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cs.CL2023★ 7 cited

Uncertainty in Natural Language Generation: From Theory to Applications

Joris Baan, Nico Daheim, Evgenia Ilia +7

Recent advances of powerful Language Models have allowed Natural Language Generation (NLG) to emerge as an important technology that can not only perform traditional tasks like sum…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

What Comes Next? Evaluating Uncertainty in Neural Text Generators Against Human Production Variability

Mario Giulianelli, Joris Baan, Wilker Aziz +2

In Natural Language Generation (NLG) tasks, for any input, multiple communicative goals are plausible, and any goal can be put into words, or produced, in multiple ways. We charact…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Stop Measuring Calibration When Humans Disagree

Joris Baan, Wilker Aziz, Barbara Plank +1

Calibration is a popular framework to evaluate whether a classifier knows when it does not know - i.e., its predictive probabilities are a good indication of how likely a predictio…

cs.CL2021

Highly Parallel Autoregressive Entity Linking with Discriminative Correction

Nicola De Cao, Wilker Aziz, Ivan Titov

Generative approaches have been recently shown to be effective for both Entity Disambiguation and Entity Linking (i.e., joint mention detection and disambiguation). However, the pr…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Sampling-Based Approximations to Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for Neural Machine Translation

Bryan Eikema, Wilker Aziz

In NMT we search for the mode of the model distribution to form predictions. The mode and other high-probability translations found by beam search have been shown to often be inade…

cs.CL2021

Editing Factual Knowledge in Language Models

Nicola De Cao, Wilker Aziz, Ivan Titov

The factual knowledge acquired during pre-training and stored in the parameters of Language Models (LMs) can be useful in downstream tasks (e.g., question answering or textual infe…

cs.CL2020

Disease Normalization with Graph Embeddings

Dhruba Pujary, Camilo Thorne, Wilker Aziz

The detection and normalization of diseases in biomedical texts are key biomedical natural language processing tasks. Disease names need not only be identified, but also normalized…

cs.CL2020

Is MAP Decoding All You Need? The Inadequacy of the Mode in Neural Machine Translation

Bryan Eikema, Wilker Aziz

Recent studies have revealed a number of pathologies of neural machine translation (NMT) systems. Hypotheses explaining these mostly suggest there is something fundamentally wrong…

cs.CL2020

How do Decisions Emerge across Layers in Neural Models? Interpretation with Differentiable Masking

Nicola De Cao, Michael Schlichtkrull, Wilker Aziz +1

Attribution methods assess the contribution of inputs to the model prediction. One way to do so is erasure: a subset of inputs is considered irrelevant if it can be removed without…

cs.CL2019★ 8 cited

A Latent Morphology Model for Open-Vocabulary Neural Machine Translation

Duygu Ataman, Wilker Aziz, Alexandra Birch

Translation into morphologically-rich languages challenges neural machine translation (NMT) models with extremely sparse vocabularies where atomic treatment of surface forms is unr…

cs.CL2019

Effective Estimation of Deep Generative Language Models

Tom Pelsmaeker, Wilker Aziz

Advances in variational inference enable parameterisation of probabilistic models by deep neural networks. This combines the statistical transparency of the probabilistic modelling…

cs.CL2019★ 8 cited

Modeling Latent Sentence Structure in Neural Machine Translation

Jasmijn Bastings, Wilker Aziz, Ivan Titov +1

Recently it was shown that linguistic structure predicted by a supervised parser can be beneficial for neural machine translation (NMT). In this work we investigate a more challeng…

cs.CL2018

Latent Variable Model for Multi-modal Translation

Iacer Calixto, Miguel Rios, Wilker Aziz

In this work, we propose to model the interaction between visual and textual features for multi-modal neural machine translation (MMT) through a latent variable model. This latent…

cs.CL2018

Auto-Encoding Variational Neural Machine Translation

Bryan Eikema, Wilker Aziz

We present a deep generative model of bilingual sentence pairs for machine translation. The model generates source and target sentences jointly from a shared latent representation…

cs.CL2018

Deep Generative Model for Joint Alignment and Word Representation

Miguel Rios, Wilker Aziz, Khalil Sima'an

This work exploits translation data as a source of semantically relevant learning signal for models of word representation. In particular, we exploit equivalence through translatio…

cs.CL2017

Graph Convolutional Encoders for Syntax-aware Neural Machine Translation

Jasmijn Bastings, Ivan Titov, Wilker Aziz +2

We present a simple and effective approach to incorporating syntactic structure into neural attention-based encoder-decoder models for machine translation. We rely on graph-convolu…

cs.CL2015★ 9 cited

The USFD Spoken Language Translation System for IWSLT 2014

Raymond W. M. Ng, Mortaza Doulaty, Rama Doddipatla +7

The University of Sheffield (USFD) participated in the International Workshop for Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) in 2014. In this paper, we will introduce the USFD SLT system…