Publications
2022
Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez. Cross-lingual neural fuzzy matching for exploiting target-language monolingual corpora in computer-aided translation. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, December 2022.
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Rik van Noord, Cristian García-Romero, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Leopoldo Pla Sempere, Antonio Toral. Building Domain-specific Corpora from the Web: the Case of European Digital Service Infrastructures. In Proceedings of the BUCC Workshop within LREC 2022, June 2022.
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Marta Bañón, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Mikel L. Forcada, Cristian García-Romero, Taja Kuzman, Nikola Ljubešić, Rik van Noord, Leopoldo Pla Sempere, Gema Ramírez-Sànchez, Peter Rupnik, Vít Suchomel, Antonio Toral, Tobias van der Werff, Jaume Zaragoza. MaCoCu: Massive collection and curation of monolingual and bilingual data: focus on under-resourced languages. In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (pp. 301-302), June 2022
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2021
Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Felipe Sánchez‐Martínez. Rethinking Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation: A Multi-Task Learning Approach. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp. 8502-8516), December 2021.
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Alexandra Birch, Barry Haddow, Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone, Jindrich Helcl, Jonas Waldendorf, Felipe Sánchez Martínez, Mikel Forcada, Víctor Sánchez Cartagena, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Wilker Aziz, Lina Murady, Sevi Sariisik, Peggy van der Kreeft, Kay Macquarrie. Surprise Language Challenge: Developing a Neural Machine Translation System between Pashto and English in Two Months. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XVIII: Research Track (pp. 92-102), August 2021.
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Antonio Ríos-Vila, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, David Rizo, Pedro J. Ponce de León, José M. Iñesta. Applying automatic translation for optical music recognition's encoding step. Applied Sciences, 11(9), 3890, April 2021
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2020
Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Jaume Zaragoza-Bernabeu, Felipe Sánchez‐Martínez. Bicleaner at WMT 2020: Universitat d'Alacant-Prompsit's submission to the parallel corpus filtering shared task. In Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation (pp. 952-958).
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Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Víctor M Sánchez-Cartagena, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Mikel L. Forcada, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Andrew Secker, Susie Coleman, Julie Wall. An English-Swahili parallel corpus and its use for neural machine translation in the news domain In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, p. 299-308, November 2020.
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Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Andreu Sentí. Presentation of the especial issue: «Spoken Corpus Linguistics in Romance: thoughts, design and results» edited by Miquel Esplà-Gomis i Andreu Sentí.. In Caplletra. Revista Internacional de Filologia, Issue 69, p. 117-23, September 2020.
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Marta Banón, Pinzhen Chen, Barry Haddow, Kenneth Heafield, Hieu Hoang, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Mikel L. Forcada, Amir Kamran, Faheem Kirefu, Philipp Koehn, Sergio Ortiz Rojas, Leopoldo Pla Sempere, Gema Ramírez-Sánchez, Elsa Sarrías, Marek Strelec, Brian Thompson, William Waites, Dion Wiggins, Jaume Zaragoza. ParaCrawl: Web-scale acquisition of parallel corpora In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 4555-4567, July 2020.
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2019
Carolina Scarton, Mikel L. Forcada, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Lucia Specia. Estimating post-editing effort: a study on human judgements, task-based and reference-based metrics of MT quality In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, September 2019.
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Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Mikel L. Forcada. Predicting insertion positions in word-level machine translation quality estimation In Applied Soft Computing, Vol. 76, p. 174-192, March 2019.
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2018
Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Mikel L. Forcada. UAlacant machine translation quality estimation at WMT 2018: a simple approach using phrase tables and feed-forward neural networks In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation, p. 814–821, Brusseles, Belgium, October 31 - November 1, 2018.
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2017
Mikel L. Forcada, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Lucia Specia. One-parameter models for sentence-level post-editing effort estimation In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XVI, vol. 1: Research Track, p. 132-143, Nagoya, Japan, September 18-22, 2017.
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Mikel L. Forcada, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Lucia Specia. Towards Optimizing MT for Post-Editing Effort: Can BLEU Still Be Useful? In Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, 108, 183-195, 2017.
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Antonio Toral, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Filip Klubička, Nikola Ljubešić, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Prokopis Prokopidis, Raphaël Rubino, Andy Way. Crawl and crowd to bring machine translation to under-resourced languages. In Language Resources and Evaluation, Volume 51, Issue 4, pp. 1019–1051, December 2017.
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Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Rafael C. Carrasco, Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Mikel L. Forcada, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Juan Antonio Pírez-Ortiz. Assisting non-expert speakers of under-resourced languages in assigning stems and inflectional paradigms to new word entries of morphological dictionaries. In Language Resources and Evaluation, Volume 51, Issue 4, pp. 989–1017, December 2017.
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2016
Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Mikel L. Forcada. UAlacant word-level and phrase-level machine translation quality estimation systems at WMT 2016. In First Conference in Machine Translation (WMT 2016), pp. 782–786, Berlin, Germany, 11-12 August 2016.
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Miquel Esplà-Gomis. New directions in empirical translation process research exploring the CRITT TPR-DB, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-319-20357-7, v + 315 pp. In Machine Translation, Volume 30, Issue 1–2, pp 111–115, June 2016.
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Mikel L Forcada, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz. Stand-off Annotation of Web Content as a Legally Safer Alternative to Crawling for Distribution. In Baltic Journal of Modern Computing, Vol. 4 (2016), Num. 2, pp. 152–164.
