Publications

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Preprints
Knowledgeless Language Models: Suppressing Parametric Recall for Evidence-Grounded Language Modeling
Roi Cohen, Yvan Carré, Nick Lechtenbörger, Hendrik Droste, Lucas Kerschke, Russa Biswas, Gerard de Melo and Jan Buys
Preprint
2026
MzansiText and MzansiLM: An Open Corpus and Decoder-Only Language Model for South African Languages
Anri Lombard, Simbarashe Mawere, Temi Aina, Ethan Wolff, Sbonelo Gumede, Elan Novick, Francois Meyer and Jan Buys
LREC 2026ModelCode
Multi-Hall-SA: A Cross-lingual Benchmark for Multi-Type Hallucination Detection in Low-Resource South African Languages
Sello Ralethe and Jan Buys
EACL Findings 2026
2025
Investigating the Impact of Multilingual Pre-trained Speech Models on Gender Bias in ASR for Low Resource African Languages
Claytone Sikasote, Hussein Suleman and Jan Buys
SACAIR 2025 (CCIS)Version of Record
The Learning Dynamics of Subword Segmentation for Morphologically Diverse Languages
Francois Meyer and Jan Buys
IJCNLP-AACL 2025
Cross-Lingual Knowledge Augmentation for Mitigating Generic Overgeneralization in Multilingual Language Models
Sello Ralethe and Jan Buys
MRL workshop 2025
Story Generation with Large Language Models for African Languages
Catherine Nana Nyaah Essuman and Jan Buys
AfricaNLP workshop 2025
Cross-Lingual Knowledge Projection and Knowledge Enhancement for Zero-Shot Question Answering in Low-Resource Languages
Sello Ralethe and Jan Buys
COLING 2025
2024
Multipath parsing in the brain
Berta Franzluebbers, Donald Dunagan, Miloš Stanojević, Jan Buys, John Hale
ACL 2024
A Systematic Analysis of Subwords and Cross-Lingual Transfer in Multilingual Translation
Francois Meyer and Jan Buys
NAACL Findings 2024
NGLUEni: Benchmarking and Adapting Pretrained Language Models for Nguni Languages
Francois Meyer, Haiyue Song, Abhisek Chakrabarty, Jan Buys, Raj Dabre and Hideki Tanaka
LREC-COLING 2024Data
Triples-to-isiXhosa (T2X): Addressing the Challenges of Low-Resource Agglutinative Data-to-Text Generation
Francois Meyer and Jan Buys
LREC-COLING 2024Data
Neural Machine Translation between Low-Resource Languages with Synthetic Pivoting
Khalid N. Elmadani and Jan Buys
LREC-COLING 2024
2023
Subword Segmental Machine Translation: Unifying Segmentation and Target Sentence Generation
Francois Meyer and Jan Buys
ACL Findings 2023Code
Data Augmentation for Low Resource Neural Machine Translation for Sotho-Tswana Languages
Maxwell Mojapelo and Jan Buys
SACAIR 2023
Policy-based Reinforcement Learning for Generalisation in Interactive Text-based Environments
Edan Toledo, Jan Buys and Jonathan Shock
EACL 2023Code
2022
Subword Segmental Language Modelling for Nguni Languages
Francois Meyer and Jan Buys
EMNLP Findings 2022Code
University of Cape Town’s WMT22 System: Multilingual Machine Translation for Southern African Languages
Khalid N. Elmadani, Francois Meyer and Jan Buys
WMT 2022Model
Self-Supervised Text Style Transfer with Rationale Prediction and Pretrained Transformers
Neil Sinclair and Jan Buys
SACAIR 2022 (CCIS)Version of Record
From GNNs to Sparse Transformers: Graph-based architectures for Multi-hop Question Answering
Shane Acton and Jan Buys
SACAIR 2022 (CCIS)Version of Record
Generic Overgeneralization in Pre-trained Language Models
