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# WMT 2020 — accepted papers

WMT 2020 is the 2020 edition of the Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), held in Online, November 2020 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 141 papers of it; our library holds 10 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Online · 🗓 November 2020

[**141** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**10** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/2020/#works) · [**1,288** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/2020/#works)

## Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Findings of the 2020 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT20)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barrault-2020-findings-2020-conference-machine-translation/)**Loïc Barrault, Magdalena Biesialska, Ondřej Bojar et al.*178 citations · our summary*
2. **[Results of the WMT20 Metrics Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mathur-2020-results-wmt20-metrics-shared-task/)**Nitika Mathur, Johnny Wei, Markus Freitag et al.*67 citations · our summary*
3. **[Findings of the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Quality Estimation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/specia-2020-findings-wmt-2020-shared-task-2020-wmt-1-79/)**Lucia Specia, Frédéric Blain, Marina Fomicheva et al.*60 citations · our summary*
4. **[Findings of the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering and Alignment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/koehn-2020-findings-wmt-2020-shared-task/)**Philipp Koehn, Vishrav Chaudhary, Ahmed El-Kishky et al.*43 citations · our summary*
5. **[Findings of the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Automatic Post-Editing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.75/)**Rajen Chatterjee, Markus Freitag, Matteo Negri et al.*38 citations*
6. **[Facebook AI's WMT20 News Translation Task Submission ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.8/)**Peng-Jen Chen, Ann Lee, Changhan Wang et al.*37 citations*
7. **[The Tatoeba Translation Challenge – Realistic Data Sets for Low Resource and Multilingual MT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tiedemann-2020-tatoeba-translation-challenge-realistic-data/)**Jörg Tiedemann*37 citations · our summary*
8. **[Mitigating Gender Bias in Machine Translation with Target Gender Annotations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.73/)**Artūrs Stafanovičs, Toms Bergmanis, Mārcis Pinnis*35 citations*
9. **[When Does Unsupervised Machine Translation Work? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.68/)**Kelly Marchisio, Kevin Duh, Philipp Koehn*34 citations*
10. **[Unbabel's Participation in the WMT20 Metrics Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rei-2020-unbabel-s-participation-wmt20-metrics/)**Ricardo Rei, Craig Stewart, Ana C Farinha et al.*31 citations · our summary*

