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 2019
  • Hamidreza Ghader and Christof Monz. An Intrinsic Nearest Neighbor Analysis of Neural Machine Translation Architectures. In Proceedings of the 17th Machine Translation Summit (MT-Summit 2019), pages 107-117, 2019. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Praveen Dakwale and Christof Monz. Improving Neural Machine Translation Using Noisy Parallel Data through Distillation. In Proceedings of the 17th Machine Translation Summit (MT-Summit 2019), pages 118-127, 2019. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Shaojie Jiang, Pengjie Ren, Christof Monz and Maarten de Rijke. Improving Neural Response Diversity with Frequency-Aware Cross-Entropy Loss. In Proceedings of The World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2019, pages 2879-2885, 2019. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Loïc Barrault, Ondřej Bojar, Marta R. Costa-jussà, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Philipp Koehn, Shervin Malmasi, Christof Monz, Mathias Müller, Santanu Pal, Matt Post and Marcos Zampieri. Findings of the 2019 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT19). In Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation, pages 1-61, 2019. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Ondřej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Philipp Koehn, André Martins, Christof Monz, Matteo Negri, Aurélie Névéol, Mariana Neves, Matt Post, Marco Turchi and Karin Verspoor (eds). Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation. [ Online Proceedings  ]

2018
  • Marzieh Fadaee and Christof Monz. Back-Translation Sampling by Targeting Difficult Words in Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2018), pages 436-446, 2018. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Ke Tran, Arianna Bisazza, and Christof Monz. The Importance of Being Recurrent for Modeling Hierarchical Structure. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2018), pages 4731-4736, 2018. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Marlies van der Wees, Arianna Bisazza, and Christof Monz. Evaluation of Machine Translation Performance Across Multiple Genres and Languages. In Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC-2018), pages 3822-3827, 2018. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Marzieh Fadaee, Arianna Bisazza, and Christof Monz. Examining the Tip of the Iceberg: A Data Set for Idiom Translation. In Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC-2018), pages 925-929, 2018. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Ondrej Bojar, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Philipp Koehn and Christof Monz. Findings of the 2018 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT18). In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation, pages 272-303, 2018. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Ondrej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, Matteo Negri, Aurelie Neveol, Mariana Neves, Matt Post, Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi and Karin Verspoor (eds). Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation. [ Online Proceedings  ]

2017
  • Marlies van der Wees, Arianna Bisazza, and Christof Monz. Dynamic Data Selection for Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of Emperical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2017), pages 1400-1410. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Praveen Dakwale and Christof Monz. Convolutional over Recurrent Encoder for Neural Machine Translation. In The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics 108(1), pages 37-48, 2017. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Marzieh Fadaee, Arianna Bisazza, and Christof Monz. Learning Topic-Sensitive Word Representations. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2017), pages 441-447. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Marzieh Fadaee, Arianna Bisazza, and Christof Monz. Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2017), pages 567-573. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Praveen Dakwale and Christof Monz. Fine-Tuning for Neural Machine Translation with Limited Degradation across In- and Out-of-Domain Data. In Proceedings of the 16th Machine Translation Summit (MT-Summit 2017), pages 156-169, 2017. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Hamidreza Ghader and Christof Monz. What does Attention in Neural Machine Translation Pay Attention to? In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017), pages 30-39, 2017. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Ondrej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Shujian Huang, Matthias Huck, Philipp Koehn, Qun Liu, Varvara Logacheva, Christof Monz, Matteo Negri, Matt Post, Raphael Rubino, Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi. Findings of the 2017 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT17). In Proceedings of the Second Conference on Machine Translation pages 169-214, 2017. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Ondrej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Shujian Huang, Matthias Huck, Philipp Koehn, Qun Liu, Varvara Logacheva, Christof Monz, Matteo Negri, Matt Post, Raphael Rubino, Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi (eds). Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT17). [ Online Proceedings  ]

2016
  • Marlies van der Wees, Arianna Bisazza, and Christof Monz. Measuring the Effect of Conversational Aspects on Machine Translation Quality. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2016), pages 2571-2581. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Ekaterina Garmash and Christof Monz. Ensemble Learning for Multi-Source Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2016), pages 1409-1418. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Hendrik Heuer, Christof Monz, and Arnold Smeulders. Generating Captions without Looking Beyond Objects. In Proceedings of the ECCV2016 2nd Workshop on Storytelling with Images and Videos (VisStory) , to appear. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Hamidreza Ghader and Christof Monz. Which Words Matter in Defining Phrase Reordering Behavior in Statistical Machine Translation? In Proceedings of the Meeting of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-2016), pages 149-162. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Marlies van der Wees, Arianna Bisazza, and Christof Monz. A Simple but Effective Approach to Improve Arabizi-to-English Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the COLING-2016 Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, to appear. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Ondrej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Philipp Koehn, Varvara Logacheva, Christof Monz, Matteo Negri, Aurelie Neveol, Mariana Neves, Martin Popel, Matt Post, Raphael Rubino, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi, Karin Verspoor, and Marcos Zampieri. Findings of the 2016 Conference on Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation pages 131-198, 2016. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Ondrej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Philipp Koehn, Varvara Logacheva, Christof Monz, Matteo Negri, Aurelie Neveol, Mariana Neves, Martin Popel, Matt Post, Raphael Rubino, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi, Karin Verspoor, and Marcos Zampieri (eds). Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Machine Translation. Association for Computational Linguistics. 2016. [ Online Proceedings  ]

