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Department of Computational Linguistics Text Technologies

Rico Sennrich

Rico Sennrich, Prof. Dr.

SNSF Professor
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+41 44 63 57131
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Publications

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2024

  • Zifan Jiang; Gerard Sant; Amit Moryossef; Mathias Müller; Rico Sennrich; Sarah Ebling (2024). SignCLIP: Connecting Text and Sign Language by Contrastive Learning In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Miami, Florida, USA, pp. 9171–9193. [bib]
  • Tannon Kew; Florian Schottmann; Rico Sennrich (2024). Turning English-centric LLMs Into Polyglots: How Much Multilinguality Is Needed? In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024. Miami, Florida, USA, pp. 13097–13124. [bib]
  • Guojun Wu; Shay B Cohen; Rico Sennrich (2024). Evaluating Automatic Metrics with Incremental Machine Translation Systems In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024. Miami, Florida, USA, pp. 2994–3005. [bib]
  • Nikita Moghe; Arnisa Fazla; Chantal Amrhein; Tom Kocmi; Mark Steedman; Alexandra Birch; Rico Sennrich; Liane Guillou (2024). Machine Translation Meta Evaluation through Translation Accuracy Challenge Sets Computational Linguistics. [bib]
  • Jannis Vamvas; Rico Sennrich (2024). Linear-time Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Reference Aggregation In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers). Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 790–801. [bib]
  • Alireza Mohammadshahi; Jannis Vamvas; Rico Sennrich (2024). Investigating Multi-Pivot Ensembling with Massively Multilingual Machine Translation Models In Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP. Mexico City, Mexico, pp. 169–180. [bib]
  • Zifan Jiang; Anne Göhring; Amit Moryossef; Rico Sennrich; Sarah Ebling (2024). SwissSLi: The Multi-parallel Sign Language Corpus for Switzerland In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). Torino, Italia, pp. 15448–15456. [bib]
  • Rico Sennrich; Jannis Vamvas; Alireza Mohammadshahi (2024). Mitigating Hallucinations and Off-target Machine Translation with Source-Contrastive and Language-Contrastive Decoding In Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers). St. Julian's, Malta, pp. 21–33. [bib]
  • Jannis Vamvas; Noëmi Aepli; Rico Sennrich (2024). Modular Adaptation of Multilingual Encoders to Written Swiss German Dialect In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Modular and Open Multilingual NLP (MOOMIN 2024). St Julians, Malta, pp. 16–23. [bib]

2023

  • Jannis Vamvas; Rico Sennrich (2023). Towards Unsupervised Recognition of Token-level Semantic Differences in Related Documents In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Singapore, pp. 13543–13552. [bib]
  • Noëmi Aepli; Chantal Amrhein; Florian Schottmann; Rico Sennrich (2023). A Benchmark for Evaluating Machine Translation Metrics on Dialects without Standard Orthography In Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Machine Translation. Singapore, pp. 1045–1065. [bib]
  • Jannis Vamvas; Tobias Domhan; Sony Trenous; Rico Sennrich; Eva Hasler (2023). Trained MT Metrics Learn to Cope with Machine-translated References In Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Machine Translation. Singapore, pp. 983–995. [bib]
  • Simone Tedeschi; Johan Bos; Thierry Declerck; Jan Hajič; Daniel Hershcovich; Eduard Hovy; Alexander Koller; Simon Krek; Steven Schockaert; Rico Sennrich; Ekaterina Shutova; Roberto Navigli (2023). What's the Meaning of Superhuman Performance in Today's NLU? In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Toronto, Canada, pp. 12471–12491. [bib]
    ★ outstanding paper award
  • Chantal Amrhein; Florian Schottmann; Rico Sennrich; Samuel Läubli (2023). Exploiting Biased Models to De-bias Text: A Gender-Fair Rewriting Model In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Toronto, Canada, pp. 4486–4506. [bib] [code]
  • Tannon Kew; Rico Sennrich (2023). Uncovering Hidden Consequences of Pre-training Objectives in Sequence-to-Sequence Models In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023. Toronto, Canada, pp. 7010–7022. [bib]
  • Jannis Vamvas; Johannes Graën; Rico Sennrich (2023). SwissBERT: The Multilingual Language Model for Switzerland In Proceedings of the 8th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText). Neuchǎtel, Switzerland [bib] [code]
  • Sukanta Sen; Rico Sennrich; Biao Zhang; Barry Haddow (2023). Self-training Reduces Flicker in Retranslation-based Simultaneous Translation In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp. 3734–3744. [bib]
  • Biao Zhang; Barry Haddow; Rico Sennrich (2023). Efficient CTC Regularization via Coarse Labels for End-to-End Speech Translation In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp. 2264–2276. [bib] [code]
  • Genta Indra Winata; Alham Fikri Aji; Samuel Cahyawijaya; Rahmad Mahendra; Fajri Koto; Ade Romadhony; Kemal Kurniawan; David Moeljadi; Radityo Eko Prasojo; Pascale Fung; Timothy Baldwin; Jey Han Lau; Rico Sennrich; Sebastian Ruder (2023). NusaX: Multilingual Parallel Sentiment Dataset for 10 Indonesian Local Languages In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp. 815–834. [bib] [data]
    ★ outstanding paper award
  • Biao Zhang; Mathias Müller; Rico Sennrich (2023). SLTUNET: A Simple Unified Model for Sign Language Translation In The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations. Kigali, Rwanda [bib] [code]
  • Farhad Nooralahzadeh; Rico Sennrich (2023). Improving the Cross-Lingual Generalisation in Visual Question Answering Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 37(11):13419-13427. [bib] [code]
  • Jason Armitage; Leonardo Impett; Rico Sennrich (2023). A Priority Map for Vision-and-Language Navigation With Trajectory Plans and Feature-Location Cues In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). pp. 1094-1103. [bib] [code]

