Findings of the Shared Task on Machine Translation in Dravidian languages DravidianLangTech EACL

Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi | Ruba Priyadharshini | Shubhanker Banerjee | Richard Saldanha | John P. McCrae | Anand Kumar M | Parameswari Krishnamurthy | Melvin Johnson |

Explicit Alignment Objectives for Multilingual Bidirectional Encoders NAACL

Junjie Hu | Melvin Johnson | Orhan Firat | Aditya Siddhant | Graham Neubig |

nmT5 - Is parallel data still relevant for pre-training massively multilingual language models? ACL IJCNLP

Mihir Kale | Aditya Siddhant | Rami Al-Rfou | Linting Xue | Noah Constant | Melvin Johnson |

HintedBT: Augmenting Back-Translation with Quality and Transliteration Hints EMNLP

Sahana Ramnath | Melvin Johnson | Abhirut Gupta | Aravindan Raghuveer |

XTREME-R: Towards More Challenging and Nuanced Multilingual Evaluation EMNLP

Sebastian Ruder | Noah Constant | Jan Botha | Aditya Siddhant | Orhan Firat | Jinlan Fu | Pengfei Liu | Junjie Hu | Dan Garrette | Graham Neubig | Melvin Johnson |

MergeDistill: Merging Language Models using Pre-trained Distillation Findings

Simran Khanuja | Melvin Johnson | Partha Talukdar |

Small and Practical BERT Models for Sequence Labeling EMNLP

Henry Tsai | Jason Riesa | Melvin Johnson | Naveen Arivazhagan | Xin Li | Amelia Archer |

Massively Multilingual Neural Machine Translation NAACL

Roee Aharoni | Melvin Johnson | Orhan Firat |

The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Recent Advances in Neural Machine Translation ACL

Mia Xu Chen | Orhan Firat | Ankur Bapna | Melvin Johnson | Wolfgang Macherey | George Foster | Llion Jones | Mike Schuster | Noam Shazeer | Niki Parmar | Ashish Vaswani | Jakob Uszkoreit | Lukasz Kaiser | Zhifeng Chen | Yonghui Wu | Macduff Hughes |

Google’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System: Enabling Zero-Shot Translation TACL

Melvin Johnson | Mike Schuster | Quoc V. Le | Maxim Krikun | Yonghui Wu | Zhifeng Chen | Nikhil Thorat | Fernanda Viégas | Martin Wattenberg | Greg Corrado | Macduff Hughes | Jeffrey Dean |