| 2025 | ACL | DiffuseDef: Improved Robustness to Adversarial Attacks via Iterative Denoising. | Zhenhao Li, Huichi Zhou, Marek Rei, Lucia Specia |
| 2025 | IJCNN | Discourse Features Enhance Detection of Document-Level Machine-Generated Content. | Yupei Li, Manuel Milling, Lucia Specia, Bjrn W. Schuller |
| 2024 | COLING | Classifying Social Media Users before and after Depression Diagnosis via Their Language Usage: A Dataset and Study. | Falwah Alhamed, Julia Ive, Lucia Specia |
| 2023 | ACL | Choosing What to Mask: More Informed Masking for Multimodal Machine Translation. | Jlia Sato, Helena de Medeiros Caseli, Lucia Specia |
| 2022 | ACL | Bias Mitigation in Machine Translation Quality Estimation. | Hanna Behnke, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia |
| 2022 | ACL | Translation Error Detection as Rationale Extraction. | Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia, Nikolaos Aletras |
| 2022 | EAMT | A Taxonomy and Study of Critical Errors in Machine Translation. | Khetam Al Sharou, Lucia Specia |
| 2022 | EMNLP | Multimodal Conversation Modelling for Topic Derailment Detection. | Zhenhao Li, Marek Rei, Lucia Specia |
| 2022 | IJCAI | Logically Consistent Adversarial Attacks for Soft Theorem Provers. | Alexander Gaskell, Yishu Miao, Francesca Toni, Lucia Specia |
| 2022 | IJCNLP | Contrastive Video-Language Learning with Fine-grained Frame Sampling. | Zixu Wang, Yujie Zhong, Yishu Miao, Lin Ma, Lucia Specia |
| 2022 | LREC | MLQE-PE: A Multilingual Quality Estimation and Post-Editing Dataset. | Marina Fomicheva, Shuo Sun, Erick R. Fonseca, Chrysoula Zerva, Frdric Blain, Vishrav Chaudhary, Francisco Guzmn, Nina Lopatina, Lucia Specia, Andr F. T. Martins |
| 2022 | LREC | Leveraging Pre-trained Language Models for Gender Debiasing. | Nishtha Jain, Declan Groves, Lucia Specia, Maja Popovic |
| 2022 | LREC | Multilingual and Multimodal Learning for Brazilian Portuguese. | Jlia Sato, Helena de Medeiros Caseli, Lucia Specia |
| 2022 | LREC | MultiSubs: A Large-scale Multimodal and Multilingual Dataset. | Josiah Wang, Josiel Figueiredo, Lucia Specia |
| 2022 | NAACL | Guiding Visual Question Generation. | Nihir Vedd, Zixu Wang, Marek Rei, Yishu Miao, Lucia Specia |
| 2021 | ACL | Uncertainty Aware Review Hallucination for Science Article Classification. | Korbinian Friedl, Georgios Rizos, Lukas Stappen, Madina Hasan, Lucia Specia, Thomas Hain, Bjrn W. Schuller |
| 2021 | ACL | Knowledge Distillation for Quality Estimation. | Amit Gajbhiye, Marina Fomicheva, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Frdric Blain, Abiola Obamuyide, Nikolaos Aletras, Lucia Specia |
| 2021 | ACL | BERTGen: Multi-task Generation through BERT. | Faidon Mitzalis, Ozan Caglayan, Pranava Madhyastha, Lucia Specia |
| 2021 | ACL | Continual Quality Estimation with Online Bayesian Meta-Learning. | Abiola Obamuyide, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia |
| 2021 | BMVC | Cross-Modal Generative Augmentation for Visual Question Answering. | Zixu Wang, Yishu Miao, Lucia Specia |
| 2021 | EACL | Cross-lingual Visual Pre-training for Multimodal Machine Translation. | Ozan Caglayan, Menekse Kuyu, Mustafa Sercan Amac, Pranava Madhyastha, Erkut Erdem, Aykut Erdem, Lucia Specia |
| 2021 | EACL | Exploiting Multimodal Reinforcement Learning for Simultaneous Machine Translation. | Julia Ive, Andy Mingren Li, Yishu Miao, Ozan Caglayan, Pranava Madhyastha, Lucia Specia |
