Publications

2022
Logically Consistent Adversarial Attacks for Soft Theorem Provers Alexander Gaskell, Yishu Miao, Francesca Toni, Lucia Specia IJCAI-ECAI 2022
Guiding Visual Question Generation Nihir Vedd, Zixu Wang, Marek Rei, Yishu Miao, Lucia Specia NAACL 2022
SURF: Semantic-level Unsupervised Reward Function for Machine Translation Atijit Anuchitanukul, Julia Ive NAACL 2022
Leveraging Pre-trained Language Models for Gender Debiasing Nishtha Jain, Maja Popovic, Declan Groves, Lucia Specia LREC 2022
Multilingual and Multimodal Learning for Brazilian Portuguese Júlia Sato, Helena Caseli, Lucia Specia LREC 2022
MLQE-PE: A Multilingual Quality Estimation and Post-Editing Dataset Marina Fomicheva, Shuo Sun, Erick Fonseca, Chrysoula Zerva, Frederic Blain, Vishrav Chaudhary, Francisco Guzman, Nina Lopatina, Andre F. T. Martins, Lucia Specia LREC 2022
MultiSubs: A Large-scale Multimodal and Multilingual Dataset Josiah Wang, Josiel Figueiredo, Lucia Specia LREC 2022
Bias Mitigation in Machine Translation Quality Estimation Hanna Behnke, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia ACL 2022
Memorisation versus Generalisation in Pre-trained Language Models Michael Tänzer, Sebastian Ruder, Marek Rei ACL 2022 [pdf]
Revisiting Contextual Toxicity Detection in Conversations Atijit Anuchitanukul, Julia Ive, Lucia Specia JDIQ 2022 [pdf]
Supervising Model Attention with Human Explanations for Robust Natural Language Inference Joe Stacey, Yonatan Belinkov, Marek Rei AAAI 2022 [pdf]
2021
BrainApp: Using near-patient sensing through a mobile app and machine learning in brain tumour patients Nur Aizaan Anwar, Matthew Williams British Neuro-oncology Society Annual Meeting 2021 [pdf]
A Survey of Online Hate Speech through the Causal Lens Antigoni-Maria Founta, Lucia Specia CI+NLP: First Workshop on Causal Inference and NLP @ EMNLP 2021 [pdf]
Zero-shot Sequence Labeling for Transformer-based Sentence Classifiers Kamil Bujel, Helen Yannakoudakis, Marek Rei Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP) @ ACL 2021 [pdf]
How Metaphors Impact Political Discourse: A Large-Scale Topic-Agnostic Study Using Neural Metaphor Detection Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Marek Rei, Ekaterina Shutova ICWSM 2021 [pdf]
Cross-Modal Generative Augmentation for Visual Question Answering Zixu Wang, Yishu Miao, Lucia Specia BMVC 2021 [pdf]
GiBERT: Introducing Linguistic Knowledge into BERT through a Lightweight Gated Injection Method Nicole Peinelt, Marek Rei, Maria Liakata EMNLP (Findings) 2021 [pdf]
Visual Cues and Error Correction for Translation Robustness Zhenhao Li, Marek Rei, Lucia Specia EMNLP (Findings) 2021 [pdf]
Latent Variable Models for Visual Question Answering Zixu Wang, Yishu Miao, Lucia Specia Closing the Loop Between Vision and Language (CLVL) @ ICCV 2021 [pdf]
Towards a Better Understanding of Noise in Natural Language Processing Khetam Al Sharou, Zhenhao Li, Lucia Specia Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Conference (RANLP) 2021
Bayesian Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning with Matrix-Valued Kernels for Quality Estimation Abiola Obamuyide, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia Representation Learning for NLP (RepL4NLP) @ ACL 2021 [pdf]
deepQuest-py: Large and Distilled Models for Quality Estimation Fernando Alva-Manchego, Abiola Obamuyide, Amit Gajbhiye, Frédéric Blain, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia EMNLP (Demo) 2021
The (Un)Suitability of Automatic Evaluation Metrics for Text Simplification Fernando Alva-Manchego, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia Computational Linguistics 2021 [pdf]
Validating Quality Estimation in a Computer-Aided Translation Workflow: Speed, Cost and Quality Trade-off Fernando Alva-Manchego, Lucia Specia, Sara Szoc, Tom Vanallemeersch, Heidi Depraetere MT Summit 2021 [pdf]