  • Praveen Dakwale and Christof Monz. Improving Statistical Machine Translation Performance by Oracle-BLEU Model Re-estimation. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2016), pages 38-44, 2016. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Ke Tran, Arianna Bisazza, and Christof Monz. Recurrent Memory Networks for Language Modeling. In Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-2016), pages 321-331, 2016. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Jerome R. Bellegarda and Christof Monz. The State of the Art in Statistical Methods for Language and Speech Processing. Computer Speech and Language Vol. 35, pages 163-184, 2016. [ PDF | Bib ]

2015
  • Ekaterina Garmash and Christof Monz. Bilingual Structured Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of Emperical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2015), pages 2398-2408, 2015. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Marlies van der Wees, Arianna Bisazza, Wouter Weerkamp, and Christof Monz. What's in a Domain? Analyzing Genre and Topic Differences in Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 53rd Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2015), pages 560-566, 2015. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Ke M. Tran, Arianna Bisazza and Christof Monz. A Distributed Inflection Model for Translating into Morphologically Rich Languages. In Proceedings of the 15th Machine Translation Summit (MT-Summit 2015), pages 145-159, 2015. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Marlies van der Wees, Arianna Bisazza, and Christof Monz. Translation Model Adaptation Using Genre-Revealing Text Features. In Proceedings of the EMNLP 2015 Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation (DiscoMT), pages 132-141, 2015. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Marlies van der Wees, Arianna Bisazza, and Christof Monz. Five Shades of Noise: Analyzing Machine Translation Errors in User-Generated Text. In Proceedings of the ACL 2015 Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text, pages 28-37, 2015. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Ondrej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Chris Hokamp, Philipp Koehn, Varvara Logacheva, Christof Monz, Matteo Negri, Matt Post, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia, and Marco Turchi. Findings of the 2015 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT-2015), pages 1-46, 2015. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Ondrej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Barry Haddow, Mat thias Huck, Chris Hokamp, Philipp Koehn, Varvara Logacheva, Christof Monz, Matteo Negri, Matt Post, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia, and Marco Turchi (eds). Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. Association for Computational Linguistics. 2015. [ Online Proceedings  ]

2014
  • Ekaterina Garmash and Christof Monz. Dependency-Based Bilingual Language Models for Reordering in Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of Emperical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2014), pages 1689-1700, 2014. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Ke Tran, Arianna Bisazza, and Christof Monz. Word Translation Prediction for Morphologically Rich Languages with Bilingual Neural Networks . In Proceedings of Emperical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2014), pages 1676-1688, 2014. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Arianna Bisazza and Christof Monz. Class-Based Language Modeling for Translating into Morphologically Rich Languages. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2014), pages 1918-1927, 2014. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Ondrej Bojar, Christian Buck, Christian Federmann, Barry Haddow, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, Matt Post, and Lucia Specia (eds). Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. Association for Computational Linguistics. 2014. [ Online Proceedings  | Bib ]

  • Ondrej Bojar, Christian Buck, Christian Federmann, Barry Haddow, Philipp Koehn, Johannes Leveling, Christof Monz, Pavel Pecina, Matt Post, Herve Saint-Amand, Radu Soricut, Lucia Specia, and Ales Tamchyna. Findings of the 2014 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, pages 12-58, 2014. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Spyros Martzoukos, Christophe Costa Florencio, and Christof Monz. Maximizing Component Quality in Bilingual Word-Aligned Segmentations. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2014), pages 30-38, 2014. [ PDF | Bib ]

2013
  • Ondrej Bojar, Christian Buck, Chris Callison-Burch, Christian Federmann, Barry Haddow, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, Matt Post, Radu Soricut, and Lucia Specia. Findings of the 2013 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, pages 1-44, 2013. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Ondrej Bojar, Christian Buck, Chris Callison-Burch, Christian Federmann, Barry Haddow, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, Matt Post, Radu Soricut, and Lucia Specia (eds). Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. Association for Computational Linguistics. 2013. [ Online Proceedings | Bib ]

