no code implementations • 10 Nov 2019 • Joris Baan, Maartje ter Hoeve, Marlies van der Wees, Anne Schuth, Maarten de Rijke
Finally, we find that relative positions heads seem integral to summarization performance and persistently remain after pruning.
no code implementations • 1 Jul 2019 • Joris Baan, Maartje ter Hoeve, Marlies van der Wees, Anne Schuth, Maarten de Rijke
We investigate whether distributions calculated by different attention heads in a transformer architecture can be used to improve transparency in the task of abstractive summarization.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2017 • Marlies van der Wees, Arianna Bisazza, Christof Monz
Intelligent selection of training data has proven a successful technique to simultaneously increase training efficiency and translation performance for phrase-based machine translation (PBMT).
no code implementations • WS 2016 • Marlies van der Wees, Arianna Bisazza, Christof Monz
A major challenge for statistical machine translation (SMT) of Arabic-to-English user-generated text is the prevalence of text written in Arabizi, or Romanized Arabic.
no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Marlies van der Wees, Arianna Bisazza, Christof Monz
Finally, we find that male speakers are harder to translate and use more vulgar language than female speakers, and that vulgarity is often not preserved during translation.