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Lucia Specia

128 papers · 2006–2025 · 12 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌍 Conference Polyglot (12) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (11) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (12) πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge πŸƒ Academic Marathon (19) πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (11) 🏠 Conference Loyalist (34) 🌟 Keyword Trendsetter Combo (10) 🀝 Dynamic Duo (20) πŸ† Keyword Champion (2) πŸ”¬ Deep Specialist (36) πŸ“ˆ Trend Setter πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (14) πŸš€ Conference Pioneer ⚑ Prolific Year (14) ❓ The Questioner (3) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (339) πŸ’Ž Century Club (128)

Conferences

ACL (34) EMNLP (31) IJCNLP (16) NAACL (12) COLING (10) SEMEVAL (10) EACL (7) CONLL (3) AACL (2) ICCV (1) IJCAI (1) INTERSPEECH (1)

Top co-authors

Marina Fomicheva (20) Gustavo Paetzold (16) Carolina Scarton (15) FrΓ©dΓ©ric Blain (14) Pranava Madhyastha (14) Julia Ive (14) Zhenhao Li (9) Fernando Alva-Manchego (9) Francisco GuzmΓ‘n (8) Vishrav Chaudhary (7)

Keywords

quality estimation (25) machine translation (25) neural machine translation (13) text simplification (10) sentence-level prediction (9) image captioning (9) text classification (9) word-level prediction (8) multimodal machine translation (8) neural network (7) multimodal learning (7) machine translation evaluation (6) visual context (6) evaluation metric (4) semantic similarity (4) translation quality (4) sentence simplification (4) bayesian meta-learning (4) social media (4) recurrent neural network (3)