2022

  • Jannis Vamvas; Rico Sennrich (2022). NMTScore: A Multilingual Analysis of Translation-based Text Similarity Measures In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, pp. 198–213. [bib] [code]
  • Chantal Amrhein; Rico Sennrich (2022). Identifying Weaknesses in Machine Translation Metrics Through Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding: A Case Study for COMET In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers). Online only, pp. 1125–1141. [bib] [data/code]
  • Biao Zhang; Barry Haddow; Rico Sennrich (2022). Revisiting End-to-End Speech-to-Text Translation From Scratch In Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning. pp. 26193–26205. [bib] [code]
  • Yuchen Jiang; Tianyu Liu; Shuming Ma; Dongdong Zhang; Jian Yang; Haoyang Huang; Rico Sennrich; Ryan Cotterell; Mrinmaya Sachan; Ming Zhou (2022). BlonDe: An Automatic Evaluation Metric for Document-level Machine Translation In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Seattle, United States, pp. 1550–1565. [bib] [code]
  • Jannis Vamvas; Rico Sennrich (2022). As Little as Possible, as Much as Necessary: Detecting Over- and Undertranslations with Contrastive Conditioning In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers). Dublin, Ireland, pp. 490–500. [bib] [code]
  • Noëmi Aepli; Rico Sennrich (2022). Improving Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Transfer Between Closely Related Languages by Injecting Character-Level Noise In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022. Dublin, Ireland, pp. 4074–4083. [bib]
  • Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone; Alexandra Birch; Rico Sennrich (2022). Distributionally Robust Recurrent Decoders with Random Network Distillation In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Representation Learning for NLP. Dublin, Ireland, pp. 1–8. [bib] [code]

