William J. Byrne
Orcid: 0000-0003-1896-4492Affiliations:
- University of Cambridge, UK
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William J. Byrne
authored at least 198 papers
between 1985 and 2024.
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2024
The Fine-Tuning Paradox: Boosting Translation Quality Without Sacrificing LLM Abilities.
CoRR, 2024
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024
Direct Preference Optimization for Neural Machine Translation with Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding.
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Short Papers, 2024
Control-DAG: Constrained Decoding for Non-Autoregressive Directed Acyclic T5 using Weighted Finite State Automata.
Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Short Papers, 2024
Retrieving Contextual Information for Long-Form Question Answering using Weak Supervision.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 2024
The Fine-Tuning Paradox: Boosting Translation Quality Without Sacrificing LLM Abilities.
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2024
2023
Improving hateful memes detection via learning hatefulness-aware embedding space through retrieval-guided contrastive learning.
CoRR, 2023
Promptor: A Conversational and Autonomous Prompt Generation Agent for Intelligent Text Entry Techniques.
CoRR, 2023
Schema-Guided Semantic Accuracy: Faithfulness in Task-Oriented Dialogue Response Generation.
CoRR, 2023
Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 2023
Fine-grained Late-interaction Multi-modal Retrieval for Retrieval Augmented Visual Question Answering.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023
Uniform Training and Marginal Decoding for Multi-Reference Question-Answer Generation.
Proceedings of the ECAI 2023 - 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, September 30 - October 4, 2023, Kraków, Poland, 2023
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023, 2023
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023, 2023
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023, 2023
Proceedings of the The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Industry Track, 2023
LI-RAGE: Late Interaction Retrieval Augmented Generation with Explicit Signals for Open-Domain Table Question Answering.
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), 2023
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2023
2022
Low-Resource Dense Retrieval for Open-Domain Question Answering: A Comprehensive Survey.
CoRR, 2022
Proceedings of the Fourth Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems Workshop co-located with 16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2022), 2022
Proceedings of the Fourth Knowledge-aware and Conversational Recommender Systems Workshop co-located with 16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2022), 2022
The Devil is in the Details: On the Pitfalls of Vocabulary Selection in Neural Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2022
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, 2022
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, 2022
uFACT: Unfaithful Alien-Corpora Training for Semantically Consistent Data-to-Text Generation.
Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022, 2022
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI, 2022
2021
The practical ethics of bias reduction in machine translation: why domain adaptation is better than data debiasing.
Ethics Inf. Technol., 2021
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021
Improving the Quality Trade-Off for Neural Machine Translation Multi-Domain Adaptation.
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2021
TicketTalk: Toward human-level performance with end-to-end, transaction-based dialog systems.
Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2021
2020
Neural Machine Translation Doesn't Translate Gender Coreference Right Unless You Make It.
CoRR, 2020
Addressing Exposure Bias With Document Minimum Risk Training: Cambridge at the WMT20 Biomedical Translation Task.
Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation, 2020
Inference-only sub-character decomposition improves translation of unseen logographic characters.
Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Asian Translation, 2020
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020
2019
Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation, 2019
Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation, 2019
Coached Conversational Preference Elicitation: A Case Study in Understanding Movie Preferences.
Proceedings of the 20th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 2019
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2019
Semi-Supervised Bootstrapping of Dialogue State Trackers for Task-Oriented Modelling.
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2019
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2019
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2019
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2019
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 2019
Proceedings of the 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019
2018
Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers, 2018
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2018
Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2018
Proceedings of the Workshop: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, 2018
Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 2018
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018
2017
Comput. Speech Lang., 2017
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, 2017
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2017
SGNMT - A Flexible NMT Decoding Platform for Quick Prototyping of New Models and Search Strategies.
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2017
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2017
Neural Machine Translation by Minimising the Bayes-risk with Respect to Syntactic Translation Lattices.
Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017
2016
The Edit Distance Transducer in Action: The University of Cambridge English-German System at WMT16.
Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation, 2016
Speed-Constrained Tuning for Statistical Machine Translation Using Bayesian Optimization.
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2016, 2016
Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016
2015
Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2015
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2015, The 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Denver, Colorado, USA, May 31, 2015
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2015, The 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Denver, Colorado, USA, May 31, 2015
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics, 2015
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2015
2014
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2014
Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering, 2014
Source-side Preordering for Translation using Logistic Regression and Depth-first Branch-and-Bound Search.
Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014
Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014
Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014
Proceedings of the COLING 2014, 2014
2013
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2013
N-gram posterior probability confidence measures for statistical machine translation: an empirical study.
Mach. Transl., 2013
Personalising speech-to-speech translation: Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2013
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 2013
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XIV: European projects, 2013
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013
Learning, Learning Analytics, Activity Visualisation and Open Learner Model: Confusing?
Proceedings of the Scaling up Learning for Sustained Impact, 2013
Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 16th International Conference, 2013
2012
Speech Commun., 2012
Prague Bull. Math. Linguistics, 2012
Proceedings of the Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2012
Lattice-Based Minimum Error Rate Training Using Weighted Finite-State Transducers with Tropical Polynomial Weights.
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Finite State Methods and Natural Language Processing, 2012
Proceedings of the BCS-HCI '12 Proceedings of the 26th Annual BCS Interaction Specialist Group Conference on People and Computers, 2012
2011
Unsupervised Intralingual and Cross-Lingual Speaker Adaptation for HMM-Based Speech Synthesis Using Two-Pass Decision Tree Construction.
IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2011
Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011
Proceedings of the Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2011, 2011
An analysis of machine translation and speech synthesis in speech-to-speech translation system.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2011
Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2011
2010
Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation with Weighted Finite-State Transducers and Shallow-<i>n</i> Grammars.