Continual Quality Estimation with Online Bayesian Meta-Learning Abiola Obamuyide, Marina Fomicheva and Lucia Specia ACL 2021 [pdf]
Knowledge Distillation for Quality Estimation Amit Gajbhiye, Marina Fomicheva, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Frederic Blain, Abiola Obamuyide, Nikolaos Aletras and Lucia Specia ACL (Findings) 2021 [pdf]
Uncertainty Aware Review Hallucination for Science Article Classification Korbinian Friedl, Georgios Rizos, Lukas Stappen, Madina Hasan, Lucia Specia, Thomas Hain and Bjorn Schuller ACL (Findings) 2021 [pdf]
Backtranslation Feedback Improves User Confidence in MT, Not Quality Vilém Zouhar, Michal Novák, Matúš Žilinec, Ondřej Bojar, Mateo Obregón, Robin L. Hill, Frédéric Blain, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia and Lisa Yankovskaya NAACL 2021 [pdf]
SentSim: Crosslingual Semantic Evaluation of Machine Translation Yurun Song, Junchen Zhao and Lucia Specia NAACL 2021 [pdf]
Controllable Text Simplification with Explicit Paraphrasing Mounica Maddela, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Wei Xu NAACL 2021 [pdf]
Exploiting Multimodal Reinforcement Learning for Simultaneous Machine Translation Julia Ive, Andy Mingren Li, Yishu Miao, Ozan Caglayan, Pranava Madhyastha and Lucia Specia EACL 2021 [pdf]
Exploring Supervised and Unsupervised Rewards in Machine Translation Julia Ive, Zixu Wang, Marina Fomicheva and Lucia Specia EACL 2021 [pdf]
Cross-lingual Visual Pre-training for Multimodal Machine Translation Ozan Caglayan, Menekse Kuyu, Mustafa Sercan Amac, Pranava Madhyastha, Erkut Erdem, Aykut Erdem and Lucia Specia EACL 2021 [pdf]
Quality Estimation without Human-labeled Data Yi-Lin Tuan, Ahmed El-Kishky, Adithya Renduchintala, Vishrav Chaudhary, Francisco Guzmán and Lucia Specia EACL 2021 [pdf]
BERTGEN: Multi-task Generation through BERT Faidon Mitzalis, Ozan Caglayan, Pranava Madhyastha, Lucia Specia ACL-IJCNLP 2021 [pdf]
MSVD-Turkish: a comprehensive multimodal video dataset for integrated vision and language research in Turkish Begum Citamak, Ozan Caglayan, Menekse Kuyu, Erkut Erdem, Aykut Erdem, Pranava Madhyastha, Lucia Specia Machine Translation Journal 2021 [pdf]
2020
Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees: Multi-head Attention for Joint Classification on Different Compositional Levels Miruna Pislar, Marek Rei COLING 2020 [pdf]
Grammatical error detection in transcriptions of spoken English Andrew Caines, Christian Bentz, Kate Knill, Marek Rei, Paula Buttery COLING 2020 [pdf]
Grammatical Error Correction in Low Error Density Domains: A New Benchmark and Analyses Simon Flachs, Ophélie Lacroix, Helen Yannakoudakis, Marek Rei, Anders Søgaard EMNLP 2020 [pdf]
Multidirectional Associative Optimization of Function-Specific Word Representations Daniela Gerz, Ivan Vulić, Marek Rei, Roi Reichart, Anna Korhonen ACL 2020 [pdf]
Verbal Multiword Expressions for Identification of Metaphor Omid Rohanian, Marek Rei, Shiva Taslimipoor, Le An Ha ACL 2020 [pdf]
Curious Case of Language Generation Evaluation Metrics: A Cautionary Tale Ozan Caglayan, Pranava Madhyastha, Lucia Specia COLING 2020 [pdf]
Grounded Sequence to Sequence Transduction Lucia Specia, Raman Arora, Loic Barrault, Ozan Caglayan, Amanda Duarte, Desmond Elliott, Spandana Gella, Nils Holzenberger, Chiraag Lala, Sun Jae Lee, Jindrich Libovicky, Pranava Madhyastha, Florian Metze, Karl Mulligan, Alissa Ostapenka, Shruti Palaskar, Ramon Sanabria, Josiah Wang IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing 2020 [pdf]
Multimodal Machine Translation through Visuals and Speech Umut Sulubacak, Ozan Caglayan, Stig-Arne Grönroos, Aku Rouhe, Desmond Elliott, Lucia Specia, Jörg Tiedemann Machine Translation Journal 2020 [pdf]
