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About Me

I am a third-year Ph.D. student at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), supervised by Prof. Taro Watanabe. The expected graduation date is March 2026. I am also an intern at National Institute of Information and Communic-ations Technology (NICT), Japan, where I am mentored by Associate Prof. Chenchen Ding. From October 2025, I will officially work for NICT as a technical researcher. I maintain a broad interest in Natural Language Processing (NLP) in general. My main research focuses on Machine Translation, particularly in Multilingual settings.

You can learn more about me through my Publications, Educations and Research Experiences. You also can find my DBLP, ACL Profile and OpenReview Profile.

Publications

Registering Source Tokens to Target Language Spaces in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
Z. Qu, Y. Wang, J. Mao, C. Ding, H. Tanaka, M. Utiyama, T. Watanabe
ACL 2025
Languages Transferred Within the Encoder: On Representation Transfer in Zero-Shot Multilingual Translation
Z. Qu, C. Ding, T. Watanabe
MT Summit 2025
Exploring Intrinsic Language-specific Subspaces in Fine-tuning Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
Z. Cao, Z. Qu, H. Kamigaito, T. Watanabe
EMNLP 2024
Cross-lingual Contextualized Phrase Retrieval
H. Li, D. Cai, Z. Qu, Q. Cui, H. Kamigaito, L. Liu, T. Watanabe
Findings of EMNLP 2024
Disentangling Pretrained Representation to Leverage Low-Resource Languages in Multilingual Machine Translation
F. Hudi, Z. Qu, H. Kamigaito, T. Watanabe
LREC-COLING 2024
Adapting to Non-Centered Languages for Zero-shot Multilingual Translation
Z. Qu, T. Watanabe
COLING 2022