Items where authors include "Specia, L."

Article

Alva-Manchego, F., Scarton, C. and Specia, L. (2021) The (un)suitability of automatic evaluation metrics for text simplification. Computational Linguistics, 47 (4). pp. 861-889. ISSN 0891-2017

Fomicheva, M., Specia, L. and Aletras, N. orcid.org/0000-0003-4285-1965 (2021) Translation error detection as rationale extraction. arXiv. (Submitted)

Fomicheva, M., Sun, S., Fonseca, E.R. et al. (6 more authors) (2020) MLQE-PE : a multilingual quality estimation and post-editing dataset. arXiv. (Submitted)

Fomicheva, M., Sun, S., Yankovskaya, L. et al. (6 more authors) (2020) Unsupervised quality estimation for neural machine translation. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 8 (2020). pp. 539-555. ISSN 2307-387X

Alva-Manchego, F. orcid.org/0000-0001-6218-8377, Martin, L., Bordes, A. et al. (3 more authors) (2020) ASSET : a dataset for tuning and evaluation of sentence simplification models with multiple rewriting transformations. arXiv. (Submitted)

Alva-Manchego, F., Scarton, C. orcid.org/0000-0002-0103-4072 and Specia, L. (2020) Data-driven sentence simplification: Survey and benchmark. Computational Linguistics, 46 (1). pp. 135-187. ISSN 0891-2017

Scarton, C., Forcada, M.L., Esplà-Gomis, M. et al. (1 more author) (2019) Estimating post-editing effort : a study on human judgements, task-based and reference-based metrics of MT quality. arXiv. (Submitted)

Fomicheva, M. and Specia, L. (2019) Taking MT evaluation metrics to extremes : beyond correlation with human judgments. Computational Linguistics, 45 (3). pp. 515-558. ISSN 0891-2017

Frank, S., Elliott, D. and Specia, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-5495-3128 (2018) Assessing multilingual multimodal image description: Studies of native speaker preferences and translator choices. Natural Language Engineering, 24 (3). pp. 393-413. ISSN 1351-3249

Madhyastha, P., Wang, J.K. orcid.org/0000-0003-0048-3893 and Specia, L. (2018) The role of image representations in vision to language tasks. Natural Language Engineering, 24 (3). pp. 415-439. ISSN 1351-3249

Paetzold, G.H. and Specia, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-5495-3128 (2017) A survey on lexical simplification. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 60. pp. 549-593. ISSN 1076-9757

Shah, K., Cohn, T. and Specia, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-5495-3128 (2015) A Bayesian non-linear method for feature selection in machine translation quality estimation. Machine Translation, 29 (2). pp. 101-125. ISSN 0922-6567

Specia, L., Stevenson, M., das Gracas, M. et al. (1 more author) (2010) Assessing the contribution of shallow and deep knowledge sources for word sense disambiguation. Language Resources and Evaluation , 44 (4). pp. 295-313. ISSN 1574-020X

Proceedings Paper

Gajbhiye, A., Fomicheva, M., Alva-Manchego, F. et al. (4 more authors) (2021) Knowledge distillation for quality estimation. In: Zong, C., Xia, F., Li, W. and Navigli, R., (eds.) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021. The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 01-06 Aug 2021, Bangkok, Thailand (virtual conference). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , pp. 5091-5099. ISBN 9781954085541

Fomicheva, M., Specia, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-5495-3128 and Guzmán, F. (2020) Multi-hypothesis machine translation evaluation. In: Jurafsky, D., Chai, J., Schluter, N. and Tetreault, J., (eds.) Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 05-10 Jul 2020, Seattle, Washington. Association for Computational Linguistics , pp. 1218-1232. ISBN 9781952148255

