David Vilar

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2003-2024
Publications (10 Years): 22

Top Topics

Machine Translation

Brazilian Portuguese

Language Resources

Top Venues

Publications

Firas Trabelsi, David Vilar, Mara Finkelstein, Markus Freitag
Efficient Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding using Low-Rank Matrix Completion Algorithms. CoRR (2024)
Christian Tomani, David Vilar, Markus Freitag, Colin Cherry, Subhajit Naskar, Mara Finkelstein, Daniel Cremers
Quality Control at Your Fingertips: Quality-Aware Translation Models. CoRR (2023)
David Vilar, Markus Freitag, Colin Cherry, Jiaming Luo, Viresh Ratnakar, George F. Foster
Prompting PaLM for Translation: Assessing Strategies and Performance. ACL (1) (2023)
Jan-Thorsten Peter, David Vilar, Daniel Deutsch, Mara Finkelstein, Juraj Juraska, Markus Freitag
There's No Data like Better Data: Using QE Metrics for MT Data Filtering. WMT (2023)
Jan-Thorsten Peter, David Vilar, Daniel Deutsch, Mara Finkelstein, Juraj Juraska, Markus Freitag
There's no Data Like Better Data: Using QE Metrics for MT Data Filtering. CoRR (2023)
Andrea Schioppa, Polina Zablotskaia, David Vilar, Artem Sokolov
Scaling Up Influence Functions. AAAI (2022)
Markus Freitag, David Vilar, David Grangier, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster
A Natural Diet: Towards Improving Naturalness of Machine Translation Output. ACL (Findings) (2022)
David Vilar, Markus Freitag, Colin Cherry, Jiaming Luo, Viresh Ratnakar, George F. Foster
Prompting PaLM for Translation: Assessing Strategies and Performance. CoRR (2022)
Julia Kreutzer, David Vilar, Artem Sokolov
Bandits Don't Follow Rules: Balancing Multi-Facet Machine Translation with Multi-Armed Bandits. CoRR (2021)
David Vilar, Marcello Federico
A Statistical Extension of Byte-Pair Encoding. IWSLT (2021)
Julia Kreutzer, David Vilar, Artem Sokolov
Bandits Don't Follow Rules: Balancing Multi-Facet Machine Translation with Multi-Armed Bandits. EMNLP (Findings) (2021)
Andrea Schioppa, David Vilar, Artem Sokolov, Katja Filippova
Controlling Machine Translation for Multiple Attributes with Additive Interventions. EMNLP (1) (2021)
Andrea Schioppa, Polina Zablotskaia, David Vilar, Artem Sokolov
Scaling Up Influence Functions. CoRR (2021)
Tobias Domhan, Michael J. Denkowski, David Vilar, Xing Niu, Felix Hieber, Kenneth Heafield
The Sockeye 2 Neural Machine Translation Toolkit at AMTA 2020. CoRR (2020)
Tobias Domhan, Michael J. Denkowski, David Vilar, Xing Niu, Felix Hieber, Kenneth Heafield
The Sockeye 2 Neural Machine Translation Toolkit at AMTA 2020. AMTA (2020)
Felix Hieber, Tobias Domhan, Michael J. Denkowski, David Vilar
Sockeye 2: A Toolkit for Neural Machine Translation. EAMT (2020)
Maja Popovic, David Vilar
Automatic error classification with multiple error labels. MTSummit (1) (2019)
David Vilar
Learning Hidden Unit Contribution for Adapting Neural Machine Translation Models. NAACL-HLT (2) (2018)
Matt Post, David Vilar
Fast Lexically Constrained Decoding with Dynamic Beam Allocation for Neural Machine Translation. NAACL-HLT (2018)
Matt Post, David Vilar
Fast Lexically Constrained Decoding with Dynamic Beam Allocation for Neural Machine Translation. CoRR (2018)
Felix Hieber, Tobias Domhan, Michael J. Denkowski, David Vilar, Artem Sokolov, Ann Clifton, Matt Post
The Sockeye Neural Machine Translation Toolkit at AMTA 2018. AMTA (1) (2018)
Felix Hieber, Tobias Domhan, Michael J. Denkowski, David Vilar, Artem Sokolov, Ann Clifton, Matt Post
Sockeye: A Toolkit for Neural Machine Translation. CoRR (2017)
