Timothy Baldwin

5 paper cards in Mova's library · 2002–2026

Timothy Baldwin wrote 5 of the papers Mova reads, in 2002–2026, most of them on Machine translation; often with Ann Copestake, Dan Flickinger, Francis Bond.

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Papers

Do Diacritics Matter? Evaluating the Impact of Arabic Diacritics on Tokenization and LLM Benchmarks (2026)
The paper asks how Arabic diacritics (vowel marks and related signs) change tokenization and the scores of large language models.
Tangled up in BLEU: Reevaluating the Evaluation of Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics (2020)
The paper checks how metrics are judged. The usual test is the Pearson correlation between a metric's system scores and human direct-assessment scores, computed on the WMT 2019 systems. The authors show that this correlation is fragile: a single outlier system, far worse than the rest, can lift the correlation of all…
Automatic Interpretation of Noun Compounds Using WordNet Similarity (2005)
The paper interprets a novel binary noun compound, such as "paper submission", by finding the most similar training compound and copying its semantic relation.
Multiword Expressions: A Pain in the Neck for NLP (2002)
Not read: this card is written from what is reliably known about the paper, and every idea is marked to check against the text.
Multiword expressions: linguistic precision and reusability (2002)
The paper describes how the LinGO English Resource Grammar (ERG), a broad bidirectional HPSG grammar, encodes multiword expressions (MWEs) in a database.