Lucia Specia
115 papers · 2006–2025 · 12 venues · across top CS/AI venues
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machine translation
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quality estimation
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neural machine translation
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sentence-level prediction
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text simplification
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text classification
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image captioning
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word-level prediction
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multimodal learning
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multimodal machine translation
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neural network
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machine translation evaluation
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visual context
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evaluation metric
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translation quality
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semantic similarity
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social media
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Papers
DiffuseDef: Improved Robustness to Adversarial Attacks via Iterative Denoising
ACL 2025
Classifying Social Media Users before and after Depression Diagnosis via Their Language Usage: A Dataset and Study
COLING 2024
Experimenting with Transformer-based and Large Language Models for Classifying Effects of Outdoor Spaces on Social Anxiety in Social Media Data
ACL 2024
Monitoring Depression Severity and Symptoms in User-Generated Content: An Annotation Scheme and Guidelines
ACL 2024
Using Large Language Models (LLMs) to Extract Evidence from Pre-Annotated Social Media Data
EACL 2024
Choosing What to Mask: More Informed Masking for Multimodal Machine Translation
ACL 2023
Bias Mitigation in Machine Translation Quality Estimation
ACL 2022
Contrastive Video-Language Learning with Fine-grained Frame Sampling
AACL 2022
Findings of the WMT 2022 Shared Task on Quality Estimation
EMNLP 2022
Guiding Visual Question Generation
NAACL 2022
Logically Consistent Adversarial Attacks for Soft Theorem Provers
IJCAI 2022
Multimodal Conversation Modelling for Topic Derailment Detection
EMNLP 2022
Predicting Moments of Mood Changes Overtime from Imbalanced Social Media Data
NAACL 2022
Translation Error Detection as Rationale Extraction
ACL 2022
A Generative Framework for Simultaneous Machine Translation
EMNLP 2021
A Survey of Online Hate Speech through the Causal Lens
EMNLP 2021
Backtranslation Feedback Improves User Confidence in MT, Not Quality
NAACL 2021
Bayesian Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning with Matrix-Valued Kernels for Quality Estimation
ACL 2021
BERTGen: Multi-task Generation through BERT
ACL 2021
Classification-based Quality Estimation: Small and Efficient Models for Real-world Applications
EMNLP 2021
Continual Quality Estimation with Online Bayesian Meta-Learning
ACL 2021
Cross-lingual Visual Pre-training for Multimodal Machine Translation
EACL 2021
deepQuest-py: Large and Distilled Models for Quality Estimation
EMNLP 2021
Exploiting Multimodal Reinforcement Learning for Simultaneous Machine Translation
EACL 2021
Exploring Supervised and Unsupervised Rewards in Machine Translation
EACL 2021
Findings of the WMT 2021 Shared Task on Quality Estimation
EMNLP 2021
ICL’s Submission to the WMT21 Critical Error Detection Shared Task
EMNLP 2021
Knowledge Distillation for Quality Estimation
ACL 2021
Pushing the Right Buttons: Adversarial Evaluation of Quality Estimation
EMNLP 2021
Quality Estimation without Human-labeled Data
EACL 2021
SentSim: Crosslingual Semantic Evaluation of Machine Translation
NAACL 2021
Uncertainty Aware Review Hallucination for Science Article Classification
ACL 2021
Visual Cues and Error Correction for Translation Robustness
EMNLP 2021
What Makes a Scientific Paper be Accepted for Publication?
EMNLP 2021
An Exploratory Study on Multilingual Quality Estimation
AACL 2020
Are we Estimating or Guesstimating Translation Quality?
ACL 2020
ASSET: A Dataset for Tuning and Evaluation of Sentence Simplification Models with Multiple Rewriting Transformations
ACL 2020
BERGAMOT-LATTE Submissions for the WMT20 Quality Estimation Shared Task
EMNLP 2020
Curious Case of Language Generation Evaluation Metrics: A Cautionary Tale
COLING 2020
Exploring Model Consensus to Generate Translation Paraphrases
ACL 2020
FIND: Human-in-the-Loop Debugging Deep Text Classifiers
EMNLP 2020
Findings of the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Machine Translation Robustness
EMNLP 2020
Findings of the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Quality Estimation
EMNLP 2020
Multi-Hypothesis Machine Translation Evaluation
ACL 2020
Multimodal Quality Estimation for Machine Translation
ACL 2020
Simultaneous Machine Translation with Visual Context
EMNLP 2020
A Comparison on Fine-grained Pre-trained Embeddings for the WMT19Chinese-English News Translation Task
ACL 2019
Cross-Sentence Transformations in Text Simplification
ACL 2019
Deep Copycat Networks for Text-to-Text Generation
EMNLP 2019
Distilling Translations with Visual Awareness
ACL 2019
EASSE: Easier Automatic Sentence Simplification Evaluation
EMNLP 2019
Grounded Word Sense Translation
NAACL 2019
Improving Neural Machine Translation Robustness via Data Augmentation: Beyond Back-Translation
EMNLP 2019
Is artificial data useful for biomedical Natural Language Processing algorithms?