2021

  • Samuel Läubli; Patrick Simianer; Joern Wuebker; Geza Kovacs; Rico Sennrich; Spence Green (2021). The Impact of Text Presentation on Translator Performance Target. International Journal of Translation Studies. [bib]
  • Jannis Vamvas; Rico Sennrich (2021). On the Limits of Minimal Pairs in Contrastive Evaluation In Proceedings of the Fourth BlackboxNLP Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP. Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, pp. 58–68. [bib] [code]
    ★ best paper award
  • Jannis Vamvas; Rico Sennrich (2021). Contrastive Conditioning for Assessing Disambiguation in MT: A Case Study of Distilled Bias In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, pp. 10246–10265. [bib] [code]
  • Jiaoda Li; Duygu Ataman; Rico Sennrich (2021). Vision Matters When It Should: Sanity Checking Multimodal Machine Translation Models In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, pp. 8556–8562. [bib] [data/code]
  • Elena Voita; Rico Sennrich; Ivan Titov (2021). Language Modeling, Lexical Translation, Reordering: The Training Process of NMT through the Lens of Classical SMT In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, pp. 8478–8491. [bib] [blog]
  • Denis Emelin; Rico Sennrich (2021). Wino-X: Multilingual Winograd Schemas for Commonsense Reasoning and Coreference Resolution In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, pp. 8517–8532. [bib] [code]
  • Biao Zhang; Ivan Titov; Rico Sennrich (2021). Sparse Attention with Linear Units In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, pp. 6507–6520. [bib] [code]
  • Chantal Amrhein; Rico Sennrich (2021). How Suitable Are Subword Segmentation Strategies for Translating Non-Concatenative Morphology? In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021. Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, pp. 689–705. [bib] [code]
  • Gongbo Tang; Philipp Rönchen; Rico Sennrich; Joakim Nivre (2021). Revisiting Negation in Neural Machine Translation Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 9, 740-755. [bib]
  • Biao Zhang; Rico Sennrich (2021). Edinburgh's End-to-End Multilingual Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2021 In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2021). Bangkok, Thailand (online), pp. 160–168. [bib] [code]
  • Biao Zhang; Ivan Titov; Barry Haddow; Rico Sennrich (2021). Beyond Sentence-Level End-to-End Speech Translation: Context Helps In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers). Online, pp. 2566–2578. [bib] [code]
  • Mathias Müller; Rico Sennrich (2021). Understanding the Properties of Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding in Neural Machine Translation In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers). Online, pp. 259–272. [bib] [code]
  • Elena Voita; Rico Sennrich; Ivan Titov (2021). Analyzing the Source and Target Contributions to Predictions in Neural Machine Translation In Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers). Online, pp. 1126–1140. [bib] [code] [blog]
  • Biao Zhang; Ivan Titov; Rico Sennrich (2021). On Sparsifying Encoder Outputs in Sequence-to-Sequence Models In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021. Online, pp. 2888–2900. [bib] [code]
  • Annette Rios; Chantal Amrhein; Noëmi Aepli; Rico Sennrich (2021). On Biasing Transformer Attention Towards Monotonicity In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Online, pp. 4474–4488. [bib] [code]
  • Chaojun Wang; Christian Hardmeier; Rico Sennrich (2021). Exploring the Importance of Source Text in Automatic Post-Editing for Context-Aware Machine Translation In Proceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa). Reykjavik, Iceland (Online), pp. 326–335. [bib]
  • Biao Zhang; Ankur Bapna; Rico Sennrich; Orhan Firat (2021). Share or Not? Learning to Schedule Language-Specific Capacity for Multilingual Translation In International Conference on Learning Representations. [bib] [code]
  • Ondřej Bojar; Dominik Macháček; Sangeet Sagar; Otakar Smrž; Jonáš Kratochvíl; Peter Polák; Ebrahim Ansari; Mohammad Mahmoudi; Rishu Kumar; Dario Franceschini; Chiara Canton; Ivan Simonini; Thai-Son Nguyen; Felix Schneider; Sebastian Stüker; Alex Waibel; Barry Haddow; Rico Sennrich; Philip Williams (2021). ELITR Multilingual Live Subtitling: Demo and Strategy In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations. Online, pp. 271–277. [bib]

2020

  • Biao Zhang; Ivan Titov; Rico Sennrich (2020). Fast Interleaved Bidirectional Sequence Generation In Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation. Online, pp. 503–515. [bib] [code]
  • Annette Rios; Mathias Müller; Rico Sennrich (2020). Subword Segmentation and a Single Bridge Language Affect Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation In Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation. Online, pp. 528–537. [bib]
  • Gongbo Tang; Rico Sennrich; Joakim Nivre (2020). Understanding Pure Character-Based Neural Machine Translation: The Case of Translating Finnish into English In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Barcelona, Spain (Online), pp. 4251–4262. [bib]
  • Denis Emelin; Ivan Titov; Rico Sennrich (2020). Detecting Word Sense Disambiguation Biases in Machine Translation for Model-Agnostic Adversarial Attacks In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Online, pp. 7635–7653. [bib]
  • Jonathan Mallinson; Rico Sennrich; Mirella Lapata (2020). Zero-Shot Crosslingual Sentence Simplification In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Online, pp. 5109–5126. [bib] [code/data]
  • Chantal Amrhein; Rico Sennrich (2020). On Romanization for Model Transfer Between Scripts in Neural Machine Translation In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020. Online, pp. 2461–2469. [bib]
  • Biao Zhang; Ivan Titov; Barry Haddow; Rico Sennrich (2020). Adaptive Feature Selection for End-to-End Speech Translation In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020. Online, pp. 2533–2544. [bib] [code]
  • Mathias Müller; Annette Rios; Rico Sennrich (2020). Domain Robustness in Neural Machine Translation In Proceedings of the 14th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2020). Virtual, pp. 151–164. [bib] [code]
  • Alham Fikri Aji; Nikolay Bogoychev; Kenneth Heafield; Rico Sennrich (2020). In Neural Machine Translation, What Does Transfer Learning Transfer? In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Online, pp. 7701–7710. [bib]
  • Biao Zhang; Philip Williams; Ivan Titov; Rico Sennrich (2020). Improving Massively Multilingual Neural Machine Translation and Zero-Shot Translation In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Online, pp. 1628–1639. [bib] [code] [dataset]
  • Chaojun Wang; Rico Sennrich (2020). On Exposure Bias, Hallucination and Domain Shift in Neural Machine Translation In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Online, pp. 3544–3552. [bib] [code]
  • Jannis Vamvas; Rico Sennrich (2020). x-stance: A Multilingual Multi-Target Dataset for Stance Detection In Proceedings of the 5th Swiss Text Analytics Conference (SwissText) & 16th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS). Zurich, Switzerland [bib] [dataset] [blog] [video]
    ★ best video award
  • Dario Franceschini; Chiara Canton; Ivan Simonini; Armin Schweinfurth; Adelheid Glott; Sebastian Stüker; Thai-Son Nguyen; Felix Schneider; Thanh-Le Ha; Alex Waibel; Barry Haddow; Philip Williams; Rico Sennrich; Ondřej Bojar; Sangeet Sagar; Dominik Macháček; Otakar Smrž (2020). Removing European Language Barriers with Innovative Machine Translation Technology In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Language Technology Platforms. Marseille, France, pp. 44–49. [bib]
  • Samuel Läubli; Sheila Castilho; Graham Neubig; Rico Sennrich; Qinlan Shen; Antonio Toral (2020). A Set of Recommendations for Assessing Human–Machine Parity in Language Translation Journal of Artifial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 67, 653–672. [bib]

