
I’m super thrilled to have won the AMTA Best Thesis Award!! A huge thanks to the AMTA organizers for this recognition ☺️ See you all in Chicago amtaweb.org
Akiko I. Eriguchi
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@akikoe_
A senior researcher at @Microsoft. Ph.D. @UTokyo_News_en. Visiting Scientist at RIKEN. Treasurer @WiMLWorkshop. She/her.

I’m super thrilled to have won the AMTA Best Thesis Award!! A huge thanks to the AMTA organizers for this recognition ☺️ See you all in Chicago amtaweb.org


🧐Which languages benefit the most from vocabulary adaptation? We introduce VocADT, a new vocabulary adaptation method using a vocabulary adapter, and explore the impact of various adaptation strategies on languages with diverse scripts and fragmentation to answer this question.



Multilingual models are usually heavily skewed in favor of high-resource languages. We change this with X-ALMA: an LLM-based translator committed to ensuring top-tier performance across 50 diverse languages, regardless of their resource levels! Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03115


⭐ The WiML Workshop 2024 program is live at tinyurl.com/wimlprogram! ⭐ Join us at NeurIPS for inspiring talks, engaging mentorship roundtables, networking sessions, and amazing food! If you plan to attend, fill out the participation form here!: docs.google.com/forms/d/1olp3a….

Do the best translations go beyond literal meaning? Excited to share our work at #EMNLP2023 on Automatic Explicitation in translation w @MarineCarpuat and @boydgraber! Check out our poster session on Dec 8th Fri (today!) at East Foyer from 2pm to 3:30pm. In our paper, ...

On behalf of the AMTA Board of Directors, I am pleased to announce the winner of the first-ever AMTA Best Thesis Award: Dr. Eleftheria Briakou (@ebriakou) for her thesis “Detecting Fine-Grained Semantic Divergences to Improve Translation Understanding Across Languages”. [1/n]


I’m super thrilled to have won the AMTA Best Thesis Award!! A huge thanks to the AMTA organizers for this recognition ☺️ See you all in Chicago amtaweb.org

