- Sep 1 - We've just had a paper accepted for presentation at the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), which will be held on September 7--11 2009 in Bled, Slovenia. The paper is entitled Noise Reduction Experiments in Machine Translation (with Tsuyoshi, Sudip and Andy)
- Aug 11 - We've just had a paper accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP 2009), which will be held on Dececember 7--9 2009 in Singapore. The paper is entitled A Three-pass System Combination Framework by Combining Multiple Hypothesis Alignment Methods (with Jinhua and Andy)
- Jul 28 - Mikel and Andy are co-organising the 3rd Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation with the theme Going open-source to revive EBMT at DCU November 12-13, 2009.
- Jul 8 - Mikel L. Forcada, a visiting professor on sabbatical leave from Universitat d'Alacant, Spain, will be based at CNGL, DCU from now until June 2010. Mikel is working with Prof. Andy Way on integration of an existing rule-based open-source machine translation platform with efficient corpus-based machine translation modules and tools. Mikel got an ETS Walton Award to fund this work.
- Jun 18 - We've just had two papers accepted for publication in Machine Translation. The first paper is entitled Bidirectional Data-Driven Machine Translation for Irish and German Sign Languages (with Sara and Andy). The second paper is entitled Parallel Treebanks and their Exploitability in Machine Translation (with John and Andy)
- Jun 18 - We've just had a paper accepted for presentation at the Interspeech 2009 conference, which will be held on September 6--10, 2009, in Brighton, UK. The paper is entitled Using Same-Language Machine Translation to Create Alternative Target Sequences for Text-To-Speech Synthesis (with Peter Cahill, Julie Berndsen, Jinhua and Andy)
- Jun 18 - We've just had four papers accepted for presentation at MT Summit 2009, the Twelfth Machine Translation Summit, which will be held on August 26--30 at the Château Laurier, Ottawa, Canada. The papers are entitled Source-Side Context-Informed Hypothesis Alignment for Combining Outputs from Machine Translation Systems (with Jinhua and Andy), Tracking Relevant Alignment Characteristics for Machine Translation (with Patrik, Yanjun, Sylwia and Andy), Improving the Objective Function in Minimum Error Rate Training (with Yifan and Andy) and Using Percolated Dependencies for Phrase Extraction in SMT (with Ankit and Andy)
- Jun 4 - We've just had a paper accepted for presentation at the RANLP 2009 conference, which will be held on September 14--16, 2009, in Borovets, Bulgaria. It is entitled Lexicalized Semi-Incremental Dependency Parsing (with Hany, Khalil Sima'an and Andy)
- Jun 2 - We've just had two papers accepted for presentation at the EMNLP 2009 conference, which will be held on August 6--7 at the Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre, immediately following ACL/IJCNLP 2009. The papers are entitled A Syntactified Direct Translation Model with Linear-time Decoding (with Hany, Khalil Sima'an and Andy) and Accuracy-Based Scoring for DOT: Towards Direct Error Minimization for Data-Oriented Translation (with Daniel Galron, Sergio, Andy and I. Dan Melamed)
- Jun 2 - We've just had a paper accepted for presentation at the NEWS 2009 workshop to take place on 7th August, 2009 at ACL/IJCNLP 2009. It is entitled English--Hindi Transliteration Using Context-Informed PB-SMT: the DCU System (with Rejwanul, Ankit, Sudip and Andy)
- May 27 - We've just had a paper accepted for presentation at the TALN'09 conference to be held in Senlis, France on June 24--26 2009. It is entitled Données bilingues pour la TAS français-anglais : impact de la langue source et direction de traduction originales sur la qualité de la traduction (with Sylwia)
- Apr 27 - We've just had a paper accepted for presentation at the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Student Research Workshop to be held in Singapore on August 2--7 2009. It is entitled Data Cleaning for Word Alignment (with Tsuyoshi)
- Apr 27 - We've just had a paper accepted for presentation at the TALN'09 conference to be held in Senlis, France on June 24--26 2009. It is entitled La place de la désambiguïsation lexicale dans la Traduction Automatique Statistique (with Marianna)
- Apr 27 - We've just had a paper accepted for presentation at the Sign Language Corpora: Linguistics Issues workshop to be held in London on July 24--25 2009. It is entitled An Assessment of Appropriate Sign Language Representation for Machine Translation in the Healthcare Domain (with Sara)
- Apr 12 - We've just had a paper accepted for presentation at the 14th International LFG Conference (LFG09) to be held in Cambridge, UK on July 13--16 2009. It is entitled F-Structure Transfer-Based Statistical Machine Translation (with Yvette, Anton Bryl and Josef)
- Apr 12 - Andy is on the programme committee for EMNLP, which will be held on August 6--7 at the Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre
- Apr 12 - Andy is on the programme committee for MT Summit XII, which will take place from August 25--29 2009 at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Apr 12 - Andy is giving a keynote at the 2nd International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools run by the MEDAR project, to take place on 22-23 April 2009 at the Hotel Grand Hyatt Cairo, Egypt.
