# Elizabeth Salesky ## Featured Co-authors - [Graham Neubig](/content/profile/graham-neubig/index.html) 243 publications - [Ryan Cotterell](/content/profile/ryan-cotterell/index.html) 156 publications - [Isabelle Augenstein](/content/profile/isabelle-augenstein/index.html) 93 publications - [Alan W Black](/content/profile/alan-w-black/index.html) 73 publications - [Antonios Anastasopoulos](/content/profile/antonios-anastasopoulos/index.html) 66 publications - [Yulia Tsvetkov](/content/profile/yulia-tsvetkov/index.html) 64 publications - [Yossi Adi](/content/profile/yossi-adi/index.html) 58 publications - [Colin Raffel](/content/profile/colin-raffel/index.html) 57 publications - [Matteo Negri](/content/profile/matteo-negri/index.html) 52 publications - [Jan Niehues](/content/profile/jan-niehues/index.html) 48 publications - [Alex Waibel](/content/profile/alex-waibel/index.html) 45 publications ## Research ### [Pixel Representations for Multilingual Translation and Data-efficient Cross-lingual Transfer](/content/publication/pixel-representations-for-multilingual-translation-and-data-efficient-cross-lingual-transfer/index.html) 05/23/2023 We introduce and demonstrate how to effectively train multilingual machi... ### [A Holistic Cascade System, benchmark, and Human Evaluation Protocol for Expressive Speech-to-Speech Translation](/content/publication/a-holistic-cascade-system-benchmark-and-human-evaluation-protocol-for-expressive-speech-to-speech-translation/index.html) 01/25/2023 Expressive speech-to-speech translation (S2ST) aims to transfer prosodic... ### [Language Modelling with Pixels](/content/publication/language-modelling-with-pixels/index.html) 07/14/2022 Language models are defined over a finite set of inputs, which creates a... ### [BibleTTS: a large, high-fidelity, multilingual, and uniquely African speech corpus](/content/publication/bibletts-a-large-high-fidelity-multilingual-and-uniquely-african-speech-corpus/index.html) 07/07/2022 BibleTTS is a large, high-quality, open speech dataset for ten languages... ### [UniMorph 4.0: Universal Morphology](/content/publication/unimorph-4-0-universal-morphology/index.html) 05/07/2022 The Universal Morphology (UniMorph) project is a collaborative effort pr... ### [Between words and characters: A Brief History of Open-Vocabulary Modeling and Tokenization in NLP](/content/publication/between-words-and-characters-a-brief-history-of-open-vocabulary-modeling-and-tokenization-in-nlp/index.html) 12/20/2021 What are the units of text that we want to model? From bytes to multi-wo... ### [Assessing Evaluation Metrics for Speech-to-Speech Translation](/content/publication/assessing-evaluation-metrics-for-speech-to-speech-translation/index.html) 10/26/2021 Speech-to-speech translation combines machine translation with speech sy... ### [A surprisal–duration trade-off across and within the world's languages](/content/publication/a-surprisal-duration-trade-off-across-and-within-the-world-s-languages/index.html) 09/30/2021 While there exist scores of natural languages, each with its unique feat... ### [SIGTYP 2021 Shared Task: Robust Spoken Language Identification](/content/publication/sigtyp-2021-shared-task-robust-spoken-language-identification/index.html) 06/07/2021 While language identification is a fundamental speech and language proce... ### [Robust Open-Vocabulary Translation from Visual Text Representations](/content/publication/robust-open-vocabulary-translation-from-visual-text-representations/index.html) 04/16/2021 Machine translation models have discrete vocabularies and commonly use s... ### [The Multilingual TEDx Corpus for Speech Recognition and Translation](/content/publication/the-multilingual-tedx-corpus-for-speech-recognition-and-translation/index.html) 02/02/2021 We present the Multilingual TEDx corpus, built to support speech recogni... ### [SIGTYP 2020 Shared Task: Prediction of Typological Features](/content/publication/sigtyp-2020-shared-task-prediction-of-typological-features/index.html) 10/16/2020 Typological knowledge bases (KBs) such as WALS (Dryer and Haspelmath, 20... ### [SIGMORPHON 2020 Shared Task 0: Typologically Diverse Morphological Inflection](/content/publication/sigmorphon-2020-shared-task-0-typologically-diverse-morphological-inflection/index.html) 06/20/2020 A broad goal in natural language processing (NLP) is to develop a system... ### [A Corpus for Large-Scale Phonetic Typology](/content/publication/a-corpus-for-large-scale-phonetic-typology/index.html) 05/28/2020 A major hurdle in data-driven research on typology is having sufficient ... ### [Phone Features Improve Speech Translation](/content/publication/phone-features-improve-speech-translation/index.html) 05/27/2020 End-to-end models for speech translation (ST) more tightly couple speech... ### [Relative Positional Encoding for Speech Recognition and Direct Translation](/content/publication/relative-positional-encoding-for-speech-recognition-and-direct-translation/index.html) 05/20/2020 Transformer models are powerful sequence-to-sequence architectures that ... ### [Generalized Entropy Regularization or: There's Nothing Special about Label Smoothing](/content/publication/generalized-entropy-regularization-or-there-s-nothing-special-about-label-smoothing/index.html) 05/02/2020 Prior work has explored directly regularizing the output distributions o... ### [CMU-01 at the SIGMORPHON 2019 Shared Task on Crosslinguality and Context in Morphology](/content/publication/cmu-01-at-the-sigmorphon-2019-shared-task-on-crosslinguality-and-context-in-morphology/index.html) 07/23/2019 This paper presents the submission by the CMU-01 team to the SIGMORPHON ... ### [Exploring Phoneme-Level Speech Representations for End-to-End Speech Translation](/content/publication/exploring-phoneme-level-speech-representations-for-end-to-end-speech-translation/index.html) 06/04/2019 Previous work on end-to-end translation from speech has primarily used f... ### [Fluent Translations from Disfluent Speech in End-to-End Speech Translation](/content/publication/fluent-translations-from-disfluent-speech-in-end-to-end-speech-translation/index.html) 06/03/2019 Spoken language translation applications for speech suffer due to conver... ### [Towards Fluent Translations from Disfluent Speech](/content/publication/towards-fluent-translations-from-disfluent-speech/index.html) 11/07/2018 When translating from speech, special consideration for conversational s... ### [Optimizing Segmentation Granularity for Neural Machine Translation](/content/publication/optimizing-segmentation-granularity-for-neural-machine-translation/index.html) 10/19/2018 In neural machine translation (NMT), it is has become standard to transl...