Benjamin Marie,
researcher in Natural Language Processing (NLP)



I am a French scientist working as a researcher at the Advanced Translation Technology Laboratory at NICT (Kyoto, Japan) since May 2016. My research is focusing on improving Machine Translation (MT) for low-resource language pairs, especially involving languages of East and South Asia.

Before joining NICT, I was a Ph.D. student at LIMSI-CNRS (Orsay, France), supervised by Aurélien Max and Anne Vilnat, also simultaneously engineer for the company Lingua-Et-Machina and sometimes teacher at Université Paris-Saclay.

Currently, I am focusing on how to make a better use of monolingual data in MT. I am also working in evaluation for MT and in cross-lingual semantics.

Topics of interest : unsupervised MT, bilingual semantics, paraphrasing, evaluation metrics for MT

Committees

Best paper committees: ACL 2018 (Demo)

Program committees (reviewer): ACL (2018, 2017), COLING (2017), EMNLP (2018, 2017), IJCNLP (2017), LREC (2018), NAACL (2018, 2016), ACM TALLIP

Publications

2018

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Marie, B. and Fujita, A. (2018). A Smorgasbord of Features to Combine Phrase-Based and Neural Machine Translation. In AMTA 2018, Boston, USA.

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Marie, B. and Fujita, A. (2018). Phrase Table Induction Using Monolingual Data for Low-Resource Statistical Machine Translation. In TALLIP Vol. 17 issue 3 (2018).

2017

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Marie, B. and Fujita, A. (2017). Phrase Table Induction Using In-Domain Monolingual Data for Domain Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation. In TACL Vol. 5 (2017). Presented at ACL 2018

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Marie, B. and Fujita, A. (2017). Efficient Extraction of Pseudo-Parallel Sentences from Raw Monolingual Data Using Word Embeddings. In ACL 2017, Vancouver, Canada.

2015

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Marie, B. and Max, A. (2015). Touch-Based Pre-Post-Editing of Machine Translation Output. In EMNLP 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.

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Marie, B., Allauzen, A., Burlot, F., Do, Q. K., Ive, J., Knyazeva, E., Labeau, M., Lavergne, T., Löser, K., Pécheux, N., Yvon, F. (2015). LIMSI@WMT'15: Translation Task. In WMT'15, Lisbon, Portugal.
Ranked 1st for En-Fr and Fr-En.

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Marie, B. and Apidianaki, M. (2015). Alignment-based sense selection in METEOR and the RATATOUILLE recipe. In WMT'15, Lisbon, Portugal.
Ranked 1st for En-Fr and Fr-En.

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Marie, B. and Max, A. (2015). Multi-Pass Decoding With Complex Feature Guidance for Statistical Machine Translation. In ACL-IJCNLP 2015, Beijing, China.

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Apidianaki, M., Marie, B. (2015). METEOR-WSD: Improved Sense Matching in MT Evaluation. In SSST-9, Denver, US.

2014

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Marie, B., Max, A. (2014). Confidence-based Rewriting of Machine Translation Output. In EMNLP 2014, Doha, Qatar.

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Pécheux, N., Gong, L., Do, Q. K., Marie, B., Ivanishcheva, Y., Allauzen, A., Lavergne, T., Niehues, J., Max, A., Yvon, F. (2014). LIMSI @ WMT’14 Medical Translation Task. In WMT’14, Baltimore, US.

2013

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Marie, B. and Max, A. (2013). A Study in Greedy Oracle Improvement of Translation Hypotheses. In IWSLT 13, Heidelberg, Germany.

Reports

2016

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Ph.D. thesis: Complex Feature Guidance for Statistical Machine Translation (french)

2013

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Project ANR TRACE report, part 5.2 (french)

2012

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M.S. thesis: Improving Machine Translation Outputs by Greedy Search (french)