Saturday, 4 July 2015

ACL 2015 papers

Link: http://acl2015.org/accepted_papers.html

Here is my subjective list of remarkable papers relating to MT research:

*** Conventional Statistical Machine Translation

 A CONTEXT-AWARE TOPIC MODEL FOR STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
Jinsong Su, Deyi Xiong, Yang Liu, Xianpei Han, Hongyu Lin and Junfeng Yao

NON-LINEAR LEARNING FOR STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
Shujian Huang, Huadong Chen, Xinyu Dai and Jiajun Chen

MULTI-TASK LEARNING FOR MULTIPLE LANGUAGE TRANSLATION
Daxiang Dong, Hua Wu, Wei He, Dianhai Yu and Haifeng Wang


WHAT’S IN A DOMAIN? ANALYZING GENRE AND TOPIC DIFFERENCES IN STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
Marlies van der Wees, Arianna Bisazza, Wouter Weerkamp and Christof Monz

*** Neural Machine Translation

ADDRESSING THE RARE WORD PROBLEM IN NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
Thang Luong, Ilya Sutskever, Quoc Le, Oriol Vinyals and Wojciech Zaremba

ENCODING SOURCE LANGUAGE WITH CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION
Fandong Meng, Zhengdong Lu, Mingxuan Wang, Hang Li, Wenbin Jiang and Qun Liu

IMPROVED NEURAL NETWORK FEATURES, ARCHITECTURE AND LEARNING FOR STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
Hendra Setiawan, Zhongqiang Huang, Jacob Devlin, Thomas Lamar and Rabih Zbib

NON-PROJECTIVE DEPENDENCY-BASED PRE-REORDERING WITH RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION
Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone

ON USING VERY LARGE TARGET VOCABULARY FOR NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION
Sebastien Jean, Kyunghyun Cho, Roland Memisevic and Yoshua Bengio

CONTEXT-DEPENDENT TRANSLATION SELECTION USING CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK
Baotian Hu, Zhaopeng Tu, Zhengdong Lu and Hang Li

*** Machine Translation Evaluation and Quality Estimation

ONLINE MULTITASK LEARNING FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION QUALITY ESTIMATION
José G. C. de Souza, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi and Elisa Ricci

PAIRWISE NEURAL MACHINE TRANSLATION EVALUATION
Francisco Guzmán, Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez and Preslav Nakov

EVALUATING MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS WITH SECOND LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY TESTS
Takuya Matsuzaki, Akira Fujita, Naoya Todo and Noriko H. Arai

Some notes:

*** According to my observation, there are some research trends depending on data characteristics:
- very big data
- heterogeneous data
- multi-lingual data

*** And of course, deep learning research is still very hot.