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# Wei Xu

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 2012–2017

Wei Xu wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2012–2017, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/machine-translation/); often with Alan Ritter, Bill Dolan, [Chris Callison-Burch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/chris-callison-burch/).

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5070905937) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7044-3232) · [**h-index 48**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5070905937) · [9004 citations](https://openalex.org/authors/A5070905937) · [222 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5070905937) — openalex, 2026-10-18

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

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Topics: [Machine translation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/machine-translation/) 3

## Papers

1. **[From Shakespeare to Twitter: What are Language Styles all about?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/xu-2017-shakespeare-twitter-what-are-language/)** *(2017)* This is a position and survey paper, not a method paper. It names seven language styles that the author thinks matter: simple and short text, historical and evolving language, instructional and robotic language, colloquial and internet language, gendered and personalized language, polite and abusive language, and…
2. **[Optimizing Statistical Machine Translation for Text Simplification](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/xu-2016-optimizing-statistical-machine-translation-text/)** *(2016)* The paper adapts a syntax-based statistical translation system to simplify sentences. Its paraphrase rules come from large bilingual paraphrase tables (PPDB), which are easier to get than manually simplified text, and they are ranked with simplicity-specific features. The main contribution is the metric SARI. It…
3. **[Paraphrasing for Style](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/xu-2012-paraphrasing-style/)** *(2012)* The paper asks whether a paraphrase system can be steered toward a writing style. Its testbed is Shakespeare's plays paired with their modern prose translations, aligned into roughly 21,000 sentence pairs from one source and about 10,000 from another. A phrase-based statistical MT system is trained in the…

## Co-authors (8)

- Alan Ritter
- Bill Dolan
- [Chris Callison-Burch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/chris-callison-burch/)
- [Colin Cherry](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/colin-cherry/)
- Courtney Napoles
- [Ellie Pavlick](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/ellie-pavlick/)
- Quanze Chen
- Ralph Grishman
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