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Career

· Faculty Director for Data Science Undergraduate Studies, UC Berkeley2023–
· Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, UC Berkeley Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society2021–2023
· Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Lilt Inc.2015–
· Associate Teaching Professor, UC Berkeley EECS department2014–
· Senior Research Scientist, Google2010–2014

Publications (77)

Painless Unsupervised Learning with Features
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2010
253
cited
Supervised Learning of Complete Morphological Paradigms
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2013
150
cited
Tailoring Word Alignments to Syntactic Machine Translation
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2007
133
cited
Better Word Alignments with Supervised ITG Models
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2009
126
cited
Sampling Alignment Structure under a Bayesian Translation Model
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2008
101
cited
The Complexity of Phrase Alignment Problems
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2008
95
cited
Why Generative Phrase Models Underperform Surface Heuristics
WMT@HLT-NAACL · 2006
85
cited
Teaching Introductory Artificial Intelligence with Pac-Man
EAAI · 2010
82
cited
A Class-Based Agreement Model for Generating Accurately Inflected Translations
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2012
80
cited
Adding Interpretable Attention to Neural Translation Models Improves Word Alignment
arXiv.org · 2019
78
cited
Guiding Policies with Language via Meta-Learning
International Conference on Learning Representations · 2018
67
cited
L1 and L2 regularization for multiclass hinge loss models
Symposium on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing · 2011
62
cited
Fast Consensus Decoding over Translation Forests
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2009
60
cited
End-to-End Neural Word Alignment Outperforms GIZA++
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2020
58
cited
Models and Inference for Prefix-Constrained Machine Translation
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2016
58
cited
Compact Personalized Models for Neural Machine Translation
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2018
56
cited
Inducing Sentence Structure from Parallel Corpora for Reordering
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2011
56
cited
Model-Based Aligner Combination Using Dual Decomposition
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2011
46
cited
Variable-Length Word Encodings for Neural Translation Models
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2015
43
cited
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2016
40
cited
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