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deepQuest-py: Large and Distilled Models for Quality Estimation
We introduce deepQuest-py, a framework for training and evaluation of large and light-weight models for Quality Estimation (QE). …
Fernando Alva-Manchego, Abiola Obamuyide, Amit Gajbhiye, Frédéric Blain, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia
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Validating Quality Estimation in a Computer-Aided Translation Workflow: Speed, Cost and Quality Trade-off
In modern computer-aided translation workflows, Machine Translation (MT) systems are used to produce a draft that is then checked and …
Fernando Alva-Manchego, Lucia Specia, Sara Szoc, Tom Vanallemeersch, Heidi Depraetere
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IAPUCP at SemEval-2021 Task 1: Stacking Fine-Tuned Transformers is Almost All You Need for Lexical Complexity Prediction
This paper describes our submission to SemEval-2021 Task 1: predicting the complexity score for single words. Our model leverages …
Kervy Rivas Rojas, Fernando Alva-Manchego
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Knowledge Distillation for Quality Estimation
Quality Estimation (QE) is the task of automatically predicting Machine Translation quality in the absence of reference translations, …
Amit Gajbhiye, Marina Fomicheva, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Frédéric Blain, Abiola Obamuyide, Nikolaos Aletras, Lucia Specia
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Controllable Text Simplification with Explicit Paraphrasing
Text Simplification improves the readability of sentences through several rewriting transformations, such as lexical paraphrasing, …
Mounica Maddela, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Wei Xu
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ASSET: A Dataset for Tuning and Evaluation of Sentence Simplification Models with Multiple Rewriting Transformations
In order to simplify a sentence, human editors perform multiple rewriting transformations: they split it into several shorter …
Fernando Alva-Manchego, Louis Martin, Antoine Bordes, Carolina Scarton, Benoı̂t Sagot, Lucia Specia
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EASSE: Easier Automatic Sentence Simplification Evaluation
We introduce EASSE, a Python package aiming to facilitate and standardise automatic evaluation and comparison of Sentence …
Fernando Alva-Manchego, Louis Martin, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia
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Cross-Sentence Transformations in Text Simplification
Current approaches to Text Simplification focus on simplifying sentences individually. However, certain simplification transformations …
Fernando Alva-Manchego, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia
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Strong Baselines for Complex Word Identification across Multiple Languages
Complex Word Identification (CWI) is the task of identifying which words or phrases in a sentence are difficult to understand by a …
Pierre Finnimore, Elisabeth Fritzsch, Daniel King, Alison Sneyd, Aneeq Ur Rehman, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Andreas Vlachos
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Learning How to Simplify From Explicit Labeling of Complex-Simplified Text Pairs
Current research in text simplification has been hampered by two central problems: (i) the small amount of high-quality parallel …
Fernando Alva-Manchego, Joachim Bingel, Gustavo Paetzold, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia
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