Michael Denkowski

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michael.j.denkowski@gmail.com


I work on AI language models at Amazon Web Services. I'm based in Fort Worth, Texas.


Papers

Sockeye 3: Fast Neural Machine Translation with PyTorch
Felix Hieber; Michael Denkowski; Tobias Domhan; Barbara Darques Barros; Celina Dong Ye; Xing Niu; Cuong Hoang; Ke Tran; Benjamin Hsu; Maria Nadejde; Surafel Lakew; Prashant Mathur; Anna Currey; Marcello Federico
arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.05851
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The Sockeye 2 Neural Machine Translation Toolkit at AMTA 2020
Tobias Domhan; Michael Denkowski; David Vilar; Xing Niu; Felix Hieber; Kenneth Heafield
Proceedings of AMTA 2020
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Bi-Directional Neural Machine Translation with Synthetic Parallel Data
Xing Niu; Michael Denkowski; Marine Carpuat
Proceedings of WNMT 2018
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The Sockeye Neural Machine Translation Toolkit at AMTA 2018
Felix Hieber; Tobias Domhan; Michael Denkowski; David Vilar; Artem Sokolov; Ann Clifton; Matt Post
Proceedings of AMTA 2018
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Stronger Baselines for Trustable Results in Neural Machine Translation
Michael Denkowski; Graham Neubig
Proceedings of WNMT 2017
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Machine Translation for Human Translators
Michael Denkowski
Ph.D. Thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, 2015
Committee: Alon Lavie; Chris Dyer; Jaime Carbonell; Gregory Shreve
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Cognitive Demand and Cognitive Effort in Post-Editing
Isabel Lacruz; Michael Denkowski; Alon Lavie
Proceedings of AMTA 2014
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Meteor Universal: Language Specific Translation Evaluation for Any Target Language
Michael Denkowski; Alon Lavie
Proceedings of WMT 2014
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Real Time Adaptive Machine Translation for Post-Editing with cdec and TransCenter
Michael Denkowski; Alon Lavie; Isabel Lacruz; Chris Dyer
Proceedings of HaCat 2014
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Learning from Post-Editing: Online Model Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation
Michael Denkowski; Chris Dyer; Alon Lavie
Proceedings of EACL 2014
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Analyzing and Predicting MT Utility and Post-Editing Productivity in Enterprise-scale Translation Projects
Alon Lavie; Olga Beregovaya; Michael Denkowski; David Clarke
Proceedings of MT Summit 2013
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The CMU Machine Translation Systems at WMT 2013: Syntax, Synthetic Translation Options, and Pseudo-References
Waleed Ammar; Victor Chahuneau; Michael Denkowski; Greg Hanneman; Wang Ling; Austin Matthews; Kenton Murray; Nicola Segall; Alon Lavie; Chris Dyer
Proceedings of WMT 2013
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Challenges in Predicting Machine Translation Utility for Human Post-Editors
Michael Denkowski; Alon Lavie
Proceedings of AMTA 2012
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The CMU-Avenue French-English Translation System
Michael Denkowski; Greg Hanneman; Alon Lavie
Proceedings of WMT 2012
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Meteor 1.3 Automatic Metric for Reliable Optimization and Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems
Michael Denkowski; Alon Lavie
Proceedings of WMT 2011
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Choosing the Right Evaluation for Machine Translation: an Examination of Annotator and Automatic Metric Performance on Human Judgment Tasks
Michael Denkowski; Alon Lavie
Proceedings of AMTA 2010
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METEOR-NEXT and the METEOR Paraphrase Tables: Improved Evaluation Support For Five Target Languages
Michael Denkowski; Alon Lavie
Proceedings of WMT 2010
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Turker-Assisted Paraphrasing for English-Arabic Machine Translation
Michael Denkowski; Hassan Al-Haj; Alon Lavie
Proceedings of the CSLDAMT 2010
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Exploring Normalization Techniques for Human Judgments of Machine Translation Adequacy Collected Using Amazon Mechanical Turk
Michael Denkowski; Alon Lavie
Proceedings of the CSLDAMT 2010
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Extending the METEOR Machine Translation Evaluation Metric to the Phrase Level
Michael Denkowski; Alon Lavie
Proceedings of NAACL 2010
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