Samuel Larkin

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Samuel Larkin Researcher Samuel Larkin

Researcher Officer

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.

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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 in Neural Machine Translation at National Research Council Canada.

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Featured Publications

Recent Publications

My latest publications.

Rebecca Knowles, Samuel Larkin, Chi-Kiu Lo (2025). MSLC25: Metric Performance on Low-Quality Machine Translation, Empty Strings, and Language Variants. WMT.

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Samuel Larkin, Chi-Kiu Lo, Rebecca Knowles (2025). NRC Systems for the WMT2025-LRSL Shared Task. WMT2025.

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Shriya Vaagdevi Chikati, Samuel Larkin, David Minicola, Chi-Kiu Lo (2025). Challenges in Technical Regulatory Text Variation Detection. RegNLP.

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Aidan Pine, Erica Cooper, David Guzmán, Eric Joanis, Anna Kazantseva, Ross Krekoski, Roland Kuhn, Samuel Larkin, Patrick Littell, Delaney Lothian, Akwiratékha’ Martin, Korin Richmond, Marc Tessier, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Dan Wells, Junichi Yamagishi (2025). Speech Generation for Indigenous Language Education. Computer Speech & Language.

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Samuel Larkin, Chi-Kiu Lo, Rebecca Knowles (2024). MSLC24 Submissions to the General Machine Translation Task. WMT.

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Rebecca Knowles, Samuel Larkin, Chi-Kiu Lo (2024). MSLC24: Further Challenges for Metrics on a Wide Landscape of Translation Quality. WMT.

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Rebecca Knowles, Samuel Larkin, Michel Simard, Marc a Tessier, Gabriel Bernier-Colborne, Cyril Goutte, Chi-Kiu Lo (2024). Some Tradeoffs in Continual Learning for Parliamentary Neural Machine Translation Systems. AMTA.

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Aidan Pine, Erica Cooper, David Guzmán, Eric Joanis, Anna Kazantseva, Ross Krekoski, Roland Kuhn, Samuel Larkin, Patrick Littell, Delaney Lothian, Akwiratékha’ Martin, Korin Richmond, Marc Tessier, Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Dan Wells, Junichi Yamagishi (2024). Speech Generation for Indigenous Language Education. Computer Speech & Language.

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Chi-Kiu Lo, Samuel Larkin, Rebecca Knowles (2023). Metric Score Landscape Challenge (MSLC23): Understanding Metrics′ Performance on a Wider Landscape of Translation Quality. WMT.

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Rebecca Knowles, Samuel Larkin (2023). Long to reign over us: A Case Study of Machine Translation and a New Monarch. WMT.

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Rebecca Knowles, Samuel Larkin, Marc Tessier, Michel Simard (2023). Terminology in Neural Machine Translation: A Case Study of the Canadian Hansard. EAMT.

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Rebecca Knowles, Samuel Larkin (2021). NRC-CNRC Systems for Upper Sorbian-German and Lower Sorbian-German Machine Translation 2021. WMT.

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Samuel Larkin, Michel Simard, Rebecca Knowles (2021). Like Chalk and Cheese? On the Effects of Translationese in MT Training. MTSummit.

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Rebecca Knowles, Darlene Stewart, Samuel Larkin, Patrick Littell (2021). NRC-CNRC Machine Translation Systems for the 2021 AmericasNLP Shared Task. AmericasNLP.