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Rik van Noord

5 accepted papers

2025

Multi-perspective Alignment for Increasing Naturalness in Neural Machine Translation

ACL 2025long

Neural machine translation (NMT) systems amplify lexical biases present in their training data, leading to artificially impoverished language in output translations. These language-level characteristics render automatic translations different from text originally written in a language and human tran…

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2025

Quality Beyond A Glance: Revealing Large Quality Differences Between Web-Crawled Parallel Corpora

COLING 2025main

Parallel corpora play a vital role in advanced multilingual natural language processing tasks, notably in machine translation (MT). The recent emergence of numerous large parallel corpora, often extracted from multilingual documents on the Internet, has expanded the available resources. Nevertheless…

2024

Do Language Models Care about Text Quality? Evaluating Web-Crawled Corpora across 11 Languages

COLING 2024main

Large, curated, web-crawled corpora play a vital role in training language models (LMs). They form the lion’s share of the training data in virtually all recent LMs, such as the well-known GPT, LLaMA and XLM-RoBERTa models. However, despite this importance, relatively little attention has been given…

2022

Transparent Semantic Parsing with Universal Dependencies Using Graph Transformations

COLING 2022main

Even though many recent semantic parsers are based on deep learning methods, we should not forget that rule-based alternatives might offer advantages over neural approaches with respect to transparency, portability, and explainability. Taking advantage of existing off-the-shelf Universal Dependency…

2021

Input Representations for Parsing Discourse Representation Structures: Comparing English with Chinese

ACL 2021short

Neural semantic parsers have obtained acceptable results in the context of parsing DRSs (Discourse Representation Structures). In particular models with character sequences as input showed remarkable performance for English. But how does this approach perform on languages with a different writing sy…