2019

  • Nikolay Bogoychev; Rico Sennrich (2019). Domain, Translationese and Noise in Synthetic Data for Neural Machine Translation [bib]
  • Biao Zhang; Rico Sennrich (2019). Root Mean Square Layer Normalization In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32. pp. 12381–12392. [bib] [code]
  • Elena Voita; Rico Sennrich; Ivan Titov (2019). Context-Aware Monolingual Repair for Neural Machine Translation In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP). Hong Kong, China, pp. 877–886. [bib] [code/data]
  • Elena Voita; Rico Sennrich; Ivan Titov (2019). The Bottom-up Evolution of Representations in the Transformer: A Study with Machine Translation and Language Modeling Objectives In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP). Hong Kong, China, pp. 4396–4406. [bib] [blog]
  • Biao Zhang; Ivan Titov; Rico Sennrich (2019). Improving Deep Transformer with Depth-Scaled Initialization and Merged Attention In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP). Hong Kong, China, pp. 898–909. [bib] [code]
  • Gongbo Tang; Rico Sennrich; Joakim Nivre (2019). Encoders Help You Disambiguate Word Senses in Neural Machine Translation In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP). Hong Kong, China, pp. 1429–1435. [bib]
  • Joanna Wetesko; Marcin Chochowski; Pawel Przybysz; Philip Williams; Roman Grundkiewicz; Rico Sennrich; Barry Haddow; Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone; Alexandra Birch (2019). Samsung and University of Edinburgh's System for the IWSLT 2019 [bib]
  • Gongbo Tang; Rico Sennrich; Joakim Nivre (2019). Understanding Neural Machine Translation by Simplification: The Case of Encoder-free Models In Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019). Varna, Bulgaria, pp. 1186–1193. [bib]
  • Denis Emelin; Ivan Titov; Rico Sennrich (2019). Widening the Representation Bottleneck in Neural Machine Translation with Lexical Shortcuts In Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 1: Research Papers). Florence, Italy, pp. 102–115. [bib] [code]
  • Rico Sennrich; Biao Zhang (2019). Revisiting Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation: A Case Study In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Florence, Italy, pp. 211–221. [bib] [data]
  • Biao Zhang; Rico Sennrich (2019). A Lightweight Recurrent Network for Sequence Modeling In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Florence, Italy, pp. 1538–1548. [bib] [code]
  • Elena Voita; Rico Sennrich; Ivan Titov (2019). When a Good Translation is Wrong in Context: Context-Aware Machine Translation Improves on Deixis, Ellipsis, and Lexical Cohesion In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Florence, Italy, pp. 1198–1212. [bib] [code] [blog]
  • Elena Voita; David Talbot; Fedor Moiseev; Rico Sennrich; Ivan Titov (2019). Analyzing Multi-Head Self-Attention: Specialized Heads Do the Heavy Lifting, the Rest Can Be Pruned In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Florence, Italy, pp. 5797–5808. [bib] [code] [blog]

