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Jan Buys

35 papers · 2013–2026 · 10 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🌈 Renaissance Researcher (8) πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (62) πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌍 Conference Polyglot (10) πŸƒ Academic Marathon (12) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (6) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (11) πŸ’Ž Century Club (34) ⚑ Prolific Year (5) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (130)

Conferences

ACL (7) EMNLP (6) COLING (5) NAACL (5) IJCNLP (4) EACL (3) AACL (2) CONLL (1) ICLR (1) SEMEVAL (1)

Top co-authors

Francois Meyer (8) Sello Ralethe (6) Yejin Choi (6) Phil Blunsom (6) Ari Holtzman (5) Edan Toledo (3) Antoine Bosselut (2) Peter West (2) Khalid N. Elmadani (2) Jonathan Shock (2)

Keywords

low-resource language (11) subword segmentation (6) language model (5) cross-lingual transfer (4) language modeling (4) dependency parsing (3) semantic parsing (3) question answering (3) text generation (3) neural machine translation (3) subword tokenization (2) reinforcement learning (2) information bottleneck (2) self-supervised learning (2) abstractive summarization (2) policy learning (2) knowledge base (2) multilingual translation (2) extractive summarization (2) unsupervised learning (2)

Papers

Multi-Hall-SA: A Cross-lingual Benchmark for Multi-Type Hallucination Detection in Low-Resource South African Languages EACL 2026
KERLQA: Knowledge-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Question Answering in Low-resource Languages AACL 2025
The Learning Dynamics of Subword Segmentation for Morphologically Diverse Languages AACL 2025
Story Generation with Large Language Models for African Languages ACL 2025
Cross-Lingual Knowledge Projection and Knowledge Enhancement for Zero-Shot Question Answering in Low-Resource Languages COLING 2025
Cross-Lingual Knowledge Augmentation for Mitigating Generic Overgeneralization in Multilingual Language Models EMNLP 2025
The Learning Dynamics of Subword Segmentation for Morphologically Diverse Languages IJCNLP 2025
KERLQA: Knowledge-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Question Answering in Low-resource Languages IJCNLP 2025
NGLUEni: Benchmarking and Adapting Pretrained Language Models for Nguni Languages COLING 2024
Neural Machine Translation between Low-Resource Languages with Synthetic Pivoting COLING 2024
Multipath parsing in the brain ACL 2024
A Systematic Analysis of Subwords and Cross-Lingual Transfer in Multilingual Translation NAACL 2024
Triples-to-isiXhosa (T2X): Addressing the Challenges of Low-Resource Agglutinative Data-to-Text Generation COLING 2024
Policy-based Reinforcement Learning for Generalisation in Interactive Text-based Environments EACL 2023
Subword Segmental Machine Translation: Unifying Segmentation and Target Sentence Generation ACL 2023
University of Cape Town’s WMT22 System: Multilingual Machine Translation for Southern African Languages EMNLP 2022
Generic Overgeneralization in Pre-trained Language Models COLING 2022
A Sequence Modelling Approach to Question Answering in Text-Based Games NAACL 2022
Subword Segmental Language Modelling for Nguni Languages EMNLP 2022
Discourse Understanding and Factual Consistency in Abstractive Summarization EACL 2021
RepGraph: Visualising and Analysing Meaning Representation Graphs EMNLP 2021
The Curious Case of Neural Text Degeneration ICLR 2020
BottleSum: Unsupervised and Self-supervised Sentence Summarization using the Information Bottleneck Principle EMNLP 2019
Benchmarking Hierarchical Script Knowledge NAACL 2019
BottleSum: Unsupervised and Self-supervised Sentence Summarization using the Information Bottleneck Principle IJCNLP 2019
Neural Text Generation from Rich Semantic Representations NAACL 2019
Neural Syntactic Generative Models with Exact Marginalization NAACL 2018
Learning to Write with Cooperative Discriminators ACL 2018
Oxford at SemEval-2017 Task 9: Neural AMR Parsing with Pointer-Augmented Attention SEMEVAL 2017
Robust Incremental Neural Semantic Graph Parsing ACL 2017
Online Segment to Segment Neural Transduction EMNLP 2016
Cross-Lingual Morphological Tagging for Low-Resource Languages ACL 2016
Generative Incremental Dependency Parsing with Neural Networks IJCNLP 2015
Generative Incremental Dependency Parsing with Neural Networks ACL 2015
A Tree Transducer Model for Grammatical Error Correction CONLL 2013