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# Kevin Knight — all works

70 works · [← Kevin Knight](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-knight/)

1. [**Abstract Meaning Representation for Sembanking**Laura Banarescu, Claire Bonial, Shu Cai, et al.*Machine translation · 1,917 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/banarescu-2013-abstract-meaning-representation-sembanking/)
2. **[Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D16-1163/) Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Barret Zoph et al.*2016 · 1,185 citations*
3. [**A Syntax-based Statistical Translation Model**Kenji Yamada, Kevin Knight*Machine translation · 1,021 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yamada-2001-syntax-based-statistical-translation-model/)
4. [**What's in a translation rule?**Michel Galley, Mark Hopkins, Kevin Knight, et al.*Machine translation · 734 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/galley-2004-what-s-translation-rule/)
5. **[Cross-lingual Name Tagging and Linking for 282 Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pan-2017-cross-lingual-name-tagging-linking/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Xiaoman Pan, Boliang Zhang, Jonathan May, et al.*2017 · 670 citations*
6. [**Scalable Inference and Training of Context-Rich Syntactic Translation Models**Michel Galley, Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight, et al.*Machine translation · 638 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/galley-2006-scalable-inference-training-context-rich/)
7. **[Smatch: an Evaluation Metric for Semantic Feature Structures ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P13-2131/) Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yet**Shu Cai, Kevin Knight*2013 · 557 citations*
8. **[Generation that Exploits Corpus-Based Statistical Knowledge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/langkilde-1998-generation-that-exploits-corpus-based/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Irene Langkilde, Kevin Knight*1998 · 524 citations*
9. **[Empirical Methods for Compound Splitting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/koehn-2003-empirical-methods-compound-splitting/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Philipp Koehn, Kevin Knight*2003 · 508 citations*
10. **[Does String-Based Neural MT Learn Source Syntax?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2016-does-string-based-neural-mt/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Xing Shi, Inkit Padhi, Kevin Knight*2016 · 504 citations*
11. **[Plan-And-Write: Towards Better Automatic Storytelling ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.05701) arXiv:1811.05701 · no summary yet**Lili Yao et al.*2018 · 494 citations*
12. **[Multi-Source Neural Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zoph-2016-multi-source-neural-translation/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Barret Zoph, Kevin Knight*2016 · 435 citations*
13. **[Decoding complexity in word-replacement translation models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/knight-1999-decoding-complexity-word-replacement-translation/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Kevin Knight*1999 · 340 citations*
14. **[Learning a Translation Lexicon from Monolingual Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/koehn-2002-learning-translation-lexicon-monolingual-corpora/) [ACL-02 Workshop on Unsupervised Lexical Acquisition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl-02-workshop-on-unsupervised-lexical-acquisition/)**Philipp Koehn, Kevin Knight*2002 · 335 citations*
15. **[Fast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/germann-2001-fast-decoding-optimal-decoding-machine/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Ulrich Germann, Michael Jahr, Kevin Knight, et al.*2001 · 312 citations*
16. [**Syntax-based Alignment of Multiple Translations: Extracting Paraphrases and Generating New Sentences**Bo Pang, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu*Machine translation · 289 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pang-2003-syntax-based-alignment-multiple-translations/)
17. **[Translating Named Entities Using Monolingual and Bilingual Resources](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/onaizan-2002-translating-named-entities-monolingual-bilingual/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yaser Al-Onaizan, Kevin Knight*2002 · 288 citations*
18. [**Statistical Syntax-Directed Translation with Extended Domain of Locality**Liang Huang, Kevin Knight, Aravind Joshi*Machine translation · 275 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huang-2006-statistical-syntax-directed-translation-extended/)
19. **[Machine Transliteration](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/knight-1998-machine-transliteration/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Kevin Knight, Jonathan Graehl*1998 · 237 citations*
20. **[Hafez: an Interactive Poetry Generation System](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghazvininejad-2017-hafez-interactive-poetry-generation-system/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Marjan Ghazvininejad, Xing Shi, Jay Priyadarshi, et al.*2017 · 197 citations*
21. [**Translating Names and Technical Terms in Arabic Text Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages**Bonnie Glover, Kevin Knight*1998 · 195 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/glover-1998-translating-names-technical-terms-arabic/)
22. **[Synchronous Binarization for Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2006-synchronous-binarization-machine-translation/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Hao Zhang, Liang Huang, Daniel Gildea, et al.*2006 · 192 citations*
23. **[Generating Topical Poetry ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D16-1126/) Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Marjan Ghazvininejad et al.*2016 · 191 citations*
