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most citedCreativity in translation: machine translation as a constraint for literary texts

94 citations · 98 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL20221 cited

Subword-Delimited Downsampling for Better Character-Level Translation

Lukas Edman, Antonio Toral, Gertjan van Noord

Subword-level models have been the dominant paradigm in NLP. However, character-level models have the benefit of seeing each character individually, providing the model with more d…

cs.CL20221 cited

Patching Leaks in the Charformer for Efficient Character-Level Generation

Lukas Edman, Antonio Toral, Gertjan van Noord

Character-based representations have important advantages over subword-based ones for morphologically rich languages. They come with increased robustness to noisy input and do not…

cs.CL20221 cited

The Importance of Context in Very Low Resource Language Modeling

Lukas Edman, Antonio Toral, Gertjan van Noord

This paper investigates very low resource language model pretraining, when less than 100 thousand sentences are available. We find that, in very low resource scenarios, statistical…

cs.CL2022

Human Judgement as a Compass to Navigate Automatic Metrics for Formality Transfer

Huiyuan Lai, Jiali Mao, Antonio Toral +1

Although text style transfer has witnessed rapid development in recent years, there is as yet no established standard for evaluation, which is performed using several automatic met…

cs.CL202294 cited

Creativity in translation: machine translation as a constraint for literary texts

Ana Guerberof Arenas, Antonio Toral

This article presents the results of a study involving the translation of a short story by Kurt Vonnegut from English to Catalan and Dutch using three modalities: machine-translati…

cs.CL20221 cited

Multilingual Pre-training with Language and Task Adaptation for Multilingual Text Style Transfer

Huiyuan Lai, Antonio Toral, Malvina Nissim

We exploit the pre-trained seq2seq model mBART for multilingual text style transfer. Using machine translated data as well as gold aligned English sentences yields state-of-the-art…