| 2021 | EACL | Exploring Supervised and Unsupervised Rewards in Machine Translation. | Julia Ive, Zixu Wang, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia |
| 2021 | EACL | Quality Estimation without Human-labeled Data. | Yi-Lin Tuan, Ahmed El-Kishky, Adithya Renduchintala, Vishrav Chaudhary, Francisco Guzmn, Lucia Specia |
| 2021 | EMNLP | deepQuest-py: Large and Distilled Models for Quality Estimation. | Fernando Alva-Manchego, Abiola Obamuyide, Amit Gajbhiye, Frdric Blain, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia |
| 2021 | EMNLP | Visual Cues and Error Correction for Translation Robustness. | Zhenhao Li, Marek Rei, Lucia Specia |
| 2021 | EMNLP | A Generative Framework for Simultaneous Machine Translation. | Yishu Miao, Phil Blunsom, Lucia Specia |
| 2021 | EMNLP | Classification-based Quality Estimation: Small and Efficient Models for Real-world Applications. | Shuo Sun, Ahmed El-Kishky, Vishrav Chaudhary, James Cross, Lucia Specia, Francisco Guzmn |
| 2021 | NAACL | SentSim: Crosslingual Semantic Evaluation of Machine Translation. | Yurun Song, Junchen Zhao, Lucia Specia |
| 2021 | NAACL | Backtranslation Feedback Improves User Confidence in MT, Not Quality. | Vilm Zouhar, Michal Novk, Mats Zilinec, Ondrej Bojar, Mateo Obregn, Robin L. Hill, Frdric Blain, Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia, Lisa Yankovskaya |
| 2021 | RANLP | Towards a Better Understanding of Noise in Natural Language Processing. | Khetam Al Sharou, Zhenhao Li, Lucia Specia |
| 2020 | ACL | ASSET: A Dataset for Tuning and Evaluation of Sentence Simplification Models with Multiple Rewriting Transformations. | Fernando Alva-Manchego, Louis Martin, Antoine Bordes, Carolina Scarton, Benot Sagot, Lucia Specia |
| 2020 | ACL | Multi-Hypothesis Machine Translation Evaluation. | Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia, Francisco Guzmn |
| 2020 | ACL | Multimodal Quality Estimation for Machine Translation. | Shu Okabe, Frdric Blain, Lucia Specia |
| 2020 | ACL | Are we Estimating or Guesstimating Translation Quality? | Shuo Sun, Francisco Guzmn, Lucia Specia |
| 2020 | COLING | Curious Case of Language Generation Evaluation Metrics: A Cautionary Tale. | Ozan Caglayan, Pranava Madhyastha, Lucia Specia |
| 2020 | EAMT | Quality In, Quality Out: Learning from Actual Mistakes. | Frdric Blain, Nikolaos Aletras, Lucia Specia |
| 2020 | ECAI | Deciding When, How and for Whom to Simplify. | Carolina Scarton, Pranava Madhyastha, Lucia Specia |
| 2020 | EMNLP | Simultaneous Machine Translation with Visual Context. | Ozan Caglayan, Julia Ive, Veneta Haralampieva, Pranava Madhyastha, Loc Barrault, Lucia Specia |
| 2020 | EMNLP | FIND: Human-in-the-Loop Debugging Deep Text Classifiers. | Piyawat Lertvittayakumjorn, Lucia Specia, Francesca Toni |
| 2020 | IJCNLP | An Exploratory Study on Multilingual Quality Estimation. | Shuo Sun, Marina Fomicheva, Frdric Blain, Vishrav Chaudhary, Ahmed El-Kishky, Adithya Renduchintala, Francisco Guzmn, Lucia Specia |
| 2020 | LREC | A Post-Editing Dataset in the Legal Domain: Do we Underestimate Neural Machine Translation Quality? | Julia Ive, Lucia Specia, Sara Szoc, Tom Vanallemeersch, Joachim Van den Bogaert, Eduardo Farah, Christine Maroti, Artur Ventura, Maxim Khalilov |
