Biography

I am currently a PhD candidate on Neural Machine Translation at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) in Barcelona. I am conducting my research under the supervision of Professors Marta Ruiz Costa-Jussà and José Adrian Rodríguez Fonollosa, in the Language and Speech Technologies and Applications (TALP) research group.

I have been a software developer for most of my life, then data scientist and now I have turned back to academia to take on my long-cherished dream to become a researcher on machine learning and artificial intelligence.

My research lines focus on Neural Machine Translation (NMT). Lately I am interested on injecting prior linguistic knowledge into neural networks, specifically on hybridizing rule-based machine translation systems with NMT.

• Leveraging rule-based machine translation knowledge for under-resourced neural machine translation models.
  D. Torregrosa, N. Pasricha, B.R. Chakravarth, M. Masoud, J. Alonso, N. Casas, M. Arcan
  MT Summit 2019, 2019.

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• Chinese-Catalan: A Neural Machine Translation Approach Based on Pivoting and Attention Mechanisms.
  M.R. Costa-jussà, N. Casas, C. Escolano, M. Melero
  ACM TALLIP, 2019.

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• The TALP-UPC Machine Translation Systems for WMT18 News Shared Translation Task.
  N. Casas, C. Escolano, M.R. Costa-jussà, J.A. R. Fonollosa
  WMT, 2018.

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• A differentiable BLEU loss. Analysis and first results.
  N. Casas, M.R. Costa-jussà, J.A. R. Fonollosa
  ICLR workshop, 2018.

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• English-Catalan Neural Machine Translation in the Biomedical Domain through the cascade approach.
  M.R. Costa-jussà, N. Casas, M. Melero
  MultilingualBIO LREC workshop, 2018.

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• Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient for Urban Traffic Light Control.
  N. Casas
  arxiv preprint, 2017.

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• Genetic Algorithms for multimodal optimization: a review.
  N. Casas
  arxiv preprint, 2015.

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