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most citedThe University of Edinburgh's Neural MT Systems for WMT17

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Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation: It's Not as Fast as it Seems

Jindřich Helcl, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch

Efficient machine translation models are commercially important as they can increase inference speeds, and reduce costs and carbon emissions. Recently, there has been much interest…

cs.CL2021

Cross-lingual Intermediate Fine-tuning improves Dialogue State Tracking

Nikita Moghe, Mark Steedman, Alexandra Birch

Recent progress in task-oriented neural dialogue systems is largely focused on a handful of languages, as annotation of training data is tedious and expensive. Machine translation…

cs.CL2021

CoPHE: A Count-Preserving Hierarchical Evaluation Metric in Large-Scale Multi-Label Text Classification

Matúš Falis, Hang Dong, Alexandra Birch +1

Large-Scale Multi-Label Text Classification (LMTC) includes tasks with hierarchical label spaces, such as automatic assignment of ICD-9 codes to discharge summaries. Performance of…

cs.CL2021

Exploring Unsupervised Pretraining Objectives for Machine Translation

Christos Baziotis, Ivan Titov, Alexandra Birch +1

Unsupervised cross-lingual pretraining has achieved strong results in neural machine translation (NMT), by drastically reducing the need for large parallel data. Most approaches ad…

cs.CL2021

Few-shot learning through contextual data augmentation

Farid Arthaud, Rachel Bawden, Alexandra Birch

Machine translation (MT) models used in industries with constantly changing topics, such as translation or news agencies, need to adapt to new data to maintain their performance ov…

cs.CL2020

Language Model Prior for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Christos Baziotis, Barry Haddow, Alexandra Birch

The scarcity of large parallel corpora is an important obstacle for neural machine translation. A common solution is to exploit the knowledge of language models (LM) trained on abu…