George F. Foster

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1993-2024
Publications (10 Years): 52

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WMT

EMNLP

ACL (1)

Publications

Parker Riley, Daniel Deutsch, George F. Foster, Viresh Ratnakar, Ali Dabirmoghaddam, Markus Freitag
Finding Replicable Human Evaluations via Stable Ranking Probability. CoRR (2024)
Jiaming Luo, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster
To Diverge or Not to Diverge: A Morphosyntactic Perspective on Machine Translation vs Human Translation. CoRR (2024)
Minghao Wu, Yufei Wang, George F. Foster, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari
Importance-Aware Data Augmentation for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation. EACL (1) (2024)
Minghao Wu, Thuy-Trang Vu, Lizhen Qu, George F. Foster, Gholamreza Haffari
Adapting Large Language Models for Document-Level Machine Translation. CoRR (2024)
Minghao Wu, Yufei Wang, George F. Foster, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari
Importance-Aware Data Augmentation for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation. CoRR (2024)
Parker Riley, Daniel Deutsch, George F. Foster, Viresh Ratnakar, Ali Dabirmoghaddam, Markus Freitag
Finding Replicable Human Evaluations via Stable Ranking Probability. NAACL-HLT (2024)
Jiaming Luo, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster
To Diverge or Not to Diverge: A Morphosyntactic Perspective on Machine Translation vs Human Translation. Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics 12 (2024)
Minghao Wu, George F. Foster, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari
Document Flattening: Beyond Concatenating Context for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation. CoRR (2023)
Daniel Deutsch, George F. Foster, Markus Freitag
Ties Matter: Meta-Evaluating Modern Metrics with Pairwise Accuracy and Tie Calibration. EMNLP (2023)
Xavier Garcia, Yamini Bansal, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster, Maxim Krikun, Fangxiaoyu Feng, Melvin Johnson, Orhan Firat
The unreasonable effectiveness of few-shot learning for machine translation. 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)
Eleftheria Briakou, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster
Searching for Needles in a Haystack: On the Role of Incidental Bilingualism in PaLM's Translation Capability. ACL (1) (2023)
Markus Freitag, Nitika Mathur, Chi-kiu Lo, Eleftherios Avramidis, Ricardo Rei, Brian Thompson, Tom Kocmi, Frédéric Blain, Daniel Deutsch, Craig Stewart, Chrysoula Zerva, Sheila Castilho, Alon Lavie, George F. Foster
Results of WMT23 Metrics Shared Task: Metrics Might Be Guilty but References Are Not Innocent. WMT (2023)
Xavier Garcia, Yamini Bansal, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster, Maxim Krikun, Melvin Johnson, Orhan Firat
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Few-shot Learning for Machine Translation. ICML (2023)
Daniel Deutsch, George F. Foster, Markus Freitag
Ties Matter: Modifying Kendall's Tau for Modern Metric Meta-Evaluation. CoRR (2023)
Minghao Wu, George F. Foster, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari
Document Flattening: Beyond Concatenating Context for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation. EACL (2023)
Eleftheria Briakou, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster
Searching for Needles in a Haystack: On the Role of Incidental Bilingualism in PaLM's Translation Capability. CoRR (2023)
Markus Freitag, Ricardo Rei, Nitika Mathur, Chi-kiu Lo, Craig Stewart, Eleftherios Avramidis, Tom Kocmi, George F. Foster, Alon Lavie, André F. T. Martins
