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George Foster

44 papers · 2000–2024 · 7 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

πŸƒ Academic Marathon (24) πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (41) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (7) πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (11) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (7) 🀝 Dynamic Duo (14) πŸ”¬ Deep Specialist (19) 🧬 Topic Evolution πŸ† Keyword Champion (3) ⚑ Prolific Year (7) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (105) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (8) πŸ’Ž Century Club (44) πŸš€ Conference Pioneer

Conferences

EMNLP (17) ACL (11) NAACL (7) COLING (3) CONLL (3) EACL (2) ICML (1)

Top co-authors

Colin Cherry (14) Roland Kuhn (10) Markus Freitag (10) Howard Johnson (4) Boxing Chen (4) Philippe Langlais (3) Wolfgang Macherey (3) Guy Lapalme (3) Alon Lavie (3) Chi-kiu Lo (3)

Keywords

machine translation (15) neural machine translation (9) human evaluation (6) metric correlation (3) translation evaluation (3) multilingual model (3) document-level translation (2) large language model (2) computer-aided translation (2) in-context learning (2) translation quality (2) quality assessment (2) automatic metric (2) word-level autocompletion (2) text generation (1) self-supervised learning (1) prompt engineering (1) curriculum learning (1) reinforcement learning (1) multilingual text (1)

Papers

Importance-Aware Data Augmentation for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation EACL 2024
Finding Replicable Human Evaluations via Stable Ranking Probability NAACL 2024
Findings of the Word-Level AutoCompletion Shared Task in WMT 2023 EMNLP 2023
Results of WMT23 Metrics Shared Task: Metrics Might Be Guilty but References Are Not Innocent EMNLP 2023
Document Flattening: Beyond Concatenating Context for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation EACL 2023
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Few-shot Learning for Machine Translation ICML 2023
Searching for Needles in a Haystack: On the Role of Incidental Bilingualism in PaLM’s Translation Capability ACL 2023
Prompting PaLM for Translation: Assessing Strategies and Performance ACL 2023
Ties Matter: Meta-Evaluating Modern Metrics with Pairwise Accuracy and Tie Calibration EMNLP 2023
Toward More Effective Human Evaluation for Machine Translation ACL 2022
Findings of the Word-Level AutoCompletion Shared Task in WMT 2022 EMNLP 2022
Results of WMT22 Metrics Shared Task: Stop Using BLEU – Neural Metrics Are Better and More Robust EMNLP 2022
A Natural Diet: Towards Improving Naturalness of Machine Translation Output ACL 2022
Results of the WMT21 Metrics Shared Task: Evaluating Metrics with Expert-based Human Evaluations on TED and News Domain EMNLP 2021
Assessing Reference-Free Peer Evaluation for Machine Translation NAACL 2021
Human-Paraphrased References Improve Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2020
Inference Strategies for Machine Translation with Conditional Masking EMNLP 2020
Re-translation versus Streaming for Simultaneous Translation ACL 2020
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low-Resource NLP (DeepLo 2019) EMNLP 2019
Reinforcement Learning based Curriculum Optimization for Neural Machine Translation NAACL 2019
Revisiting Character-Based Neural Machine Translation with Capacity and Compression EMNLP 2018
Proceedings of the Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low-Resource NLP ACL 2018
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Recent Advances in Neural Machine Translation ACL 2018
A Challenge Set Approach to Evaluating Machine Translation EMNLP 2017
Vector Space Model for Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2013
Adaptation of Reordering Models for Statistical Machine Translation NAACL 2013
Batch Tuning Strategies for Statistical Machine Translation NAACL 2012
Mixing Multiple Translation Models in Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2012
Bilingual Sense Similarity for Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2010
Discriminative Instance Weighting for Domain Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation EMNLP 2010
Phrase Clustering for Smoothing TM Probabilities - or, How to Extract Paraphrases from Phrase Tables COLING 2010
Tighter Integration of Rule-Based and Statistical MT in Serial System Combination COLING 2008
Improving Translation Quality by Discarding Most of the Phrasetable CONLL 2007
Improving Translation Quality by Discarding Most of the Phrasetable EMNLP 2007
Segment Choice Models: Feature-Rich Models for Global Distortion in Statistical Machine Translation NAACL 2006
Phrasetable Smoothing for Statistical Machine Translation EMNLP 2006
Automatic Detection of Translation Errors: The State of the Art EMNLP 2005
Adaptive Language and Translation Models for Interactive Machine Translation EMNLP 2004
Confidence Estimation for Machine Translation COLING 2004
Confidence estimation for translation prediction CONLL 2003
User-Friendly Text Prediction For Translators EMNLP 2002
Unit Completion for a Computer-aided Translation Typing System NAACL 2000
Incorporating Position Information into a Maximum Entropy/Minimum Divergence Translation Model CONLL 2000
A Maximum Entropy/Minimum Divergence Translation Model ACL 2000