| 2019 | ACL | Distilling Translations with Visual Awareness. | Julia Ive, Pranava Madhyastha, Lucia Specia |
| 2019 | ACL | VIFIDEL: Evaluating the Visual Fidelity of Image Descriptions. | Pranava Madhyastha, Josiah Wang, Lucia Specia |
| 2019 | CICLING | Phrase-Level Simplification for Non-native Speakers. | Gustavo H. Paetzold, Lucia Specia |
| 2019 | EMNLP | EASSE: Easier Automatic Sentence Simplification Evaluation. | Fernando Alva-Manchego, Louis Martin, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia |
| 2019 | EMNLP | Deep Copycat Networks for Text-to-Text Generation. | Julia Ive, Pranava Madhyastha, Lucia Specia |
| 2019 | ICCV | Phrase Localization Without Paired Training Examples. | Josiah Wang, Lucia Specia |
| 2019 | NAACL | Probing the Need for Visual Context in Multimodal Machine Translation. | Ozan Caglayan, Pranava Madhyastha, Lucia Specia, Loc Barrault |
| 2018 | ACL | Learning Simplifications for Specific Target Audiences. | Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia |
| 2018 | AMTA | Combining Quality Estimation and Automatic Post-editing to Enhance Machine Translation output. | Rajen Chatterjee, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi, Frdric Blain, Lucia Specia |
| 2018 | BMVC | End-to-end Image Captioning Exploits Distributional Similarity in Multimodal Space. | Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha, Josiah Wang, Lucia Specia |
| 2018 | COLING | deepQuest: A Framework for Neural-based Quality Estimation. | Julia Ive, Frdric Blain, Lucia Specia |
| 2018 | EAMT | Multi-modal Context Modelling for Machine Translation. | Lucia Specia |
| 2018 | EMNLP | End-to-end Image Captioning Exploits Distributional Similarity in Multimodal Space. | Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha, Josiah Wang, Lucia Specia |
| 2018 | LREC | Multimodal Lexical Translation. | Chiraag Lala, Lucia Specia |
| 2018 | LREC | Text Simplification from Professionally Produced Corpora. | Carolina Scarton, Gustavo Paetzold, Lucia Specia |
| 2018 | LREC | SimPA: A Sentence-Level Simplification Corpus for the Public Administration Domain. | Carolina Scarton, Gustavo Paetzold, Lucia Specia |
| 2018 | NAACL | Defoiling Foiled Image Captions. | Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha, Josiah Wang, Lucia Specia |
| 2018 | NAACL | Vis-Eval Metric Viewer: A Visualisation Tool for Inspecting and Evaluating Metric Scores of Machine Translation Output. | David Steele, Lucia Specia |
| 2018 | NAACL | Object Counts! Bringing Explicit Detections Back into Image Captioning. | Josiah Wang, Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha, Lucia Specia |
| 2017 | ASRU | Exploring the use of acoustic embeddings in neural machine translation. | Salil Deena, Raymond W. M. Ng, Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha, Lucia Specia, Thomas Hain |
| 2017 | EACL | Lexical Simplification with Neural Ranking. | Gustavo Paetzold, Lucia Specia |
| 2017 | EACL | Personalized Machine Translation: Preserving Original Author Traits. | Ella Rabinovich, Raj Nath Patel, Shachar Mirkin, Lucia Specia, Shuly Wintner |
| 2017 | IJCNLP | Learning How to Simplify From Explicit Labeling of Complex-Simplified Text Pairs. | Fernando Alva-Manchego, Joachim Bingel, Gustavo Paetzold, Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia |
| 2017 | IJCNLP | MASSAlign: Alignment and Annotation of Comparable Documents. | Gustavo Paetzold, Fernando Alva-Manchego, Lucia Specia |