Results of WMT22 Metrics Shared Task: Stop Using BLEU - Neural Metrics Are Better and More Robust. WMT (2022)
Belén Saldias, George F. Foster, Markus Freitag, Qijun Tan
Toward More Effective Human Evaluation for Machine Translation. CoRR (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)
Sweta Agrawal, George F. Foster, Markus Freitag, Colin Cherry
Assessing Reference-Free Peer Evaluation for Machine Translation. NAACL-HLT (2021)
Markus Freitag, Ricardo Rei, Nitika Mathur, Chi-kiu Lo, Craig Stewart, George F. Foster, Alon Lavie, Ondrej Bojar
Results of the WMT21 Metrics Shared Task: Evaluating Metrics with Expert-based Human Evaluations on TED and News Domain. WMT@EMNLP (2021)
Markus Freitag, George F. Foster, David Grangier, Viresh Ratnakar, Qijun Tan, Wolfgang Macherey
Experts, Errors, and Context: A Large-Scale Study of Human Evaluation for Machine Translation. Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics 9 (2021)
Sweta Agrawal, George F. Foster, Markus Freitag, Colin Cherry
Assessing Reference-Free Peer Evaluation for Machine Translation. CoRR (2021)
Markus Freitag, George F. Foster, David Grangier, Viresh Ratnakar, Qijun Tan, Wolfgang Macherey
Experts, Errors, and Context: A Large-Scale Study of Human Evaluation for Machine Translation. CoRR (2021)
Julia Kreutzer, George F. Foster, Colin Cherry
Inference Strategies for Machine Translation with Conditional Masking. CoRR (2020)
Julia Kreutzer, George F. Foster, Colin Cherry
Inference Strategies for Machine Translation with Conditional Masking. EMNLP (1) (2020)
Markus Freitag, George F. Foster, David Grangier, Colin Cherry
Human-Paraphrased References Improve Neural Machine Translation. WMT@EMNLP (2020)
Naveen Arivazhagan, Colin Cherry, Wolfgang Macherey, George F. Foster
Re-translation versus Streaming for Simultaneous Translation. IWSLT (2020)
Markus Freitag, George F. Foster, David Grangier, Colin Cherry
Human-Paraphrased References Improve Neural Machine Translation. CoRR (2020)
Naveen Arivazhagan, Colin Cherry, Te I, Wolfgang Macherey, Pallavi Baljekar, George F. Foster
Re-Translation Strategies for Long Form, Simultaneous, Spoken Language Translation. ICASSP (2020)
Cyril Goutte, Marine Carpuat, George F. Foster
The Impact of Sentence Alignment Errors on Phrase-Based Machine Translation Performance. AMTA (2020)
Kory Wallace Mathewson, Pablo Samuel Castro, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster, Marc G. Bellemare
Shaping the Narrative Arc: Information-Theoretic Collaborative DialoguePaper type: Technical Paper. ICCC (2020)
Naveen Arivazhagan, Colin Cherry, Wolfgang Macherey, George F. Foster
Re-translation versus Streaming for Simultaneous Translation. CoRR (2020)
Naveen Arivazhagan, Ankur Bapna, Orhan Firat, Dmitry Lepikhin, Melvin Johnson, Maxim Krikun, Mia Xu Chen, Yuan Cao, George F. Foster, Colin Cherry, Wolfgang Macherey, Zhifeng Chen, Yonghui Wu
Massively Multilingual Neural Machine Translation in the Wild: Findings and Challenges. CoRR (2019)
Gaurav Kumar, George F. Foster, Colin Cherry, Maxim Krikun
Reinforcement Learning based Curriculum Optimization for Neural Machine Translation. NAACL-HLT (1) (2019)
Naveen Arivazhagan, Colin Cherry, Te I, Wolfgang Macherey, Pallavi Baljekar, George F. Foster
Re-Translation Strategies For Long Form, Simultaneous, Spoken Language Translation. CoRR (2019)
Colin Cherry, George F. Foster
Thinking Slow about Latency Evaluation for Simultaneous Machine Translation. CoRR (2019)
