Organizers

If you want to contact the organizers, you can email wngt-organizers@googlegroups.com

Alexandra Birch

School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK, a.birch@ed.ac.uk

Alexandra Birch is currently an Innovation Fellow Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. 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 co-ordinator of the H2020 EU project called GoURMET which investigates low-resource machine translation for the BBC World Service and Deutsche Welle.

Andrew Finch

Apple, andrew_finch@apple.com

Andrew Finch is currently a Research Scientist/Engineer at Apple. His research expertise and interests include machine translation, transliteration, paraphrasing, simultaneous interpretation, semantic parsing and part-of-speech tagging. He has been responsible for organizing international workshops including the previous 3 workshops on Neural Machine Translation and Generation.

Hiroaki Hayashi

Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, hiroakih@cs.cmu.edu

Hiroaki Hayashi is a PhD student at the Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include machine reading with linguistic structures and neural models for structure-to-text generation.

Kenneth Heafield

University of Edinburgh, kheafiel@inf.ed.ac.uk

Kenneth Heafield is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Edinburgh working on neural machine translation with a focus on efficiency. He coordinates the Horizon 2020 Bergamot project to deploy machine translation client side as a Firefox extension and manages the ParaCrawl project that mines the web for parallel corpora. In 2019, he organized the machine translation marathon in Edinburgh.

Yannis Konstas

Heriot-Watt University, i.konstas@hw.ac.uk

Yannis Konstas is an assistant professor (lecturer according to the UK system) at Heriot-Watt University. His main research interests focus on the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Generation (NLG) with an emphasis on data-driven machine learning methods. He is interested in several applications of text generation including data-to-text, summarisation and grounded dialogue systems. He has frequently served on the program committee of NLP conferences, and was area chair for summarization/generation at ACL 2018.

Xian Li

Facebook, xianl@fb.com

Xian Li is currently a research scientist at Facebook AI. Her recent research focuses on improving robustness and data efficiency (low resource) of deep learning methods for natural language understanding and generation tasks, with a specific focus on machine translation. She coordinated and co-organized the first WMT shared task on Robustness, Facebook Research Award for Robust Deep Learning for NLP, and JSALT workshop for Improving Translation of Informal Language.

Graham Neubig

Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, gneubig@cs.cmu.edu

Graham 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 he is interested in neural network models for translation that incorporate our linguistic intuitions or advanced machine learning techniques. He publishes frequently at the top conferences in natural language processing, and has served as the area chair for ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, COLING, and ICLR multiple times.

Yusuke Oda

Google, oday@google.com

Yusuke Oda is currently a software engineer at Google Brain. 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.

Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt

Microsoft, Marcin.JunczysDowmunt@microsoft.com