I am a Research Scientist working at the Appled Machine Learning department at Facebook . I have been working in different sub-disciplines of Machine Translation since 2006. My interests lie at the intersection of Language Technologies, Statistics and Machine Learning. I love learning new languages.

News

  • 24 Sep 15Coming back from EMNLP in Lisbon. What an exciting conference! Our paper in WMT "How Do Humans Evaluate Translation" was well received. In the paper we analyze the performance of monolinguals vs. bilinguals MT evaluators using eye-tracking.
  • 16 Jun 15Our paper "Analyzing Optimization for Statistical Machine Translation: MERT Learns Verbosity, PRO Learns Length" was accepted for CoNLL 2015.
  • 11 May 15I gave a talk "A Brief Introduction to MT Evaluation" at the First MT Marathon in the Americas
  • 24 Apr 15Our paper "Pairwise Neural Machine Translation Evaluation", with the discoTK team, was accepted in ACL-2015. This year the acceptance rate was only 25%.
  • 15 Apr 15Today I gave a talk about mentoring for the QCRI Hot Summer/Cool Research internship program. Slides are here
  • 11 Apr 15We had an incredible response for the summer internship! Now it's time to go through the screening process.
  • 2 Apr 15We are receiving applications for our summer internship program. Building a Word Emotion Detector: Are you a pokerface? . Deadline to apply:11 Apr 2015. See our flyer. Apply at QCRI Summer Internship page .
  • 26 Mar 15I'm going to the Machine Translation Marathon in the Americas in Urbana, IL, USA. I'll be giving a talk about Machine Translation Evaluation.

Selected Papers

Machine translation evaluation with neural networks
Francisco Guzmán, Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, and Preslav Nakov. In Computer Speech & Language 2016.
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It Takes Three to Tango: Triangulation Approach to Answer Ranking in Community Question Answering
Preslav Nakov, Lluís Màrquez, and Francisco Guzmán. In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing , pages 1586-1597, 2016.
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Machine Translation Evaluation Meets Community Question Answering
Francisco Guzmán, Lluís Màrquez, and Preslav Nakov. In Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics , pages 460-466, 2016.
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Eyes Don't Lie: Predicting Machine Translation Quality Using Eye Movement
Hassan Sajjad, Francisco Guzmán, Nadir Durrani, Ahmed Abdelali, Houda Bouamor, Irina Temnikova, and Stephan Vogel. In Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies , pages 1082-1088, 2016.
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How do Humans Evaluate Machine Translation
Francisco Guzmán, Ahmed Abdelali, Irina Temnikova, Hassan Sajjad, and Stephan Vogel. In Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, pages 457-466, 2015.
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Pairwise Neural Machine Translation Evaluation
Francisco Guzmán, Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, and Preslav Nakov. In Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and The 7th International Joint Conference of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing , pages 805-814, 2015.
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Learning to Differentiate Better from Worse Translations
Francisco Guzmán, Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, Alessandro Moschitti, Preslav Nakov, and Massimo Nicosia. In Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 214-220, 2014.
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Using Discourse Structure Improves Machine Translation Evaluation
Francisco Guzmán, Shafiq Joty, Lluís Màrquez, and Preslav Nakov. In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'14), pages 687-698, 2014.
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The AMARA Corpus: Building Resources for Translating the Web's Educational Content
Francisco Guzmán, Hassan Sajjad, Ahmed Abdelali, and Stephan Vogel. In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT'13) 2013.
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A Tale about PRO and Monsters
Preslav Nakov, Francisco Guzmán, and Stephan Vogel. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'13), pages 12-17, 2013.
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Optimizing for Sentence-Level BLEU+1 Yields Short Translations
Preslav Nakov, Francisco Guzmán, and Stephan Vogel. In Proceedings of the 24rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), pages 1979–1994, 2012.
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Word Alignment Revisited
Francisco Guzmán, Qin Gao, Jan Niehues, and Stephan Vogel. In Handbook of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation: DARPA global autonomous language exploitation , pages 164-175. Joseph Olive, Caitlin Christianson, and John McCary (Eds). Springer Science & Business Media. 2011.
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Reassessment of the role of phrase extraction in pbsmt
Francisco Guzmán, Qin Gao and Stephan Vogel. In Machine Translation Summit XII 2009.
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