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🥼About Me
Samuel Larkin is a Researcher Officer at National Research Council Canada (NRC). He started at NRC in 2005 as a Computer Scientist doing Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). He transitioned to Neural Machine Translation (NMT) in 2014.
Interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computational Linguistics
- Machine Translation
Education
PhD Artificial Intelligence
Stanford University
MEng Artificial Intelligence
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BSc Artificial Intelligence
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
📚 My Research
I’m a Research Officer at National Research Council Canada.
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Featured Publications
Recent Publications
My latest publications.
(2025).
Challenges in Technical Regulatory Text Variation Detection.
Proceedings of the 1st Regulatory NLP Workshop (RegNLP 2025).
(2025).
Speech Generation for Indigenous Language Education.
Computer Speech & Language.
(2024).
MSLC24 Submissions to the General Machine Translation Task.
Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation.
(2024).
MSLC24: Further Challenges for Metrics on a Wide Landscape of Translation Quality.
Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation.
(2024).
Some Tradeoffs in Continual Learning for Parliamentary Neural Machine Translation Systems.
Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (Volume 1: Research Track).
(2024).
Speech Generation for Indigenous Language Education.
Computer Speech & Language.
(2023).
Metric Score Landscape Challenge (MSLC23): Understanding Metrics′ Performance on a Wider Landscape of Translation Quality.
Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Machine Translation.
(2023).
Long to reign over us: A Case Study of Machine Translation and a New Monarch.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023.
(2023).
Terminology in Neural Machine Translation: A Case Study of the Canadian Hansard.
Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation.
(2021).
NRC-CNRC Systems for Upper Sorbian-German and Lower Sorbian-German Machine Translation 2021.
Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Machine Translation.
(2021).
Like Chalk and Cheese? On the Effects of Translationese in MT Training.
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XVIII: Research Track.
(2021).
NRC-CNRC Machine Translation Systems for the 2021 AmericasNLP Shared Task.
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indigenous Languages of the Americas.
(2020).
Machine Translation Reference-less Evaluation using YiSi-2 with Bilingual Mappings of Massive Multilingual Language Model.
Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation.
(2020).
NRC Systems for Low Resource German-Upper Sorbian Machine Translation 2020: Transfer Learning with Lexical Modifications.
Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation.
(2020).
NRC Systems for the 2020 Inuktitut-English News Translation Task.
Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation.
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