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most citedMachine Translation from Signed to Spoken Languages: State of the Art and Challenges

60 citations · 67 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2025

Co-creation for Sign Language Processing and Machine Translation

Lisa Lepp, Dimitar Shterionov, Mirella De Sisto +1

Sign language machine translation (SLMT) -- the task of automatically translating between sign and spoken languages or between sign languages -- is a complex task within the field…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

AI in Support of Diversity and Inclusion

Çiçek Güven, Afra Alishahi, Henry Brighton +7

In this paper, we elaborate on how AI can support diversity and inclusion and exemplify research projects conducted in that direction. We start by looking at the challenges and pro…

cs.CL2024

Guiding In-Context Learning of LLMs through Quality Estimation for Machine Translation

Javad Pourmostafa Roshan Sharami, Dimitar Shterionov, Pieter Spronck

The quality of output from large language models (LLMs), particularly in machine translation (MT), is closely tied to the quality of in-context examples (ICEs) provided along with…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Tailoring Domain Adaptation for Machine Translation Quality Estimation

Javad Pourmostafa Roshan Sharami, Dimitar Shterionov, Frédéric Blain +4

While quality estimation (QE) can play an important role in the translation process, its effectiveness relies on the availability and quality of training data. For QE in particular…

cs.CL2023

A Systematic Analysis of Vocabulary and BPE Settings for Optimal Fine-tuning of NMT: A Case Study of In-domain Translation

J. Pourmostafa Roshan Sharami, D. Shterionov, P. Spronck

The effectiveness of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models largely depends on the vocabulary used at training; small vocabularies can lead to out-of-vocabulary problems -- large…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Pre-trained Language Models in Predicting the Helpfulness of Online Product Reviews

Ali Boluki, Javad Pourmostafa Roshan Sharami, Dimitar Shterionov

Businesses and customers can gain valuable information from product reviews. The sheer number of reviews often necessitates ranking them based on their potential helpfulness. Howev…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

The Ecological Footprint of Neural Machine Translation Systems

Dimitar Shterionov, Eva Vanmassenhove

Over the past decade, deep learning (DL) has led to significant advancements in various fields of artificial intelligence, including machine translation (MT). These advancements wo…

cs.CL2022★ 60 cited

Machine Translation from Signed to Spoken Languages: State of the Art and Challenges

Mathieu De Coster, Dimitar Shterionov, Mieke Van Herreweghe +1

Automatic translation from signed to spoken languages is an interdisciplinary research domain, lying on the intersection of computer vision, machine translation and linguistics. Ne…

quant-ph2021★ 2 cited

Evaluating performance of hybrid quantum optimization algorithms for MAXCUT Clustering using IBM runtime environment

Daniel Beaulieu, Anh Pham

Quantum algorithms can be used to perform unsupervised machine learning tasks like data clustering by mapping the distance between data points to a graph optimization problem (i.e.…