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 specifically parallel sentence mining, filtering, and sentence similarity. I also go by Patrick, or 陈品桢 in Chinese. [pinzhen.chen@ed.ac.uk] [Semantic Scholar] [Google Scholar] [LinkedIn]

Experience

Papers

• Edinburgh at SemEval-2022 Task 1: Jointly fishing for word embeddings and definitions
  Pinzhen Chen and Zheng Zhao
  Proceedings of the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval), 2022. [pdf | bib | poster]
• A unified model for reverse dictionary and definition modelling
  Pinzhen Chen and Zheng Zhao
  arXiv preprint, 2022. [pdf | bib]
• The highs and lows of simple lexical domain adaptation approaches for neural machine translation
  Nikolay Bogoychev and Pinzhen Chen
  Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP, 2021. [pdf | bib | poster]
• 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
  Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), 2021. [pdf | bib | poster]
• Efficient machine translation with model pruning and quantization
  Maximiliana Behnke, Nikolay Bogoychev, Alham Fikri Aji, Kenneth Heafield, Graeme Nail, Qianqian Zhu, Svetlana Tchistiakova, Jelmer van der Linde, Pinzhen Chen, Sidharth Kashyap, and Roman Grundkiewicz
  Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), 2021. [pdf | bib | poster]
• The University of Edinburgh’s Bengali-Hindi submissions to the WMT21 news translation task
  Proyag Pal, Alham Fikri Aji, Pinzhen Chen, and Sukanta Sen
  Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), 2021. [pdf | bib | poster]
• Approaching neural Chinese word segmentation as a low-resource machine translation task
  Pinzhen Chen and Kenneth Heafield
  arXiv preprint, 2020. [pdf | bib]
• Parallel sentence mining by constrained decoding
  Pinzhen Chen, Nikolay Bogoychev, Kenneth Heafield, and Faheem Kirefu
  Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020. [pdf | bib | code]
• 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
  Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (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
  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 and Chinese chess.

Last updated on 11 May 2022.