George F. Foster

According to our database, George F. Foster authored at least 91 papers between 1993 and 2024.

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2024

Importance-Aware Data Augmentation for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation.

Minghao Wu, Yufei Wang, George F. Foster, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari

CoRR, 2024

Adapting Large Language Models for Document-Level Machine Translation.

Minghao Wu, Thuy-Trang Vu, Lizhen Qu, George F. Foster, Gholamreza Haffari

CoRR, 2024

To Diverge or Not to Diverge: A Morphosyntactic Perspective on Machine Translation vs Human Translation.

Jiaming Luo, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster

CoRR, 2024

Importance-Aware Data Augmentation for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation.

Minghao Wu, Yufei Wang, George F. Foster, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari

Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024

2023

Ties Matter: Modifying Kendall's Tau for Modern Metric Meta-Evaluation.

Daniel Deutsch, George F. Foster, Markus Freitag

CoRR, 2023

The unreasonable effectiveness of few-shot learning for machine translation.

Xavier Garcia, Yamini Bansal, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster, Maxim Krikun, Fangxiaoyu Feng, Melvin Johnson, Orhan Firat

CoRR, 2023

Results of WMT23 Metrics Shared Task: Metrics Might Be Guilty but References Are Not Innocent.

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

Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Machine Translation, 2023

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Few-shot Learning for Machine Translation.

Xavier Garcia, Yamini Bansal, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster, Maxim Krikun, Melvin Johnson, Orhan Firat

Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning, 2023

Ties Matter: Meta-Evaluating Modern Metrics with Pairwise Accuracy and Tie Calibration.

Daniel Deutsch, George F. Foster, Markus Freitag

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023

Document Flattening: Beyond Concatenating Context for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation.

Minghao Wu, George F. Foster, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari

Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023

Prompting PaLM for Translation: Assessing Strategies and Performance.

David Vilar, Markus Freitag, Colin Cherry, Jiaming Luo, Viresh Ratnakar, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

Searching for Needles in a Haystack: On the Role of Incidental Bilingualism in PaLM's Translation Capability.

Eleftheria Briakou, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023

2022

Toward More Effective Human Evaluation for Machine Translation.

Belén Saldías, George F. Foster, Markus Freitag, Qijun Tan

CoRR, 2022

Results of WMT22 Metrics Shared Task: Stop Using BLEU - Neural Metrics Are Better and More Robust.

Markus Freitag, Ricardo Rei, Nitika Mathur, Chi-kiu Lo, Craig Stewart, Eleftherios Avramidis, Tom Kocmi, George F. Foster, Alon Lavie, André F. T. Martins

Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation, 2022

A Natural Diet: Towards Improving Naturalness of Machine Translation Output.

Markus Freitag, David Vilar, David Grangier, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, 2022

2021

Experts, Errors, and Context: A Large-Scale Study of Human Evaluation for Machine Translation.

Markus Freitag, George F. Foster, David Grangier, Viresh Ratnakar, Qijun Tan, Wolfgang Macherey

Trans. Assoc. Comput. Linguistics, 2021

Results of the WMT21 Metrics Shared Task: Evaluating Metrics with Expert-based Human Evaluations on TED and News Domain.

Markus Freitag, Ricardo Rei, Nitika Mathur, Chi-kiu Lo, Craig Stewart, George F. Foster, Alon Lavie, Ondrej Bojar

Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation, 2021

Assessing Reference-Free Peer Evaluation for Machine Translation.

Sweta Agrawal, George F. Foster, Markus Freitag, Colin Cherry

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2021

2020

Human-Paraphrased References Improve Neural Machine Translation.

Markus Freitag, George F. Foster, David Grangier, Colin Cherry

Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation, 2020

Re-translation versus Streaming for Simultaneous Translation.

Naveen Arivazhagan, Colin Cherry, Wolfgang Macherey, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation, 2020

Shaping the Narrative Arc: Information-Theoretic Collaborative DialoguePaper type: Technical Paper.

