Bill Byrne
Biographic Data
| ID | 6442226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bill Byrne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bill |
| FAMILY NAME | Byrne |
| SIGNATURE | BYRNE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1896-4492 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Qualitative interviewing
The practical ethics of bias reduction in machine translation
This article probes the practical ethical implications of AI system design by reconsidering the important topic of bias in the datasets used to train autonomous intelligent systems. The discussion draws on recent work concerning behaviour-guiding technologies, and it adopts a cautious form of technological utopianism by assuming it is potentially beneficial for society at large if AI systems are designed to be comparatively free from the biases t…
Pushdown Automata in Statistical Machine Translation
This article describes the use of pushdown automata (PDA) in the context of statistical machine translation and alignment under a synchronous context-free grammar. We use PDAs to compactly represent the space of candidate translations generated by the grammar when applied to an input sentence. General-purpose PDA algorithms for replacement, composition, shortest path, and expansion are presented. We describe HiPDT, a hierarchical phrase-based dec…
Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation with Weighted Finite-State Transducers and Shallow- n Grammars
In this article we describe HiFST, a lattice-based decoder for hierarchical phrase-based translation and alignment. The decoder is implemented with standard Weighted Finite-State Transducer (WFST) operations as an alternative to the well-known cube pruning procedure. We find that the use of WFSTs rather than k-best lists requires less pruning in translation search, resulting in fewer search errors, better parameter optimization, and improved tran…
The elasticity of the tax system of Zambia, 1966–1977
Archaeology and Prehistory of Southern Alberta as Reflected by Ceramics
Archaeology and Prehistory of Southern Alberta as Reflected by Ceramics
The elasticity of the tax system of Zambia, 1966–1977
Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation with Weighted Finite-State Transducers and Shallow- n Grammars
In this article we describe HiFST, a lattice-based decoder for hierarchical phrase-based translation and alignment. The decoder is implemented with standard Weighted Finite-State Transducer (WFST) operations as an alternative to the well-known cube pruning procedure. We find that the use of WFSTs rather than k-best lists requires less pruning in translation search, resulting in fewer search errors, better parameter optimization, and improved tran…
Pushdown Automata in Statistical Machine Translation
This article describes the use of pushdown automata (PDA) in the context of statistical machine translation and alignment under a synchronous context-free grammar. We use PDAs to compactly represent the space of candidate translations generated by the grammar when applied to an input sentence. General-purpose PDA algorithms for replacement, composition, shortest path, and expansion are presented. We describe HiPDT, a hierarchical phrase-based dec…
The practical ethics of bias reduction in machine translation
This article probes the practical ethical implications of AI system design by reconsidering the important topic of bias in the datasets used to train autonomous intelligent systems. The discussion draws on recent work concerning behaviour-guiding technologies, and it adopts a cautious form of technological utopianism by assuming it is potentially beneficial for society at large if AI systems are designed to be comparatively free from the biases t…
Qualitative interviewing
Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Machine translation (3 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 works) · Topic Modeling (3 works) · Algorithm (2 works) · Example-based machine translation (2 works) · Natural language processing (2 works) · Rule-based machine translation (2 works) · Synchronous context-free grammar (2 works)