Papers

DiffuseDef: Improved Robustness to Adversarial Attacks via Iterative Denoising ACL 2025
Experimenting with Transformer-based and Large Language Models for Classifying Effects of Outdoor Spaces on Social Anxiety in Social Media Data ACL 2024
Monitoring Depression Severity and Symptoms in User-Generated Content: An Annotation Scheme and Guidelines ACL 2024
Classifying Social Media Users before and after Depression Diagnosis via Their Language Usage: A Dataset and Study COLING 2024
Using Large Language Models (LLMs) to Extract Evidence from Pre-Annotated Social Media Data EACL 2024
Choosing What to Mask: More Informed Masking for Multimodal Machine Translation ACL 2023
Predicting Moments of Mood Changes Overtime from Imbalanced Social Media Data NAACL 2022
Multimodal Conversation Modelling for Topic Derailment Detection EMNLP 2022
Findings of the WMT 2022 Shared Task on Quality Estimation EMNLP 2022
Logically Consistent Adversarial Attacks for Soft Theorem Provers IJCAI 2022
Guiding Visual Question Generation NAACL 2022
Contrastive Video-Language Learning with Fine-grained Frame Sampling IJCNLP 2022
Translation Error Detection as Rationale Extraction ACL 2022
Contrastive Video-Language Learning with Fine-grained Frame Sampling AACL 2022
Bias Mitigation in Machine Translation Quality Estimation ACL 2022
A Survey of Online Hate Speech through the Causal Lens EMNLP 2021
Bayesian Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning with Matrix-Valued Kernels for Quality Estimation IJCNLP 2021
Knowledge Distillation for Quality Estimation IJCNLP 2021
Uncertainty Aware Review Hallucination for Science Article Classification IJCNLP 2021
Continual Quality Estimation with Online Bayesian Meta-Learning IJCNLP 2021
BERTGen: Multi-task Generation through BERT ACL 2021
Continual Quality Estimation with Online Bayesian Meta-Learning ACL 2021
Uncertainty Aware Review Hallucination for Science Article Classification ACL 2021
Knowledge Distillation for Quality Estimation ACL 2021
Bayesian Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning with Matrix-Valued Kernels for Quality Estimation ACL 2021
BERTGen: Multi-task Generation through BERT IJCNLP 2021
ICL’s Submission to the WMT21 Critical Error Detection Shared Task EMNLP 2021
Findings of the WMT 2021 Shared Task on Quality Estimation EMNLP 2021
Pushing the Right Buttons: Adversarial Evaluation of Quality Estimation EMNLP 2021
What Makes a Scientific Paper be Accepted for Publication? EMNLP 2021
Quality Estimation without Human-labeled Data EACL 2021
Cross-lingual Visual Pre-training for Multimodal Machine Translation EACL 2021
Exploring Supervised and Unsupervised Rewards in Machine Translation EACL 2021
Exploiting Multimodal Reinforcement Learning for Simultaneous Machine Translation EACL 2021
Visual Cues and Error Correction for Translation Robustness EMNLP 2021
deepQuest-py: Large and Distilled Models for Quality Estimation EMNLP 2021
A Generative Framework for Simultaneous Machine Translation EMNLP 2021
Classification-based Quality Estimation: Small and Efficient Models for Real-world Applications EMNLP 2021
SentSim: Crosslingual Semantic Evaluation of Machine Translation NAACL 2021
Backtranslation Feedback Improves User Confidence in MT, Not Quality NAACL 2021
Simultaneous Machine Translation with Visual Context EMNLP 2020
Curious Case of Language Generation Evaluation Metrics: A Cautionary Tale COLING 2020
FIND: Human-in-the-Loop Debugging Deep Text Classifiers EMNLP 2020
Multi-Hypothesis Machine Translation Evaluation ACL 2020
Multimodal Quality Estimation for Machine Translation ACL 2020
ASSET: A Dataset for Tuning and Evaluation of Sentence Simplification Models with Multiple Rewriting Transformations ACL 2020
Are we Estimating or Guesstimating Translation Quality? ACL 2020
Exploring Model Consensus to Generate Translation Paraphrases ACL 2020
An Exploratory Study on Multilingual Quality Estimation AACL 2020
Findings of the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Quality Estimation EMNLP 2020
Findings of the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Machine Translation Robustness EMNLP 2020
BERGAMOT-LATTE Submissions for the WMT20 Quality Estimation Shared Task EMNLP 2020
EASSE: Easier Automatic Sentence Simplification Evaluation IJCNLP 2019
Deep Copycat Networks for Text-to-Text Generation IJCNLP 2019
Probing the Need for Visual Context in Multimodal Machine Translation NAACL 2019
Grounded Word Sense Translation NAACL 2019
Phrase Localization Without Paired Training Examples ICCV 2019
Improving Neural Machine Translation Robustness via Data Augmentation: Beyond Back-Translation EMNLP 2019
EASSE: Easier Automatic Sentence Simplification Evaluation EMNLP 2019
WMDO: Fluency-based Word Mover’s Distance for Machine Translation Evaluation ACL 2019
A Comparison on Fine-grained Pre-trained Embeddings for the WMT19Chinese-English News Translation Task ACL 2019
Cross-Sentence Transformations in Text Simplification ACL 2019
Is artificial data useful for biomedical Natural Language Processing algorithms? ACL 2019
VIFIDEL: Evaluating the Visual Fidelity of Image Descriptions ACL 2019
Distilling Translations with Visual Awareness ACL 2019