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Nikola Ljubešić, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Antonio Toral, Sergio Ortiz Rojas, Filip Klubička. Producing Monolingual and Parallel Web Corpora at the Same Time - SpiderLing and Bitextor's Love Affair. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, p. 2949-2956, Portorož, Slovenia, 23-28 May 2016.
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Miquel Esplà-Gomis. Using sources of bilingual information for word-level quality estimation in translation technologies. Universitat d'Alacant, Alacant, 25 de gener, 2016.
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2015
Raphaël Rubino, Tommi Pirinen, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Nikola Ljubešić, Sergio Ortiz Rojas, Vassilis Papavassiliou, Prokopis Prokopidis, Antonio Toral. Abu-MaTran at WMT 2015 Translation Task: Morphological Segmentation and Web Crawling. In Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, p. 309–315, Lisbn, Portugal, September 17-18, 2015.
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Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Mikel L Forcada. UAlacant word-level machine translation quality estimation system at WMT 2015. In Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, p. 309–315, Lisbn, Portugal, September 17-18, 2015.
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Nikola Ljubešić, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Filip Klubička, and Nives Mikelić Preradović. Predicting Inflectional Paradigms and Lemmata of Unknown Words for Semi-automatic Expansion of Morphological Lexicons. In Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, p. 379-387, Hissar, Bulgaria, September 5-11, 2015.
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Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, and Mikel L. Forcada. Using Machine Translation to Provide Target-Language Edit Hints in Computer Aided Translation Based on Translation Memories. In Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, volume 53, p. 169–222. © 2015 AI Access Foundation, Inc.
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Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, and Mikel L. Forcada. Using on-line available sources of bilingual information for word-level machine translation quality estimation. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, p. 19–26, Antalya, Turkey, May 11-13, 2015.
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2014
Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Rafael C. Carrasco, Mikel L. Forcada, and Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz. An efficient method to assist non-expert users in extending dictionaries by assigning stems and inflectional paradigms to unknown words. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, p. 19–26, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 16-18, 2014.
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Antonio Toral, Raphael Rubino, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Tommi Pirinen, Andy Way, and Gema Ramírez-Sanchez. Extrinsic Evaluation of Web-Crawlers in Machine Translation: a Case Study on Croatian–English for the Tourism Domain. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, p. 221–224, Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 16-18, 2014.
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Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Filip Klubička, Nikola Ljubešić, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas, Vassilis Papavassiliou, and Prokopis Prokopidis. Comparing Two Acquisition Systems for Automatically Building an English-Croatian Parallel Corpus from Multilingual Websites. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, p. 1252–1258, Reykjavík, Iceland, May 26-31, 2014.
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2013
José G.C. de Souza, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Marco Turchi, and Matteo Negri. Exploiting Qualitative Information from Automatic Word Alignment for Cross-lingual NLP Tasks. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), p. 771–776, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 4-9, 2013.
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2012
Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Mikel L Forcada. A Simple Approach to Use Bilingual Information Sources for Word Alignment. In Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 49 (XXVIII Conference of the Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 5-7.9.0012, Castelló de la Plana), p. 93–100.
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Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz. Choosing the correct paradigm for unknown words in rule-based machine translation systems. In Proceedings of the III Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-Based Machine Translation, p. 27-37, Gothenburg, Sweeden, June 14-15, 2012.
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Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Mikel L Forcada. UAlacant: Using Online Machine Translation for Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment. In Proceedings of the *SEM 2012: The First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (SemEval task 8), p. 472–476, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 7-8, 2012.
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Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz. Source-Language Dictionaries Help Non-Expert Users to Enlarge Target-Language Dictionaries for Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the VIII International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, p. 3422-4429, Istanbul, Turky, May 23-25, 2012.
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2011
Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz. Multimodal Building of Monolingual Dictionaries for Machine Translation by Non-Expert Users. In Proceedings of the 13th Machine Translation Summit, p 147-154, Xiamen, China, September 19-23, 2011.
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Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Mikel L Forcada. Using machine translation in computer-aided translation to suggest the target-side words to change. In Proceedings of the 13th Machine Translation Summit, p 172-179, Xiamen, China, September 19-23, 2011.
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Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz. Enlarging Monolingual Dictionaries for Machine Translation with Active Learning and Non-Expert Users. In Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, p. 339-346, Hissar, Bulgaria, September 12-14, 2011.
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Miquel Esplà, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Mikel L Forcada. Using word alignments to assist computer-aided translation users by marking which target-side words to change or keep unedited. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the European Associtation for Machine Translation, p. 81-89, May 30-31, 2011, Leuven, Belgium.
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2010
Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Mikel L. Forcada. Combining Content-Based and URL-Based Heuristics to Harvest Aligned Bitexts from Multilingual Sites with Bitextor. In The Prague Bulletin of Mathemathical Lingustics, (Special Issue: Open Source Tools for Machine Translation (Fourth MT Marathon, Dublin 25-30.01.2010)) 93, p. 77-86.
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2009
Miquel Esplà. Bitextor, un cosechador automático de memorias de traducción a partir de sitios web multilingües. In Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, 43 (XXV Conference of the Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, September 8-10.9.2009, Donostia), p. 365–366.
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Miquel Esplà-Gomis. Bitextor, a free/open-source software to harvest translation memories from multilingual websites. In Proceedings of the MT Summit XII - Workshop: Beyond Translation Memories: New Tools for Translators MT, August 29, 2009, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; 8pp.
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