王 瑞 (Wang, Rui)
Tenured Researcher
Advanced Translation Technology Laboratory
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Kyoto, Japan
Email: wangrui.nlp (as you know) gmail.com; wangrui (as you know) nict.go.jp
Dr. Rui Wang is a computational linguist working as a researcher (tenured since 2020) in NICT. His research focuses on machine translation (MT), a classic task in NLP (or even in AI). His recent interests are traditional linguistic based and cutting-edge machine learning based approaches for MT. He (as the first or the corresponding authors) has published more than 30 MT papers in top-tier NLP/ML/AI conferences and journals, such as ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, IEEE/ACM transactions, etc. He has also won several first places in top-tier MT/NLP shared tasks, such as WMT-2018, WMT-2019, WMT-2020, CoNLL-2019 etc. He served as an area chair of ICLR-2021.
Research Team
Postdoctoral Researcher
Kehai Chen (NICT, Japan, 2018.10-)
Internship Research Fellow
Shintaro Harada (NAIST, Japan, 2020.8-)
Chaoqun Duan (HIT, China, 2019.6-)
Alumni
Zhuosheng Zhang (SJTU, China, 2019.6-2020.7)
Zuchao Li (SJTU, China, 2019.4-2019.10)
Haipeng Sun (HIT, China, 2018.8-2020.4)
Zhisong Zhang (SJTU, China, 2017.7-2018.4)
Kehai Chen (HIT, China, 2017.1-2018.4)
Shared Tasks
WMT-2020: 1st in three tasks (supervised English->Chinese, supervised Polish->English, and unsupervised/low-resource German-Upper Sorbian)
CoNLL-2019: 1st in the DM sub-task and the 2nd overall [Results][Paper]
WMT-2019: 1st in the only unsupervised MT task (German-Czech) [Results] [Paper]
WAT-2018: 1st places in Myanmar (Burmese) <- English [Results][Paper]
WMT-2018: 1st places in four tasks (English<->Estonian and English<->Finnish) [Results][Paper]
2020
Towards More Diverse Input Representation for Neural Machine Translation
Kehai Chen, Rui Wang*, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, Tiejun Zhao, Munyun Yang, and Hai Zhao
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP), 2020
Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation with Cross-lingual Language Representation Agreement
Haipeng Sun, Rui Wang, Kehai Chen, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, and Tiejun Zhao
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP), 2020
Knowledge Distillation for Multilingual Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation
Haipeng Sun, Rui Wang*, Kehai Chen, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, and Tiejun Zhao*
The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2020), Seattle, USA
Content Word Aware Neural Machine Translation
Kehai Chen, Rui Wang*, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichiro Sumita
The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2020), Seattle, USA
Regularized Context Gates on Transformer for Machine Translation
Xintong Li, Lemao Liu, Rui Wang, Guoping Huang, and Max Meng
The 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2020), Seattle, USA
Data-dependent Gaussian Prior Objective for Language Generation
Zuchao Li, Rui Wang*, Kehai Chen, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, Zhuosheng Zhang, and Hai Zhao*
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR-2020), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
[Codes] Note: this is a full-score paper and a long-time talk presentation
Neural Machine Translation with Universal Visual Representation
Zhuosheng Zhang, Kehai Chen, Rui Wang*, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, Zuchao Li, and Hai Zhao*
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR-2020), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
[Codes]
Explicit Sentence Compression for Neural Machine Translation
Zuchao Li, Rui Wang*, Kehai Chen, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, Zhuosheng Zhang, and Hai Zhao*
Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2020), New York, USA
SG-Net: Syntax-Guided Machine Reading Comprehension
Zhuosheng Zhang, Yuwei Wu, Junru Zhou, Sufeng Duan, Hai Zhao*, and Rui Wang*
Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2020), New York, USA
[Codes]
2019
Neural Machine Translation with Sentence-level Topic Context
Kehai Chen, Rui Wang, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, and Tiejun Zhao
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP), 2019
Recurrent Positional Embedding for Neural Machine Translation
Kehai Chen, Rui Wang*, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichiro Sumita
2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP2019), Hong Kong, China
Unsupervised Bilingual Word Embedding Agreement for Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation
Haipeng Sun, Rui Wang*, Kehai Chen, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, and Tiejun Zhao*
The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2019), Florence, Italy
