Publications

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2026

2026 N. Chirkova, T. O. Ajayi, S. Aycock, Z. M. Mujahid, V. Perlić, E. Borisova & M. Vartampetian LLM-as-a-qualitative-judge: automating error analysis in natural language generation MME @ EACL [paper]
2026 P. Schmidtová*, N. Bafna*, S. Aycock*, G. Vico, W. Kamzela, K. Hämmerl & V. Zouhar How Important is ‘Perfect’ English for Machine Translation Prompts? EACL (Findings) [paper]

2025

2025 S. Aycock, D. Stap, D. Wu, C. Monz & K. Sima'an Can LLMs Really Learn to Translate a Low-Resource Language from One Grammar Book? ICLR (Spotlight) [paper]
2025 D. Wu*, S. Aycock* & C. Monz Please Translate Again: Two Simple Experiments on Whether Human-Like Reasoning Helps Translation EMNLP (Main) [paper]
2025 D. Wu, Y. Meng, M. Nachesa, S. Aycock & C. Monz UvA-MT’s Participation in the WMT25 General Translation Shared Task WMT @ EMNLP [paper]
2025 K. Alperin, R. Leekha, A. Uchendu, T. Nguyen, S. Medarametla, C. L. Capote, S. Aycock & C. Dagli Masks and Mimicry: Strategic Obfuscation and Impersonation Attacks on Authorship Verification NLP4DH @ NAACL [paper]

2024

2024 S. Aycock & R. Bawden Topic-guided Example Selection for Domain Adaptation in LLM-based Machine Translation SRW @ EACL [paper]
2024 S. Tan, D. Wu, D. Stap, S. Aycock & C. Monz UvA-MT’s Participation in the WMT24 General Translation Shared Task WMT @ EMNLP [paper]

2021

2021 S. Aycock Target-side CCG Supertag Prediction Improves Machine Translation MSc Dissertation [paper]

2020

Dec. 2020 J. Hughes, S. Aycock, A. Caines, P. Buttery & A. Hutchings Detecting Trending Terms in Cybersecurity Forum Discussions EMNLP (W-NUT) [paper]
2020 S. Aycock A Third-Factor Account of Locality: Explaining Impenetrability and Intervention Effects with Minimal Search COPiL 12(1), BA Thesis [paper]