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Email

trevor.cohn@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor
School of Computing and Information Systems
Education
Post Graduate Certificate
University of Sheffield
PhD
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0003-4363-1673

Prof Trevor Cohn

Professor
School of Computing and Information Systems

248 Scholarly works
22 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Few-Shot Multilingual Open-Domain QA from Five Examples
    DOI: 10.1162/tacl_a_00750
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Planning in the Dark: LLM-Symbolic Planning Pipeline Without Experts
    DOI: 10.1609/aaai.v39i25.34855
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    Mufu: Multilingual Fused Learning for Low-Resource Translation with LLM
  • 2021

    Conference Proceedings

    A targeted attack on black-box neural machine translation with parallel data poisoning
    DOI: 10.1145/3442381.3450034
  • 2021

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Nyingarn: A Platform for Primary Sources in Australian Indigenous Languages
  • 2018

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Arc Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies (Arc - Central Operating)
  • 2018

    Research Grant

    Arc Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies (Arc - Stream 1 & 2)
Trevor Cohn

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2020
Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention for paper "Tangled up in BLEU: Reevaluating the Evaluation of Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics" ACL
2016
Best Short Paper Award for paper "Learning a Lexicon and Translation Model from Phoneme Lattices" EMNLP
2013
Ted Nelson Award for paper "Where's @Wally: A classification approach to geolocating users based on their social ties" ACM Hypertext
2013
Best Paper Award, 2nd place CICLING

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    TULUN: Transparent and Adaptable Low-resource Machine Translation
    DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.acl-demo.13
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    OpenWHO: A Document-Level Parallel Corpus for Health Translation in Low-Resource Languages
    DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.wmt-1.8
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    TUBA: Cross-Lingual Transferability of Backdoor Attacks in LLMs with Instruction Tuning
    DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.848
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Chasing Progress, Not Perfection: Revisiting Strategies for End-to-End LLM Plan Generation
    DOI: 10.1609/icaps.v35i1.36119
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    LORAXBENCH: A Multitask, Multilingual Benchmark Suite for 20 Indonesian Languages
    DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.emnlp-main.881
  • 2025

    Conference Proceedings

    IMPROVING LANGUAGE MODEL DISTILLATION THROUGH HIDDEN STATE MATCHING
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Predicting Human Translation Difficulty with Neural Machine Translation
    DOI: 10.1162/tacl_a_00714

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2023

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Small Scalable Natural Language Models Using Explicit Memory

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