George Foster

Research Scientist, Google

Joined

August 2018

Names

George Foster (Preferred)

George F. Foster

Emails

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Career & Education History

Research Scientist

Google (google.com)

2014 – Present

Researcher

National Research Council Canada (nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)

2003 – 2014

PhD student

University of Montreal (umontreal.ca)

1998 – 2002

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

machine translation

2000 – Present

language modeling

2000 – Present

Publications

The unreasonable effectiveness of few-shot learning for machine translation
Xavier Garcia, Yamini Bansal, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster, Maxim Krikun, Fangxiaoyu Feng, Melvin Johnson, Orhan Firat
- 2023 (modified: 03 Apr 2023)
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Document Flattening: Beyond Concatenating Context for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation
Minghao Wu, George F. Foster, Lizhen Qu, Gholamreza Haffari
- 2023 (modified: 20 Apr 2023)
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
A Natural Diet: Towards Improving Naturalness of Machine Translation Output
Markus Freitag, David Vilar, David Grangier, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster
- 2022 (modified: 03 Apr 2023)
- ACL (Findings) 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Prompting PaLM for Translation: Assessing Strategies and Performance
David Vilar, Markus Freitag, Colin Cherry, Jiaming Luo, Viresh Ratnakar, George F. Foster
- 2022 (modified: 03 Apr 2023)
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Results of WMT22 Metrics Shared Task: Stop Using BLEU - Neural Metrics Are Better and More Robust
Markus Freitag, Ricardo Rei, Nitika Mathur, Chi-kiu Lo, Craig Stewart, Eleftherios Avramidis, Tom Kocmi, George F. Foster, Alon Lavie, André F. T. Martins
- 2022 (modified: 20 Apr 2023)
- WMT 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Toward More Effective Human Evaluation for Machine Translation
Belén Saldias, George F. Foster, Markus Freitag, Qijun Tan
- 2022 (modified: 20 Apr 2023)
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Experts, Errors, and Context: A Large-Scale Study of Human Evaluation for Machine Translation
George Foster
- 16 Jun 2021
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Assessing Reference-Free Peer Evaluation for Machine Translation
Sweta Agrawal, George Foster, Markus Freitag, Colin Cherry
- 01 May 2021
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Assessing Reference-Free Peer Evaluation for Machine Translation
Sweta Agrawal, George F. Foster, Markus Freitag, Colin Cherry
- 2021 (modified: 20 Apr 2023)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Experts, Errors, and Context: A Large-Scale Study of Human Evaluation for Machine Translation
Markus Freitag, George F. Foster, David Grangier, Viresh Ratnakar, Qijun Tan, Wolfgang Macherey
- 2021 (modified: 15 May 2025)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone

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