Pinzhen Chen

I am a third-year PhD student in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Kenneth Heafield and Barry Haddow.

My research is on neural machine translation, and more broadly, natural language processing applications.

I also go by Patrick, or 陈品桢 in Chinese. [pinzhen.chen@ed.ac.uk | Semantic Scholar | Google Scholar | LinkedIn]

Experience

• 2020-present, University of Edinburgh, PhD student
• 2022, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, Research Intern
• 2019, University of Edinburgh. Research Assistant
• 2015-2019, University of Edinburgh, BEng Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering
• 2018, Goldman Sachs, Technology Analyst Intern

Papers

• A unified model for reverse dictionary and definition modelling
  Pinzhen Chen and Zheng Zhao
  In Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP), 2022. [pdf | bib | poster | talk | code]
• Edinburgh at SemEval-2022 Task 1: Jointly fishing for word embeddings and definitions
  Pinzhen Chen and Zheng Zhao
  In Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), 2022. [pdf | bib | poster | talk | code | best paper honorable mention 4/221]
• Approaching neural Chinese word segmentation as a low-resource machine translation task
  Pinzhen Chen and Kenneth Heafield
  In Proceedings of the 36th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC), 2022. [pdf | bib]
• The University of Edinburgh’s English-German and English-Hausa submissions to the WMT21 news translation task
  Pinzhen Chen, Jindřich Helcl, Ulrich Germann, Laurie Burchell, Nikolay Bogoychev, Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone, Jonas Waldendorf, Alexandra Birch, and Kenneth Heafield
  In Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), 2021. [pdf | bib | poster]
• Parallel sentence mining by constrained decoding
  Pinzhen Chen, Nikolay Bogoychev, Kenneth Heafield, and Faheem Kirefu
  In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020. [pdf | bib | talk | code]
• Character mapping and ad-hoc adaptation: Edinburgh’s IWSLT 2020 open domain translation system
  Pinzhen Chen, Nikolay Bogoychev, and Ulrich Germann
  In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), 2020. [pdf | bib]

Personal

I enjoy travelling and cooking. I am learning photography. I sometimes play badminton, basketball as well as board and card games.

Last updated on 25 Nov 2022.