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Chris Quirk

49 papers · 2004–2025 · 8 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🐝 Cross-Pollinator (10) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (43) πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (9) 🌍 Conference Polyglot (8) πŸƒ Academic Marathon (21) 🌟 Keyword Trendsetter Combo (7) 🀝 Dynamic Duo (13) 🌱 Topic Pioneer 🧬 Topic Evolution πŸ“ˆ Trend Setter πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (15) ⚑ Prolific Year (8) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (82) ❓ The Questioner (3) πŸ’Ž Century Club (49)

Conferences

ACL (19) EMNLP (12) NAACL (9) COLING (3) IJCNLP (3) AAAI (1) EACL (1) NIPS (1)

Top co-authors

Michel Galley (13) Jianfeng Gao (10) Kristina Toutanova (7) Bill Dolan (7) Chris Brockett (7) Robert C. Moore (5) Arul Menezes (5) Michael Auli (3) Colin Cherry (3) Wen-tau Yih (3)

Keywords

precision medicine (2) content transfer (2) grounded generation (2) dialogue system (2) text generation (2) response generation (2) knowledge grounding (2) conversational ai (1) relation extraction (1) natural language processing (1) semantic parsing (1) program synthesis (1) intent classification (1) neural text generation (1) clinical text mining (1) text editing (1) graph representation (1) multitask learning (1) knowledge base (1) llm evaluation (1)

Papers

SimulatorArena: Are User Simulators Reliable Proxies for Multi-Turn Evaluation of AI Assistants? EMNLP 2025
Probing Factually Grounded Content Transfer with Factual Ablation ACL 2022
When does text prediction benefit from additional context? An exploration of contextual signals for chat and email messages NAACL 2021
Text Editing by Command NAACL 2021
A Controllable Model of Grounded Response Generation AAAI 2021
Examination and Extension of Strategies for Improving Personalized Language Modeling via Interpolation ACL 2020
Microsoft Icecaps: An Open-Source Toolkit for Conversation Modeling ACL 2019
Towards Content Transfer through Grounded Text Generation NAACL 2019
Multilingual Whispers: Generating Paraphrases with Translation EMNLP 2019
Novel positional encodings to enable tree-based transformers NIPS 2019
Assigning people to tasks identified in email: The EPA dataset for addressee tagging for detected task intent EMNLP 2018
Confidence Modeling for Neural Semantic Parsing ACL 2018
Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction beyond the Sentence Boundary EACL 2017
NLP for Precision Medicine ACL 2017
Improved Semantic Parsers For If-Then Statements ACL 2016
Compositional Learning of Embeddings for Relation Paths in Knowledge Base and Text ACL 2016
deltaBLEU: A Discriminative Metric for Generation Tasks with Intrinsically Diverse Targets ACL 2015
Language to Code: Learning Semantic Parsers for If-This-Then-That Recipes ACL 2015
Pre-Computable Multi-Layer Neural Network Language Models EMNLP 2015
Language to Code: Learning Semantic Parsers for If-This-Then-That Recipes IJCNLP 2015
deltaBLEU: A Discriminative Metric for Generation Tasks with Intrinsically Diverse Targets IJCNLP 2015
An AMR parser for English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese and a new AMR-annotated corpus NAACL 2015
Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning of Translation Models from Monolingual Data ACL 2014
Beyond Left-to-Right: Multiple Decomposition Structures for SMT NAACL 2013
Exact Maximum Inference for the Fertility Hidden Markov Model ACL 2013
Semantic Neighborhoods as Hypergraphs ACL 2013
Morphological, Syntactical and Semantic Knowledge in Statistical Machine Translation NAACL 2013
Joint Language and Translation Modeling with Recurrent Neural Networks EMNLP 2013
Monolingual Marginal Matching for Translation Model Adaptation EMNLP 2013
Regularized Minimum Error Rate Training EMNLP 2013
Lightly Supervised Learning of Procedural Dialog Systems ACL 2013
MSR SPLAT, a language analysis toolkit NAACL 2012
Optimal Search for Minimum Error Rate Training EMNLP 2011
Gappy Phrasal Alignment By Agreement ACL 2011
Extracting Parallel Sentences from Comparable Corpora using Document Level Alignment NAACL 2010
Top-Down K-Best A* Parsing ACL 2010
Learning Phrase-Based Spelling Error Models from Clickthrough Data ACL 2010
A Large Scale Ranker-Based System for Search Query Spelling Correction COLING 2010
Improved Smoothing for N-gram Language Models Based on Ordinary Counts IJCNLP 2009
Less is More: Significance-Based N-gram Selection for Smaller, Better Language Models EMNLP 2009
Improved Smoothing for N-gram Language Models Based on Ordinary Counts ACL 2009
Random Restarts in Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation COLING 2008
Syntactic Models for Structural Word Insertion and Deletion during Translation EMNLP 2008
Bayesian Learning of Non-Compositional Phrases with Synchronous Parsing ACL 2008
Do we need phrases? Challenging the conventional wisdom in Statistical Machine Translation NAACL 2006
The impact of parse quality on syntactically-informed statistical machine translation EMNLP 2006
Dependency Treelet Translation: Syntactically Informed Phrasal SMT ACL 2005
Monolingual Machine Translation for Paraphrase Generation EMNLP 2004
Unsupervised Construction of Large Paraphrase Corpora: Exploiting Massively Parallel News Sources COLING 2004