Alexandra Birch
Professor
Works on multilingual and multimodal natural language processing, including machine translation and applications of language models.
Alexandra Birch's lab at Edinburgh works on multilingual, translation & linguistics, large language models and vision-language & multimodal. 46 papers since 2023, 18 at top venues, mostly ACL and Findings of ACL. 15 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 12/ year
- at T1 venues
- 39%
- PhD students
- 0
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 15
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 6 papers2026 · T1 3 · collecting
- 16 papers2025 · T1 7
- 16 papers2024 · T1 5
- 8 papers2023 · T1 3
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ACL, Findings of ACL, EMNLP, Findings of EMNLP, COLING
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Large language models27 papers
- Multilingual, translation & linguistics24 papers
- Vision-language & multimodal21 papers
- multilingual11 papers
- machine translation10 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20266 papers
- Findings of ACLControlling What You Share: Assessing Language Model Adherence to Privacy Preferences (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLF-Actor: Controllable Conversational Behavior in Full-Duplex Models (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLGenerics are not quantificational: A new path from language models to semantic theory (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)HBO: Hierarchical Balancing Optimization for Fine-Tuning Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Learning to Summarize by Learning to Quiz: Adversarial Agentic Collaboration for Long Document Summarization (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)The Prosody of Emojis (opens in a new tab)
202516 papers
- COLING WorkshopAveniBench: Accessible and Versatile Evaluation of Finance Intelligence (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Bridging the Language Gaps in Large Language Models with Inference-Time Cross-Lingual Intervention (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPDemystifying Multilingual Reasoning in Process Reward Modeling (opens in a new tab)
- WMTEdinHelsOW WMT 2025 CreoleMT System Description: Improving Lusophone Creole Translation through Data Augmentation, Model Merging and LLM Post-editing (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)EuroGEST: Investigating gender stereotypes in multilingual language models (opens in a new tab)
- COLING (T1)Generics are puzzling. Can language models find the missing piece? (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Improving Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Language Models through Dialectic Reasoning Argumentations (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Liaozhai through the Looking-Glass: On Paratextual Explicitation of Culture-Bound Terms in Machine Translation (opens in a new tab)
- Inf.Machine Translation in the Era of Large Language Models:A Survey of Historical and Emerging Problems (opens in a new tab)
- Comput. LinguisticsMachine Translation Meta Evaluation through Translation Accuracy Challenge Sets (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPMultilingual Data Filtering using Synthetic Data from Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- COLING (T1)No Train but Gain: Language Arithmetic for training-free Language Adapters enhancement (opens in a new tab)
202416 papers
- NAACL (T1)Assessing Factual Reliability of Large Language Model Knowledge (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLCache & Distil: Optimising API Calls to Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc.Can GPT-3.5 generate and code discharge summaries? (opens in a new tab)
- EACLCode-Switched Language Identification is Harder Than You Think (opens in a new tab)
- IWSLTCompact Speech Translation Models via Discrete Speech Units Pretraining (opens in a new tab)
- EACLContrastive Decoding Reduces Hallucinations in Large Multilingual Machine Translation Models (opens in a new tab)
- WMTCultural Adaptation of Menus: A Fine-Grained Approach (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Document-Level Machine Translation with Large-Scale Public Parallel Corpora (opens in a new tab)
- CogSciEffects of Context on the Use of Descriptive Verbs (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Empowering Multi-step Reasoning across Languages via Program-Aided Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- LREC/COLINGIs Modularity Transferable? A Case Study through the Lens of Knowledge Distillation (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EACLProsody in Cascade and Direct Speech-to-Text Translation: a case study on Korean Wh-Phrases (opens in a new tab)
20238 papers
- ACL (T1)An Open Dataset and Model for Language Identification (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPCode-Switching with Word Senses for Pretraining in Neural Machine Translation (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EACLExploring Enhanced Code-Switched Noising for Pretraining in Neural Machine Translation (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Extrinsic Evaluation of Machine Translation Metrics (opens in a new tab)
- Trans. Assoc. Comput. LinguisticsHallucinations in Large Multilingual Translation Models (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLMulti3NLU++: A Multilingual, Multi-Intent, Multi-Domain Dataset for Natural Language Understanding in Task-Oriented Dialogue (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Prompting Large Language Model for Machine Translation: A Case Study (opens in a new tab)
- WMTTowards Effective Disambiguation for Machine Translation with Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went15 listed
Apply to EdinburghFall 2027
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Informatics PhD
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- Rolling (funding consideration)
- Opens
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- GRE
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- English
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- Fee
- none
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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