Organization

Organizers

    • Thang LuongGoogle, thangluong@google.comThang Luong is currently a research scientist at Google Brain. He’s interested in using deep learning to solve language problems, specifically machine translation, question answering, and dialogue systems. He obtained his PhD from Stanford University, during which he built state-of-the-art neural machine translation (NMT) systems at both Google and Stanford. He has given a tutorial on NMT at ACL’16, served as an area chair for machine translation at ACL’17, and organized NMT’17, the first workshop on neural machine translation.
  • Graham Neubig
    • Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, gneubig@cs.cmu.eduGraham Neubig is an assistant professor at the Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on machine learning methods for language and speech processing. His work puts a particular focus on machine translation and speech translation, and he is interested in neural network models for translation that incorporate our linguistic intuitions. He publishes frequently at the top conferences in natural language processing, and has served as the area chair for machine translation at ACL 2016/2017 and COLING 2016.
  • Alexandra Birch
    • School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK, a.birch@ed.ac.ukAlexandra Birch is currently a senior research associate in Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Alexandra has been working in the field of machine translation on many different sub-fields including reordering, evaluation, semantics, and spoken language translation. Her recent interests have focussed on neural machine translation where advances using sub-word units and monolingual data have beaten state-of-the-art baselines. She is the scientific project manager for the new EU big data project, Scalable Understanding of Multilingual Media.
  • Andrew Finch
    • Apple, andrew_finch@apple.comAndrew Finch is currently a Research Scientist/Engineer at Apple. His research expertise and interests include statistical machine translation, neural networks, transliteration, paraphrasing, simultaneous interpretation, parsing and part-of-speech tagging. He has been responsible for organizing international workshops including NMT2017.
  • Yusuke Oda
    • Google, oday@google.comYusuke Oda is currently a software engineer at Google, and was a doctoral student in Information Science at NAIST, and also was a Researcher in the Advanced Translation Technology Laboratory at NICT. His research focuses on natural language processing, particularly based on the machine translation algorithms, and its applications on the speech processing and software engineering. His recent interest is model compression and efficient computation techniques on complex neural networks. He has been responsible for organizing an international workshop WAT2017.

Program committee

All of the people listed here have personally confirmed.

  1. Roee Aharoni (Bar Ilan University)
  2. Joost Bastings (University of Amsterdam)
  3. Yonatan Belinkov (Qatar Computing Research Institute)
  4. Marine Carpuat (University of Maryland)
  5. Boxing Chen (National Research Council, Canada)
  6. Eunah Cho (Amazon)
  7. Michael Denkowski (Amazon)
  8. Kevin Duh (JHU)
  9. Cong Duy Vu Hoang (University of Melbourne)
  10. Markus Freitag (Google)
  11. Isao Goto (NHK)
  12. Jiatao Gu (The University of Hong Kong)
  13. Barry Haddow (Edinburgh)
  14. Sebastien Jean (Montreal)
  15. Yuta Kikuchi (Preferred Networks)
  16. Philipp Koehn (Johns Hopkins University)
  17. Yannis Konstas (Heriot-Watt University)
  18. Shumpei Kubosawa (NEC)
  19. Mirella Lapata (University of Edinburgh)
  20. Shujie Liu (Microsoft)
  21. Lemao Liu (Tencent AI Lab)
  22. Haitao Mi (Ant Financial US)
  23. Hideya Mino (NHK)
  24. Makoto Morishita (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
  25. Preslav Nakov (QCRI)
  26. Hieu Pham (Google)
  27. Alexander Rush (Harvard)
  28. Abigail See (Stanford)
  29. Rico Sennrich (Edinburgh)
  30. Raphael Shu (The University of Tokyo)
  31. Akihiro Tamura (Ehime University)
  32. Rui Wang (NICT)
  33. Xiaolin Wang (NICT)
  34. Taro Watanabe (Google)
  35. Xingxing Zhang (University of Edinburgh)