Eleftherios Avramidis, Aljoscha Burchardt, Sabine Hunsicker, Maja Popovic, Cindy Tscherwinka, David Vilar, Hans Uszkoreit
The taraXÜ corpus of human-annotated machine translations. LREC (2014)
Maja Popovic, Eleftherios Avramidis, Aljoscha Burchardt, Sabine Hunsicker, Sven Schmeier, Cindy Tscherwinka, David Vilar, Hans Uszkoreit
Involving language professionals in the evaluation of machine translation. Lang. Resour. Evaluation 48 (4) (2014)
Stephan Peitz, David Vilar, Hermann Ney
Simple and Effective Approach for Consistent Training of Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Models. EACL (2014)
Maja Popovic, Eleftherios Avramidis, Aljoscha Burchardt, David Vilar, Hans Uszkoreit
What can we learn about the selection mechanism for post-editing? WPTP@MTSummit (2013)
Matthias Huck, David Vilar, Markus Freitag, Hermann Ney
A Performance Study of Cube Pruning for Large-Scale Hierarchical Machine Translation. SSST@NAACL-HLT (2013)
Maja Popovic, Eleftherios Avramidis, Aljoscha Burchardt, Sabine Hunsicker, Sven Schmeier, Cindy Tscherwinka, David Vilar
Learning from Human Judgments of Machine Translation Output. MTSummit (Posters) (2013)
Maja Popovic, Eleftherios Avramidis, Aljoscha Burchardt, Sabine Hunsicker, Sven Schmeier, Cindy Tscherwinka, David Vilar
A CCG-based Quality Estimation Metric for Statistical Machine Translation Learning from Human Judgments of Machine Translation Output. MTSummit (Posters) (2013)
David Vilar, Hermann Ney
Cardinality pruning and language model heuristics for hierarchical phrase-based translation. Mach. Transl. 26 (3) (2012)
David Vilar
DFKI's SMT System for WMT 2012. WMT@NAACL-HLT (2012)
David Vilar, Daniel Stein, Matthias Huck, Hermann Ney
Jane: an advanced freely available hierarchical machine translation toolkit. Mach. Transl. 26 (3) (2012)
David Vilar, Michael Schneider, Aljoscha Burchardt, Thomas Wedde
Towards the Integration of MT into a LSP Translation Workflow. EAMT (2012)
Eleftherios Avramidis, Aljoscha Burchardt, Christian Federmann, Maja Popovic, Cindy Tscherwinka, David Vilar
Involving Language Professionals in the Evaluation of Machine Translation. LREC (2012)
Matthias Huck, David Vilar, Daniel Stein, Hermann Ney
Lightly-Supervised Training for Hierarchical Phrase-Based Machine Translation. ULNLP@EMNLP (2011)
Jia Xu, Hans Uszkoreit, Casey Kennington, David Vilar, Xiaojun Zhang
DFKI Hybrid Machine Translation System for WMT 2011 - On the Integration of SMT and RBMT. WMT@EMNLP (2011)
David Vilar, Eleftherios Avramidis, Maja Popovic, Sabine Hunsicker
DFKI's SC and MT submissions to IWSLT 2011. IWSLT (2011)
Eleftherios Avramidis, Maja Popovic, David Vilar, Aljoscha Burchardt
Evaluate with Confidence Estimation: Machine ranking of translation outputs using grammatical features. WMT@EMNLP (2011)
Maja Popovic, David Vilar, Eleftherios Avramidis, Aljoscha Burchardt
Evaluation without references: IBM1 scores as evaluation metrics. WMT@EMNLP (2011)
Matthias Huck, David Vilar, Daniel Stein, Hermann Ney
Advancements in Arabic-to-English Hierarchical Machine Translation. EAMT (2011)
Daniel Stein, David Vilar, Stephan Peitz, Markus Freitag, Matthias Huck, Hermann Ney
A Guide to Jane, an Open Source Hierarchical Translation Toolkit. Prague Bull. Math. Linguistics 95 (2011)
Daniel Stein, Stephan Peitz, David Vilar, Hermann Ney
A Cocktail of Deep Syntactic Features for Hierarchical Machine Translation. AMTA (2010)
Carmen Heger, Joern Wuebker, David Vilar, Hermann Ney
A combination of hierarchical systems with forced alignments from phrase-based systems. IWSLT (2010)
David Vilar, Daniel Stein, Matthias Huck, Hermann Ney