Jonathan Shen, Patrick Nguyen, Yonghui Wu, Zhifeng Chen, Mia Xu Chen, Ye Jia, Anjuli Kannan, Tara N. Sainath, Yuan Cao, Chung-Cheng Chiu, Yanzhang He, Jan Chorowski, Smit Hinsu, Stella Laurenzo, James Qin, Orhan Firat, Wolfgang Macherey, Suyog Gupta, Ankur Bapna, Shuyuan Zhang, Ruoming Pang, Ron J. Weiss, Rohit Prabhavalkar, Qiao Liang, Benoit Jacob, Bowen Liang, HyoukJoong Lee, Ciprian Chelba, Sébastien Jean, Bo Li, Melvin Johnson, Rohan Anil, Rajat Tibrewal, Xiaobing Liu, Akiko Eriguchi, Navdeep Jaitly, Naveen Ari, Colin Cherry, Parisa Haghani, Otavio Good, Youlong Cheng, Raziel Alvarez, Isaac Caswell, Wei-Ning Hsu, Zongheng Yang, Kuan-Chieh Wang, Ekaterina Gonina, Katrin Tomanek, Ben Vanik, Zelin Wu, Llion Jones, Mike Schuster, Yanping Huang, Dehao Chen, Kazuki Irie, George F. Foster, John Richardson, Klaus Macherey, Antoine Bruguier, Heiga Zen, Colin Raffel, Shankar Kumar, Kanishka Rao, David Rybach, Matthew Murray, Vijayaditya Peddinti, Maxim Krikun, Michiel Bacchiani, Thomas B. Jablin, Robert Suderman, Ian Williams, Benjamin Lee, Deepti Bhatia, Justin Carlson, Semih Yavuz, Yu Zhang, Ian McGraw, Max Galkin, Qi Ge, Golan Pundak, Chad Whipkey, Todd Wang, Uri Alon, Dmitry Lepikhin, Ye Tian, Sara Sabour, William Chan, Shubham Toshniwal, Baohua Liao, Michael Nirschl, Pat Rondon
Lingvo: a Modular and Scalable Framework for Sequence-to-Sequence Modeling. CoRR (2019)
Kory W. Mathewson, Pablo Samuel Castro, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster, Marc G. Bellemare
Shaping the Narrative Arc: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Collaborative Dialogue. CoRR (2019)
Gaurav Kumar, George F. Foster, Colin Cherry, Maxim Krikun
Reinforcement Learning based Curriculum Optimization for Neural Machine Translation. CoRR (2019)
Colin Cherry, George F. Foster, Ankur Bapna, Orhan Firat, Wolfgang Macherey
Revisiting Character-Based Neural Machine Translation with Capacity and Compression. CoRR (2018)
Mia Xu Chen, Orhan Firat, Ankur Bapna, Melvin Johnson, Wolfgang Macherey, George F. Foster, Llion Jones, Niki Parmar, Mike Schuster, Zhifeng Chen, Yonghui Wu, Macduff Hughes
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Recent Advances in Neural Machine Translation. CoRR (2018)
Colin Cherry, George F. Foster, Ankur Bapna, Orhan Firat, Wolfgang Macherey
Revisiting Character-Based Neural Machine Translation with Capacity and Compression. EMNLP (2018)
Mia Xu Chen, Orhan Firat, Ankur Bapna, Melvin Johnson, Wolfgang Macherey, George F. Foster, Llion Jones, Mike Schuster, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Ashish Vaswani, Jakob Uszkoreit, Lukasz Kaiser, Zhifeng Chen, Yonghui Wu, Macduff Hughes
The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Recent Advances in Neural Machine Translation. ACL (1) (2018)
Pierre Isabelle, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster
A Challenge Set Approach to Evaluating Machine Translation. EMNLP (2017)
Chi-kiu Lo, Boxing Chen, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster, Samuel Larkin, Darlene A. Stewart, Roland Kuhn
NRC Machine Translation System for WMT 2017. WMT (2017)
Boxing Chen, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster, Samuel Larkin
Cost Weighting for Neural Machine Translation Domain Adaptation. NMT@ACL (2017)
Pierre Isabelle, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster
A Challenge Set Approach to Evaluating Machine Translation. CoRR (2017)
Chi-kiu Lo, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster, Darlene A. Stewart, Rabib Islam, Anna Kazantseva, Roland Kuhn
NRC Russian-English Machine Translation System for WMT 2016. WMT (2016)
Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn, George F. Foster, Colin Cherry, Fei Huang
Bilingual Methods for Adaptive Training Data Selection for Machine Translation. AMTA (1) (2016)
Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn, George F. Foster
A comparison of mixture and vector space techniques for translation model adaptation. AMTA (2014)
