NLP Competitions
I led the first undergraduate team to participate in the WMT competition, and we won the Finnish-English News translation track with respect to the BLEU score.
| Competition | Representing | Rank | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexa Prize 2023 | SIT | 2nd | Socialbot Challenge 5 at Amazon, team advisor (team lead: Joao Luis Lins) |
| WMT 2022 | SIT | 1st | Code-Mixing MT subtask 2 Hinglish->English, team advisor (team lead: Abdul Rafae Khan) |
| WMT 2022 | SIT | 1st (w.r.t. WER) | Code-Mixing MT subtask 1 Hindi+English->Hinglish, team advisor (team lead: Abdul Rafae Khan) |
| WMT 2018 | Hunter | 1st | French-English Biomedical track, team leader |
| WMT 2017 | Hunter | 1st (w.r.t. BLEU) | Finnish-English News track, team leader |
| NIST 2015 | ICT-DCU | 1st and 4th | 1st (academic inst.) and 4th (overall) team leader and main contributor |
| WMT 2011 | DFKI | 1st (w.r.t. BLEU) | English-German News track team leader, Official result |
| NIST 2008 | MSR | 1st | Intern at MSR - Official Result |
| NIST 2006 | RWTH-Aachen | 4th | Official result |
| NIST 2005 | RWTH-Aachen | 4th | Official result |
| NIST 2004 | RWTH-Aachen | 2nd | Official result |
| GALE 2008 | RWTH-Aachen | 2nd | Ranked second in NightInGale |
| GALE 2007 | RWTH-Aachen | 2nd | Ranked second in NightInGale |
| GALE 2006 | RWTH-Aachen | 2nd | Ranked second in NightInGale |
| TC-Star 2006 | RWTH-Aachen | 1st | |
| TC-Star 2005 | RWTH-Aachen | 1st | |
| TC-Star 2004 | RWTH-Aachen | 1st |