Jane: Open Source Hierarchical Translation, Extended with Reordering and Lexicon Models. WMT@ACL (2010)
David Vilar, Daniel Stein, Stephan Peitz, Hermann Ney
If i only had a parser: poor man's syntax for hierarchical machine translation. IWSLT (2010)
Saab Mansour, Stephan Peitz, David Vilar, Joern Wuebker, Hermann Ney
The RWTH aachen machine translation system for IWSLT 2010. IWSLT (2010)
David Vilar, Hermann Ney
On LM Heuristics for the Cube Growing Algorithm. EAMT (2009)
Maja Popovic, David Vilar, Daniel Stein, Evgeny Matusov, Hermann Ney
The RWTH Machine Translation System for WMT 2009. WMT@EACL (2009)
Christoph Schmidt, David Vilar, Hermann Ney
Using a Bilingual Context in Word-Based Statistical Machine Translation. PRIS (2008)
David Vilar, Daniel Stein, Yuqi Zhang, Evgeny Matusov, Arne Mauser, Oliver Bender, Saab Mansour, Hermann Ney
The RWTH machine translation system for IWSLT 2008. IWSLT (2008)
David Vilar, Daniel Stein, Hermann Ney
Analysing soft syntax features and heuristics for hierarchical phrase based machine translation. IWSLT (2008)
Alfons Juan, David Vilar, Hermann Ney
Bridging the Gap between Naive Bayes and Maximum Entropy Text Classification. PRIS (2007)
David Vilar, Gregor Leusch, Hermann Ney, Rafael E. Banchs
Human Evaluation of Machine Translation Through Binary System Comparisons. WMT@ACL (2007)
Arne Mauser, David Vilar, Gregor Leusch, Yuqi Zhang, Hermann Ney
The RWTH machine translation system for IWSLT 2007. IWSLT (2007)
David Vilar, Jan-Thorsten Peter, Hermann Ney
Can We Translate Letters? WMT@ACL (2007)
Marta R. Costa-jussà, Josep Maria Crego, David Vilar, José A. R. Fonollosa, José B. Mariño, Hermann Ney
Analysis and System Combination of Phrase- and N-Gram-Based Statistical Machine Translation Systems. HLT-NAACL (Short Papers) (2007)
David Vilar, Jia Xu, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Hermann Ney
Error Analysis of Statistical Machine Translation Output. LREC (2006)
David Vilar, Maja Popovic, Hermann Ney
AER: do we need to "improve" our alignments? IWSLT (2006)
Oliver Bender, Sasa Hasan, David Vilar, Richard Zens, Hermann Ney
Comparison of generation strategies for interactive machine translation. EAMT (2005)
Stephan Kanthak, David Vilar, Evgeny Matusov, Richard Zens, Hermann Ney
Novel Reordering Approaches in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation. ParallelText@ACL (2005)
Gregor Leusch, Nicola Ueffing, David Vilar, Hermann Ney
Preprocessing and Normalization for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation. IEEvaluation@ACL (2005)
David Vilar, Evgeny Matusov, Sasa Hasan, Richard Zens, Hermann Ney
Statistical Machine Translation of European Parliamentary Speeches. MTSummit (2005)
Maja Popovic, David Vilar, Hermann Ney, Slobodan Jovicic, Zoran Saric
Augmenting a Small Parallel Text with Morpho-Syntactic Language. ParallelText@ACL (2005)
David Vilar, Hermann Ney, Alfons Juan, Enrique Vidal
Effect of Feature Smoothing Methods in Text Classification Tasks. PRIS (2004)
David Vilar, María José Castro, Emilio Sanchis
Multi-label Text Classification Using Multinomial Models. EsTAL (2004)
María José Castro, David Vilar, Pablo Aibar, Emilio Sanchis
Dialogue Act Classification in a Spoken Dialogue System. CAEPIA (2003)
María José Castro Bleda, David Vilar, Emilio Sanchis, Pablo Aibar
Uniclass and Multiclass Connectionist Classification of Dialogue Acts. CIARP (2003)
David Vilar, María José Castro, Emilio Sanchis
Connectionist classification and specific stochastic models in the understanding process of a dialogue system. INTERSPEECH (2003)