Marine Carpuat, Cyril Goutte, George F. Foster
Linear Mixture Models for Robust Machine Translation. WMT@ACL (2014)
Darlene A. Stewart, Roland Kuhn, Eric Joanis, George F. Foster
Coarse "split and lump" bilingual language models for richer source information in SMT. AMTA (2014)
Michel Simard, George F. Foster
PEPr: Post-Edit Propagation Using Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation. MTSummit (2013)
George F. Foster, Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn
Simulating Discriminative Training for Linear Mixture Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation. MTSummit (2013)
Boxing Chen, George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn
Adaptation of Reordering Models for Statistical Machine Translation. HLT-NAACL (2013)
Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn, George F. Foster
Vector Space Model for Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation. ACL (1) (2013)
Majid Razmara, George F. Foster, Baskaran Sankaran, Anoop Sarkar
Mixing Multiple Translation Models in Statistical Machine Translation. ACL (1) (2012)
Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn, George F. Foster
Improving AMBER, an MT Evaluation Metric. WMT@NAACL-HLT (2012)
Colin Cherry, George F. Foster
Batch Tuning Strategies for Statistical Machine Translation. HLT-NAACL (2012)
Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn, George F. Foster, Howard Johnson
Unpacking and Transforming Feature Functions: New Ways to Smooth Phrase Tables. MTSummit (2011)
Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn, George F. Foster
Semantic smoothing and fabrication of phrase pairs for SMT. IWSLT (2011)
Roland Kuhn, Boxing Chen, George F. Foster, Evan Stratford
Phrase Clustering for Smoothing TM Probabilities - or, How to Extract Paraphrases from Phrase Tables. COLING (2010)
George F. Foster, Pierre Isabelle, Roland Kuhn
Translating Structured Documents. AMTA (2010)
Boxing Chen, George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn
Bilingual Sense Similarity for Statistical Machine Translation. ACL (2010)
George F. Foster, Cyril Goutte, Roland Kuhn
Discriminative Instance Weighting for Domain Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation. EMNLP (2010)
Boxing Chen, George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn
Fast Consensus Hypothesis Regeneration for Machine Translation. WMT@ACL (2010)
Samuel Larkin, Boxing Chen, George F. Foster, Ulrich Germann, Eric Joanis, Howard Johnson, Roland Kuhn
Lessons from NRC's Portage System at WMT 2010. WMT@ACL (2010)
George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn
Stabilizing Minimum Error Rate Training. WMT@EACL (2009)
Boxing Chen, George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn
Phrase Translation Model Enhanced with Association based Features. MTSummit (2009)
Nicola Ueffing, Jens Stephan, Evgeny Matusov, Loïc Dugast, George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn, Jean Senellart, Jin Yang
Tighter Integration of Rule-Based and Statistical MT in Serial System Combination. COLING (2008)
Mehdi M. Kashani, Eric Joanis, Roland Kuhn, George F. Foster, Fred Popowich
Integration of an Arabic Transliteration Module into a Statistical Machine Translation System. WMT@ACL (2007)
Howard Johnson, Joel D. Martin, George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn
Improving Translation Quality by Discarding Most of the Phrasetable. EMNLP-CoNLL (2007)
George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn
Mixture-Model Adaptation for SMT. WMT@ACL (2007)
Roland Kuhn, Denis Yuen, Michel Simard, Patrick Paul, George F. Foster, Eric Joanis, Howard Johnson
