Benjamin Paul Oscar Peters

Benjamin Peters

Academic position:	Post. Doc.
Joining date:	01-06-2018
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Thematic Line:	Information and Data Sciences
Group:	Multimedia Signal Processing – Co

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Address: IT – Coimbra
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Coimbra - Pole II
P-3030-290 COIMBRA
Tel: +351 239 796 236

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9Papers in Conferences

K. Ambilduke, B. Peters, S. S. Sannigrahi, B. G. Gomes, A. Martins, From TOWER to SPIRE: Adding the Speech Modality to a Translation-specialist LLM, Empirical Methods in Language Processing - EMNLP, Suzhou, China, Vol., pp. -, November, 2025,
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B. Peters, A. Martins, Did Translation Models Get More Robust Without Anyone Even Noticing?, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Vienna, Austria, Vol., pp. -, July, 2025,
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N. Guerreiro, D. A. Alves, J. Pombal, P. H. Martins, J. Alves, M. Farajian, B. Peters, R. Rei, P. Fernandes, S. A. Agrawal, P. Colombo, J. G. de Souza, A. Martins, Tower: An Open Multilingual Large Language Model for Translation-Related Tasks, Conference on Language Modeling COLM, Philadelphia, United States, Vol., pp. -, October, 2024,
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B. Peters, A. Martins, Beyond Characters: Subword-level Morpheme Segmentation, Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology SIGMORPHON, Seattle, United States, Vol., pp. -, July, 2022,
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B. Peters, A. Martins, Smoothing and Shrinking the Sparse Seq2Seq Search Space, Association for Computational Linguistics Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies NAACL-HLT, Conference online, June, 2021,
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B. Peters, A. Martins, DeepSPIN at SIGMORPHON 2020: One-Size-Fits-All Multilingual Models, Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology SIGMORPHON, Seattle, United States, July, 2020,
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B. Peters, A. Martins, IT–IST at the SIGMORPHON 2019 Shared Task: Sparse Two-headed Models for Inflection, Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology SIGMORPHON, Florence, Italy, August, 2019,
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B. Peters, V. Niculae, A. Martins, Sparse Sequence-to-Sequence Models, Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL, Florence, Italy, July, 2019,
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B. Peters, V. Niculae, A. Martins, Interpretable Structure Induction via Sparse Attention, BlackboxNLP: Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP, Brussels, Belgium, November, 2018,
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Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
DeepSPIN	DeepSPIN	EU/H2020	01-02-2018	01-02-2023
UTTER	Unified Transcription and Translation for Extended Reality	EU	01-10-2022	30-09-2025

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