2018

  • Mathias Müller; Annette Rios; Elena Voita; Rico Sennrich (2018). A Large-Scale Test Set for the Evaluation of Context-Aware Pronoun Translation in Neural Machine Translation In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers. Brussels, Belgium, pp. 61–72. [bib] [dataset]
  • Annette Rios; Mathias Müller; Rico Sennrich (2018). The Word Sense Disambiguation Test Suite at WMT18 In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers. Belgium, Brussels, pp. 588–596. [bib] [dataset]
  • Gongbo Tang; Rico Sennrich; Joakim Nivre (2018). An Analysis of Attention Mechanisms: The Case of Word Sense Disambiguation in Neural Machine Translation In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers. Brussels, Belgium, pp. 26–35. [bib]
  • Barry Haddow; Nikolay Bogoychev; Denis Emelin; Ulrich Germann; Roman Grundkiewicz; Kenneth Heafield; Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone; Rico Sennrich (2018). The University of Edinburgh's Submissions to the WMT18 News Translation Task In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers. Belgium, Brussels, pp. 399–409. [bib]
  • Jonathan Mallinson; Rico Sennrich; Mirella Lapata (2018). Sentence Compression for Arbitrary Languages via Multilingual Pivoting In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Brussels, Belgium, pp. 2453–2464. [bib]
  • Gongbo Tang; Mathias Müller; Annette Rios; Rico Sennrich (2018). Why Self-Attention? A Targeted Evaluation of Neural Machine Translation Architectures In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Brussels, Belgium, pp. 4263–4272. [bib]
  • Samuel Läubli; Rico Sennrich; Martin Volk (2018). Has Machine Translation Achieved Human Parity? A Case for Document-level Evaluation In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Brussels, Belgium, pp. 4791–4796. [bib] [dataset]
  • Philip Williams; Marcin Chochowski; Pawel Przybysz; Rico Sennrich; Barry Haddow; Alexandra Birch (2018). Samsung and University of Edinburgh's System for the IWSLT 2018 Low Resource MT Task In Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation. Bruges, Belgium, pp. 118–123. [bib]
  • Sheila Castilho; Joss Moorkens; Federico Gaspari; Rico Sennrich; Andy Way; Panayota Georgakopoulou (2018). Evaluating MT for massive open online courses Machine Translation, 32(3):255–278. [bib]
  • Elena Voita; Pavel Serdyukov; Rico Sennrich; Ivan Titov (2018). Context-Aware Neural Machine Translation Learns Anaphora Resolution In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1264–1274. [bib]
  • Rachel Bawden; Rico Sennrich; Alexandra Birch; Barry Haddow (2018). Evaluating Discourse Phenomena in Neural Machine Translation In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers). New Orleans, Louisiana, pp. 1304–1313. [bib] [code and dataset]
  • Maximiliana Behnke; Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone; Rico Sennrich; Vilelmini Sosoni; Thanasis Naskos; Eirini Takoulidou; Maria Stasimioti; Menno van Zaanen; Sheila Castilho; Federico Gaspari; Panayota Georgakopoulou; Valia Kordoni; Markus Egg; Katia Lida Kermanidis (2018). Improving Machine Translation of Educational Content via Crowdsourcing In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Miyazaki, Japan [bib]
  • Yutong Shao; Rico Sennrich; Bonnie Webber; Federico Fancellu (2018). Evaluating Machine Translation Performance on Chinese Idioms with a Blacklist Method In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Miyazaki, Japan [bib]