| 2017 | IJCNLP | The Ultimate Presentation Makeup Tutorial: How to Polish your Posters, Slides and Presentations Skills. | Gustavo Paetzold, Lucia Specia |
| 2017 | IJCNLP | MUSST: A Multilingual Syntactic Simplification Tool. | Carolina Scarton, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Sara Tonelli, Tamara Martn-Wanton, Lucia Specia |
| 2017 | Interspeech | Semi-Supervised Adaptation of RNNLMs by Fine-Tuning with Domain-Specific Auxiliary Features. | Salil Deena, Raymond W. M. Ng, Pranava Swaroop Madhyastha, Lucia Specia, Thomas Hain |
| 2016 | AAAI | Unsupervised Lexical Simplification for Non-Native Speakers. | Gustavo H. Paetzold, Lucia Specia |
| 2016 | ACL | Multi30K: Multilingual English-German Image Descriptions. | Desmond Elliott, Stella Frank, Khalil Sima'an, Lucia Specia |
| 2016 | ACL | Reference Bias in Monolingual Machine Translation Evaluation. | Marina Fomicheva, Lucia Specia |
| 2016 | ACL | Metrics for Evaluation of Word-level Machine Translation Quality Estimation. | Varvara Logacheva, Michal Lukasik, Lucia Specia |
| 2016 | COLING | Understanding the Lexical Simplification Needs of Non-Native Speakers of English. | Gustavo Paetzold, Lucia Specia |
| 2016 | COLING | Collecting and Exploring Everyday Language for Predicting Psycholinguistic Properties of Words. | Gustavo Paetzold, Lucia Specia |
| 2016 | COLING | Anita: An Intelligent Text Adaptation Tool. | Gustavo Paetzold, Lucia Specia |
| 2016 | COLING | Quality Estimation for Language Output Applications. | Carolina Scarton, Gustavo Paetzold, Lucia Specia |
| 2016 | CoNLL | Exploring Prediction Uncertainty in Machine Translation Quality Estimation. | Daniel Beck, Lucia Specia, Trevor Cohn |
| 2016 | EAMT | Semantic Textual Similarity in Quality Estimation. | Hanna Bchara, Carla Parra Escartn, Constantin Orasan, Lucia Specia |
| 2016 | EAMT | Multi-level quality prediction with QuEst++. | Gustavo H. Paetzold, Lucia Specia |
| 2016 | EAMT | The Trouble with Machine Translation Coherence. | Karin Sim Smith, Wilker Aziz, Lucia Specia |
| 2016 | EAMT | Predicting and Using Implicit Discourse Elements in Chinese-English Translation. | David Steele, Lucia Specia |
| 2016 | ICASSP | Groupwise learning for ASR k-best list reranking in spoken language translation. | Raymond W. M. Ng, Kashif Shah, Lucia Specia, Thomas Hain |
| 2016 | LREC | Phrase Level Segmentation and Labelling of Machine Translation Errors. | Frdric Blain, Varvara Logacheva, Lucia Specia |
| 2016 | LREC | MARMOT: A Toolkit for Translation Quality Estimation at the Word Level. | Varvara Logacheva, Chris Hokamp, Lucia Specia |
| 2016 | LREC | Benchmarking Lexical Simplification Systems. | Gustavo Paetzold, Lucia Specia |
| 2016 | LREC | A Reading Comprehension Corpus for Machine Translation Evaluation. | Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia |
| 2016 | LREC | Cohere: A Toolkit for Local Coherence. | Karin Sim Smith, Wilker Aziz, Lucia Specia |
| 2016 | NAACL | Inferring Psycholinguistic Properties of Words. | Gustavo Paetzold, Lucia Specia |
| 2016 | NAACL | Large-scale Multitask Learning for Machine Translation Quality Estimation. | Kashif Shah, Lucia Specia |
| 2015 | ACL | LEXenstein: A Framework for Lexical Simplification. | Gustavo Paetzold, Lucia Specia |