Sello Ralethe and Jan Buys
COLING 2022Data
A Sequence Modelling Approach to Question Answering in Text-Based Games
Greg Furman, Edan Toledo, Jonathan Shock and Jan Buys
Wordplay 2022Code
2021
Canonical and Surface Morphological Segmentation for Nguni Languages
Tumi Moeng, Sheldon Reay, Aaron Daniels and Jan Buys
SACAIR 2021 (CCIS)Version of RecordCode
Low-Resource Language Modelling of South African Languages
Stuart Mesham, Luc Hayward, Jared Shapiro and Jan Buys
SACAIR 2021Code
RepGraph: Visualising and Analysing Meaning Representation Graphs
Jaron Cohen, Roy Cohen, Edan Toledo and Jan Buys
EMNLP 2021 DemosDemoCode
Discourse Understanding and Factual Consistency in Abstractive Summarization
Saadia Gabriel, Antoine Bosselut, Jeff Da, Ari Holtzman, Jan Buys, Kyle Lo, Asli Celikyilmaz and Yejin Choi
EACL 2021
2020
The Curious Case of Neural Text Degeneration
Ari Holtzman, Jan Buys, Li Du, Maxwell Forbes and Yejin Choi
ICLR 2020Code
2019
BottleSum: Unsupervised and Self-supervised Sentence Summarization using the Information Bottleneck Principle
Peter West, Ari Holtzman, Jan Buys and Yejin Choi
EMNLP 2019Code
Neural Text Generation from Rich Semantic Representations
Valerie Hajdik, Jan Buys, Michael Wayne Goodman and Emily M. Bender
NAACL 2019Code
Benchmarking Hierarchical Script Knowledge
Yonatan Bisk, Jan Buys, Karl Pichotta and Yejin Choi
NAACL 2019Code
2018
Bridging HMMs and RNNs through Architectural Transformations
Jan Buys, Yonatan Bisk and Yejin Choi
IRASL NeurIPS Workshop 2018Code
Learning to Write with Cooperative Discriminators
Ari Holtzman, Jan Buys, Maxwell Forbes, Antoine Bosselut, David Golub and Yejin Choi
ACL 2018Code
Neural Syntactic Generative Models with Exact Marginalization
Jan Buys and Phil Blunsom
NAACL 2018Code
2017
Robust Incremental Neural Semantic Graph Parsing
Jan Buys and Phil Blunsom
ACL 2017Code
Oxford at SemEval-2017 Task 9: Neural AMR Parsing with Pointer-Augmented Attention
Jan Buys and Phil Blunsom
SemEval 2017 Shared Task
2016
Online Segment to Segment Neural Transduction
Lei Yu, Jan Buys and Phil Blunsom
EMNLP 2016
Cross-Lingual Morphological Tagging for Low-Resource Languages
Jan Buys and Jan Botha
ACL 2016
2015
Generative Incremental Dependency Parsing with Neural Networks
Jan Buys and Phil Blunsom
ACL 2015Code
A Bayesian Model for Generative Transition-based Dependency Parsing
Jan Buys and Phil Blunsom
Depling 2015Code
2013
A Tree Transducer Model for Grammatical Error Correction
Jan Buys and Brink van der Merwe
CoNLL 2013 Shared Task
2012
Chorale Harmonization with Weighted Finite-state Transducers
Jan Buys and Brink van der Merwe
PRASA 2012
2011
Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for Learning Alignment-Specific Models of Protein Evolution
Ben Murrell, Thomas Weighill, Jan Buys, Robert Ketteringham, Sasha Moola, Gerdus Benade, Lise du Buisson, Daniel Kaliski, Tristan Hands and Konrad Scheffler
PLoS ONE 2011

Theses

Incremental Generative Models for Syntactic and Semantic Natural Language Processing
DPhil thesis, University of Oxford
2018
Probabilistic Tree Transducers for Grammatical Error Correction
MSc thesis, University of Stellenbosch
2013
Generative Models of Music for Style Imitation and Composer Recognition
Honours project report, University of Stellenbosch
2011