Christo Kirov

Researcher, Google

Joined

September 2021

Names

Christo Kirov (Preferred)

Emails

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Personal Links

Google Scholar

DBLP

Semantic Scholar

Career & Education History

Researcher

Google (google.com)

2019 – Present

Postdoc

Johns Hopkins University (jhu.edu)

2014 – 2019

Postdoc

Georgetown University (georgetown.edu)

2013 – 2014

PhD student

Johns Hopkins University (jhu.edu)

2007 – 2013

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

David Yarowsky

2014 – 2018

PhD Advisor

Colin Wilson

2007 – 2013

Expertise

morphology

phonology

deep learning

RNNs

linguistics

cognitive science

corpora

low resource

machine translation

Present

Publications

XTREME-UP: A User-Centric Scarce-Data Benchmark for Under-Represented Languages
Sebastian Ruder, Jonathan H. Clark, Alexander Gutkin, Mihir Kale, Min Ma, Massimo Nicosia, Shruti Rijhwani, Parker Riley, Jean Michel Amath Sarr, Xinyi Wang, John Frederick Wieting, Nitish Gupta, Anna Katanova, Christo Kirov, Dana L Dickinson, Brian Roark, Bidisha Samanta, Connie Tao, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Vera Axelrod et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- EMNLP 2023 Findings
- Readers: Everyone
Structured abbreviation expansion in context
Kyle Gorman, Christo Kirov, Brian Roark, Richard Sproat
- 2021 (modified: 15 Oct 2021)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Structured abbreviation expansion in context
Kyle Gorman, Christo Kirov, Brian Roark, Richard Sproat
- 2021 (modified: 14 Dec 2021)
- EMNLP (Findings) 2021
- Readers: Everyone
UniMorph 3.0: Universal Morphology
Arya D. McCarthy, Christo Kirov, Matteo Grella, Amrit Nidhi, Patrick Xia, Kyle Gorman, Ekaterina Vylomova, Sabrina J. Mielke, Garrett Nicolai, Miikka Silfverberg, Timofey Arkhangelskiy, Nataly Krizhanovsky, Andrew Krizhanovsky, Elena Klyachko, Alexey Sorokin, John Mansfield, Valts Ernstreits, Yuval Pinter, Cassandra L. Jacobs, Ryan Cotterell et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- 2020 (modified: 06 Nov 2022)
- LREC 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Neural Polysynthetic Language Modelling
Lane Schwartz, Francis Tyers, Lori S. Levin, Christo Kirov, Patrick Littell, Chi-kiu Lo, Emily Prud'hommeaux, Hyunji Hayley Park, Kenneth Steimel, Rebecca Knowles, Jeffrey Micher, Lonny Strunk, Han Liu, Coleman Haley, Katherine J. Zhang, Robbie Jimerson, Vasilisa Andriyanets, Aldrian Obaja Muis, Naoki Otani, Jong Hyuk Park et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- 2020 (modified: 21 Feb 2026)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
SIGMORPHON 2020 Shared Task 0: Typologically Diverse Morphological Inflection
Ekaterina Vylomova, Jennifer White, Elizabeth Salesky, Sabrina J. Mielke, Shijie Wu, Edoardo Maria Ponti, Rowan Hall Maudslay, Ran Zmigrod, Josef Valvoda, Svetlana Toldova, Francis M. Tyers, Elena Klyachko, Ilya Yegorov, Natalia Krizhanovsky, Paula Czarnowska, Irene Nikkarinen, Andrew Krizhanovsky, Tiago Pimentel, Lucas Torroba Hennigen, Christo Kirov et al. (8 additional authors not shown)
- 2020 (modified: 19 May 2025)
- SIGMORPHON 2020
- Readers: Everyone
SIGMORPHON 2020 Shared Task 0: Typologically Diverse Morphological Inflection
Ekaterina Vylomova, Jennifer White, Elizabeth Salesky, Sabrina J. Mielke, Shijie Wu, Edoardo Maria Ponti, Rowan Hall Maudslay, Ran Zmigrod, Josef Valvoda, Svetlana Toldova, Francis M. Tyers, Elena Klyachko, Ilya Yegorov, Natalia Krizhanovsky, Paula Czarnowska, Irene Nikkarinen, Andrew Krizhanovsky, Tiago Pimentel, Lucas Torroba Hennigen, Christo Kirov et al. (8 additional authors not shown)
- 2020 (modified: 30 Sept 2025)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Processing South Asian Languages Written in the Latin Script: the Dakshina Dataset
Brian Roark, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin, Christo Kirov, Sabrina J. Mielke, Cibu Johny, Isin Demirsahin, Keith B. Hall
- 2020 (modified: 08 Dec 2023)
- LREC 2020
- Readers: Everyone
Processing South Asian Languages Written in the Latin Script: the Dakshina Dataset
Brian Roark, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin, Christo Kirov, Sabrina J. Mielke, Cibu Johny, Isin Demirsahin, Keith B. Hall
- 2020 (modified: 08 Dec 2023)
- CoRR 2020
- Readers: Everyone
The SIGMORPHON 2019 Shared Task: Morphological Analysis in Context and Cross-Lingual Transfer for Inflection
Arya D. McCarthy, Ekaterina Vylomova, Shijie Wu, Chaitanya Malaviya, Lawrence Wolf-Sonkin, Garrett Nicolai, Christo Kirov, Miikka Silfverberg, S. J. Mielke, Jeffrey Heinz, Ryan Cotterell, Mans Hulden
- 2019 (modified: 07 Oct 2025)
- CoRR 2019
- Readers: Everyone

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