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# George Foster — all works

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1. [**Experts, Errors, and Context: A Large-Scale Study of Human Evaluation for Machine Translation**Markus Freitag, George Foster, David Grangier, et al.*Machine translation · 661 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/freitag-2021-experts-errors-context-large-scale/)
2. [**Massively Multilingual Neural Machine Translation in the Wild: Findings and Challenges arXiv:1907.05019**Naveen Arivazhagan, Ankur Bapna, Orhan Firat, et al.*2019 · 564 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/arivazhagan-2019-massively-multilingual-neural-machine-translation/)
3. **[The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Recent Advances in Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2018-best-both-worlds-combining-recent/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Mia Xu Chen, Orhan Firat, Ankur Bapna, et al.*2018 · 559 citations*
4. **[Batch Tuning Strategies for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cherry-2012-batch-tuning-strategies-statistical-machine/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Colin Cherry, George Foster*2012 · 549 citations*
5. **[Mixture-Model Adaptation for SMT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/foster-2007-mixture-model-adaptation-smt/) [Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/)**George Foster, Roland Kuhn*2007 · 398 citations*
6. **[Using cognates to align sentences in bilingual corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/simard-1992-cognates-align-sentences-bilingual-corpora/) [Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tmi/)**Michel Simard, George F. Foster, Pierre Isabelle*1992 · 397 citations*
7. **[Discriminative Instance Weighting for Domain Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/foster-2010-discriminative-instance-weighting-domain-adaptation/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**George Foster, Cyril Goutte, Roland Kuhn*2010 · 307 citations*
8. **[Improving Translation Quality by Discarding Most of the Phrasetable](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/johnson-2007-improving-translation-quality-discarding-most/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Howard Johnson, Joel Martin, George Foster, et al.*2007 · 300 citations*
9. [**A Challenge Set Approach to Evaluating Machine Translation**Pierre Isabelle, Colin Cherry, George Foster*Machine translation · 271 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/isabelle-2017-challenge-set-approach-evaluating-machine/)
10. [**Results of WMT22 Metrics Shared Task: Stop Using BLEU – Neural Metrics Are Better and More Robust**Markus Freitag, Ricardo Rei, Nitika Mathur, et al.*Machine translation · 265 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/freitag-2022-results-wmt22-metrics-shared-task/)
11. **[Prompting PaLM for Translation: Assessing Strategies and Performance ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.859/) Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**David Vilar et al.*2023 · 244 citations*
12. **[Phrasetable Smoothing for Statistical Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/foster-2006-phrasetable-smoothing-statistical-machine-translation/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**George Foster, Roland Kuhn, Howard Johnson*2006 · 174 citations*
13. **[Results of the WMT21 Metrics Shared Task: Evaluating Metrics with Expert-based Human Evaluations on TED and News Domain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/freitag-2021-results-wmt21-metrics-shared-task/) [Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/)**Markus Freitag, Ricardo Rei, Nitika Mathur, et al.*2021 · 169 citations*
14. **[Revisiting Character-Based Neural Machine Translation with Capacity and Compression](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cherry-2018-revisiting-character-based-neural-machine/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Colin Cherry, George Foster, Ankur Bapna, et al.*2018 · 156 citations*
15. **[Cost Weighting for Neural Machine Translation Domain Adaptation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-3205/) Proceedings of the First Workshop on Neural Machine Translation · no summary yet**Boxing Chen et al.*2017 · 107 citations*
16. **[Reinforcement Learning based Curriculum Optimization for Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N19-1208/) Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers) · no summary yet**Gaurav Kumar et al.*2019 · 93 citations*
17. **[Ties Matter: Meta-Evaluating Modern Metrics with Pairwise Accuracy and Tie Calibration](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deutsch-2023-ties-matter-meta-evaluating-modern/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Daniel Deutsch, George Foster, Markus Freitag*2023 · 76 citations*
18. **[Thinking Slow about Latency Evaluation for Simultaneous Machine Translation ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.00048) arXiv:1906.00048 · no summary yet**Colin Cherry, George Foster*2019 · 54 citations*
19. **[The Impact of Sentence Alignment Errors on Phrase-Based Machine Translation Performance ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-papers.7/) Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Research Papers · no summary yet**Cyril Goutte, Marine Carpuat, George Foster*2012 · 52 citations*
20. **[Improving AMBER, an MT Evaluation Metric ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W12-3104/) Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation · no summary yet**Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn, George Foster*2012 · 34 citations*
21. **[To Diverge or Not to Diverge: A Morphosyntactic Perspective on Machine Translation vs Human Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/luo-2024-diverge-or-not-diverge-morphosyntactic/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Jiaming Luo, Colin Cherry, George Foster*2024 · 24 citations*
22. **[Human-Paraphrased References Improve Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.140/) Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation · no summary yet**Markus Freitag et al.*2020 · 24 citations*
23. **[Phrase Clustering for Smoothing TM Probabilities - or, How to Extract Paraphrases from Phrase Tables ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C10-1069/) Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2010) · no summary yet**Roland Kuhn et al.*2010 · 23 citations*
24. **[Evaluation of TRANSTYPE, a Computer-aided Translation Typing System: A Comparison of a Theoretical- and a User-oriented Evaluation Procedures ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L00-1025/) Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'00) · no summary yet**Philippe Langlais et al.*2000 · 21 citations*
25. **[Toward More Effective Human Evaluation for Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.humeval-1.7/) Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems (HumEval) · no summary yet**Belén Saldías Fuentes et al.*2022 · 18 citations*
26. **[Integration of an Arabic Transliteration Module into a Statistical Machine Translation System](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kashani-2007-integration-arabic-transliteration-module-into/) [Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/)**Mehdi M. Kashani, Eric Joanis, Roland Kuhn, et al.*2007 · 17 citations*
27. **[Assessing Reference-Free Peer Evaluation for Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.91/) Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yet**Sweta Agrawal et al.*2021 · 11 citations*
28. **[Système de traduction automatique statistique combinant différentes ressources ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2006.jeptalnrecital-poster.23/) Actes de la 13ème conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Posters · no summary yet**Fatiha Sadat, George Foster, Roland Kuhn*2006 · 6 citations*
29. **[Automatic Detection of Translation Errors: The State of the Art ↗](https://aclanthology.org/H05-2001/) Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP 2005 Interactive Demonstrations · no summary yet**Graham Russell, George Foster, Ngoc Tran Nguyen*2005 · 1 citation*