Segment Choice Models: Feature-Rich Models for Global Distortion in Statistical Machine Translation. HLT-NAACL (2006)
Howard Johnson, Fatiha Sadat, George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn, Michel Simard, Eric Joanis, Samuel Larkin
PORTAGE: with Smoothed Phrase Tables and Segment Choice Models. WMT@HLT-NAACL (2006)
George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn, Howard Johnson
Phrasetable Smoothing for Statistical Machine Translation. EMNLP (2006)
Simona Gandrabur, George F. Foster, Guy Lapalme
Confidence estimation for NLP applications. ACM Trans. Speech Lang. Process. 3 (3) (2006)
Fatiha Sadat, George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn
Système de traduction automatique statistique combinant différentes ressources. TALN (Posters) (2006)
Graham Russell, George F. Foster, Ngoc Tran Nguyen
Automatic Detection of Translation Errors: The State of the Art. HLT/EMNLP (2005)
Fatiha Sadat, Howard Johnson, Akakpo Agbago, George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn, Joel D. Martin, Aaron Tikuisis
PORTAGE: A Phrase-Based Machine Translation System. ParallelText@ACL (2005)
John Blatz, Erin Fitzgerald, George F. Foster, Simona Gandrabur, Cyril Goutte, Alex Kulesza, Alberto Sanchís, Nicola Ueffing
Confidence Estimation for Machine Translation. COLING (2004)
David Nadeau, Mario Jarmasz, Caroline Barrière, George F. Foster, Claude St. Jacques
Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEF. CLEF (2004)
Laurent Nepveu, Guy Lapalme, Philippe Langlais, George F. Foster
Adaptive Language and Translation Models for Interactive Machine Translation. EMNLP (2004)
David Nadeau, Mario Jarmasz, Caroline Barrière, George F. Foster, Claude St. Jacques
Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEF. CLEF (Working Notes) (2004)
Luc Plamondon, George F. Foster
Quantum, a French/English Cross-Language Question Answering System. CLEF (2003)
George F. Foster, Simona Gandrabur, Philippe Langlais, Pierre Plamondon, Graham Russell, Michel Simard
Statistical machine translation: rapid development with limited resources. MTSummit (2003)
Simona Gandrabur, George F. Foster
Confidence estimation for translation prediction. CoNLL (2003)
Luc Plamondon, George F. Foster
Quantum, a French/English Cross-Language Question Answering System. CLEF (Working Notes) (2003)
George F. Foster, Philippe Langlais, Guy Lapalme
User-Friendly Text Prediction For Translators. EMNLP (2002)
George F. Foster, Philippe Langlais, Guy Lapalme
Text Prediction with Fuzzy Alignments. AMTA (2002)
Philippe Langlais, George F. Foster, Guy Lapalme
Integrating bilingual lexicons in a probabilistic translation assistant. MTSummit (2001)
George F. Foster
Incorporating Position Information into a Maximum Entropy/Minimum Divergence Translation Model. CoNLL/LLL (2000)
Philippe Langlais, George F. Foster, Guy Lapalme
Unit Completion for a Computer-aided Translation Typing System. Mach. Transl. 15 (4) (2000)
Philippe Langlais, George F. Foster
Using Context-Dependent interpolation to Combine Statistical Language and Translation Models for Interactive Machine Translation. RIAO (2000)
Philippe Langlais, Sébastien Sauvé, George F. Foster, Elliott Macklovitch, Guy Lapalme
Evaluation of TRANSTYPE, a Computer-aided Translation Typing System: A Comparison of a Theoretical- and a User-oriented Evaluation Procedures. LREC (2000)
Philippe Langlais, George F. Foster, Guy Lapalme
Unit Completion for a Computer-aided Translation Typing System. ANLP (2000)
Jian-Yun Nie, Michel Simard, George F. Foster
Multilingual Information Retrieval Based on Parallel Texts from the Web. CLEF (2000)

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