Kory Wallace Mathewson, Pablo Samuel Castro, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster, Marc G. Bellemare

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2020

Re-Translation Strategies for Long Form, Simultaneous, Spoken Language Translation.

Naveen Arivazhagan, Colin Cherry, Te I, Wolfgang Macherey, Pallavi Baljekar, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2020

Inference Strategies for Machine Translation with Conditional Masking.

Julia Kreutzer, George F. Foster, Colin Cherry

Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020

The Impact of Sentence Alignment Errors on Phrase-Based Machine Translation Performance.

Cyril Goutte, Marine Carpuat, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Research Papers, 2020

2019

Massively Multilingual Neural Machine Translation in the Wild: Findings and Challenges.

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

CoRR, 2019

Thinking Slow about Latency Evaluation for Simultaneous Machine Translation.

Colin Cherry, George F. Foster

CoRR, 2019

Lingvo: a Modular and Scalable Framework for Sequence-to-Sequence Modeling.

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

CoRR, 2019

Shaping the Narrative Arc: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Collaborative Dialogue.

Kory W. Mathewson, Pablo Samuel Castro, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster, Marc G. Bellemare

CoRR, 2019

Reinforcement Learning based Curriculum Optimization for Neural Machine Translation.

Gaurav Kumar, George F. Foster, Colin Cherry, Maxim Krikun

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2019

2018

The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Recent Advances in Neural Machine Translation.

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

CoRR, 2018

Revisiting Character-Based Neural Machine Translation with Capacity and Compression.

Colin Cherry, George F. Foster, Ankur Bapna, Orhan Firat, Wolfgang Macherey

Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Brussels, Belgium, October 31, 2018

The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Recent Advances in Neural Machine Translation.

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

Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018

2017

NRC Machine Translation System for WMT 2017.

Chi-kiu Lo, Boxing Chen, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster, Samuel Larkin, Darlene A. Stewart, Roland Kuhn

Proceedings of the Second Conference on Machine Translation, 2017

A Challenge Set Approach to Evaluating Machine Translation.

Pierre Isabelle, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2017

Cost Weighting for Neural Machine Translation Domain Adaptation.

Boxing Chen, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster, Samuel Larkin

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Neural Machine Translation, 2017

2016

NRC Russian-English Machine Translation System for WMT 2016.

Chi-kiu Lo, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster, Darlene A. Stewart, Rabib Islam, Anna Kazantseva, Roland Kuhn

Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation, 2016

Bilingual Methods for Adaptive Training Data Selection for Machine Translation.

Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn, George F. Foster, Colin Cherry, Fei Huang

Proceedings of the 12th Conferences of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: MT Researchers' Track, 2016

2014

Linear Mixture Models for Robust Machine Translation.

Marine Carpuat, Cyril Goutte, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 2014

Coarse "split and lump" bilingual language models for richer source information in SMT.

Darlene A. Stewart, Roland Kuhn, Eric Joanis, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: MT Researchers Track, 2014

A comparison of mixture and vector space techniques for translation model adaptation.

Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: MT Researchers Track, 2014

2013

Adaptation of Reordering Models for Statistical Machine Translation.

Boxing Chen, George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn

Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2013

PEPr: Post-Edit Propagation Using Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation.

Michel Simard, George F. Foster

Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XIV: Papers, 2013

Simulating Discriminative Training for Linear Mixture Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation.

George F. Foster, Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn

Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XIV: Papers, 2013

Vector Space Model for Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation.

Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013

2012

Improving AMBER, an MT Evaluation Metric.

Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 2012

Batch Tuning Strategies for Statistical Machine Translation.

Colin Cherry, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2012

Mixing Multiple Translation Models in Statistical Machine Translation.

