Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Publications:
2021 -(Workshop Paper)
Raul Aranovich, Muting Wu, Dian Yu, Katya Katsy, Benyamin Ahmadnia, Matthew Bishop, Vladimir Filkov, and Kenji Sage. “Beyond NVD: Cybersecurity meets the Semantic Web”. Proceedings of the New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW 2021). October 25–28, New Hampshire, USA - VIRTUAL (DOI: 10.1145/1122445.1122456).
2021 - (Conference Paper)
Benyamin Ahmadnia, Bonnie J. Dorr, and Raul Aranovich. “Impact of Filtering Generated Pseudo Bilingual Texts in Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation Enhancement: The Case of Persian-Spanish”. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing 2021). June 4--5, VIRTUAL. (This paper has been included in the proceedings volume published in the "Elsevier" journal; ScienceDirect - Procedia Computer Science) (DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2021.05.093).
2021 - (Conference Paper)
Benyamin Ahmadnia, Raul Aranovich, and Bonnie J. Dorr. “Strengthening Low-Resource NeuralMachine Translation through Joint Learning: The Case of Farsi-Spanish”. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agent and Artificial Intelligence(ICAART 2021); Special Session on Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence (NLPinAI). pp. 475-481, February 4–6, Vienna, Austria - VIRTUAL (DOI: 10.5220/0010362604750481).
2021 - (Conference Paper)
Benyamin Ahmadnia and Raul Aranovich. “Augmented Spanish-Persian Neural Machine Translation”. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Agent and Artificial Intelligence(ICAART 2021); Special Session on Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence (NLPinAI). pp. 482-488, February 4–6, Vienna, Austria - VIRTUAL (DOI: 10.5220/0010369804820488).
2020 - (Workshop Paper)
Benyamin Ahmadnia and Raul Aranovich. “An Effective Optimization Method for Neural Machine Translation: The Case of English-Persian Bilingually Low-Resource Scenario”. Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT 2020); Workshop at AACL-IJCNLP 2020. December 4. Suzhou, China - VIRTUAL.
2020 - (Journal Article)
Tianyi Xu, Ozge Ilkim Ozbek, Shannon Marks, Sri Korrapati, and Benyamin Ahmadnia. “Spanish- Turkish Low-Resource Machine Translation: Unsupervised Learning vs. Round-Tripping”. American Journal of Artificial Intelligence (AJAI). Vol. 4, No. 2, December 2020. Special Issue: Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages, 4(2):42–49 (DOI: 10.11648/j.ajai.20200402.11).
2020 - (Conference Paper)
Benyamin Ahmadnia. “Linked Data Effectiveness in Neural Machine Translation”. Proceedings of the 2020 4th International Symposium on Computer Science and Intelligent Control (ISCSIC 2020). November 17–19, Newcastle, UK (DOI: 10.1145/3440084.3441214).
2020 - (Workshop Paper)
Benyamin Ahmadnia and Bonnie J. Dorr. “Low-Resource Multi-Domain Machine Translation for Spanish-Farsi: Neural or Statistical?”. Proceedings of the Internation Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (IA&NLP 2020). Vol.177, pp. 575-580. November 2–5. Madeira, Portugal. (This paper has been included in the proceedings volume published in the "Elsevier" journal; ScienceDirect - Procedia Computer Science) (DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2020.10.081).
2020 - (Journal Article)
Benyamin Ahmadnia, Bonnie J. Dorr, and Parisa Kordjamshidi. “Knowledge Graphs Effectiveness in Neural Machine Translation Improvement”. Computer Science. Vol.21, No.3, September 2020. Computer Science 21(3) 2020: 261–280 (DOI: 10.7494/csci.2020.21.3.3701).
2020 - (Conference Paper)
Benyamin Ahmadnia and Bonnie J. Dorr. “Impact of a New Word Embedding Cost Function on Farsi-Spanish Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation”. Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS 2020). May 17–20. North Miami Beach, FL, USA.