| 2015 | ACL | Multi-level Translation Quality Prediction with QuEst++. | Lucia Specia, Gustavo Paetzold, Carolina Scarton |
| 2015 | ACL | WA-Continuum: Visualising Word Alignments across Multiple Parallel Sentences Simultaneously. | David Steele, Lucia Specia |
| 2015 | EAMT | The role of artificially generated negative data for quality estimation of machine translation. | Varvara Logacheva, Lucia Specia |
| 2015 | EAMT | Okapi+QuEst: Translation Quality Estimation within Okapi. | Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, Lucia Specia, Yves Savourel |
| 2015 | EAMT | Truly Exploring Multiple References for Machine Translation Evaluation. | Ying Qin, Lucia Specia |
| 2015 | EAMT | Searching for Context: a Study on Document-Level Labels for Translation Quality Estimation. | Carolina Scarton, Marcos Zampieri, Mihaela Vela, Josef van Genabith, Lucia Specia |
| 2015 | EMNLP | Investigating Continuous Space Language Models for Machine Translation Quality Estimation. | Kashif Shah, Raymond W. M. Ng, Fethi Bougares, Lucia Specia |
| 2015 | ICASSP | Quality estimation for asr k-best list rescoring in spoken language translation. | Raymond W. M. Ng, Kashif Shah, Wilker Aziz, Lucia Specia, Thomas Hain |
| 2015 | Interspeech | A study on the stability and effectiveness of features in quality estimation for spoken language translation. | Raymond W. M. Ng, Kashif Shah, Lucia Specia, Thomas Hain |
| 2014 | AMTA | Predicting human translation quality. | Lucia Specia, Kashif Shah |
| 2014 | AMTA | QuEst: A framework for translation quality estimation. | Lucia Specia, Kashif Shah |
| 2014 | CICLING | Statistical Relational Learning to Recognise Textual Entailment. | Miguel Rios, Lucia Specia, Alexander F. Gelbukh, Ruslan Mitkov |
| 2014 | EACL | Confidence-based Active Learning Methods for Machine Translation. | Varvara Logacheva, Lucia Specia |
| 2014 | EAMT | Document-level translation quality estimation: exploring discourse and pseudo-references. | Carolina Scarton, Lucia Specia |
| 2014 | EAMT | Quality estimation for translation selection. | Kashif Shah, Lucia Specia |
| 2014 | EAMT | Data selection for discriminative training in statistical machine translation. | Xingyi Song, Lucia Specia, Trevor Cohn |
| 2014 | EMNLP | Exact Decoding for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation. | Wilker Aziz, Marc Dymetman, Lucia Specia |
| 2014 | EMNLP | Joint Emotion Analysis via Multi-task Gaussian Processes. | Daniel Beck, Trevor Cohn, Lucia Specia |
| 2014 | LREC | A Quality-based Active Sample Selection Strategy for Statistical Machine Translation. | Varvara Logacheva, Lucia Specia |
| 2014 | LREC | An efficient and user-friendly tool for machine translation quality estimation. | Kashif Shah, Marco Turchi, Lucia Specia |
| 2013 | ACL | Reducing Annotation Effort for Quality Estimation via Active Learning. | Daniel Beck, Lucia Specia, Trevor Cohn |
| 2013 | ACL | Modelling Annotator Bias with Multi-task Gaussian Processes: An Application to Machine Translation Quality Estimation. | Trevor Cohn, Lucia Specia |
| 2013 | ACL | QuEst - A translation quality estimation framework. | Lucia Specia, Kashif Shah, Jos G. C. de Souza, Trevor Cohn |
| 2013 | CoNLL | Multilingual WSD-like Constraints for Paraphrase Extraction. | Wilker Aziz, Lucia Specia |
| 2012 | AMTA | Post-editing time as a measure of cognitive effort. | Maarit Koponen, Wilker Aziz, Luciana Ramos, Lucia Specia |