ACL 2019
Phrase Localization Without Paired Training Examples
ICCV 2019
Probing the Need for Visual Context in Multimodal Machine Translation
NAACL 2019
VIFIDEL: Evaluating the Visual Fidelity of Image Descriptions
ACL 2019
WMDO: Fluency-based Word Mover’s Distance for Machine Translation Evaluation
ACL 2019
A Report on the Complex Word Identification Shared Task 2018
NAACL 2018
deepQuest: A Framework for Neural-based Quality Estimation
COLING 2018
Defoiling Foiled Image Captions
NAACL 2018
End-to-end Image Captioning Exploits Distributional Similarity in Multimodal Space
EMNLP 2018
Exploring gap filling as a cheaper alternative to reading comprehension questionnaires when evaluating machine translation for gisting
EMNLP 2018
Findings of the Third Shared Task on Multimodal Machine Translation
EMNLP 2018
Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Quality Estimation
EMNLP 2018
Learning Simplifications for Specific Target Audiences
ACL 2018
Object Counts! Bringing Explicit Detections Back into Image Captioning
NAACL 2018
Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers
EMNLP 2018
Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers
EMNLP 2018
Sheffield Submissions for the WMT18 Quality Estimation Shared Task
EMNLP 2018
Sheffield Submissions for WMT18 Multimodal Translation Shared Task
EMNLP 2018
Vis-Eval Metric Viewer: A Visualisation Tool for Inspecting and Evaluating Metric Scores of Machine Translation Output
NAACL 2018
Learning How to Simplify From Explicit Labeling of Complex-Simplified Text Pairs
IJCNLP 2017
Lexical Simplification with Neural Ranking
EACL 2017
MASSAlign: Alignment and Annotation of Comparable Documents
IJCNLP 2017
MUSST: A Multilingual Syntactic Simplification Tool
IJCNLP 2017
Personalized Machine Translation: Preserving Original Author Traits
EACL 2017
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
EMNLP 2017
Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2017)
CoNLL 2017
SemEval-2017 Task 1: Semantic Textual Similarity Multilingual and Crosslingual Focused Evaluation
SemEval 2017
Semi-Supervised Adaptation of RNNLMs by Fine-Tuning with Domain-Specific Auxiliary Features
Interspeech 2017
The Ultimate Presentation Makeup Tutorial: How to Polish your Posters, Slides and Presentations Skills
IJCNLP 2017
Anita: An Intelligent Text Adaptation Tool
COLING 2016
Collecting and Exploring Everyday Language for Predicting Psycholinguistic Properties of Words
COLING 2016
Exploring Prediction Uncertainty in Machine Translation Quality Estimation
CoNLL 2016
Inferring Psycholinguistic Properties of Words
NAACL 2016
Large-scale Multitask Learning for Machine Translation Quality Estimation
NAACL 2016
Metrics for Evaluation of Word-level Machine Translation Quality Estimation
ACL 2016
Quality Estimation for Language Output Applications
COLING 2016
Reference Bias in Monolingual Machine Translation Evaluation
ACL 2016
SAARSHEFF at SemEval-2016 Task 1: Semantic Textual Similarity with Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics and (eXtreme) Boosted Tree Ensembles
SemEval 2016
SemEval 2016 Task 11: Complex Word Identification
SemEval 2016
SV000gg at SemEval-2016 Task 11: Heavy Gauge Complex Word Identification with System Voting
SemEval 2016
Understanding the Lexical Simplification Needs of Non-Native Speakers of English
COLING 2016
Investigating Continuous Space Language Models for Machine Translation Quality Estimation
EMNLP 2015
LEXenstein: A Framework for Lexical Simplification
ACL 2015
Multi-level Translation Quality Prediction with QuEst++
ACL 2015
USAAR-SHEFFIELD: Semantic Textual Similarity with Deep Regression and Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics
SemEval 2015
WA-Continuum: Visualising Word Alignments across Multiple Parallel Sentences Simultaneously
ACL 2015
Exact Decoding for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
EMNLP 2014
Joint Emotion Analysis via Multi-task Gaussian Processes
EMNLP 2014
Modelling Annotator Bias with Multi-task Gaussian Processes: An Application to Machine Translation Quality Estimation
ACL 2013
Multilingual WSD-like Constraints for Paraphrase Extraction
CoNLL 2013
QuEst - A translation quality estimation framework
ACL 2013
Reducing Annotation Effort for Quality Estimation via Active Learning
ACL 2013
Automatic Question Generation in Multimedia-Based Learning
COLING 2012
Linguistic and Statistical Traits Characterising Plagiarism
COLING 2012
SemEval-2012 Task 1: English Lexical Simplification
SemEval 2012
UOW: Semantically Informed Text Similarity
SemEval 2012
UOW-SHEF: SimpLex – Lexical Simplicity Ranking based on Contextual and Psycholinguistic Features
SemEval 2012
Combining Dictionaries and Contextual Information for Cross-Lingual Lexical Substitution
SemEval 2010
Source-Language Entailment Modeling for Translating Unknown Terms
ACL 2009
Learning Expressive Models for Word Sense Disambiguation
ACL 2007
USP-IBM-1 and USP-IBM-2: The ILP-based Systems for Lexical Sample WSD in SemEval-2007
SemEval 2007
A Hybrid Relational Approach for WSD – First Results
ACL 2006