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Findings of the AmericasNLP 2021 Shared Task on Open Machine Translation for Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Published in In the proceedings of Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas, 2021

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Recommended citation: Manuel Mager, Arturo Oncevay, Abteen Ebrahimi, John Ortega, Annette Rios, Angela Fan, Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques, Luis Chiruzzo, Gustavo Gim{\'e}nez-Lugo, Ricardo Ramos, Ivan Meza, Rolando Coto-Solano, Alexis Palmer, Elisabeth Mager-Hois, Vishrav Chaudhary, Graham Neubig, Ngoc Vu, Katharina Kann, "Findings of the AmericasNLP 2021 Shared Task on Open Machine Translation for Indigenous Languages of the Americas." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas, 2021. https://aclanthology.org/2021.americasnlp-1.23

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT2021)

Published in In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT2021), 2021

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Recommended citation: John Ortega, Atul Ojha, Katharina Kann, Chao-Hong Liu, "Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT2021)." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT2021), 2021.

Love Thy Neighbor: Combining Two Neighboring Low-Resource Languages for Translation

Published in In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT2021), 2021

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Recommended citation: John Ortega, Richard Castro-Mamani, Jaime Samame, "Love Thy Neighbor: Combining Two Neighboring Low-Resource Languages for Translation." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT2021), 2021.

Findings of the LoResMT 2021 Shared Task on COVID and Sign Language for Low-resource Languages

Published in In the proceedings of Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XVIII, 2021

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Recommended citation: Atul Ojha, Chao-Hong Liu, Katharina Kann, John Ortega, Sheetal Shatam, Theodorus Fransen, "Findings of the LoResMT 2021 Shared Task on COVID and Sign Language for Low-resource Languages." In the proceedings of Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XVIII, 2021.

AmericasNLI: Evaluating Zero-shot Natural Language Understanding of Pretrained Multilingual Models in Truly Low-resource Languages

Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.08726, 2021

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Recommended citation: Abteen Ebrahimi, Manuel Mager, Arturo Oncevay, Vishrav Chaudhary, Luis Chiruzzo, Angela Fan, John Ortega, Ricardo Ramos, Annette Rios, Ivan Vladimir, "AmericasNLI: Evaluating Zero-shot Natural Language Understanding of Pretrained Multilingual Models in Truly Low-resource Languages." arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.08726, 2021.

Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages

Published in In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages, 2020

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Recommended citation: Alina Karakanta, Atul Ojha, Chao-Hong Liu, Jade Abbott, John Ortega, Jonathan Washington, Nathaniel Oco, Surafel Lakew, Tommi Pirinen, Valentin Malykh, "Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages, 2020.

Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Post-Editing in Modern-Day Translation

Published in In the proceedings of Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Post-Editing in Modern-Day Translation, 2020

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Recommended citation: John Ortega, Marcello Federico, Constantin Orasan, Maja Popovi{\'c}, "Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Post-Editing in Modern-Day Translation." In the proceedings of Proceedings of 1st Workshop on Post-Editing in Modern-Day Translation, 2020.

Overcoming Resistance: The Normalization of an Amazonian Tribal Language

Published in In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages, 2020

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Recommended citation: John Ortega, Richard Castro-Mamani, Jaime Samame, "Overcoming Resistance: The Normalization of an Amazonian Tribal Language." In the proceedings of Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages, 2020.

Fuzzy-match repair guided by quality estimation

Published in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2020

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Recommended citation: John Ortega, Mikel Forcada, Felipe Sanchez-Martinez, "Fuzzy-match repair guided by quality estimation." IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2020.

Improving Translations by Combining Fuzzy-Match Repair with Automatic Post-Editing

Published in In the proceedings of Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XVII Volume 1: Research Track, 2019

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Recommended citation: John Ortega, Felipe S{\'a}nchez-Mart{\'\i}nez, Marco Turchi, Matteo Negri, "Improving Translations by Combining Fuzzy-Match Repair with Automatic Post-Editing." In the proceedings of Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XVII Volume 1: Research Track, 2019.

Automated analysis system and method

Published in U.S. PatentUS Patent US20190027235A1, 2019

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Recommended citation: Oscar Ferrandez-Escamez, John Ortega, Neil Barrett, Brian Delaney, Ravi Kondadadi, "Automated analysis system and method." U.S. PatentUS Patent US20190027235A1, 2019.

Computer assisted coding systems and methods

Published in U.S. PatentUS Patent App. 15/632,152, 2018

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Recommended citation: Oscar Ferrandez-Escamez, Neil Barrett, Ravi Kondadadi, Girija Yegnanarayanan, Brian Delaney, John Ortega, "Computer assisted coding systems and methods." U.S. PatentUS Patent App. 15/632,152, 2018.

Letting a Neural Network Decide Which Machine Translation System to Use for Black-Box Fuzzy-Match Repair

Published in In the proceedings of 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 2018

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Recommended citation: John Ortega, Weiyi Lu, Adam Meyers, Kyunghyun Cho, "Letting a Neural Network Decide Which Machine Translation System to Use for Black-Box Fuzzy-Match Repair." In the proceedings of 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 2018.

A Comparative Study of Classifying Legal Documents with Neural Networks

Published in In the proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications, 2018

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Recommended citation: Samir Undavia, Adam Meyers, John Ortega, "A Comparative Study of Classifying Legal Documents with Neural Networks." In the proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications, 2018.

Fuzzy-match repair using black-box machine translation systems: what can be expected?

Published in In the proceedings of Conferences of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: MT Researchers' Track, 2016

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Recommended citation: John Ortega, Felipe S{\'a}nchez-Mart{\'\i}nez, Mikel Forcada, "Fuzzy-match repair using black-box machine translation systems: what can be expected?." In the proceedings of Conferences of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: MT Researchers' Track, 2016.