Simultaneous Machine Translation with Visual Context Ozan Caglayan, Julia Ive, Veneta Haralampieva, Pranava Madhyastha, Loïc Barrault, Lucia Specia EMNLP 2020 [pdf]
ASSET: A Dataset for Tuning and Evaluation of Sentence Simplification Models with Multiple Rewriting Transformations Fernando Alva-Manchego, Louis Martin, Antoine Bordes, Carolina Scarton, Benoı̂t Sagot, Lucia Specia ACL 2020 [pdf]
Data-Driven Sentence Simplification: Survey and Benchmark Fernando Alva-Manchego, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia Computational Linguistics 2020 [pdf]
2019
Bad Form: Comparing Context-Based and Form-Based Few-Shot Learning in Distributional Semantic Models Jeroen Van Hautte, Guy Emerson, Marek Rei The Second Workshop on Deep Learning for Low-Resource NLP (DeepLo) 2019 [pdf]
Modelling the interplay of metaphor and emotion through multitask learning Verna Dankers, Marek Rei, Martha Lewis, Ekaterina Shutova EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 [pdf]
Semi-Supervised Bootstrapping of Dialogue State Trackers for Task-Oriented Modelling Bo-Hsiang Tseng, Marek Rei, Paweł Budzianowski, Richard Turner, Bill Byrne, Anna Korhonen EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 [pdf]
A unified deep learning architecture for abuse detection Antigoni Maria Founta, Despoina Chatzakou, Nicolas Kourtellis, Jeremy Blackburn, Athena Vakali, Ilias Leontiadis 10th ACM Conference on Web Science 2019 [pdf]
Voices of (Unemployed) Refugee Doctors in the UK: An Exploration of their Linguistic and Cultural Needs & Aspirations Ceri Butler and Khetam Al Sharou in Declercq, C. and Federici, M.F. (eds.). Intercultural Crisis Communication: translation, interpreting and languages in local crises 2019 [pdf]
Training Translators on Open-source MT Technology: An Empirical Assessment of Learning Using a Task-based Syllabus Khetam Al Sharou University College London, Unpublished PhD Thesis 2019 [pdf]
Strong Baselines for Complex Word Identification across Multiple Languages Pierre Finnimore, Elisabeth Fritzsch, Daniel King, Alison Sneyd, Aneeq Ur Rehman, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Andreas Vlachos NAACL 2019 [pdf]
Cross-Sentence Transformations in Text Simplification Fernando Alva-Manchego, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia WiNLP 2019 [pdf]
EASSE: Easier Automatic Sentence Simplification Evaluation Fernando Alva-Manchego, Louis Martin, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia EMNLP-IJCNLP (Demo) 2019 [pdf]
Multimodal Grounding for Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Recognition Ozan Caglayan, Ramon Sanabria, Shruti Palaskar, Loïc Barrault, Florian Metze IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2019 [pdf]
Probing the Need for Visual Context in Multimodal Machine Translation Ozan Caglayan, Pranava Madhyastha, Lucia Specia, Loïc Barrault NAACL (best paper award) 2019 [pdf]
Transformer-based Cascaded Multimodal Speech Translation Zixiu Wu, Ozan Caglayan, Julia Ive, Josiah Wang, Lucia Specia 16th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) 2019 [pdf]
2018
Large scale crowdsourcing and characterization of twitter abusive behavior Antigoni-Maria Founta, Constantinos Djouvas, Despoina Chatzakou, Ilias Leontiadis, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini, Athena Vakali, Michael Sirivianos, Nicolas Kourtellis ICWSM 2018 [pdf]
Moses, Time, and Crisis Translation Federico M. Federici and Khetam Al Sharou The Journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies 2018 [pdf]
Beyond medical practice: cultural and linguistic training of refugee doctors for integration and employment in the United Kingdom Ceri Butler and Khetam Al Sharou European Journal of Public Health 2018 [pdf]

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