Deep Copycat Networks for Text-to-Text Generation EMNLP 2019
Findings of the Third Shared Task on Multimodal Machine Translation EMNLP 2018
Learning Simplifications for Specific Target Audiences ACL 2018
deepQuest: A Framework for Neural-based Quality Estimation COLING 2018
End-to-end Image Captioning Exploits Distributional Similarity in Multimodal Space EMNLP 2018
Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers EMNLP 2018
Exploring gap filling as a cheaper alternative to reading comprehension questionnaires when evaluating machine translation for gisting EMNLP 2018
Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers EMNLP 2018
Sheffield Submissions for WMT18 Multimodal Translation Shared Task EMNLP 2018
Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Quality Estimation EMNLP 2018
Sheffield Submissions for the WMT18 Quality Estimation Shared Task EMNLP 2018
Object Counts! Bringing Explicit Detections Back into Image Captioning NAACL 2018
Defoiling Foiled Image Captions NAACL 2018
Vis-Eval Metric Viewer: A Visualisation Tool for Inspecting and Evaluating Metric Scores of Machine Translation Output NAACL 2018
A Report on the Complex Word Identification Shared Task 2018 NAACL 2018
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations EMNLP 2017
Lexical Simplification with Neural Ranking EACL 2017
Semi-Supervised Adaptation of RNNLMs by Fine-Tuning with Domain-Specific Auxiliary Features INTERSPEECH 2017
SemEval-2017 Task 1: Semantic Textual Similarity Multilingual and Crosslingual Focused Evaluation SEMEVAL 2017
Personalized Machine Translation: Preserving Original Author Traits EACL 2017
Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2017) CONLL 2017
Learning How to Simplify From Explicit Labeling of Complex-Simplified Text Pairs IJCNLP 2017
MASSAlign: Alignment and Annotation of Comparable Documents IJCNLP 2017
MUSST: A Multilingual Syntactic Simplification Tool IJCNLP 2017
The Ultimate Presentation Makeup Tutorial: How to Polish your Posters, Slides and Presentations Skills IJCNLP 2017
Reference Bias in Monolingual Machine Translation Evaluation ACL 2016
SV000gg at SemEval-2016 Task 11: Heavy Gauge Complex Word Identification with System Voting SEMEVAL 2016
Exploring Prediction Uncertainty in Machine Translation Quality Estimation CONLL 2016
Quality Estimation for Language Output Applications COLING 2016
SAARSHEFF at SemEval-2016 Task 1: Semantic Textual Similarity with Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics and (eXtreme) Boosted Tree Ensembles SEMEVAL 2016
SemEval 2016 Task 11: Complex Word Identification SEMEVAL 2016
Inferring Psycholinguistic Properties of Words NAACL 2016
Large-scale Multitask Learning for Machine Translation Quality Estimation NAACL 2016
Anita: An Intelligent Text Adaptation Tool COLING 2016
Collecting and Exploring Everyday Language for Predicting Psycholinguistic Properties of Words COLING 2016
Understanding the Lexical Simplification Needs of Non-Native Speakers of English COLING 2016
Metrics for Evaluation of Word-level Machine Translation Quality Estimation ACL 2016
LEXenstein: A Framework for Lexical Simplification ACL 2015
LEXenstein: A Framework for Lexical Simplification IJCNLP 2015
Multi-level Translation Quality Prediction with QuEst++ IJCNLP 2015
WA-Continuum: Visualising Word Alignments across Multiple Parallel Sentences Simultaneously IJCNLP 2015
WA-Continuum: Visualising Word Alignments across Multiple Parallel Sentences Simultaneously ACL 2015
Multi-level Translation Quality Prediction with QuEst++ ACL 2015
USAAR-SHEFFIELD: Semantic Textual Similarity with Deep Regression and Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics SEMEVAL 2015
Investigating Continuous Space Language Models for Machine Translation Quality Estimation EMNLP 2015
Joint Emotion Analysis via Multi-task Gaussian Processes EMNLP 2014
Exact Decoding for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation EMNLP 2014
QuEst - A translation quality estimation framework ACL 2013
Reducing Annotation Effort for Quality Estimation via Active Learning ACL 2013
Modelling Annotator Bias with Multi-task Gaussian Processes: An Application to Machine Translation Quality Estimation ACL 2013
Multilingual WSD-like Constraints for Paraphrase Extraction CONLL 2013
Automatic Question Generation in Multimedia-Based Learning COLING 2012
SemEval-2012 Task 1: English Lexical Simplification SEMEVAL 2012
UOW-SHEF: SimpLex – Lexical Simplicity Ranking based on Contextual and Psycholinguistic Features SEMEVAL 2012
UOW: Semantically Informed Text Similarity SEMEVAL 2012
Linguistic and Statistical Traits Characterising Plagiarism COLING 2012
Combining Dictionaries and Contextual Information for Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution SEMEVAL 2010
Source-Language Entailment Modeling for Translating Unknown Terms ACL 2009
Source-Language Entailment Modeling for Translating Unknown Terms IJCNLP 2009
Learning Expressive Models for Word Sense Disambiguation ACL 2007
USP-IBM-1 and USP-IBM-2: The ILP-based Systems for Lexical Sample WSD in SemEval-2007 SEMEVAL 2007
A Hybrid Relational Approach for WSD – First Results ACL 2006
A Hybrid Relational Approach for WSD – First Results COLING 2006