Neural Machine Translation with Reordering Embeddings
Kehai Chen, Rui Wang*, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichiro Sumita
The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2019), Florence, Italy
Sentence-Level Agreement for Neural Machine Translation
Mingming Yang, Rui Wang*, Kehai Chen, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, Min Zhang*, and Tiejun Zhao
The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2019), Florence, Italy
Lattice-Based Transformer Encoder for Neural Machine Translation
Fengshun Xiao, Jiangtong Li, Hai Zhao*, Rui Wang, and Kehai Chen
The 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2019), Florence, Italy
2018
Sentence Selection and Weighting for Neural Machine Translation Domain Adaptation
Rui Wang, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch, Lemao Liu, Kehai Chen, and Eiichiro Sumita
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP), 2018
Graph-based Bilingual Word Embedding for Statistical Machine Translation
Rui Wang, Hai Zhao*, Sabine Ploux*, Bao-Liang Lu, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichiro Sumita
ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), 2018
A Neural Approach to Source Dependency-Based Context Model for Statistical Machine Translation
Kehai Chen, Tiejun Zhao, Muyun Yang, Lemao Liu*, Akihiro Tamura, Rui Wang, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichiro Sumita
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP), 2018
Exploring Recombination for Efficient Decoding of Neural Machine Translation
Zhisong Zhang, Rui Wang*, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, and Hai Zhao*
2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2018), Brussels, Belgium
[Codes]
A Survey of Domain Adaptation for Neural Machine Translation
Chenhui Chu and Rui Wang
The 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2018), Santa Fe, USA
Dynamic Sentence Sampling for Efficient Training of Neural Machine Translation
Rui Wang, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichiro Sumita
The 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2018), Melbourne, Australia
Syntax-Directed Attention for Neural Machine Translation
Kehai Chen, Rui Wang*, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, and Tiejun Zhao
The Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2018), New Orleans, Lousiana, USA
2017
Context-Aware Smoothing for Neural Machine Translation
Kehai Chen, Rui Wang*, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita, and Tiejun Zhao
The 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2017), Taipei, China
Instance Weighting for Neural Machine Translation Domain Adaptation
Rui Wang, Masao Utiyama, Lemao Liu, Kehai Chen, and Eiichro Sumita
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2017), Copenhagen, Denmark
Neural Machine Translation with Source Dependency Representation
Kehai Chen, Rui Wang*, Masao Utiyama, Lemao Liu, Akihiro Tamura, Eiichiro Sumita, and Tiejun Zhao
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2017), Copenhagen, Denmark
Sentence Embedding for Neural Machine Translation Domain Adaptation
Rui Wang, Andrew Finch, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichro Sumita
The 55th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2017), Vancouver, Canada
2016 and Before
Converting Continuous-Space Language Models into N-gram Language Models with Efficient Bilingual Pruning for Statistical Machine Translation
Rui Wang, Masao Utiyama*, Isao Goto, Eiichiro Sumita, Hai Zhao*, and Bao-Liang Lu
ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP), 2016
Bilingual Continuous-Space Language Model Growing for Statistical Machine Translation
Rui Wang, Hai Zhao*, Bao-Liang Lu, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichiro Sumita
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP), 2015
Connecting Phrase based Statistical Machine Translation Adaptation
Rui Wang, Hai Zhao*, Bao-Liang Lu, Masao Utiyama*, and Eiichro Sumita
The 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2016), Osaka, Japan
A Bilingual Graph-based Semantic Model for Statistical Machine Translation
Rui Wang, Hai Zhao*, Sabine Ploux*, Bao-Liang Lu, and Masao Utiyama
25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-16), New York, USA
[Codes]
Neural Network Based Bilingual Language Model Growing for Statistical Machine Translation
Rui Wang, Hai Zhao*, Bao-Liang Lu, Masao Utiyama, and Eiichro Sumita
Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2014), Doha, Qatar
Converting Continuous-Space Language Models into N-gram Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Rui Wang, Masao Utiyama, Isao Goto, Eiichro Sumita, Hai Zhao, and Bao-Liang Lu
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-2013), Seattle, USA