2019 - (Journal Article)
Benyamin Ahmadnia and Bonnie J. Dorr. “Augmenting Neural Machine Translation through Round-Trinp Training Approach”. Open Computer Science (De Gruyter). Vol.9, No.1, October 2019. Open Comput. Sci. 2019; 9(1):268–278 (DOI: 10.1515/comp-2019-0019).
2019 - (Conference Paper)
Benyamin Ahmadnia and Bonnie J. Dorr. “Bilingual Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation with Round-Tripping: The Case of Persian-Spanish”. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019). September 2–4. Varna, Bulgaria (DOI: 10.26615/978-954-452-056-4_003).
2019 - (Conference Paper)
Benyamin Ahmadnia and Bonnie J. Dorr. “Enhancing Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation by Learning Phrase Representation Utilizing Long Short-Term Memory Networks”. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2019). September 2–4. Varna, Bulgaria (DOI: 10.26615/978-954-452-056-4_004).
2019 - (Journal Article)
Benyamin Ahmadnia, Gholamreza Haffari, and Javier Serrano. “Round-Trip Training Approach for Bilingually Low-Resource Statistical Machine Translation Systems”. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJAI). Vol.17, No.1, March 2019 (ISSN: 0974-0635; Int. J. Artif. Intell.).
2018 - (Conference Paper)
Benjamin Ahmadnia, Parisa Kordjamshidi, and Gholamreza Haffari. “Neural Machine Translation Advised by Statistical Machine Translation: The Case of Farsi-Spanish Bilingually Low-Resource Scenario”. Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (IEEE-ICMLA 2018), a special session for Machine Learning Algorithms, Applications, and Systems. December 17–19. Orlando, FL, USA (DOI: 10.1109/ICMLA.2018.00196).
2018 - (Conference Paper)
Benyamin Ahmadnia, Gholamreza Haffari, and Javier Serrano. “Statistical Machine Translation for Bilingually Low-Resource Scenarios: A Round-Tripping Approach”. Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (IEEE-MNLP 2018). October 21–24. Marrakech, Morocco (DOI: 10.1109/CIST.2018.8596614)
2018 - (Book Chapter)
Benyamin Ahmadnia, Javier Serrano, Gholamreza Haffari, and Nik-Mohammad Balouchzahi. “Direct- Bridge Combination Scenario for Persian-Spanish Minimal Parallel-Resource Statistical Machine Translation”. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language (AINL 2018). October 17–19. St.Petersburg, Russia. (This paper has been included in the proceedings volume published in the ”Springer Nature CCIS” series) (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-01204-5_7).
2017 - (Journal Article)
Benyamin Ahmadnia and Javier Serrano. “Employing Pivot Language Technique through Statistical and Neural Machine Translation Frameworks: The Case of Under-resourced Persian-Spanish Language Pair”. International Journal on Natural Language Computing (IJNLC). Vol.6, No.5, October 2017 (DOI: 10.5121/ijnlc.2017.6503) .
2017 - (Conference Paper)
Benyamin Ahmadnia, Javier Serrano, and Gholamreza Haffari. “Persian–Spanish Low-Resource Statistical Machine Translation Through English as Pivot Language”. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2017). September 4–6. Varna, Bulgaria (DOI: 0.26615/978-954-452-049-6_004).
2016 - (Conference Paper)
Benyamin Ahmadnia and Javier Serrano. “Direct translation vs. Pivot language translation for Persian-Spanish Low-Resourced Statistical Machine Translation System”. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Sciences (ICAICS 2016). February 25–26. London, UK (DOI: 10.1999/1307-6892/40784).
2015 - (Conference Paper)
Benyamin Ahmadnia and Javier Serrano. “Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Model vs. Classical Phrase-based Translation Model for Spanish-English Statistical Machine Translation System”. Proceedings of the 31st Conference on the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2015). September 16–18. Alicante, Spain (ISBN: 978-84-608-1989-9).