Francisco (Paco) Guzmán

Menlo Park, United States

Paco Guzmán is a Research Scientist working on Translations. His research has been focused on several aspects of Machine Translation including low-resource translation, translation mining, evaluation, and quality estimation.
Over the years, Paco has been a speaker and panelist on several events dedicated to increasing diversity in AI. He co-founded the Facebook-Georgia Tech co-teaching program. Before joining Facebook in 2016, Paco was a Research Scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute in Qatar in 2012-2016. He obtained his PhD in 2011 from ITESM (Monterrey Tech) in Mexico. Paco visited Carnegie Mellon University in 2008-2009 where he worked at the Language Technologies Institute.

Francisco's Work

Paco's Publications

December 04, 2020

NLP

Massively Multilingual Document Alignment with Cross-lingual Sentence-Mover's Distance

Ahmed El-Kishky, Francisco Guzman

December 04, 2020

November 16, 2020

NLP

Research

CCAligned: A Massive Collection of Cross-Lingual Web-Document Pairs

Ahmed El-Kishky, Vishrav Chaudhary, Francisco Guzmán, Philipp Koehn

November 16, 2020

August 31, 2020

Research

NLP

Unsupervised Quality Estimation for Neural Machine Translation

Marina Fomicheva, Shuo Sun, Lisa Yankovskaya, Frédéric Blain, Francisco Guzmán, Mark Fishel, Nikolaos Aletras, Vishrav Chaudhary, Lucia Specia

August 31, 2020

July 06, 2020

Research

NLP

Are We Estimating or Guesstimating Translation Quality?

Shuo Sun, Francisco Guzmán, Lucia Specia

July 06, 2020

October 31, 2019

Research

NLP

The FLORES Evaluation Datasets for Low-Resource Machine Translation: Nepali–English and Sinhala–English

Francisco Guzmán, Peng-Jen Chen, Myle Ott, Juan Pino, Guillaume Lample, Philipp Koehn, Vishrav Chaudhary, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

October 31, 2019

August 02, 2019

Research

NLP

Low-Resource Corpus Filtering using Multilingual Sentence Embeddings

Vishrav Chaudhary, Yuqing Tang, Francisco Guzmán, Holger Schwenk, Philipp Koehn

August 02, 2019

August 02, 2019

Research

NLP

Findings of the WMT 2019 Shared Task on Parallel Corpus Filtering for Low-Resource Conditions

Philipp Koehn, Francisco Guzmán, Vishrav Chaudhary, Juan Pino

August 02, 2019

May 04, 2019

NLP

Speech & Audio

Design and Evaluation of a Social Media Writing Support Tool for People with Dyslexia

Shaomei Wu, Lindsay Reynolds, Xian Li, Francisco Guzmán

May 04, 2019