2017

  • Pawel Przybysz; Marcin Chochowski; Rico Sennrich; Barry Haddow; Alexandra Birch (2017). The Samsung and University of Edinburgh's submission to IWSLT17 In Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation. Tokyo, Japan, pp. 23–28. [bib]
  • Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone; Rico Sennrich (2017). A Parallel Corpus of Python Functions and Documentation Strings for Automated Code Documentation and Code Generation In Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers). Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 314–319. [bib] [dataset]
  • Sheila Castilho; Joss Moorkens; Federico Gaspari; Rico Sennrich; Vilelmini Sosoni; Yota Georgakopoulou; Pintu Lohar; Andy Way; Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone; Maria Gialama (2017). A Comparative Quality Evaluation of PBSMT and NMT using Professional Translators In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XVI. Nagoya, Japan [bib]
  • Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone; Barry Haddow; Ulrich Germann; Rico Sennrich (2017). Regularization techniques for fine-tuning in neural machine translation In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 1489–1494. [bib]
  • Spandana Gella; Rico Sennrich; Frank Keller; Mirella Lapata (2017). Image Pivoting for Learning Multilingual Multimodal Representations In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 2839–2845. [bib]
  • Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone; Jindřich Helcl; Rico Sennrich; Barry Haddow; Alexandra Birch (2017). Deep architectures for Neural Machine Translation In Proceedings of the Second Conference on Machine Translation. Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 99–107. [bib] [code]
  • Rico Sennrich; Alexandra Birch; Anna Currey; Ulrich Germann; Barry Haddow; Kenneth Heafield; Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone; Philip Williams (2017). The University of Edinburgh's Neural MT Systems for WMT17 In Proceedings of the Second Conference on Machine Translation. Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 389–399. [bib] [models] [code]
    ★ (tied) best constrained system for 11 out of 12 translation directions in which we participated.
  • Maria Nădejde; Siva Reddy; Rico Sennrich; Tomasz Dwojak; Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt; Philipp Koehn; Alexandra Birch (2017). Predicting Target Language CCG Supertags Improves Neural Machine Translation In Proceedings of the Second Conference on Machine Translation. Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 68–79. [bib] note: a pre-published version of this paper had the title "Syntax-aware Neural Machine Translation Using CCG".
  • Annette Rios; Laura Mascarell; Rico Sennrich (2017). Improving Word Sense Disambiguation in Neural Machine Translation with Sense Embeddings In Proceedings of the Second Conference on Machine Translation. Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 11–19. [bib] [dataset]
  • Rico Sennrich (2017). How Grammatical is Character-level Neural Machine Translation? Assessing MT Quality with Contrastive Translation Pairs In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 2, Short Papers. Valencia, Spain, pp. 376–382. [bib] [dataset]
  • Jonathan Mallinson; Rico Sennrich; Mirella Lapata (2017). Paraphrasing Revisited with Neural Machine Translation In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers. Valencia, Spain, pp. 881–893. [bib]
  • Rico Sennrich; Orhan Firat; Kyunghyun Cho; Alexandra Birch; Barry Haddow; Julian Hitschler; Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt; Samuel Läubli; Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone; Jozef Mokry; Maria Nădejde (2017). Nematus: a Toolkit for Neural Machine Translation In Proceedings of the Software Demonstrations of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Valencia, Spain, pp. 65–68. [bib] [code]
  • Renars Liepins; Ulrich Germann; Guntis Barzdins; Alexandra Birch; Steve Renals; Susanne Weber; Peggy van der Kreeft; Hervé Bourlard; João Prieto; Ondřej Klejch; Peter Bell; Alexandros Lazaridis; Alfonso Mendes; Sebastian Riedel; Mariana S. C. Almeida; Pedro Balage; Shay B. Cohen; Tomasz Dwojak; Philip N. Garner; Andreas Giefer; Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt; Hina Imran; David Nogueira; Ahmed Ali; Sebastião Miranda; Andrei Popescu-Belis; Lesly Miculicich Werlen; Nikos Papasarantopoulos; Abiola Obamuyide; Clive Jones; Fahim Dalvi; Andreas Vlachos; Yang Wang; Sibo Tong; Rico Sennrich; Nikolaos Pappas; Shashi Narayan; Marco Damonte; Nadir Durrani; Sameer Khurana; Ahmed Abdelali; Hassan Sajjad; Stephan Vogel; David Sheppey; Chris Hernon; Jeff Mitchell (2017). The SUMMA Platform Prototype In Proceedings of the Software Demonstrations of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Valencia, Spain, pp. 116–119. [bib]