Majid Razmara, George F. Foster, Baskaran Sankaran, Anoop Sarkar

Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, July 8-14, 2012, Jeju Island, Korea, 2012

2011

Unpacking and Transforming Feature Functions: New Ways to Smooth Phrase Tables.

Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn, George F. Foster, Howard Johnson

Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XIII: Papers, 2011

Semantic smoothing and fabrication of phrase pairs for SMT.

Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the 2011 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 2011

2010

Lessons from NRC's Portage System at WMT 2010.

Samuel Larkin, Boxing Chen, George F. Foster, Ulrich Germann, Eric Joanis, Howard Johnson, Roland Kuhn

Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR, 2010

Fast Consensus Hypothesis Regeneration for Machine Translation.

Boxing Chen, George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn

Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR, 2010

Discriminative Instance Weighting for Domain Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation.

George F. Foster, Cyril Goutte, Roland Kuhn

Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2010

Phrase Clustering for Smoothing TM Probabilities - or, How to Extract Paraphrases from Phrase Tables.

Roland Kuhn, Boxing Chen, George F. Foster, Evan Stratford

Proceedings of the COLING 2010, 2010

Translating Structured Documents.

George F. Foster, Pierre Isabelle, Roland Kuhn

Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Research Papers, 2010

Bilingual Sense Similarity for Statistical Machine Translation.

Boxing Chen, George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn

Proceedings of the ACL 2010, 2010

2009

Stabilizing Minimum Error Rate Training.

George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn

Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 2009

Phrase Translation Model Enhanced with Association based Features.

Boxing Chen, George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn

Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XII: Papers, 2009

2008

Tighter Integration of Rule-Based and Statistical MT in Serial System Combination.

Nicola Ueffing, Jens Stephan, Evgeny Matusov, Loïc Dugast, George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn, Jean Senellart, Jin Yang

Proceedings of the COLING 2008, 2008

2007

Integration of an Arabic Transliteration Module into a Statistical Machine Translation System.

Mehdi M. Kashani, Eric Joanis, Roland Kuhn, George F. Foster, Fred Popowich

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 2007

Mixture-Model Adaptation for SMT.

George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 2007

Improving Translation Quality by Discarding Most of the Phrasetable.

Howard Johnson, Joel D. Martin, George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn

Proceedings of the EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, 2007

2006

Confidence estimation for NLP applications.

Simona Gandrabur, George F. Foster, Guy Lapalme

ACM Trans. Speech Lang. Process., 2006

PORTAGE: with Smoothed Phrase Tables and Segment Choice Models.

Howard Johnson, Fatiha Sadat, George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn, Michel Simard, Eric Joanis, Samuel Larkin

Proceedings of the Proceedings on the Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 2006

Système de traduction automatique statistique combinant différentes ressources.

Fatiha Sadat, George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn

Proceedings of the Actes de la 13ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Posters, 2006

Segment Choice Models: Feature-Rich Models for Global Distortion in Statistical Machine Translation.

Roland Kuhn, Denis Yuen, Michel Simard, Patrick Paul, George F. Foster, Eric Joanis, Howard Johnson

Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2006

Phrasetable Smoothing for Statistical Machine Translation.

George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn, Howard Johnson

Proceedings of the EMNLP 2006, 2006

2005

Automatic Detection of Translation Errors: The State of the Art.

Graham Russell, George F. Foster, Ngoc Tran Nguyen

Proceedings of the HLT/EMNLP 2005, 2005

PORTAGE: A Phrase-Based Machine Translation System.

Fatiha Sadat, Howard Johnson, Akakpo Agbago, George F. Foster, Roland Kuhn, Joel D. Martin, Aaron Tikuisis

Proceedings of the Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts@ACL 2005, 2005

2004

Adaptive Language and Translation Models for Interactive Machine Translation.

Laurent Nepveu, Guy Lapalme, Philippe Langlais, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing , 2004

Confidence Estimation for Machine Translation.