| 2012 | COLING | Linguistic and Statistical Traits Characterising Plagiarism. | Miranda Chong, Lucia Specia |
| 2012 | COLING | Automatic Question Generation in Multimedia-Based Learning. | Yvonne Skalban, Le An Ha, Lucia Specia, Ruslan Mitkov |
| 2012 | EAMT | Cross-lingual Sentence Compression for Subtitles. | Wilker Aziz, Sheila C. M. de Sousa, Lucia Specia |
| 2012 | EAMT | Relevance Ranking for Translated Texts. | Marco Turchi, Josef Steinberger, Lucia Specia |
| 2012 | LREC | PET: a Tool for Post-editing and Assessing Machine Translation. | Wilker Aziz, Sheila Castilho, Lucia Specia |
| 2011 | EAMT | Exploiting Objective Annotations for Minimising Translation Post-editing Effort. | Lucia Specia |
| 2011 | RANLP | Improving Chunk-based Semantic Role Labeling with Lexical Features. | Wilker Aziz, Miguel Rios, Lucia Specia |
| 2011 | RANLP | Lexical Generalisation for Word-level Matching in Plagiarism Detection. | Miranda Chong, Lucia Specia |
| 2011 | RANLP | Assessing the Post-Editing Effort for Automatic and Semi-Automatic Translations of DVD Subtitles. | Sheila C. M. de Sousa, Wilker Aziz, Lucia Specia |
| 2010 | AMTA | Combining Confidence Estimation and Reference-based Metrics for Segment-level MT Evaluation. | Lucia Specia, Jess Gimnez |
| 2010 | EAMT | Learning an Expert from Human Annotations in Statistical Machine Translation: the Case of Out-of-Vocabulary Words. | Wilker Aziz, Marc Dymetman, Lucia Specia, Shachar Mirkin |
| 2010 | LREC | A Dataset for Assessing Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics. | Lucia Specia, Nicola Cancedda, Marc Dymetman |
| 2009 | ACL | Source-Language Entailment Modeling for Translating Unknown Terms. | Shachar Mirkin, Lucia Specia, Nicola Cancedda, Ido Dagan, Marc Dymetman, Idan Szpektor |
| 2009 | EAMT | Sentence-level confidence estimation for MT. | Lucia Specia, Nicola Cancedda, Marc Dymetman, Craig Saunders, Marco Turchi, Nello Cristianini, Zhuoran Wang, John Shawe-Taylor |
| 2009 | EAMT | Estimating the Sentence-Level Quality of Machine Translation Systems. | Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi, Nicola Cancedda, Nello Cristianini, Marc Dymetman |
| 2008 | CICLING | n-Best Reranking for the Efficient Integration of Word Sense Disambiguation and Statistical Machine Translation. | Lucia Specia, Baskaran Sankaran, Maria das Graas Volpe Nunes |
| 2008 | DocEng | Towards Brazilian Portuguese automatic text simplification systems. | Sandra M. Alusio, Lucia Specia, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Erick Galani Maziero, Renata Pontin de Mattos Fortes |
| 2007 | ACL | Learning Expressive Models for Word Sense Disambiguation. | Lucia Specia, Mark Stevenson, Maria das Graas Volpe Nunes |
| 2006 | ACL | A Hybrid Relational Approach for WSD - First Results. | Lucia Specia |
| 2006 | ACL | A hybrid approach for extracting semantic relations from texts. | Lucia Specia, Enrico Motta |
| 2006 | EAMT | Translation Context Sensitive WSD. | Lucia Specia, Maria das Graas Volpe Nunes, Mark Stevenson |
| 2006 | FQAS | A Hybrid Approach for Relation Extraction Aimed at the Semantic Web. | Lucia Specia, Enrico Motta |
| 2006 | ILP | Word Sense Disambiguation Using Inductive Logic Programming. | Lucia Specia, Ashwin Srinivasan, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Maria das Graas Volpe Nunes |