2016

  • Philip Williams; Rico Sennrich; Matt Post; Philipp Koehn (2016). Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation [bib]
  • Rico Sennrich; Barry Haddow; Alexandra Birch (2016). Improving Neural Machine Translation Models with Monolingual Data In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Berlin, Germany, pp. 86–96. [bib] [data]
  • Rico Sennrich; Barry Haddow; Alexandra Birch (2016). Neural Machine Translation of Rare Words with Subword Units In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Berlin, Germany, pp. 1715–1725. [bib] [code]
  • Rico Sennrich; Barry Haddow (2016). Linguistic Input Features Improve Neural Machine Translation In Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation: Volume 1, Research Papers. Berlin, Germany, pp. 83–91. [bib]
  • Rico Sennrich; Barry Haddow; Alexandra Birch (2016). Edinburgh Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT 16 In Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation: Volume 2, Shared Task Papers. Berlin, Germany, pp. 371–376. [bib] [code] [models]
    ★ (tied) best constrained system for 7 out of 8 translation directions in which we participated.
  • Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt; Tomasz Dwojak; Rico Sennrich (2016). The AMU-UEDIN Submission to the WMT16 News Translation Task: Attention-based NMT Models as Feature Functions in Phrase-based SMT In Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation: Volume 2, Shared Task Papers. Berlin, Germany, pp. 319–325. [bib]
    ★ ranked 1-2 (out of 10) for Russian English, and 2-4 (out of 12) for English-Russian.
  • Philip Williams; Rico Sennrich; Maria Nădejde; Matthias Huck; Barry Haddow; Ondřej Bojar (2016). Edinburgh's Statistical Machine Translation Systems for WMT16 In Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation: Volume 2, Shared Task Papers. Berlin, Germany, pp. 399–410. [bib]
  • Jan-Thorsten Peter; Tamer Alkhouli; Hermann Ney; Matthias Huck; Fabienne Braune; Alexander Fraser; Aleš Tamchyna; Ondřej Bojar; Barry Haddow; Rico Sennrich; Frédéric Blain; Lucia Specia; Jan Niehues; Alex Waibel; Alexandre Allauzen; Lauriane Aufrant; Franck Burlot; Elena Knyazeva; Thomas Lavergne; François Yvon; Mārcis Pinnis; Stella Frank (2016). The QT21/HimL Combined Machine Translation System In Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation: Volume 2, Shared Task Papers. Berlin, Germany, pp. 344–355. [bib]
  • Rico Sennrich; Barry Haddow; Alexandra Birch (2016). Controlling Politeness in Neural Machine Translation via Side Constraints In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. San Diego, California, pp. 35–40. [bib] [code]

2015

  • Rico Sennrich; Barry Haddow (2015). A Joint Dependency Model of Morphological and Syntactic Structure for Statistical Machine Translation In Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 2081–2087. [bib]
  • Philip Williams; Rico Sennrich; Maria Nadejde; Matthias Huck; Philipp Koehn (2015). Edinburgh's Syntax-Based Systems at WMT 2015 In Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 199–209. [bib]
    ★ ranked 1-2 (out of 16) in shared translation task English-German. [code]
  • Rico Sennrich (2015). Modelling and Optimizing on Syntactic N-Grams for Statistical Machine Translation Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 3, 169–182. [bib] [slides]
  • Rico Sennrich; Philip Williams; Matthias Huck (2015). A tree does not make a well-formed sentence: Improving syntactic string-to-tree statistical machine translation with more linguistic knowledge Computer Speech & Language, 32(1):27–45. [bib]

2014

  • Rico Sennrich (2014). A CYK+ Variant for SCFG Decoding Without a Dot Chart In Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation. Doha, Qatar, pp. 94–102. [bib]
  • Philip Williams; Rico Sennrich; Maria Nadejde; Matthias Huck; Eva Hasler; Philipp Koehn (2014). Edinburgh's Syntax-Based Systems at WMT 2014 In Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. Baltimore, Maryland, USA, pp. 207–214. [bib]
    ★ ranked 1-2 (out of 18) in shared translation task English-German. [code]
  • Markus Freitag; Stephan Peitz; Joern Wuebker; Hermann Ney; Matthias Huck; Rico Sennrich; Nadir Durrani; Maria Nadejde; Philip Williams; Philipp Koehn; Teresa Herrmann; Eunah Cho; Alex Waibel (2014). EU-BRIDGE MT: Combined Machine Translation In Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. Baltimore, Maryland, USA, pp. 105–113. [bib]
  • Sarah Ebling; Rico Sennrich; David Klaper (2014). Digging for Names in the Mountains: Combined Person Name Recognition and Reference Resolution for German Alpine Texts In Human Language Technology Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics: 5th Language and Technology Conference, LTC 2011, Poznań, Poland, November 25–27, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Cham, pp. 189–200. [bib]
  • Mark Fishel; Rico Sennrich (2014). Handling Technical OOVs in SMT In The Seventeenth Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT). Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp. 159–162. [bib]
  • Rico Sennrich; Beat Kunz (2014). Zmorge: A German Morphological Lexicon Extracted from Wiktionary In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14). Reykjavik, Iceland, pp. 1063–1067. [bib]

