neural Machine Translation Domain Adaptation EMNLP 2017
Neural Machine Translation with Source Dependency Representation EMNLP 2017
Context-Aware Smoothing for Neural Machine Translation IJCNLP 2017
Connecting Phrase based Statistical Machine Translation Adaptation COLING 2016
Neural Machine Translation with Supervised Attention COLING 2016
A Bilingual Graph-Based Semantic Model for Statistical Machine Translation IJCAI 2016
Assessing Translation Ability through Vocabulary Ability Assessment IJCAI 2016
A Continuous Space Rule Selection Model for Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2016
Agreement on Target-bidirectional Neural Machine Translation NAACL 2016
MuTUAL: A Controlled Authoring Support System Enabling Contextual Machine Translation COLING 2016
A Prototype Automatic Simultaneous Interpretation System COLING 2016
Improving fast_align by Reordering EMNLP 2015
Learning Word Reorderings for Hierarchical Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2015
Learning Word Reorderings for Hierarchical Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation IJCNLP 2015
A Binarized Neural Network Joint Model for Machine Translation EMNLP 2015
Leave-one-out Word Alignment without Garbage Collector Effects EMNLP 2015
Hierarchical Phrase-based Stream Decoding EMNLP 2015
Neural Network Based Bilingual Language Model Growing for Statistical Machine Translation EMNLP 2014
Learning Hierarchical Translation Spans EMNLP 2014
Dependency-based Pre-ordering for Chinese-English Machine Translation ACL 2014
Refining Word Segmentation Using a Manually Aligned Corpus for Statistical Machine Translation EMNLP 2014
Empirical Study of Unsupervised Chinese Word Segmentation Methods for SMT on Large-scale Corpora ACL 2014
Converting Continuous-Space Language Models into N-Gram Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation EMNLP 2013
Distortion Model Considering Rich Context for Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2013
Post-ordering by Parsing for Japanese-English Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2012
Reordering Constraint Based on Document-Level Context ACL 2011
Paraphrase Lattice for Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2010
A Comparison of Pivot Methods for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation NAACL 2007
Relevance Feedback Models for Recommendation EMNLP 2006
Organizing English Reading Materials for Vocabulary Learning ACL 2005
Reliable Measures for Aligning Japanese-English News Articles and Sentences ACL 2003
A Statistical Model for Domain-Independent Text Segmentation ACL 2001
Multi-Topic Multi-Document Summarization COLING 2000
A Statistical Approach to the Processing of Metonymy COLING 2000