Pinzhen Chen    (Patrick, 陈品桢) Hi, I am a first year PhD student supervised by Kenneth Heafield at the University of Edinburgh. I work on neural machine translation and related topics in the machine translation group. email: pinzhen.chen@ed.ac.uk   [Google Scholar]

Experience

University of Edinburgh	Jan 2020	-	present	PhD student
	Jun 2019	-	Oct 2019	Research Assistant
	Sep 2015	-	May 2019	BEng Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering, 1st class
				top performance in the degree, outstanding project
Goldman Sachs	Jun 2018	-	Aug 2018	Summer Technology Analyst

Publications

• Approaching Neural Chinese Word Segmentation as a Low-Resource Machine Translation Task
  Pinzhen Chen and Kenneth Heafield
  arXiv preprints  [pdf]
  
  
• Parallel Sentence Mining by Constrained Decoding
  Pinzhen Chen*, Nikolay Bogoychev*, Kenneth Heafield and Faheem Kirefu
  ACL 2020  [pdf] [bib] [video]
  
  
• ParaCrawl: Web-Scale Acquisition of Parallel Corpora
  Marta Bañón, Pinzhen Chen, Barry Haddow, Kenneth Heafield, Hieu Hoang, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Mikel L. Forcada, Amir Kamran, Faheem Kirefu, Philipp Koehn, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas, Leopoldo Pla Sempere, Gema Ramírez-Sánchez, Elsa Sarrías, Marek Strelec, Brian Thompson, William Waites, Dion Wiggins and Jaume Zaragoza
  ACL 2020  [pdf] [bib] [website]
  
  
• Character Mapping and Ad-hoc Adaptation: Edinburgh’s IWSLT 2020 Open Domain Translation System
  Pinzhen Chen, Nikolay Bogoychev and Ulrich Germann
  IWSLT at ACL 2020  [pdf] [bib] [video]
  

* indicates equal contribution.

Teaching Activities

Mentor:	System Design Project
Tutor:	Algorithms, Data Structures and Learning
	Object-Oriented Programming
	Introduction to Software Engineering
Lab Demonstrator:	Processing Formal and Natural Languages
	Reasoning and Agents
	Object-Oriented Programming

Personal

I enjoy travelling and cooking. I am learning photography. I used to play Chinese chess, badminton and basketball.


Last Updated: 14 Aug 2020.