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Denis Peskov

3 accepted papers

2021

Adapting Entities across Languages and Cultures

EMNLP 2021finding

How would you explain Bill Gates to a German? He is associated with founding a company in the United States, so perhaps the German founder Carl Benz could stand in for Gates in those contexts. This type of translation is called adaptation in the translation community. Until now, this task has not be…

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2021

Is Automated Topic Model Evaluation Broken? The Incoherence of Coherence

NeurIPS 2021spotlight

Topic model evaluation, like evaluation of other unsupervised methods, can be contentious. However, the field has coalesced around automated estimates of topic coherence, which rely on the frequency of word co-occurrences in a reference corpus. Contemporary neural topic models surpass classical ones…

2020

ContraCAT: Contrastive Coreference Analytical Templates for Machine Translation

COLING 2020main

Recent high scores on pronoun translation using context-aware neural machine translation have suggested that current approaches work well. ContraPro is a notable example of a contrastive challenge set for English→German pronoun translation. The high scores achieved by transformer models may suggest…