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Research Interests
Streaming algorithms, big data, machine translation, language modeling, and natural language processing
Qualifications
8/2008–9/2013, PhD, Dissertation: Efficient Language Modeling Algorithms with Applications to Statistical Machine Translation, Carnegie Mellon.
9/2003–3/2007, Bachelor of Science, Double major in Mathematics and Computer Science with Honours, Caltech.
Biography
Kenneth Heafield, a Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, makes natural language processing scale to trillions of words and wrote the KenLM toolkit for language modeling. Previously, he helped setup Bloomberg's academic grant program and worked at Stanford as a postdoctoral scholar. He completed his Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon in 2013 advised by Alon Lavie and spent a year concurrently working as a research associate with Philipp Koehn.
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Exploring Diversity in Back Translation for Low-Resource Machine Translation
Burchell, L., Birch-Mayne, A. & Heafield, K., 14 Jul 2022, Proceedings of the 3rd Deep Learning for Low-resource NLP (DeepLo) workshop. Cherry, C., Fan, A., Foster, G., Haffari, G., Khadivi, S., Peng, N., Ren, X., Shareghi, E. & Swayamdipta, S. (eds.). Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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The EuroPat Corpus: A Parallel Corpus of European Patent Data
Heafield, K., Farrow, E., Van Der Linde, J., Ramírez-Sánchez, G. & Wiggins, D., 25 Jun 2022, Proceedings of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. Calzolari, N., Béchet, F., Blache, P., Choukri, K., Cieri, C., Declerck, T., Goggi, S., Isahara, H., Maegaard, B., Mariani, J., Mazo, H., Odijk, J. & Piperidis, S. (eds.). Paris, France: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 732–740 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Efficient Machine Translation with Model Pruning and Quantization
Behnke, M., Bogoychev, N., Aji, A. F., Heafield, K., Nail, G., Zhu, Q., Tchistiakova, S., van der Linde, J., Chen, P., Kashyap, S. & Grundkiewicz, R., 10 Nov 2021, Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 775-780 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Findings of the WMT 2021 Shared Task on Efficient Translation
Heafield, K., Zhu, Q. & Grundkiewicz, R., 10 Nov 2021, Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, p. 639-651 13 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Machine translation in healthcare
Haddow, B., Birch, A. & Heafield, K., 10 May 2021, The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Health . Susam-Saraeva, S. & Spišiaková, E. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Routledge, 22 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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Improving parsing of low-resource Arabic dialects
UK central government bodies/local authorities, health and hospital authorities
20/09/19 → 19/09/23
Project: Research
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Paracrawl 3: Continued Web-Scale Provision of Parallel Corpora for European Languages
Koehn, P., Heafield, K. & Waites, W.
1/10/19 → 30/09/21
Project: Research
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Dr Ken Heafield comments on success of Hadoop data management tool
8/08/16
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment