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 and on the tenure-track since April 2019. 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, my research focuses on the better use of monolingual data in MT. I also work on evaluation for MT.

Topics of interest : low-resource neural MT, evaluation for MT, neural MT for user-generated texts

News and Upcoming Events

  • 2021-11-10 I will participate in a panel discussion on MT evaluation at WMT21! We will convince you to stop using BLEU, please attend!
  • 2021-11 See you at EMNLP 2021 where I will present our top-ranked participations in WMT quality estimation and Eval4NLP shared tasks!
  • 2021-09-16 Presented our work on the scientific credibility of MT research at SNLP-JP 2021.
  • 2021-08-06 Our ACL paper on the scientific credibility of MT research has been covered by Slator.
  • 2021-08-05 Presented our ACL 2021 paper "Scientific Credibility of Machine Translation Research: A Meta-Evaluation of 769 Papers" at the ACL paper award session.
  • 2021-08-03 Presented our TACL paper "Synthesizing Parallel Data of User-Generated Texts with Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation" at ACL2021.

Current Grants/Fundings

NICT Tenure-track funding. Ending 2021.

JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) grant for early-career scientists: Neural Machine Translation for User-Generated Contents. Ending 2022.

Committees

Best paper committees: ACL 2018 (Demo)

Paper reviewer: AACL (2020), ACL (2021-2017), AAAI (2022-2020), COLING (2020,2016), EACL (2021), EMNLP (2021,2019*-2017), ICLR (2021), IJCAI (2020,2019), IJCNLP (2017), LREC (2020,2018), NAACL (2021-2016), NeurIPS (2021), ACM TALLIP, IEEE/ACM TASLP, ACL Rolling Review (since 2021)
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Selected Publications
Full publication list here

2021 (First/Contact author only)

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Marie, B., Fujita, A., Rubino, R. (2021). Scientific Credibility of Machine Translation Research: A Meta-Evaluation of 769 Papers. ACL 2021, online.
Outstanding Paper Award

2020 (First/Contact author only)

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Marie, B., Rubino, R., Fujita, A. (2020). Combination of Neural Machine Translation Systems at WMT20. In WMT20, online.
Ranked 1st (tied) for Ja-En, En-Iu, and Pl-En

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Marie, B., Fujita, A. (2020). Synthesizing Parallel Data of User-Generated Texts with Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation. In TACL Vol. 8 (2020). Presented at ACL2021.

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Marie, B., Fujita, A. (2020). Iterative Training of Unsupervised Neural and Statistical Machine Translation Systems. In TALLIP Vol. 19 issue 5 (2020).

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Marie, B., Rubino, R., Fujita, A. (2020). Tagged Back-translation Revisited: Why Does It Really Work?. In ACL 2020, online.

2019

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Marie, B., Kaing, H., Mon, A.M., Ding, C., Fujita, A., Utiyama, M. and Sumita, E. (2019). Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Translation for Myanmar-English and Khmer-English. In WAT 2019, Hong Kong.
Ranked 1st for En->Km and Km->En.

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Marie, B., Sun, H., Wang, R., Chen, K., Fujita, A., Utiyama, M. and Sumita, E. (2019). NICT’s Unsupervised Neural and Statistical Machine Translation Systems for the WMT19 News Translation Task. In WMT19, Florence, Italy.
Ranked 1st.

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Marie, B., Dabre, R., and Fujita, A. (2019). NICT’s Machine Translation Systems for the WMT19 Similar Language Translation Task. In WMT19, Florence, Italy.

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Dabre, R., Chen, K., Marie, B., Wang, R., Fujita, A., Utiyama, M. and Sumita, E. (2019). NICT’s Supervised Neural Machine Translation Systems for the WMT19 News Translation Task. In WMT19, Florence, Italy.

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Marie, B. and Fujita, A. (2019). Unsupervised Joint Training of Bilingual Word Embeddings. In ACL 2019, Florence, Italy.

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Marie, B. and Fujita, A. (2019). Unsupervised Extraction of Partial Translations for Neural Machine Translation. In NAACL-HLT 2019, Minneapolis, USA.

2018

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Marie, B., Fujita, A., Sumita, E. (2018). Combination of Statistical and Neural Machine Translation for Myanmar–English. In WAT 2018, Hong Kong.
Ranked 1st (BLEU) for My-En and En-My.

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Wang, R., Marie, B., Utiyama, M., Sumita, E. (2018). NICT's Corpus Filtering Systems for the WMT18 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task. In WMT18, Bruxelles, Belgium.

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Marie, B., Wang, R., Fujita, A., Utiyama, M., Sumita, E. (2018). NICT's Neural and Statistical Machine Translation Systems for the WMT18 News Translation Task. In WMT18, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Ranked 1st (BLEU) for Et-En, En-Et, En-Fi, and Fi-En.

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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)