Alexandra Birch
76 papers · 2007–2026 · 9 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences
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Papers
The Prosody of Emojis
ACL 2026
Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive Question Answering Task
EACL 2026
Improving Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Language Models through Dialectic Reasoning Argumentations
EMNLP 2025
EuroGEST: Investigating gender stereotypes in multilingual language models
EMNLP 2025
Bridging the Language Gaps in Large Language Models with Inference-Time Cross-Lingual Intervention
ACL 2025
Liaozhai through the Looking-Glass: On Paratextual Explicitation of Culture-Bound Terms in Machine Translation
EMNLP 2025
Generics are puzzling. Can language models find the missing piece?
COLING 2025
The Only Way is Ethics: A Guide to Ethical Research with Large Language Models
COLING 2025
No Train but Gain: Language Arithmetic for training-free Language Adapters enhancement
COLING 2025
AveniBench: Accessible and Versatile Evaluation of Finance Intelligence
COLING 2025
Multilingual Data Filtering using Synthetic Data from Large Language Models
EMNLP 2025
Demystifying Multilingual Reasoning in Process Reward Modeling
EMNLP 2025
XL-Suite: Cross-Lingual Synthetic Training and Evaluation Data for Open-Ended Generation
EMNLP 2025
EdinHelsOW WMT 2025 CreoleMT System Description: Improving Lusophone Creole Translation through Data Augmentation, Model Merging and LLM Post-editing
EMNLP 2025
When natural language is not enough: The limits of in-context learning demonstrations in multilingual reasoning
NAACL 2025
Empowering Multi-step Reasoning across Languages via Program-Aided Language Models
EMNLP 2024
The Ups and Downs of Large Language Model Inference with Vocabulary Trimming by Language Heuristics
NAACL 2024
Exploring Very Low-Resource Translation with LLMs: The University of Edinburgh’s Submission to AmericasNLP 2024 Translation Task
NAACL 2024
When Does Monolingual Data Help Multilingual Translation: The Role of Domain and Model Scale
NAACL 2024
Assessing Factual Reliability of Large Language Model Knowledge
NAACL 2024
Retrieval-Augmented Multilingual Knowledge Editing
ACL 2024
Document-Level Machine Translation with Large-Scale Public Parallel Corpora
ACL 2024
Question Translation Training for Better Multilingual Reasoning
ACL 2024
Cache & Distil: Optimising API Calls to Large Language Models
ACL 2024
Compact Speech Translation Models via Discrete Speech Units Pretraining
ACL 2024
Is Modularity Transferable? A Case Study through the Lens of Knowledge Distillation
COLING 2024
Code-Switched Language Identification is Harder Than You Think
EACL 2024
Contrastive Decoding Reduces Hallucinations in Large Multilingual Machine Translation Models
EACL 2024
Prosody in Cascade and Direct Speech-to-Text Translation: a case study on Korean Wh-Phrases
EACL 2024
Quality or Quantity? On Data Scale and Diversity in Adapting Large Language Models for Low-Resource Translation
EMNLP 2024
Cultural Adaptation of Menus: A Fine-Grained Approach
EMNLP 2024
An Open Dataset and Model for Language Identification
ACL 2023
Extrinsic Evaluation of Machine Translation Metrics
ACL 2023
Prompting Large Language Model for Machine Translation: A Case Study
ICML 2023
Multi3NLU++: A Multilingual, Multi-Intent, Multi-Domain Dataset for Natural Language Understanding in Task-Oriented Dialogue
ACL 2023
Exploring Enhanced Code-Switched Noising for Pretraining in Neural Machine Translation
EACL 2023
Code-Switching with Word Senses for Pretraining in Neural Machine Translation
EMNLP 2023
Towards Effective Disambiguation for Machine Translation with Large Language Models
EMNLP 2023
Horses to Zebras: Ontology-Guided Data Augmentation and Synthesis for ICD-9 Coding
ACL 2022
Distributionally Robust Recurrent Decoders with Random Network Distillation
ACL 2022
Exploring diversity in back translation for low-resource machine translation
NAACL 2022
Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation: It’s Not as Fast as it Seems
NAACL 2022
Quantifying Synthesis and Fusion and their Impact on Machine Translation
NAACL 2022
Few-shot learning through contextual data augmentation
EACL 2021
Exploring Unsupervised Pretraining Objectives for Machine Translation
ACL 2021
CoPHE: A Count-Preserving Hierarchical Evaluation Metric in Large-Scale Multi-Label Text Classification
EMNLP 2021
Cross-lingual Intermediate Fine-tuning improves Dialogue State Tracking
EMNLP 2021
The University of Edinburgh’s English-German and English-Hausa Submissions to the WMT21 News Translation Task
EMNLP 2021
Exploring Unsupervised Pretraining Objectives for Machine Translation
IJCNLP 2021
The University of Edinburgh’s English-Tamil and English-Inuktitut Submissions to the WMT20 News Translation Task
EMNLP 2020
Bridging Linguistic Typology and Multilingual Machine Translation with Multi-View Language Representations
EMNLP 2020
A Latent Morphology Model for Open-Vocabulary Neural Machine Translation
ICLR 2020
Towards Making the Most of Context in Neural Machine Translation
IJCAI 2020
Findings of the Fourth Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation
ACL 2020
Language Model Prior for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation
EMNLP 2020
The University of Edinburgh’s Submissions to the WMT19 News Translation Task
ACL 2019
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation
EMNLP 2019
Findings of the Third Workshop on Neural Generation and Translation
EMNLP 2019
On the Importance of Word Boundaries in Character-level Neural Machine Translation
EMNLP 2019
Exploring gap filling as a cheaper alternative to reading comprehension questionnaires when evaluating machine translation for gisting
EMNLP 2018
Marian: Fast Neural Machine Translation in C++
ACL 2018
Evaluating Discourse Phenomena in Neural Machine Translation
NAACL 2018
Findings of the Second Workshop on Neural Machine Translation and Generation
ACL 2018
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Neural Machine Translation and Generation
ACL 2018
Samsung and University of Edinburgh’s System for the IWSLT 2018 Low Resource MT Task
EMNLP 2018
The SUMMA Platform Prototype
EACL 2017
Nematus: a Toolkit for Neural Machine Translation
EACL 2017
Improving Neural Machine Translation Models with Monolingual Data
ACL 2016
HUME: Human UCCA-Based Evaluation of Machine Translation
EMNLP 2016
Controlling Politeness in Neural Machine Translation via Side Constraints
NAACL 2016
Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units
ACL 2016
Generalizing a Strongly Lexicalized Parser using Unlabeled Data
EACL 2014
Soft Dependency Constraints for Reordering in Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation
EMNLP 2011
Reordering Metrics for MT
ACL 2011
Predicting Success in Machine Translation
EMNLP 2008
Moses: Open Source Toolkit for Statistical Machine Translation
ACL 2007