Scarton, C. orcid.org/0000-0002-0103-4072, Madhyastha, P. and Specia, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-5495-3128 (2020) Deciding when, how and for whom to simplify. In: Giacomo, G.D., Catalá, A., Dilkina, B., Milano, M., Barro, S., Bugarín, A. and Lang, J., (eds.) ECAI 2020. ECAI 2020 : 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence , 29 Aug - 08 Sep 2020, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. IOS Press , pp. 2172-2179. ISBN 9781643681009

Alva-Manchego, F., Martin, L., Scarton, C. et al. (1 more author) (2019) EASSE: easier automatic sentence simplification evaluation. In: Padó,, S. and Huang, R., (eds.) Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations. The 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing And the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 03-07 Nov 2019, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics , pp. 49-54. ISBN 9781950737925

Caglayan, O., Madhyastha, P., Specia, L. et al. (1 more author) (2019) Probing the need for visual context in multimodal machine translation. In: Burstein, J., Doran, C. and Solorio, T., (eds.) Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers). 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 02-07 Jun 2019, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics , pp. 4159-4170.

Forcada, M.L., Scarton, C., Specia, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-5495-3128 et al. (2 more authors) (2018) Exploring gap filling as a cheaper alternative to reading comprehension questionnaires when evaluating machine translation for gisting. In: Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation. Third Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18), 31 Oct - 01 Nov 2018, Brussels, Belgium. ACL , pp. 192-203.

Madhyastha, P., Wang, J.K. orcid.org/0000-0003-0048-3893 and Specia, L. (2018) End-to-end image captioning exploits multimodal distributional similarity. In: 29th British Machine Vision Conference. British Machine Vision Conference, 03-06 Sep 2018, Newcastle, UK. BMVA .

Ive, J., Blain, F. orcid.org/0000-0003-3017-3722 and Specia, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-5495-3128 (2018) deepQuest: A Framework for Neural-based Quality Estimation. In: Bender, E.M., Derczynski, L. and Isabelle, P., (eds.) Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. The 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 20-26 Aug 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics , pp. 3146-3157. ISBN 9781948087506

Madhyastha, P., Wang, J.K. orcid.org/0000-0003-0048-3893 and Specia, L. (2018) Defoiling foiled image captions. In: Walker, M., Ji, H. and Stent, A., (eds.) Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT), 01-06 Jun 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , pp. 433-438. ISBN 9781948087292

Wang, J.K. orcid.org/0000-0003-0048-3893, Madhyastha, P. and Specia, L. (2018) Object counts! Bringing explicit detections back into image captioning. In: Walker, M., Ji, H. and Stent, A., (eds.) Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT), 01-06 Jun 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , pp. 2180-2193. ISBN 9781948087278

Deena, S., Ng, R.W.M., Madhyashtha, P. et al. (2 more authors) (2018) Exploring the use of Acoustic Embeddings in Neural Machine Translation. In: Proceedings of IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop. 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, December 16-20, 2017, Okinawa, Japan. IEEE . ISBN 978-1-5090-4788-8

Madhyastha, P., Wang, J.K. orcid.org/0000-0003-0048-3893 and Specia, L. (2017) Sheffield MultiMT: Using Object Posterior Predictions for Multimodal Machine Translation. In: Proceedings of the Second Conference on Machine Translation, Volume 2: Shared Task Papers. Second Conference on Machine Translation (WMT17), 07 Sep 2018 - 08 Sep 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics , pp. 470-476.

Deena, S., Ng, R.W.M., Madhyashta, P. et al. (2 more authors) (2017) Semi-supervised adaptation of RNNLMs by fine-tuning with domain-specific auxiliary features. In: Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2017: Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. INTERSPEECH 2017: Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 20-24 Aug 2017, Stockholm. ISCA , pp. 2715-2719.

Lala, C., Madhyastha, P., Wang, J.K. orcid.org/0000-0003-0048-3893 et al. (1 more author) (2017) Unraveling the Contribution of Image Captioning and Neural Machine Translation for Multimodal Machine Translation. In: The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics. 20th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2017), 29-31 May 2017, Prague. De Gruyter Open , pp. 197-208.

