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Colin Cherry

72 papers · 2003–2025 · 11 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐝 Cross-Pollinator (12) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (48) πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (6) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (11) πŸƒ Academic Marathon (22) 🐺 Lone Wolf (3) 🀝 Dynamic Duo (14) πŸ‘₯ Mega-Team (27) πŸ”¬ Deep Specialist (25) 🧬 Topic Evolution πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (124) ❓ The Questioner ⚑ Prolific Year (6) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (18) πŸ’Ž Century Club (72)

Conferences

ACL (18) NAACL (18) EMNLP (15) COLING (4) ICML (3) IJCNLP (3) INTERSPEECH (3) CONLL (2) EACL (2) ICLR (2) SEMEVAL (2)

Top co-authors

George Foster (14) Grzegorz Kondrak (8) Markus Freitag (8) Orhan Firat (6) Jiaming Luo (6) Kristina Toutanova (5) Dekang Lin (5) Eleftheria Briakou (5) Xiaodan Zhu (4) Ankur Bapna (4)

Keywords

machine translation (15) neural machine translation (8) multilingual model (5) low-resource language (5) large language model (4) translation evaluation (3) domain adaptation (3) text generation (3) in-context learning (3) few-shot learning (2) benchmark evaluation (2) language model (2) speech translation (2) speech recognition (2) transfer learning (2) african language (2) multilingual nlp (1) knowledge distillation (1) attention mechanism (1) metric learning (1)

Papers

Overestimation in LLM Evaluation: A Controlled Large-Scale Study on Data Contamination’s Impact on Machine Translation ICML 2025
Alligators All Around: Mitigating Lexical Confusion in Low-resource Machine Translation NAACL 2025
SSA-COMET: Do LLMs Outperform Learned Metrics in Evaluating MT for Under-Resourced African Languages? EMNLP 2025
Evaluating WMT 2025 Metrics Shared Task Submissions on the SSA-MTE African Challenge Set EMNLP 2025
SMOL: Professionally Translated Parallel Data for 115 Under-represented Languages EMNLP 2025
Leveraging Domain Knowledge at Inference Time for LLM Translation: Retrieval versus Generation NAACL 2025
Translating Step-by-Step: Decomposing the Translation Process for Improved Translation Quality of Long-Form Texts EMNLP 2024
When Scaling Meets LLM Finetuning: The Effect of Data, Model and Finetuning Method ICLR 2024
Quality-Aware Translation Models: Efficient Generation and Quality Estimation in a Single Model ACL 2024
Barriers to Effective Evaluation of Simultaneous Interpretation EACL 2024
XTREME-UP: A User-Centric Scarce-Data Benchmark for Under-Represented Languages EMNLP 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
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Few-shot Learning for Machine Translation ICML 2023
Leveraging unsupervised and weakly-supervised data to improve direct speech-to-speech translation INTERSPEECH 2022
XTREME-S: Evaluating Cross-lingual Speech Representations INTERSPEECH 2022
Data Scaling Laws in NMT: The Effect of Noise and Architecture ICML 2022
Scaling Laws for Neural Machine Translation ICLR 2022
A Natural Diet: Towards Improving Naturalness of Machine Translation Output ACL 2022
Exploring the Benefits and Limitations of Multilinguality for Non-autoregressive Machine Translation EMNLP 2022
Inverted Projection for Robust Speech Translation ACL 2021
Subtitle Translation as Markup Translation INTERSPEECH 2021
Inverted Projection for Robust Speech Translation IJCNLP 2021
Assessing Reference-Free Peer Evaluation for Machine Translation NAACL 2021
Human-Paraphrased References Improve Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2020
Simultaneous Translation EMNLP 2020
Re-translation versus Streaming for Simultaneous Translation ACL 2020
Inference Strategies for Machine Translation with Conditional Masking EMNLP 2020
Reinforcement Learning based Curriculum Optimization for Neural Machine Translation NAACL 2019
Monotonic Infinite Lookback Attention for Simultaneous Machine Translation ACL 2019
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low-Resource NLP (DeepLo 2019) EMNLP 2019
Proceedings of the Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low-Resource NLP ACL 2018
Revisiting Character-Based Neural Machine Translation with Capacity and Compression EMNLP 2018
A Challenge Set Approach to Evaluating Machine Translation EMNLP 2017
Integrating Morphological Desegmentation into Phrase-based Decoding NAACL 2016
An Empirical Evaluation of Noise Contrastive Estimation for the Neural Network Joint Model of Translation NAACL 2016
SemEval-2016 Task 6: Detecting Stance in Tweets SEMEVAL 2016
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Word Representations for Twitter Named Entity Recognition NAACL 2015
Inflection Generation as Discriminative String Transduction NAACL 2015
Lattice Desegmentation for Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2014
NRC-Canada-2014: Detecting Aspects and Sentiment in Customer Reviews SEMEVAL 2014
Improved Reordering for Phrase-Based Translation using Sparse Features NAACL 2013
Regularized Minimum Error Rate Training EMNLP 2013
Reversing Morphological Tokenization in English-to-Arabic SMT NAACL 2013
Paraphrasing for Style COLING 2012
MSR SPLAT, a language analysis toolkit NAACL 2012
Batch Tuning Strategies for Statistical Machine Translation NAACL 2012
Data-Driven Response Generation in Social Media EMNLP 2011
Indexing Spoken Documents with Hierarchical Semantic Structures: Semantic Tree-to-string Alignment Models IJCNLP 2011
Joint Training of Dependency Parsing Filters through Latent Support Vector Machines ACL 2011
Lexically-Triggered Hidden Markov Models for Clinical Document Coding ACL 2011
Integrating Joint n-gram Features into a Discriminative Training Framework NAACL 2010
Unsupervised Modeling of Twitter Conversations NAACL 2010
Imposing Hierarchical Browsing Structures onto Spoken Documents COLING 2010
Fast and Accurate Arc Filtering for Dependency Parsing COLING 2010
Cohesive Constraints in A Beam Search Phrase-based Decoder NAACL 2009
A global model for joint lemmatization and part-of-speech prediction IJCNLP 2009
Discriminative Substring Decoding for Transliteration EMNLP 2009
A global model for joint lemmatization and part-of-speech prediction ACL 2009
Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation with Log-Linear Models NAACL 2009
On the Syllabification of Phonemes NAACL 2009
Cohesive Phrase-Based Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2008
Automatic Syllabification with Structured SVMs for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion ACL 2008
Joint Processing and Discriminative Training for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion ACL 2008
Improved Large Margin Dependency Parsing via Local Constraints and Laplacian Regularization CONLL 2006
A Comparison of Syntactically Motivated Word Alignment Spaces EACL 2006
Soft Syntactic Constraints for Word Alignment through Discriminative Training ACL 2006
Soft Syntactic Constraints for Word Alignment through Discriminative Training COLING 2006
An Expectation Maximization Approach to Pronoun Resolution CONLL 2005
Dependency Treelet Translation: Syntactically Informed Phrasal SMT ACL 2005
Word Alignment with Cohesion Constraint NAACL 2003
A Probability Model to Improve Word Alignment ACL 2003