24. **[A Decoder for Syntax-based Statistical MT ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P02-1039/) Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Kenji Yamada, Kevin Knight*2002 · 189 citations*
25. [**Semantics-Based Machine Translation with Hyperedge Replacement Grammars**Bevan Jones, Jacob Andreas, Daniel Bauer, et al.*Machine translation · 180 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jones-2012-semantics-based-machine-translation-hyperedge/)
26. **[Deciphering Foreign Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ravi-2011-deciphering-foreign-language/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Sujith Ravi, Kevin Knight*2011 · 166 citations*
27. **[An Overview of Probabilistic Tree Transducers for Natural Language Processing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30586-6_1) CICLing 2005 · no summary yet**Kevin Knight, Jonathan Graehl*2005 · 166 citations*
28. **[Machine Transliteration of Names in Arabic Texts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/onaizan-2002-machine-transliteration-names-arabic-texts/) [ACL-02 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl-02-workshop-on-computational-approaches-to-semitic-languages/)**Yaser Al-Onaizan, Kevin Knight*2002 · 164 citations*
29. **[Unsupervised Entity Linking with Abstract Meaning Representation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N15-1119/) Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yet**Xiaoman Pan et al.*2015 · 149 citations*
30. **[Syntax-based language models for statistical machine translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2003.mtsummit-papers.6/) Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit IX: Papers · no summary yet**Eugene Charniak, Kevin Knight, Kenji Yamada*2003 · 147 citations*
31. **[Modeling Naive Psychology of Characters in Simple Commonsense Stories ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P18-1213/) Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Hannah Rashkin et al.*2018 · 144 citations*
32. [**Aligning English Strings with Abstract Meaning Representation Graphs**Nima Pourdamghani, Yang Gao, Ulf Hermjakob, et al.*Machine translation · 143 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pourdamghani-2014-aligning-english-strings-abstract-meaning/)
33. **[Proceedings of the 7th Linguistic Annotation Workshop and Interoperability with Discourse ↗](https://openalex.org/W2738658885) The Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Laura Banarescu et al.*2013 · 143 citations*
34. **[What Can Syntax-Based MT Learn from Phrase-Based MT? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1079/) Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL) · no summary yet**Steve DeNeefe et al.*2007 · 130 citations*
35. **[Aligning context-based statistical models of language with brain activity during reading ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D14-1030/) Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · no summary yet**Leila Wehbe et al.*2014 · 122 citations*
36. **[Binarizing Syntax Trees to Improve Syntax-Based Machine Translation Accuracy ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1078/) Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL) · no summary yet**Wei Wang, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu*2007 · 122 citations*
37. **[Biomedical Event Extraction using Abstract Meaning Representation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W17-2315/) Proceedings of the 16th BioNLP Workshop · no summary yet**Sudha Rao et al.*2017 · 113 citations*
38. [**Generating English from Abstract Meaning Representations**Nima Pourdamghani, Kevin Knight, Ulf Hermjakob*Machine translation · 111 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pourdamghani-2016-generating-english-abstract-meaning-representations/)
39. **[Parsing English into Abstract Meaning Representation Using Syntax-Based Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pust-2015-parsing-english-into-abstract-meaning/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Michael Pust, Ulf Hermjakob, Kevin Knight, et al.*2015 · 110 citations*
40. **[The Power of Extended Top-Down Tree Transducers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1137/070699160) SIAM Journal on Computing 39(2):410–430 · no summary yet**Andreas Maletti et al.*2009 · 105 citations*
41. **[SPMT: Statistical Machine Translation with Syntactified Target Language Phrases](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marcu-2006-spmt-statistical-machine-translation-syntactified/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Daniel Marcu, Wei Wang, Abdessamad Echihabi, et al.*2006 · 96 citations*
42. **[Why Neural Translations are the Right Length ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D16-1248/) Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Xing Shi, Kevin Knight, Deniz Yuret*2016 · 92 citations*
43. **[A Statistical Model for Lost Language Decipherment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P10-1107/) Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Benjamin Snyder, Regina Barzilay, Kevin Knight*2010 · 92 citations*
44. **[Grapheme-to-Phoneme Models for (Almost) Any Language ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P16-1038/) Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Aliya Deri, Kevin Knight*2016 · 88 citations*
45. **[AMR Beyond the Sentence: the Multi-sentence AMR corpus ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C18-1313/) Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Tim O'Gorman et al.*2018 · 86 citations*
46. **[Binarization of Synchronous Context-Free Grammars](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huang-2009-binarization-synchronous-context-free-grammars/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Liang Huang, Hao Zhang, Daniel Gildea, et al.*2009 · 84 citations*