2013

  • Rico Sennrich; Martin Volk; Gerold Schneider (2013). Exploiting Synergies Between Open Resources for German Dependency Parsing, POS-tagging, and Morphological Analysis In Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing RANLP 2013. Hissar, Bulgaria, pp. 601–609. [bib]
  • Rico Sennrich (2013). Promoting Flexible Translations in Statistical Machine Translation In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XIV. Nice, France [bib]
  • Rico Sennrich; Holger Schwenk; Walid Aransa (2013). A Multi-Domain Translation Model Framework for Statistical Machine Translation In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Sofia, Bulgaria, pp. 832–840. [bib]

2012

  • Mark Fishel; Rico Sennrich; Maja Popović; Ondřej Bojar (2012). TerrorCat: a Translation Error Categorization-based MT Quality Metric In Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. Montréal, Canada, pp. 64–70. [bib]
  • Rico Sennrich (2012). Mixture-Modeling with Unsupervised Clusters for Domain Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation In 16th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2012). Trento, Italy, pp. 185–192. [bib]
  • Sadaf Abdul-Rauf; Mark Fishel; Patrik Lambert; Sandra Noubours; Rico Sennrich (2012). Extrinsic evaluation of sentence alignment systems In Workshop on Creating Cross-language Resources for Disconnected Languages and Styles. Istanbul, pp. 6–10. [bib]
  • Rico Sennrich (2012). Perplexity Minimization for Translation Model Domain Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation In Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Avignon, France, pp. 539–549. [bib]

2011

  • Sarah Ebling; Rico Sennrich; David Klaper; Martin Volk (2011). Digging for names in the mountains: Combined person name recognition and reference resolution for German alpine texts In 5th Language & Technology Conference. Poznan, Poland [bib]
  • Martin Volk; Anne Göhring; Stéphanie Lehner; Annette Rios; Rico Sennrich; Heli Uibo (2011). Word-aligned parallel text : a new resource for contrastive language studies In Supporting Digital Humanities, Conference 2011. Copenhagen, Denmark [bib]
  • Magdalena Jitca; Rico Sennrich; Martin Volk (2011). From historic books to annotated XML: Building a large multilingual diachronic corpus In Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL) 2011. Hamburg, Germany, pp. 75–80. [bib]
  • Markus Killer; Rico Sennrich; Martin Volk (2011). From multilingual web-archives to parallel treebanks in five minutes In Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL) 2011. Hamburg, Germany, pp. 57–62. [bib]
  • Rico Sennrich (2011). The UZH System Combination System for WMT 2011 In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. Edinburgh, Scotland, pp. 166–170. [bib]
  • Rico Sennrich (2011). Combining Multi-Engine Machine Translation and Online Learning through Dynamic Phrase Tables In 15th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2011). Leuven, Belgium, pp. 89–96. [bib]
  • Martin Volk; Rico Sennrich (2011). Disambiguation of English Contractions for Machine Translation of TV Subtitles In Proceedings of the 18th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2011). Riga, Latvia, pp. 238–245. [bib]
  • Rico Sennrich; Martin Volk (2011). Iterative, MT-based Sentence Alignment of Parallel Texts In Proceedings of the 18th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2011). Riga, Latvia, pp. 175–182. [bib]
  • Martin Volk; Lenz Furrer; Rico Sennrich (2011). Strategies for reducing and correcting OCR error In Language Technology for Cultural Heritage. Berlin, pp. 3–22. [bib]

2010

  • Rico Sennrich; Martin Volk (2010). MT-based Sentence Alignment for OCR-generated Parallel Texts In Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Research Papers. Denver, Colorado, USA [bib]
  • Martin Volk; Rico Sennrich; Christian Hardmeier; Frida Tidström (2010). Machine translation of TV subtitles for large scale production In Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop. pp. 53–62. [bib]
  • Manfred Klenner; Don Tuggener; Angela Fahrni; Rico Sennrich (2010). Anaphora Resolution with Real Preprocessing Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6233, 215–225.In ICETAL 2010, 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, Reykjavik, Iceland. pp. 215–225. [bib]
  • Manfred Klenner; Angela Fahrni; Rico Sennrich (2010). Real Anaphora Resolution is Hard Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6231, 109–116.In TSD 2010, 13th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue, Brno, Czech Republic. pp. 109–116. [bib]
  • Martin Volk; Torsten Marek; Rico Sennrich (2010). Reducing OCR errors by combining two OCR systems In ECAI 2010 Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH 2010). Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 61–65. [bib]

2009

  • Rico Sennrich; Gerold Schneider; Martin Volk; Martin Warin (2009). A New Hybrid Dependency Parser for German In Proceedings of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology 2009. Potsdam, Germany, pp. 115–124. [bib]

Phd Thesis