Pierre Isabelle


2018

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Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Emily M. Bender | Leon Derczynski | Pierre Isabelle
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

2017

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A Challenge Set Approach to Evaluating Machine Translation
Pierre Isabelle | Colin Cherry | George Foster
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Neural machine translation represents an exciting leap forward in translation quality. But what longstanding weaknesses does it resolve, and which remain? We address these questions with a challenge set approach to translation evaluation and error analysis. A challenge set consists of a small set of sentences, each hand-designed to probe a system’s capacity to bridge a particular structural divergence between languages. To exemplify this approach, we present an English-French challenge set, and use it to analyze phrase-based and neural systems. The resulting analysis provides not only a more fine-grained picture of the strengths of neural systems, but also insight into which linguistic phenomena remain out of reach.

2015

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Expanding Paraphrase Lexicons by Exploiting Lexical Variants
Atsushi Fujita | Pierre Isabelle
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

2012

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Enlarging Paraphrase Collections through Generalization and Instantiation
Atsushi Fujita | Pierre Isabelle | Roland Kuhn
Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

2011

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Searching Parallel Corpora for Contextually Equivalent Terms
Caroline Barrière | Pierre Isabelle
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation

2010

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La montée en puissance des recherches en traduction automatique statistique
Pierre Isabelle
Actes de la 17e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Conférences invitées

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Translating Structured Documents
George Foster | Pierre Isabelle | Roland Kuhn
Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Research Papers

Machine Translation traditionally treats documents as sets of independent sentences. In many genres, however, documents are highly structured, and their structure contains information that can be used to improve translation quality. We present a preliminary approach to document translation that uses structural features to modify the behaviour of a language model, at sentence-level granularity. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to incorporate structural information into statistical MT. In experiments on structured English/French documents from the Hansard corpus, we demonstrate small but statistically significant improvements.

2009

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Improving SMT by learning translation direction
Cyril Goutte | David Kurokawa | Pierre Isabelle
Proceedings of the 13th Annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation

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MT: the Current Research Landscape
Roland Kuhn | Pierre Isabelle | National Research Council | Canada
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XII: Plenaries

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Automatic Detection of Translated Text and its Impact on Machine Translation
David Kurokawa | Cyril Goutte | Pierre Isabelle
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XII: Papers

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Phrase-based Machine Translation in a Computer-assisted Translation Environment
Michel Simard | Pierre Isabelle
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XII: Papers

2007

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Domain adaptation of MT systems through automatic post-editing
Pierre Isabelle | Cyril Goutte | Michel Simard
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XI: Papers

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Rule-Based Translation with Statistical Phrase-Based Post-Editing
Michel Simard | Nicola Ueffing | Pierre Isabelle | Roland Kuhn
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation

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Statistical Phrase-Based Post-Editing
Michel Simard | Cyril Goutte | Pierre Isabelle
Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Proceedings of the Main Conference

2006

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Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Nicoletta Calzolari | Claire Cardie | Pierre Isabelle
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

2003

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Multilingual document processing at XRCE
Pierre Isabelle
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit IX: Plenaries

2002

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Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Pierre Isabelle | Eugene Charniak | Dekang Lin
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1998

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Using a Probabilistic Translation Model for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Jian-Yun Nie | Pierre Isabelle | George Foster
Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora

1996

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Panel: Next steps in MT research
Lynn Carlson | Jaime Carbonell | David Farwell | Pierre Isabelle | Jackie Murgida | John O’Hara | Dekai Wu
Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

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Word Completion- A First Step Toward Target-Text Mediated IMT
George Foster | Pierre Isabelle | Pierre Plamondon
COLING 1996 Volume 1: The 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1994

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Future Directions
Joseph Pentheroudakis | Jaime Carbonell | Lutz Graunitz | Pierre Isabelle | Chris Montgomery | Alex Waibel
Proceedings of the First Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

1993

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Machine-Aided Human Translation and the Paradigm Shift
Pierre Isabelle
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit IV

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Translation Analysis and Translation Automation
Pierre Isabelle | Marc Dymetman | George Foster | Jean-Marc Jutras | Elliott
Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages

1992

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Using cognates to align sentences in bilingual corpora
Michel Simard | George F. Foster | Pierre Isabelle
Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages

1990

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A Symmetrical Approach to Parsing and Generation
Marc Dymetman | Pierre Isabelle | Francois Perrault
COLING 1990 Volume 3: Papers presented to the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1989

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Towards reversible MT systems
Pierre Isabelle
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit II

1988

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Reversible logic grammars for machine translation
Marc Dymetman | Pierre Isabelle
Proceedings of the Second Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages

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CRITTER: a translation system for agricultural market reports
Pierre Isabelle | Marc Dymetman | Elliott Macklovitch
Coling Budapest 1988 Volume 1: International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1986

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Transfer and MT Modularity
Pierre Isabelle | Elliott Macklovitch
Coling 1986 Volume 1: The 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1985

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Taum-Aviation: Its Technical Features and Some Experimental Results
Pierre Isabelle | Laurent Bourbeau
Computational Linguistics Formerly the American Journal of Computational Linguistics, Volume 11, Number 1, January-March 1985

1984

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Another Look at Nominal Compounds
Pierre Isabelle
10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics