Publications

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Preprints

2026

  1. arXiv
    Rewrite to Translate, Translate to Reward: Reinforcement Learning for Source Rewriting in Machine Translation
    2026

2025

  1. arXiv
    Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for Error Span Detection in Reference-Free Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation
    2025
  2. arXiv
    When Alignment Hurts: Decoupling Representational Spaces in Multilingual Models
    Ahmed Elshabrawy, Hour Kaing, Haiyue Song, Alham Fikri Aji, Hideki Tanaka, Masao Utiyama, and Raj Dabre
    2025

Journal Articles

2024

  1. JIP
    Bilingual Corpus Mining and Multistage Fine-tuning for Improving Machine Translation of Lecture Transcripts
    Journal of Information Processing, 2024
  2. JNLP
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    DiverSeg: Leveraging Diverse Segmentations with Cross-granularity Alignment for Neural Machine Translation
    Journal of Natural Language Processing, 2024

2023

  1. TALLIP
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    SelfSeg: A Self-supervised Sub-word Segmentation Method for Neural Machine Translation
    TALLIP, Aug 2023
  2. JIP
    Spatial Hierarchical Attention Network Based Video-guided Machine Translation
    Weiqi Gu, Haiyue Song, Chenhui Chu, and Sadao Kurohashi
    Journal of Information Processing, 2023

2019

  1. TODAES
    Energy-Efficient and Quality-Assured Approximate Computing Framework Using a Co-Training Method
    Li Jiang, Zhuoran Song, Haiyue Song, Chengwen Xu, Qiang Xu, Naifeng Jing, Weifeng Zhang, and Xiaoyao Liang
    ACM TODAES, Aug 2019

International Conferences

2026

  1. EMNLP
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    OptiMer: Optimal Distribution Vector Merging Is Better than Data Mixing for Continual Pre-Training
    Haiyue Song and Masao Utiyama
    Accepted to EMNLP 2026 Main
  2. EMNLP
    ExCAM: Explainable Cultural Awareness Metrics
    Accepted to EMNLP 2026 Findings
  3. EMNLP
    Is Human Annotation Necessary? Iterative MBR Distillation for Error Span Detection in Machine Translation
    Boxuan Lyu, Haiyue Song, and Zhi Qu
    Accepted to EMNLP 2026 Findings

2025

  1. IJCNLP-AACL
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    Structured Document Translation via Format Reinforcement Learning
    IJCNLP-AACL 2025 Main
  2. IJCNLP-AACL
    ImageTra: Real-Time Translation for Texts in Image and Video
    IJCNLP-AACL 2025 Demos
  3. IJCNLP-AACL
    PRALEKHA: Cross-Lingual Document Alignment for Indic Languages
    Sanjay Suryanarayanan, Haiyue Song, Mohammed Safi Ur Rahman Khan, Anoop Kunchukuttan, and Raj Dabre
    IJCNLP-AACL 2025 Main
  4. IJCNLP-AACL
    Multilingual Iterative Model Pruning: What Matters?
    IJCNLP-AACL 2025 Main
  5. EMNLP
    CaMMT: Benchmarking Culturally Aware Multimodal Machine Translation
    Emilio Villa-Cueva, Sholpan Bolatzhanova, Diana Turmakhan, Kareem Elzeky, Henok Biadglign Ademtew, Alham Fikri Aji, Vladimir Araujo, Israel Abebe Azime, and 27 more authors
    EMNLP 2025 Findings
  6. MT Summit
    bytF: How Good Are Byte Level N-Gram F-Scores for Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation?
    Raj Dabre, Kaing Hour, and Haiyue Song
    MT Summit 2025
  7. COLING
    PrahokBART: A Pre-trained Sequence-to-Sequence Model for Khmer Natural Language Generation
    COLING 2025
  8. COLING Workshop
    Exploiting Word Sense Disambiguation in Large Language Models for Machine Translation
    COLING 2025 Workshop
  9. COLING
    Connecting Ideas in ’Lower-Resource’ Scenarios: NLP for National Varieties, Creoles and Other Low-resource Scenarios
    Aditya Joshi, Diptesh Kanojia, Heather Lent, Hour Kaing, and Haiyue Song
    COLING 2025 Tutorial

2024

  1. NeurIPS
    CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark
    David Romero, Chenyang Lyu, Haryo Akbarianto Wibowo, Teresa Lynn, Injy Hamed, Aditya Nanda Kishore, Aishik Mandal, Alina Dragonetti, and 68 more authors
    NeurIPS 2024
  2. AMTA
    How Effective is Synthetic Data and Instruction Fine-tuning for Translation with Markup using LLMs?
    AMTA 2024
  3. IWSLT
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    NICT’s Cascaded and End-To-End Speech Translation Systems using Whisper and IndicTrans2 for the Indic Task
    Raj Dabre and Haiyue Song
    IWSLT 2024
  4. EAMT
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    SubMerge: Merging Equivalent Subword Tokenizations for Subword Regularized Models in Neural Machine Translation
    EAMT 2024
  5. EAMT
    Linguistically Motivated Neural Machine Translation
    Haiyue Song, Hour Kaing, and Raj Dabre
    EAMT 2024 Tutorial
  6. EAMT Workshop
    Incorporating Hypernym Features for Improving Low-resource Neural Machine Translation
    Abhisek Chakrabarty, Haiyue Song, Raj Dabre, Hideki Tanaka, and Masao Utiyama
    EAMT 2024 Workshop
  7. LREC-COLING
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    NGLUEni: Benchmarking and Adapting Pretrained Language Models for Nguni Languages
    Francois Meyer, Haiyue Song, Abhisek Chakrabarty, Jan Buys, Raj Dabre, and Hideki Tanaka
    LREC-COLING 2024
  8. IWSDS
    Enhancing Personality Recognition in Dialogue by Data Augmentation and Heterogeneous Conversational Graph Networks
    Yahui Fu, Haiyue Song, Tianyu Zhao, and Tatsuya Kawahara
    IWSDS 2024

2023

  1. EMNLP
    GPT-RE: In-context Learning for Relation Extraction using Large Language Models
    EMNLP 2023 Main
  2. ACL
    Exploring the Impact of Layer Normalization for Zero-shot Neural Machine Translation
    ACL 2023 Main
  3. EAMT Workshop
    Variable-length Neural Interlingua Representations for Zero-shot Neural Machine Translation
    EAMT 2023 Workshop
  4. EACL
    Relation Extraction with Weighted Contrastive Pre-training on Distant Supervision
    EACL 2023 Findings

2022

  1. AACL
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    BERTSeg: BERT Based Unsupervised Subword Segmentation for Neural Machine Translation
    AACL-IJCNLP 2022 Main
  2. NAACL
    When do Contrastive Word Alignments Improve Many-to-many Neural Machine Translation?
    NAACL 2022 Findings

2021

  1. ACL SRW
    Video-guided Machine Translation with Spatial Hierarchical Attention Network
    Weiqi Gu, Haiyue Song, Chenhui Chu, and Sadao Kurohashi
    ACL-IJCNLP 2021 SRW

2020

  1. EMNLP Workshop
    A System for Worldwide COVID-19 Information Aggregation
    Akiko Aizawa, Frederic Bergeron, Junjie Chen, Fei Cheng, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Kentaro Inui, Hiroyoshi Ito, Daisuke Kawahara, and 21 more authors
    EMNLP 2020 Workshop, also at the Workshop on NLP for COVID-19 at ACL 2020
  2. ACL SRW
    Pre-training via Leveraging Assisting Languages for Neural Machine Translation
    ACL 2020 SRW
  3. LREC
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    Coursera Corpus Mining and Multistage Fine-Tuning for Improving Lectures Translation
    LREC 2020
  4. LREC
    JASS: Japanese-specific Sequence to Sequence Pre-training for Neural Machine Translation
    Zhuoyuan Mao, Fabien Cromieres, Raj Dabre, Haiyue Song, and Sadao Kurohashi
    LREC 2020

2018

  1. ICCAD
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    Invocation-driven neural approximate computing with a multiclass-classifier and multiple approximators
    Haiyue Song, Chengwen Xu, Qiang Xu, Zhuoran Song, Naifeng Jing, Xiaoyao Liang, and Li Jiang
    ICCAD 2018
  2. FPGA
    A FPGA Friendly Approximate Computing Framework with Hybrid Neural Networks: (Abstract Only)
    Haiyue Song, Xiang Song, Tianjian Li, Hao Dong, Naifeng Jing, Xiaoyao Liang, and Li Jiang
    FPGA 2018

Domestic Conferences (non peer-reviewed)

2026

  1. ANLP
    FormatRL: Format Reinforcement Learning for Structured Document Translation
    宋 海越, Johannes Eschbach-Dymanus, Hour Kaing, Sumire Honda, 田中 英輝, Bianka Buschbeck, and 内山 将夫
    In 言語処理学会第32回年次大会(NLP2026)
  2. ANLP
    Profanity as a Cue: When LLMs Mistake Toxicity for Hate
    Haotian Ye, 宋 海越, Hour Kaing, 丁 塵辰, 田中 英輝, and 内山 将夫
    In 言語処理学会第32回年次大会(NLP2026)

2025

  1. YANS
    生成型自動評価指標のための最小ベイズリスク復号
    呂 博軒, 宋 海越, 上垣外 英剛, 田中 英輝, 内山 将夫, 船越 孝太郎, and 奥村 学
    In 第20回言語処理若手シンポジウム(YANS2025)
  2. ANLP
    Towards Scene Text Translation for Complex Writing Systems
    Hour Kaing, 宋 海越, 丁 塵辰, 毛 剣楠, 田中 英輝, and 内山 将夫
    In 言語処理学会第31回年次大会(NLP2025)

2024

  1. ANLP
    Robust Neural Machine Translation for Abugidas by Glyph Perturbation
    In 言語処理学会第30回年次大会(NLP2024)

2023

  1. ANLP
    Large Pre-trained Language Models with Multilingual Prompt for Japanese Natural Language Tasks
    In 言語処理学会第29回年次大会(NLP2023)

2022

  1. ANLP
    Representative Data Selection for Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training
    In 言語処理学会第28回年次大会(NLP2022)
  2. ANLP
    Improving Medical Relation Extraction with Distantly Supervised Pre-training
    In 言語処理学会第28回年次大会(NLP2022)

2021

  1. ANLP
    Self-supervised Dynamic Programming Encoding for Neural Machine Translation
    In 言語処理学会第27回年次大会(NLP2021)
  2. ANLP
    Video-guided Machine Translation with Spatial Hierarchical Attention Network Encoder
    Weiqi Gu, Haiyue Song, Chenhui Chu, and Sadao Kurohashi
    In 言語処理学会第27回年次大会(NLP2021)

2020

  1. ANLP
    Domain Adaptation of Neural Machine Translation through Multistage Fine-Tuning
    In 言語処理学会第26回年次大会(NLP2020)
  2. ANLP
    ニューラル機械翻訳のための言語知識に基づくマルチタスク事前学習
    Zhuoyuan Mao, Raj Dabre, Fabien Cromieres, 宋 海越, 中尾 亮太, and 黒橋 禎夫
    In 言語処理学会第26回年次大会(NLP2020)