## All accepted papers (141)

The most cited first; 10 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. **[Findings of the 2020 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT20)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barrault-2020-findings-2020-conference-machine-translation/)**Loïc Barrault, Magdalena Biesialska, Ondřej Bojar et al.*178 citations · our summary*
2. **[Results of the WMT20 Metrics Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mathur-2020-results-wmt20-metrics-shared-task/)**Nitika Mathur, Johnny Wei, Markus Freitag et al.*67 citations · our summary*
3. **[Findings of the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Quality Estimation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/specia-2020-findings-wmt-2020-shared-task-2020-wmt-1-79/)**Lucia Specia, Frédéric Blain, Marina Fomicheva et al.*60 citations · our summary*
4. **[Findings of the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering and Alignment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/koehn-2020-findings-wmt-2020-shared-task/)**Philipp Koehn, Vishrav Chaudhary, Ahmed El-Kishky et al.*43 citations · our summary*
5. **[Findings of the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Automatic Post-Editing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.75/)**Rajen Chatterjee, Markus Freitag, Matteo Negri et al.*38 citations*
6. **[Facebook AI's WMT20 News Translation Task Submission ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.8/)**Peng-Jen Chen, Ann Lee, Changhan Wang et al.*37 citations*
7. **[The Tatoeba Translation Challenge – Realistic Data Sets for Low Resource and Multilingual MT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tiedemann-2020-tatoeba-translation-challenge-realistic-data/)**Jörg Tiedemann*37 citations · our summary*
8. **[Mitigating Gender Bias in Machine Translation with Target Gender Annotations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.73/)**Artūrs Stafanovičs, Toms Bergmanis, Mārcis Pinnis*35 citations*
9. **[When Does Unsupervised Machine Translation Work? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.68/)**Kelly Marchisio, Kevin Duh, Philipp Koehn*34 citations*
10. **[Unbabel's Participation in the WMT20 Metrics Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rei-2020-unbabel-s-participation-wmt20-metrics/)**Ricardo Rei, Craig Stewart, Ana C Farinha et al.*31 citations · our summary*
11. **[Learning to Evaluate Translation Beyond English: BLEURT Submissions to the WMT Metrics 2020 Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sellam-2020-learning-evaluate-translation-beyond-english/)**Thibault Sellam, Amy Pu, Hyung Won Chung et al.*26 citations · our summary*
12. **[Two-Phase Cross-Lingual Language Model Fine-Tuning for Machine Translation Quality Estimation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.118/)**Dongjun Lee*24 citations*
13. **[HW-TSC's Participation in the WMT 2020 News Translation Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.31/)**Daimeng Wei, Hengchao Shang, Zhanglin Wu et al.*22 citations*
14. **[Tencent Neural Machine Translation Systems for the WMT20 News Translation Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.34/)**Shuangzhi Wu, Xing Wang, Longyue Wang et al.*20 citations*
15. **[Tencent AI Lab Machine Translation Systems for WMT20 Chat Translation Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.60/)**Longyue Wang, Zhaopeng Tu, Xing Wang et al.*18 citations*
16. **[IST-Unbabel Participation in the WMT20 Quality Estimation Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.119/)**João Moura, Miguel Vera, Daan van Stigt et al.*17 citations*
17. **[HW-TSC's Participation at WMT 2020 Quality Estimation Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.123/)**Minghan Wang, Hao Yang, Hengchao Shang et al.*16 citations*
18. **[Findings of the WMT 2020 Shared Tasks in Unsupervised MT and Very Low Resource Supervised MT ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.80/)**Alexander Fraser*15 citations*
19. **[BERGAMOT-LATTE Submissions for the WMT20 Quality Estimation Shared Task ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.116/)**Marina Fomicheva, Shuo Sun, Lisa Yankovskaya et al.*14 citations*
20. **[Findings of the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Machine Translation Robustness ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.4/)**Lucia Specia, Zhenhao Li, Juan Pino et al.*14 citations*
21. **[Gender Coreference and Bias Evaluation at WMT 2020 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.39/)**Tom Kocmi, Tomasz Limisiewicz, Gabriel Stanovsky*14 citations*
22. **[Findings of the WMT 2020 Biomedical Translation Shared Task: Basque, Italian and Russian as New Additional Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.76/)**Rachel Bawden, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Cristian Grozea et al.*13 citations*
23. **[OPPO's Machine Translation Systems for WMT20 ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.30/)**Tingxun Shi, Shiyu Zhao, Xiaopu Li et al.*13 citations*
24. **[Towards Multimodal Simultaneous Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.70/)**Aizhan Imankulova, Masahiro Kaneko, Tosho Hirasawa et al.*12 citations*
25. **[Human-Paraphrased References Improve Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.140/)**Markus Freitag, George Foster, David Grangier et al.*11 citations*

[See all 141 papers in WMT 2020 — accepted papers →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/2020/papers/)