47. **[Synchronous Tree Adjoining Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D09-1076/) Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Steve DeNeefe, Kevin Knight*2009 · 83 citations*
48. **[Unsupervised Neural Hidden Markov Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W16-5907/) Proceedings of the Workshop on Structured Prediction for NLP · no summary yet**Ke M. Tran et al.*2016 · 81 citations*
49. **[PaperRobot: Incremental Draft Generation of Scientific Ideas ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P19-1191/) Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Qingyun Wang et al.*2019 · 75 citations*
50. **[A Syntax-Directed Translator with Extended Domain of Locality ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W06-3601/) Proceedings of the Workshop on Computationally Hard Problems and Joint Inference in Speech and Language Processing · no summary yet**Liang Huang, Kevin Knight, Aravind Joshi*2006 · 75 citations*
51. **[Using Syntax to Improve Word Alignment Precision for Syntax-Based Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W08-0306/) Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation · no summary yet**Victoria Fossum, Kevin Knight, Steven Abney*2008 · 72 citations*
52. **[Re-structuring, Re-labeling, and Re-aligning for Syntax-Based Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/J10-2004/) Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Wei Wang et al.*2010 · 57 citations*
53. [**Training Tree Transducers**Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight*Machine translation · 53 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/graehl-2004-training-tree-transducers/)
54. **[Integrating Translations from Multiple Sources within the PANGLOSS Mark III Machine Translation System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/1994.amta-1.10/) Proceedings of the First Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas · no summary yet**Robert Frederking et al.*1994 · 51 citations*
55. **[Syntactic Re-Alignment Models for Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D07-1038/) Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL) · no summary yet**Jonathan May, Kevin Knight*2007 · 50 citations*
56. **[Simple, Fast Noise-Contrastive Estimation for Large RNN Vocabularies ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1145/) Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yet**Barret Zoph et al.*2016 · 45 citations*
57. **[Name Tagging for Low-resource Incident Languages based on Expectation-driven Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N16-1029/) Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yet**Boliang Zhang et al.*2016 · 44 citations*
58. **[Relabeling Syntax Trees to Improve Syntax-Based Machine Translation Quality ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N06-1031/) Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Main Conference · no summary yet**Bryant Huang, Kevin Knight*2006 · 41 citations*
59. **[Efficient Inference through Cascades of Weighted Tree Transducers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P10-1108/) Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Jonathan May, Kevin Knight, Heiko Vogler*2010 · 30 citations*
60. **[Unifying Bayesian Inference and Vector Space Models for Improved Decipherment ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P15-1081/) Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Qing Dou et al.*2015 · 28 citations*
61. **[Unsupervised Syntactic Alignment with Inversion Transduction Grammars ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N10-1014/) Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Adam Pauls et al.*2010 · 28 citations*
62. **[Beyond Parallel Data: Joint Word Alignment and Decipherment Improves Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D14-1061/) Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · no summary yet**Qing Dou, Ashish Vaswani, Kevin Knight*2014 · 27 citations*
63. **[Abstract Meaning Representation of Constructions: The More We Include, the Better the Representation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L18-1266/) Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018) · no summary yet**Claire Bonial et al.*2018 · 26 citations*
64. [**Capturing Language-Specific Semantic Distinctions in Interlingua-based MT**James Barnett, Inderjeet Mani, Elaine Rich, et al.*Machine translation · 21 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barnett-1991-capturing-language-specific-semantic-distinctions/)
65. **[Multi-lingual Common Semantic Space Construction via Cluster-consistent Word Embedding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D18-1023/) Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Lifu Huang et al.*2018 · 20 citations*
66. **[Using Syntax-Based Machine Translation to Parse English into Abstract Meaning Representation ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.06665) arXiv:1504.06665 · no summary yet**Michael Pust et al.*2015 · 17 citations*
67. **[Fast, Greedy Model Minimization for Unsupervised Tagging ↗](https://aclanthology.org/C10-1106/) Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2010) · no summary yet**Sujith Ravi et al.*2010 · 15 citations*
68. **[Mapping Between English Strings and Reentrant Semantic Graphs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/braune-2014-mapping-between-english-strings-reentrant/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Fabienne Braune, Daniel Bauer, Kevin Knight*2014 · 14 citations*
69. **[How Much Information Does a Human Translator Add to the Original? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D15-1105/) Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Barret Zoph, Marjan Ghazvininejad, Kevin Knight*2015 · 9 citations*
70. **[Extracting Structured Scholarly Information from the Machine Translation Literature ↗](https://aclanthology.org/L16-1067/) Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16) · no summary yet**Eunsol Choi et al.*2016 · 4 citations*