John Blatz, Erin Fitzgerald, George F. Foster, Simona Gandrabur, Cyril Goutte, Alex Kulesza, Alberto Sanchís, Nicola Ueffing

Proceedings of the COLING 2004, 2004

Using COTS Search Engines and Custom Query Strategies at CLEF.

David Nadeau, Mario Jarmasz, Caroline Barrière, George F. Foster, Claude St. Jacques

Proceedings of the Working Notes for CLEF 2004 Workshop co-located with the 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004), 2004

2003

Statistical machine translation: rapid development with limited resources.

George F. Foster, Simona Gandrabur, Philippe Langlais, Pierre Plamondon, Graham Russell, Michel Simard

Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit IX: Papers, 2003

Confidence estimation for translation prediction.

Simona Gandrabur, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Natural Language Learning, 2003

Quantum, a French/English Cross-Language Question Answering System.

Luc Plamondon, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the Working Notes for CLEF 2003 Workshop co-located with the 7th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2003), 2003

2002

User-Friendly Text Prediction For Translators.

George F. Foster, Philippe Langlais, Guy Lapalme

Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2002

Text Prediction with Fuzzy Alignments.

George F. Foster, Philippe Langlais, Guy Lapalme

Proceedings of the Machine Translation: From Research to Real Users, 2002

2001

Integrating bilingual lexicons in a probabilistic translation assistant.

Philippe Langlais, George F. Foster, Guy Lapalme

Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VIII, 2001

2000

Unit Completion for a Computer-aided Translation Typing System.

Philippe Langlais, George F. Foster, Guy Lapalme

Mach. Transl., 2000

Using Context-Dependent interpolation to Combine Statistical Language and Translation Models for Interactive Machine Translation.

Philippe Langlais, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval (Recherche d'Information et ses Applications), 2000

Evaluation of TRANSTYPE, a Computer-aided Translation Typing System: A Comparison of a Theoretical- and a User-oriented Evaluation Procedures.

Philippe Langlais, Sébastien Sauvé, George F. Foster, Elliott Macklovitch, Guy Lapalme

Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2000

La programmation orientée-objet pour le développement de modèles de langage.

Guy Lapalme, Philippe Langlais, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the Actes des journées Langages et Modèles à Objets, 2000

Incorporating Position Information into a Maximum Entropy/Minimum Divergence Translation Model.

George F. Foster

Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, 2000

Multilingual Information Retrieval Based on Parallel Texts from the Web.

Jian-Yun Nie, Michel Simard, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Evaluation, 2000

A Maximum Entropy/Minimum Divergence Translation Model.

George F. Foster

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2000

1998

Using a Probabilistic Translation Model for Cross-Language Information Retrieval.

Jian-Yun Nie, Pierre Isabelle, George F. Foster

Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora, 1998

1997

Target-Text Mediated Interactive Machine Translation.

George F. Foster, Pierre Isabelle, Pierre Plamondon

Mach. Transl., 1997

1996

Word Completion- A First Step Toward Target-Text Mediated IMT.

George F. Foster, Pierre Isabelle, Pierre Plamondon

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1996

1995

French speech recognition in an automatic dictation system for translators: the transtalk project.

Julie Brousseau, Caroline Drouin, George F. Foster, Pierre Isabelle, Roland Kuhn, Yves Normandin, Pierre Plamondon

Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1995

1994

Towards an automatic dictation system for translators : the transtalk project.

Marc Dymetman, Julie Brousseau, George F. Foster, Pierre Isabelle, Yves Normandin, Pierre Plamondon

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 1994

1993

Using cognates to align sentences in bilingual corpora.

Michel Simard, George F. Foster, Pierre Isabelle

Proceedings of the 1993 Conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research, 1993

Translation analysis and translation automation.

Pierre Isabelle, Marc Dymetman, George F. Foster, Jean-Marc Jutras, Elliott Macklovitch, François Perrault, Xiaobo Ren, Michel Simard

Proceedings of the 1993 Conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research, 1993