Papers by Frédéric Blain
MLQE-PE: A Multilingual Quality Estimation and Post-Editing Dataset (2022.lrec-1)
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Marina Fomicheva, Shuo Sun, Erick Fonseca, Chrysoula Zerva, Frédéric Blain, Vishrav Chaudhary, Francisco Guzmán, Nina Lopatina, Lucia Specia, André F. T. Martins
| Challenge: | Existing datasets for machine translation quality estimation and post-editing have several shortcomings. |
| Approach: | They propose a dataset for machine translation quality estimation and automatic post-editing . they report the performance of baseline systems trained on the MLQE-PE dataset . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset contains human labels for up to 10,000 translations per language pair. |
deepQuest: A Framework for Neural-based Quality Estimation (C18-1)
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| Challenge: | Predicting Machine Translation (MT) quality has been limited to word and sentence-level prediction. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that can generalize neural QE approaches to the level of documents. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art approaches on document-level quality estimates and is 40 times faster to train. |
An Exploratory Study on Multilingual Quality Estimation (2020.aacl-main)
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Shuo Sun, Marina Fomicheva, Frédéric Blain, Vishrav Chaudhary, Ahmed El-Kishky, Adithya Renduchintala, Francisco Guzmán, Lucia Specia
| Challenge: | Existing approaches to predict the quality of machine translation use language-specific models, but they lack labelled data for each language pair. |
| Approach: | They propose to use scores from translation models to estimate quality of machine translations by predicting the quality of a translation at test time. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models outperform single-language models in less balanced quality label distributions and low-resource settings. |
Authorship Attribution of Late 19th Century Novels using GAN-BERT (2023.acl-srw)
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| Challenge: | Conventional techniques and neural networks are the two main authorship attribution methods. |
| Approach: | They used a dataset of late 19th century novels in English to fine-tune a transformer-based authorship attribution model using transfer learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the existing model with 0.88 accuracy and F1 scores. |
Unsupervised Quality Estimation for Neural Machine Translation (2020.tacl-1)
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Marina Fomicheva, Shuo Sun, Lisa Yankovskaya, Frédéric Blain, Francisco Guzmán, Mark Fishel, Nikolaos Aletras, Vishrav Chaudhary, Lucia Specia
| Challenge: | Existing approaches require large amounts of expert annotated data, computation, and time for training. |
| Approach: | They propose an unsupervised approach to QE where no training is required . they use a dataset that enables work on both black-box and glass-box approaches . |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach rivals state-of-the-art supervised QE models in terms of correlation with human judgments of quality. |
Knowledge Distillation for Quality Estimation (2021.findings-acl)
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Amit Gajbhiye, Marina Fomicheva, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Frédéric Blain, Abiola Obamuyide, Nikolaos Aletras, Lucia Specia
| Challenge: | Recent success in Quality Estimation stems from the use of multilingual pre-trained models, where large models lead to impressive results. |
| Approach: | They propose to transfer knowledge from a strong QE teacher model to a much smaller model with a different, shallower architecture. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model performs better than distilled models with 8x fewer parameters. |
Multimodal Quality Estimation for Machine Translation (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing work has only explored textual context. |
| Approach: | They propose to use visual and text modalities to explore Quality Estimation for Machine Translation and integrate them into multimodal QE frameworks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approaches improve on sentence-level and document-level predictions using visual features extracted from images. |
Backtranslation Feedback Improves User Confidence in MT, Not Quality (2021.naacl-main)
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Vilém Zouhar, Michal Novák, Matúš Žilinec, Ondřej Bojar, Mateo Obregón, Robin L. Hill, Frédéric Blain, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia, Lisa Yankovskaya
| Challenge: | Inbound translation is a modern need for which the user experience has significant room for improvement, beyond the basic machine translation facility. |
| Approach: | They propose to provide cues that indicate the quality of MT output as well as suggest possible rephrasing of the source language. |
| Outcome: | The proposed feedback module increases user confidence in the produced translation, but not the objective quality. |
deepQuest-py: Large and Distilled Models for Quality Estimation (2021.emnlp-demo)
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Fernando Alva-Manchego, Abiola Obamuyide, Amit Gajbhiye, Frédéric Blain, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia
| Challenge: | Quality Estimation (QE) is a tool for machine translation that predicts how good translations are without comparing them to gold-standard references. |
| Approach: | They introduce a framework for training and evaluation of large and light-weight models for Quality Estimation (QE) they use pre-trained Transformers to train large and efficient QE models. |
| Outcome: | The framework provides access to state-of-the-art models based on pre-trained Transformers for sentence-level and word-level QE and a web interface for testing and visualising their predictions. |