  • Spyros Martzoukos, Christophe Costa Florencio, and Christof Monz. Investigating Connectivity and Consistency Criteria for Phrase Pair Extraction in Statistical Machine Translation . In Proceedings of the 13th Meeting on the Mathematics of Language, pages 93-101, 2013. [ PDF | Bib ]

2012
  • Amit Bronner and Christof Monz. User Edits Classification Using Document Revision Histories . In Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2012), pages 356-366, 2012. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Spyros Martzoukos and Christof Monz. Power-Law Distributions for Paraphrases Extracted from Bilingual Corpora. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2012), pages 2-11, 2012. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Vassilina Nikoulina, Bogomil Kovachev, Nikolaos Lagos and Christof Monz. Adaptation of Statistical Machine Translation Model for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval in a Service Context. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2012), pages 109-119, 2012. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Amit Bronner, Matteo Negri, Yashar Mehdad, Angela Fahrni, and Christof Monz. CoSyne: Synchronizing Multilingual Wiki Content . In Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. (WikiSym 2012), pages 1-4, 2012. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, Matt Post, Radu Soricut and Lucia Specia. Findings of the 2012 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, pages 10-51, 2012. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, Matt Post, Radu Soricut and Lucia Specia (eds). Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. Association for Computational Linguistics. 2012. [ Online Proceedings | Bib ]

2011
  • Christof Monz. Statistical Machine Translation with Local Language Models. In Proceedings of Emperical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2011), pages 869-879, 2011. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Simon Carter and Christof Monz. Syntactic Discriminative Language Model Rerankers for Statistical Machine Translation. In Machine Translation Journal, 25(4), pages 317-339, 2011. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Christof Monz, Vivi Nastase, Matteo Negri, Angela Fahrni, Yashar Mehdad, and Michael Strube. CoSyne: A Framework for Multilingual Content Synchronization of Wikis. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration, pages 217-218, 2011. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, and Omar Zaidan. Findings of the 2011 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2011), pages 22-64, 2001. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, and Omar Zaidan (eds). Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. Association for Computational Linguistics. 2011. [ Online Proceedings | Bib ]

  • Christof Monz. Machine Learning for Query Formulation in Question Answering. In Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 17(4), pages 425-454, 2011. [ PDF | Bib ]
2010
  • Sirvan Yahyaei and Christof Monz. Dynamic Distortion in a Discriminative Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2010), pages 353-360, 2010. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Sirvan Yahyaei and Christof Monz. The QMUL System Description for IWSLT 2010. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2010), pages 157-162, 2010. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Spyros Martzoukos and Christof Monz. The UvA System Description for IWSLT 2010. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2010), pages 205-208, 2010. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Simon Carter and Christof Monz. Discriminative Syntactic Reranking for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 9th Biennial Meeting of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-10), pages 3-12, 2010. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, Kay Peterson, Mark Przybocki and Omar Zaidan. Findings of the 2010 Joint Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and Metrics for Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Fifth ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, pages 17-53, 2010. [ PDF | Bib ]

    Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, Kay Peterson, Mark Przybocki, and Omar Zaidan. Proceedings of the 5th ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT-10). [ Online Proceedings | Bib ]
2009
  • Sirvan Yahyaei and Christof Monz. Decoding by Dynamic Chunking for Statistical Machine Translation. In MT Summit XII: Proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit. 2009, Canada; pages 160-167. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Christof Monz and Wouter Weerkamp. Comparison of Retrieval-Based Hierarchical Clustering Approaches to Person Name Disambiguation. In Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. 2009, pages 650-651. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Simon Carter and Christof Monz. Parsing Statistical Machine Translation Output. In Proceedings of the 4th Language and Technology Conference (LTC 2009).

  • Itamar Kastner and Christof Monz. Automatic Single-Document Key Fact Extraction from Newswire Articles. In Proceedings of the Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-09), pages 415-423, 2009. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Nizar Habash, Bonnie Dorr, and Christof Monz. Symbolic-to-Statistical Hybridization: Extending Generation-Heavy Machine Translation. Machine Translation Journal, 23(1), pages 23-63, 2009. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Krisztian Balog, Jiyin He, Katja Hofmann, Valentin Jijkoun, Christof Monz, Manos Tsagkias, Wouter Weerkamp and Maarten de Rijke. The University of Amsterdam at WePS2. In Proceedings of the 2nd Web People Search Evaluation Workshop (WePS 2009), 18th WWW Conference, 2009. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, and Josh Schroeder. Findings of the 2009 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, pages 1-28, 2009. [ PDF | Bib ]

  • Chris Callison-Burch, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, and Josh Schroeder. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT-09). [ Online Proceedings | Bib ]