Boxing Chen

E-mail: chenboxing (at) gmail.com

Boxing Chen's research interests include Large Language Model, Machine Translation, and Machine Learning. He is the Chief Researcher of the Montreal Research Centre of Huawei Technologies Canada since July 2022. Prior to Huawei, he was a Senior Staff Algorithm Engineer at the Machine Intelligence Technology Lab, DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group from Dec. 2017, and a Research Officer at the National Research Council Canada (NRC) from Feb. 2009. He has co-authored more than 100 papers in the NLP conferences and journals, and served as area chair for ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, AACL, COLING, etc. His teams ranked first place over 20 times in various MT competitions.

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@Alibaba.China

2021 Ranked No. 1 WMT-2021 Quality Estimation (Sentence-level Direct Assessment Multilingual task)
2021 Ranked No. 1 WMT-2021 Quality Estimation (Sentence-level Direct Assessment Zero-Shot task)
2021 Ranked No. 1 WMT-2021 Machine Translation using Terminologies (Zh2En task)
2021 Ranked No. 1 WMT-2021 MT Evaluation metric task (Segment-level Cz2En, De2En, Ja2En)
2021 Ranked No. 1 WMT-2021 MT Evaluation metric task (System-level Il2En)
2018 Ranked No. 1 WMT-2018 Machine Translation evaluation (En2Zh, Ru2En, En2Ru, Tr2En and En2Tr task)
2018 Ranked No. 1 WMT-2018 Quality Estimation (Sentence-Level En2De SMT, En2De NMT, De2En SMT subtask)
2018 Ranked No. 1 WMT-2018 Quality Estimation (Word-Level En2De SMT, En2De NMT, De2En NMT subtask)
2018 Ranked No. 1 WMT-2018 Quality Estimation (Gaps in MT En2De SMT task)
2018 Ranked No. 2 WMT-2018 Corpus filtering task (De2En NMT/SMT)

@NRC.Canada

2017 Ranked No. 3 WMT-2017 Machine Translation evaluation (Zh2En task)
2017 Ranked No. 1 WMT-2017 Machine Translation evaluation (Ru2En task)
2015 Ranked No. 1 in WMT-2015 MT Evaluation metric task (Fi2En, system-level)
2014 Ranked No. 1 in BOLT-2014 Machine Translation evaluation, Part of consortium (ASTRAL) (Zh2En task)

2013 Ranked No. 1 in BOLT-2013 Machine Translation evaluation, Part of consortium (ASTRAL) (Zh2En task)

2012 Ranked No. 1 in NIST-2012 Machine Translation Competition (Zh2En task)
2012 Ranked No. 2 in NIST-2012 Machine Translation Competition (Ar2En task)
2012 Ranked No. 2 in WMT 2012 MT Evaluation metric task (into-English, system-level)
2012 Ranked No. 2 in WMT 2012 MT Evaluation metric task (out-of-English, segment-level)
2012 Ranked No. 3 in WMT 2012 MT Evaluation metric task (into-English, segment-level)
2011 Ranked No. 1 in WMT 2011 MT Evaluation metric task (Out-of-English, segment-level)
2010 Ranked No. 2 in WMT-2010 Machine Translation Competition (Fr2En task)
2009 Ranked No. 3 in NIST-2009 Machine Translation Competition (Zh2En progress task)

@I2R.Singapore

2008 Ranked No. 3 in IWSLT-2008 Machine Translation Competition (Zh2En2Es Pivot task, Zh2En task)
2007 Ranked No. 1 in IWSLT-2007 Machine Translation Competition (Zh2En task)

@FBK-IRST.Italy

2007 Ranked No. 1 in the 3rd TC-STAR SLT Machine Translation Campaign (Zh2En task)
2005 Ranked No. 1 in IWSLT-2005 Machine Translation Competition (Zh2En, Ja2En task)
2005 Ranked No. 2 in IWSLT-2005 Machine Translation Competition (Ar2En task)