Kurt Micallef
Kurt Micallef has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on Semitic languages, Speech & spoken language, Machine translation; often with Claudia Borg, Aiden Williams, Kurt Abela.
OpenAlex · h-index 2 · 22 works · 20 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14
3 works in our library · 60 citations in our library · 9 more works in our library · ⭐ Paper Star rank #4752
Affiliations
- University of Malta · Msida, Malta — 2022–2025 on 17 papers
- New York University Abu Dhabi · Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — 2025 on 3 papers
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Works by year
2020s
Papers
- UM-DFKI Maltese Speech Translation (2023 · 11 citations)
The paper describes the University of Malta and DFKI submission to the first IWSLT Maltese→English speech translation task, which is a low-resource setting. - UM IWSLT 2024 Low-Resource Speech Translation: Combining Maltese and North Levantine Arabic (2024 · 2 citations)
The paper describes the University of Malta's submission to the IWSLT 2024 low-resource track. The task was speech translation into English from Maltese and from North Levantine Arabic (APC), two Semitic languages with related histories. The team used an unconstrained cascade. For speech recognition, a Wav2Vec 2.0… - Tokenisation in Machine Translation Does Matter: The impact of different tokenisation approaches for Maltese (2024 · 1 citation)
The paper asks how much tokenisation choices affect English–Maltese machine translation. Maltese is a morphologically rich language with Semitic roots, and generic English-oriented tools often handle its hyphenated articles badly. The authors found that the Maltese side of OPUS-100 contains irregular, non-systematic…
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Co-authors here
- Claudia Borg ×3
- Aiden Williams ×2
- Kurt Abela ×2
- Ahnaf Mozib Samin
- Andrea DeMarco
- Lonneke van der Plas
- Marc Tanti
- Melanie Galea
- Sara Nabhani
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