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cs.CL2026★ 18 cited

OpenAI GPT-5 System Card

Aaditya Singh, Adam Fry, Adam Perelman +483

This is the system card published alongside the OpenAI GPT-5 launch, August 2025. GPT-5 is a unified system with a smart and fast model that answers most questions, a deeper reason…

cs.CL2023

URL-BERT: Training Webpage Representations via Social Media Engagements

Ayesha Qamar, Chetan Verma, Ahmed El-Kishky +3

Understanding and representing webpages is crucial to online social networks where users may share and engage with URLs. Common language model (LM) encoders such as BERT can be use…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

NTULM: Enriching Social Media Text Representations with Non-Textual Units

Jinning Li, Shubhanshu Mishra, Ahmed El-Kishky +2

On social media, additional context is often present in the form of annotations and meta-data such as the post's author, mentions, Hashtags, and hyperlinks. We refer to these annot…

cs.CL2022★ 18 cited

TwHIN-BERT: A Socially-Enriched Pre-trained Language Model for Multilingual Tweet Representations at Twitter

Xinyang Zhang, Yury Malkov, Omar Florez +4

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) are fundamental for natural language processing applications. Most existing PLMs are not tailored to the noisy user-generated text on social medi…

cs.CL2022

Non-Parametric Temporal Adaptation for Social Media Topic Classification

Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah, Nikolai Vogler, Junxian He +3

User-generated social media data is constantly changing as new trends influence online discussion and personal information is deleted due to privacy concerns. However, most current…

cs.CL2021

Classification-based Quality Estimation: Small and Efficient Models for Real-world Applications

Shuo Sun, Ahmed El-Kishky, Vishrav Chaudhary +3

Sentence-level Quality estimation (QE) of machine translation is traditionally formulated as a regression task, and the performance of QE models is typically measured by Pearson co…

cs.CL2021

As Easy as 1, 2, 3: Behavioural Testing of NMT Systems for Numerical Translation

Jun Wang, Chang Xu, Francisco Guzman +3

Mistranslated numbers have the potential to cause serious effects, such as financial loss or medical misinformation. In this work we develop comprehensive assessments of the robust…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Putting words into the system's mouth: A targeted attack on neural machine translation using monolingual data poisoning

Jun Wang, Chang Xu, Francisco Guzman +4

Neural machine translation systems are known to be vulnerable to adversarial test inputs, however, as we show in this paper, these systems are also vulnerable to training attacks.…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Adapting High-resource NMT Models to Translate Low-resource Related Languages without Parallel Data

Wei-Jen Ko, Ahmed El-Kishky, Adithya Renduchintala +6

The scarcity of parallel data is a major obstacle for training high-quality machine translation systems for low-resource languages. Fortunately, some low-resource languages are lin…

cs.CL2021

XLEnt: Mining a Large Cross-lingual Entity Dataset with Lexical-Semantic-Phonetic Word Alignment

Ahmed El-Kishky, Adithya Renduchintala, James Cross +2

Cross-lingual named-entity lexica are an important resource to multilingual NLP tasks such as machine translation and cross-lingual wikification. While knowledge bases contain a la…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

Quality Estimation without Human-labeled Data

Yi-Lin Tuan, Ahmed El-Kishky, Adithya Renduchintala +3

Quality estimation aims to measure the quality of translated content without access to a reference translation. This is crucial for machine translation systems in real-world scenar…

cs.CL2020★ 470 cited

Beyond English-Centric Multilingual Machine Translation

Angela Fan, Shruti Bhosale, Holger Schwenk +14

Existing work in translation demonstrated the potential of massively multilingual machine translation by training a single model able to translate between any pair of languages. Ho…

cs.CL2020★ 2 cited

Massively Multilingual Document Alignment with Cross-lingual Sentence-Mover's Distance

Ahmed El-Kishky, Francisco Guzmán

Document alignment aims to identify pairs of documents in two distinct languages that are of comparable content or translations of each other. Such aligned data can be used for a v…

cs.CL2019

CCAligned: A Massive Collection of Cross-Lingual Web-Document Pairs

Ahmed El-Kishky, Vishrav Chaudhary, Francisco Guzman +1

Cross-lingual document alignment aims to identify pairs of documents in two distinct languages that are of comparable content or translations of each other. In this paper, we explo…

cs.CL2019★ 3 cited

Facebook AI's WAT19 Myanmar-English Translation Task Submission

Peng-Jen Chen, Jiajun Shen, Matt Le +5

This paper describes Facebook AI's submission to the WAT 2019 Myanmar-English translation task. Our baseline systems are BPE-based transformer models. We explore methods to leverag…

cs.CL2019

Parsimonious Morpheme Segmentation with an Application to Enriching Word Embeddings

Ahmed El-Kishky, Frank Xu, Aston Zhang +1

Traditionally, many text-mining tasks treat individual word-tokens as the finest meaningful semantic granularity. However, in many languages and specialized corpora, words are comp…

cs.CL2018

Integrating Local Context and Global Cohesiveness for Open Information Extraction

Qi Zhu, Xiang Ren, Jingbo Shang +3

Extracting entities and their relations from text is an important task for understanding massive text corpora. Open information extraction (IE) systems mine relation tuples (i.e.,…

cs.CL2014★ 18 cited

Scalable Topical Phrase Mining from Text Corpora

Ahmed El-Kishky, Yanglei Song, Chi Wang +2

While most topic modeling algorithms model text corpora with unigrams, human interpretation often relies on inherent grouping of terms into phrases. As such, we consider the proble…