Comput. Linguistics, 2010
Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR, 2010
Speaker adaptation and the evaluation of speaker similarity in the EMIME speech-to-speech translation project.
Proceedings of the Seventh ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2010
Proceedings of the 2010 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 2010
Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2010
Unsupervised cross-lingual speaker adaptation for HMM-based speech synthesis using two-pass decision tree construction.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2010
Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation Grammars Extracted from Alignment Posterior Probabilities.
Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2010
Fluency Constraints for Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding of Statistical Machine Translation Lattices.
Proceedings of the COLING 2010, 2010
Proceedings of the ACL 2010, 2010
Efficient Path Counting Transducers for Minimum Bayes-Risk Decoding of Statistical Machine Translation Lattices.
Proceedings of the ACL 2010, 2010
2009
Proces. del Leng. Natural, 2009
Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings, May 31, 2009
Minimum Bayes Risk Combination of Translation Hypotheses from Alternative Morphological Decompositions.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings, May 31, 2009
Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings, May 31, 2009
Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2009
Proceedings of the EACL 2009, 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, Athens, Greece, March 30, 2009
Proceedings of the Multilingual Information Access Evaluation I. Text Retrieval Experiments, 2009
2008
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2008
European Language Translation with Weighted Finite State Transducers: The CUED MT System for the 2008 ACL Workshop on SMT.
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 2008
The academic computers for TERPS (ACT) program at the University of Maryland College Park.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM SIGUCCS Conference on User Services 2008, 2008
Proceedings of the Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing, 2008
Proceedings of the COLING 2008, 2008
2007
Nat. Lang. Eng., 2007
Ginisupport vector machines for segmental minimum Bayes risk decoding of continuous speech.
Comput. Speech Lang., 2007
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2007
Discriminative language model adaptation for Mandarin broadcast speech transcription and translation.
Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2007
2006
Corrections to "Segmental minimum Bayes-risk decoding for automatic speech recognition".
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2006
Lattice segmentation and minimum Bayes risk discriminative training for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition.
Speech Commun., 2006
A weighted finite state transducer translation template model for statistical machine translation.
Nat. Lang. Eng., 2006
Minimum Bayes Risk Estimation and Decoding in Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition.
IEICE Trans. Inf. Syst., 2006
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2006
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 2006
2005
Discriminative linear transforms for feature normalization and speaker adaptation in HMM estimation.
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2005
J. Mach. Learn. Res., 2005
Proceedings of the HLT/EMNLP 2005, 2005
Automatic transcription of Czech, Russian, and Slovak spontaneous speech in the MALACH project.
Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 2005
Lattice Segmentation and Support Vector Machines for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition.
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2005
Acoustic Training from Heterogeneous Data Sources: Experiments in Mandarin Conversational Telephone Speech Transcription.
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2005
Proceedings of the People and Computers XIX, 2005
2004
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2004
Automatic recognition of spontaneous speech for access to multilingual oral history archives.
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2004
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2004
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2004
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2004
Pinched lattice minimum Bayes risk discriminative training for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition.
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2004
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2004
2003
Proceedings of the Text, Speech and Dialogue, 6th International Conference, 2003
Building LVCSR System for Transcription of Spontaneously Pronounced Russian Testimonies in the MALACH Project: Initial Steps and First Results.
Proceedings of the Text, Speech and Dialogue, 6th International Conference, 2003
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2003
A Weighted Finite State Transducer Implementation of the Alignment Template Model for Statistical Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2003
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2003
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003
Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 2003, 2003
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2003
2002
Automatic Transcription of Czech Language Oral History in the MALACH Project: Resources and Initial Experiments.
Proceedings of the Text, Speech and Dialogue, 5th International Conference, 2002
Proceedings of the Text, Speech and Dialogue, 5th International Conference, 2002
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 2002
Reducing pronunciation lexicon confusion and using more data without phonetic transcription for pronunciation modeling.
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP2002, 2002
Structurally discriminative graphical models for automatic speech recognition - results from the 2001 Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2002
Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2002
2001
Comput. Speech Lang., 2001
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, 2001
Modeling pronunciation variation using context-dependent weighting and b/s refined acoustic modeling.
Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001
On large vocabulary continuous speech recognition of highly inflectional language - czech.
Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001
Discriminative speaker adaptation with conditional maximum likelihood linear regression.
Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001
Proceedings of the EUROSPEECH 2001 Scandinavia, 2001
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2001
2000
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 2000
Proceedings of the Text, Speech and Dialogue - Third International Workshop, 2000
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, 2000
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2000
Robust estimation for rapid speaker adaptation using discounted likelihood techniques.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2000
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2000
1999
Speech Commun., 1999
Proceedings of the Text, Speech and Dialogue - Second International Workshop, 1999
Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999
Task dependent loss functions in speech recognition: a* search over recognition lattices.
Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999
Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999
Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1999
Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1999
1998
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Incorporating The 7th Australian International Speech Science and Technology Conference, Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia, 30th November, 1998
Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1998
Pronunciation modelling using a hand-labelled corpus for conversational speech recognition.
Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1998
1994
IEEE Trans. Speech Audio Process., 1994
1993
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 1993
1992
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, 1992
1989
Proceedings of the Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Cape Cod, 1989
1988
Survivability of financial networks - a Canadian model.
Proceedings of the Computer Communication Technologies for the 90's, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computer Communication, Tel Aviv, Israel, October 30, 1988
1986
Financial Services Networking-Electronic Payments - A Canadian Perspective.
Proceedings of the New Communication Services: A Challenge to Computer Technology, 1986
1985