News

• We presented a tutorial on Latent Structure Models for NLP at ACL 2019 in Florence.
• André Martins is giving an invited talk at the First EurNLP Summit in London.
• André Martins is giving invited talks at 3 Summer schools: LxMLS 2019 in Lisbon, AthNLP 2019 in Athens, and MLRS 2019 in Bangkok.
• Several deep spinners are organizing/serving as monitors in LxMLS 2019 (Lisbon Machine Learning School). See here for details!
• We have new papers accepted at AISTATS, NAACL, and ACL 2019.
• A joint team with Unbabel and IT won the WMT 2019 Shared Task on Quality Estimation! Check the results here!
• We received the best system demo paper award for OpenKiwi, a Pytorch-based software toolkit for translation quality estimation. Check the repo and the demo paper at ACL 2019!
• Marcos Treviso is joining the team as a PhD student!
• We have a new EMNLP paper where we propose SparseMAP to build dynamic computation graphs via sparse latent structure (work done in collaboration with Claire Cardie). Keep posted!
• André Martins gave an invited talk in the ACL 2018 Workshop on Neural Machine Translation and Generation. Here are the slides.
• Vlad Niculae is joining the team as a post-doc researcher!
• Erick Fonseca is joining the team as a post-doc researcher!
• Tsvetomila Mihaylova and Ben Peters are joining the team as PhD students!
• We are co-organizing LxMLS 2018 (Lisbon Machine Learning School). See here for details!
• We have a new ICML paper where we propose SparseMAP as a new inference procedure for sparse structured prediction (work done in collaboration with Vlad Niculae, Mathieu Blondel, and Claire Cardie).
• We have a new ACL short paper where we use new forms of sparse and constrained attention within neural machine translation (work done in collaboration with Chaitanya Malaviya and Pedro Ferreira).
• With Unbabel, we are co-organizing the WMT18 shared task in quality estimation. See here for details!
• Gonçalo Correia joined the team as a PhD student!