Shah, K., Wang, J.K. orcid.org/0000-0003-0048-3893 and Specia, L. (2016) SHEF-Multimodal: Grounding Machine Translation on Images. In: Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation. First Conference on Machine Translation (WMT16), 11-12 Aug 2016, Berlin, Germany. ACL , pp. 660-665.

Ng, R.W.M., Shah, K., Specia, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-5495-3128 et al. (1 more author) (2016) Groupwise learning for ASR k-best list reranking in spoken language translation. In: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 20-25 Mar 2016, Shanghai. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472853, 2016-M . , pp. 6120-6124. ISBN 9781479999880

Fomicheva, M. and Specia, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-5495-3128 (2016) Reference bias in monolingual machine translation evaluation. In: 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016 - Short Papers. The 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 07-12 Aug 2016, Berlin, Germany. ACL Home Association for Computational Linguistics , pp. 77-82. ISBN 9781510827592

Specia, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-5495-3128, Paetzold, G.H. and Scarton, C. orcid.org/0000-0002-0103-4072 (2015) Multi-level translation quality prediction with QuEst++. In: Proceedings of ACL-IJCNLP 2015 System Demonstrations. The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and The 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 26 Jul 2015 - 31 Jul 2016, Beijing, China. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , pp. 115-120. ISBN 9781941643990

Shah, K., Ng, R.W.M., Bougares, F. et al. (1 more author) (2015) Investigating continuous space language models for machine translation quality estimation. In: Conference Proceedings - EMNLP 2015: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. EMNLP 2015, September 17–21 2015, Lisbon, Portugal. ACL , pp. 1073-1078. ISBN 9781941643327

Beck, D., Cohn, T., Hardmeier, C. et al. (1 more author) (2015) Learning Structural Kernels for Natural Language Processing. In: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, September 17–21, 2015, Lisbon, Portugal. Association for Computational Linguistics , pp. 461-473.

Ng, R.W.M., Doulaty, M., Doddipatla, R. et al. (7 more authors) (2014) The USFD Spoken Language Translation System for IWSLT 2014. In: Federico, M., Stücker, S. and Yvon, F., (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (SLT 2014). The 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), Dec. 03-04, 2015, Lake Tahoe, US. IWSLT 2014 , pp. 86-91.

Ng, R.W.M., Doulaty, M., Doddipatla, R. et al. (7 more authors) (2014) The USFD SLT System for IWSLT 2014. In: Federico, M., Stücker, S. and Yvon, F., (eds.) Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation. 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 04-05 Dec 2014, Lake Tahoe, California (USA). IWSLT , http://workshop2014.iwslt.org/64.php .

Aziz, W., Dymetman, M. and Specia, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-5495-3128 (2014) Exact decoding for phrase-based statistical machine translation. In: EMNLP 2014 - 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference. EMNLP 2014: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 25th –29th October 2014, Doha, Qatar. , pp. 1237-1249. ISBN 9781937284961

Beck, D., Cohn, T. and Specia, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-5495-3128 (2014) Joint Emotion Analysis via Multi-task Gaussian Processes. In: Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). EMNLP, October 25-29, 2014, Doha, Qatar. ACL , pp. 1798-1803.

Specia, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-5495-3128, Shah, K., de Souza, J.G.C. et al. (1 more author) (2013) QuEst - A translation quality estimation framework. In: Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations. 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, 04-09 Aug 2013, Sofia, Bulgaria. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , pp. 79-84.

Callison-Burch, C., Koehn, P., Monz, C. et al. (3 more authors) (2012) Findings of the 2012 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. In: Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. 7th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 07-08 Jun 2012, Montreal, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , pp. 10-51. ISBN 9781937284206

Book

Specia, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-5495-3128, Scarton, C. and Paetzold, G.H. (2018) Quality estimation for machine translation. Synthesis Lectures On Human Language Technologies, 39 . Morgan & Claypool Publishers . ISBN 9781681733753