Bonnie Dorr

Papers

1. Children's English Reading Story Generation via Supervised Fine-Tuning of Compact LLMs with Controllable Difficulty and Safety (2026)
   Story generators for early readers often break a curriculum's constraints. The authors start from a K–2 phonics curriculum of 129 lessons, each listing its target phonemes, and 2,580 stories (ten per lesson) that GPT-4o and Llama 3.3 70B wrote zero-shot. They fine-tune three 8B models (Llama 3, Apertus, Granite 3.3)…
2. A Study of Translation Edit Rate with Targeted Human Annotation (2006)
   The paper proposes Translation Edit Rate (TER): the minimum number of edits (insertion, deletion, substitution, and shift of a word sequence, each costing one) that turns a system output into one of the references, divided by the average reference length.
3. CatVar: A Database of Categorial Variations for English (2003)
   CatVar is a database of categorial variations of English lexemes: a noun, a verb and an adjective that share one root, such as "destroy", "destruction" and "destructive".
4. Parameterization of the Interlingua in Machine Translation (1992)
   The UNITRAN system is an interlingual translator for English, Spanish and German. Its pivot is a lexical conceptual structure shared by all three languages. Differences between languages are not coded as separate processors. They are settings of a few parameters attached to universal principles: for example whether…
5. Solving Thematic Divergences in Machine Translation (1990)
   A divergent predicate-argument structure is one where the main verb or its arguments take a different syntactic order in the target language, for example when the theme of a verb surfaces as the subject in Spanish but as the object in English.

Co-authors (10)

• Fanghua Cao
• John Makhoul
• Linnea Micciulla
• Matthew Snover
• Min Yao
• Nizar Habash
• Qian Shen
• Rich Schwartz
• Shlok Gilda
• Walter Leite

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