## Papers with our summary in our library (10)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. **[Findings of the 2020 Conference on Machine Translation (WMT20)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/barrault-2020-findings-2020-conference-machine-translation/) [Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/)**Loïc Barrault, Magdalena Biesialska, Ondřej Bojar, et al.*2020 · 401 citations*
2. **[Results of the WMT20 Metrics Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mathur-2020-results-wmt20-metrics-shared-task/) [Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/)**Nitika Mathur, Johnny Wei, Markus Freitag, et al.*2020 · 195 citations*
3. **[The Tatoeba Translation Challenge – Realistic Data Sets for Low Resource and Multilingual MT](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tiedemann-2020-tatoeba-translation-challenge-realistic-data/) [Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/)**Jörg Tiedemann*2020 · 183 citations*
4. **[Findings of the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Quality Estimation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/specia-2020-findings-wmt-2020-shared-task-2020-wmt-1-79/) [Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/)**Lucia Specia, Frédéric Blain, Marina Fomicheva, et al.*2020 · 160 citations*
5. **[Findings of the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering and Alignment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/koehn-2020-findings-wmt-2020-shared-task/) [Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/)**Philipp Koehn, Vishrav Chaudhary, Ahmed El-Kishky, et al.*2020 · 100 citations*
6. **[Unbabel's Participation in the WMT20 Metrics Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rei-2020-unbabel-s-participation-wmt20-metrics/) [Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/)**Ricardo Rei, Craig Stewart, Ana C Farinha, et al.*2020 · 98 citations*
7. **[Learning to Evaluate Translation Beyond English: BLEURT Submissions to the WMT Metrics 2020 Shared Task](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sellam-2020-learning-evaluate-translation-beyond-english/) [Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/)**Thibault Sellam, Amy Pu, Hyung Won Chung, et al.*2020 · 55 citations*
8. **[Paraphrase Generation as Zero-Shot Multilingual Translation: Disentangling Semantic Similarity from Lexical and Syntactic Diversity](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thompson-2020-paraphrase-generation-as-zero-shot/) [Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/)**Brian Thompson, Matt Post*2020 · 55 citations*
9. **[Findings of the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Chat Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/farajian-2020-findings-wmt-2020-shared-task/) [Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/wmt/)**M. Amin Farajian, António V. Lopes, André F. T. Martins, et al.*2020 · 29 citations*
10. [**Incorporate Semantic Structures into Machine Translation Evaluation via UCCA**Jin Xu, Yinuo Guo, Junfeng Hu*2020 · 12 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2020-incorporate-semantic-structures-into-machine/)

## Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Machine translation (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (7)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Text generation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Low-resource languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [English (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/)

## Fields

[Arts and Humanities (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (10)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/)

## Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

[🧑‍🔬**Ondřej Bojar**2 works here · 596 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ondrej-bojar/) · [🧑‍🔬**Philipp Koehn**2 works here · 501 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/philipp-koehn/) · [🧑‍🔬**Francisco Guzman**2 works here · 260 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francisco-guzman/) · [🧑‍🔬**Vishrav Chaudhary**2 works here · 260 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vishrav-chaudhary/) · [🧑‍🔬**Markus Freitag**2 works here · 250 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/markus-freitag/) · [🧑‍🔬**André F. T. Martins**2 works here · 189 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andre-f-t-martins/) · [🧑‍🔬**Barry Haddow**1 work here · 401 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barry-haddow/) · [🧑‍🔬**Christian Federmann**1 work here · 401 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christian-federmann/) · [🧑‍🔬**Loïc Barrault**1 work here · 401 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/loic-barrault/) · [🧑‍🔬**Magdalena Biesialska**1 work here · 401 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/magdalena-biesialska/) · [🧑‍🔬**Marta R. Costa-jussa**1 work here · 401 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marta-r-costa-jussa/) · [🧑‍🔬**Matthias Huck**1 work here · 401 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthias-huck/)

## Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

[🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 3 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**University of Wolverhampton** Wolverhampton · United Kingdom 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wolverhampton/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Charles University** Prague · Czechia 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/charles-university/) · [🔬**Instituto de Telecomunicações** Lisbon · Portugal 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/instituto-de-telecomunicacoes/) · [🎓**University of Sheffield** Sheffield · United Kingdom 2 works here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sheffield/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**University of Helsinki** Helsinki · Finland 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-helsinki/) · [🎓**Rochester Institute of Technology** Rochester · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rochester-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**The University of Melbourne** Melbourne · Australia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-melbourne/) · [🏛️**National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine** Washington · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/national-academies-of-sciences-engineering-and-medicine/) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/)

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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