- Apr 6 - We've just had 5 papers accepted for publication at EAMT-2009, to be held in in Barcelona, Spain from May 14--15, 2009. They are entitled Using Supertags as Source Language Context in SMT (with Rejwanul, Sudip, Yanjun and Andy), Tuning Syntactically Enhanced Word Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation (with Yanjun, Patrik and Andy), Learning Labelled Dependencies in Machine Translation Evaluation (with Yifan and Andy), Marker-based Filtering of Bilingual Phrase Pairs for SMT (with Felipe Sanchez-Martinez and Andy) and Optimal Bilingual Data for French-English PB-SMT (with Sylwia and Andy)
- Feb 25 - We've just had a paper accepted for presentation at the eLexicography in the 21st century (eLEX2009) conference, to be held in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) on October 22--24 2009. It is entitled Discovering word sense relations from corpora using translation and distributional information (with Marianna)
- Jan 15 - DCU will be hosting the 12th annual CLUK(I) colloquium on April 23--24 this year. The first call for papers can be found here
- Jan 12 - Congratulations to Hany who successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled Lexical Syntax for Statistical Machine Translation
- Jan 12 - We've just had a paper accepted for presentation at the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, EACL 2009, to take place in Athens, Greece, on March 30 and 31, 2009. The paper is entitled MaTrEx: the DCU MT System for WMT 2009 (with Jinhua, Yifan, Sergio and Andy).
- Jan 9 - We've just had and article accepted for publication in the Special Issue on Machine Translation of Asian Languages by ACM TALIP. It's entitled Bilingually Motivated Word Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation (with Yanjun and Andy)
- Dec 17 - We've just had 2 papers accepted for publication at EACL-2009, to be held in Athens, Greece in from March 30--April 3, 2009. They are entitled Bilingually Motivated Domain-Adapted Word Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation (with Yanjun and Andy)and Data-Driven Semantic Analysis for Multilingual WSD and Lexical Selection in Translation (with Marianna)
- Dec 15 - We've just had a paper accepted for publication at CICLing-2009, to be held in Mexico City in from March 1--9, 2009, entitled Parallel Treebanks in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation (with John, Mary and Andy)
- Dec 10 - Marianna is on the programme committee for the RECITAL 2009 in Senlis, France from June 24--26, 2009.
- Dec 10 - We've just submitted our system description paper for the NLP Tools Contest: Statistical Machine Translation (English to Hindi), part of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing in Pune, India, to be held on 20-22 December 2008.
- Nov 10 - Andy is on the programme committee for the 12th EACL conference in Athens, Greece from March 30--April 3, 2008.
- Nov 6 - Andy is attending the JHU 2009 Summer Workshop Planning Meeting from Nov 7--9 to defend a joint proposal with Khalil Sima'an.
- Sep 30 - Congratulations to Patrik and his partner who just had a little baby girl on September 19th!
- Sep 26 - Sara received the runner-up prize in the Localisation Research Centre's 2008 Best Thesis Award. Congratulations to her!
- Sep 25 - We've just had a paper accepted for publication at the Second IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) workshop, to be held in Goa, India in December 2008, entitled A Syntactic Language Model based on Incremental CCG Parsing (with Hany, Andy and Khalil Sima'an)
- Aug 22 - We've just had paper accepted for publication at IWSLT 2008 in Honolulu, Hawaii entitled Exploiting Alignment Techniques in MaTrEx: The DCU MT System for IWSLT 2008 (with Yanjun, John, Hany, Jinhua and Andy).
- Aug 1 - We've just had 1 paper and 1 poster accepted for publication at EAMT 2008 in Hamburg. The paper is entitled "Packed Rules for Probabilistic Transfer-Based Machine Translation" (with Yvette and Josef) and the poster is entitled "Word Association Models and Search Strategies for Discriminative Word Alignment" (with Patrik and Rafael Banchs).
- Jul 30 - We are currently recruiting one PhD student in Machine Translation. The main focus of the work will concern tuning our range of MT systems to the different genres and text types seen in our industrial partners' documentation. See here for more information.
- Jul 28 - We are currently recruiting one Post-doctoral researcher in Machine Translation. Research will focus on incorporating syntax into mainstream models of Statistical Machine Translation, as well as research and development of Tree-to-Tree models. See here for more information.
- Jul 28 - Andy is on the organising committee (as one of the publicity chairs) for ACL-IJCNLP to take place in Singapore 2-7 August 2009.
- Jul 1 - Andy and John will serve on the programme committees of AMTA and the AMTA Student Research Workshop repectively, to take place in Waikiki, HI from October 21-25.
- Jun 25 - Sara has been chosen to present her PhD work at the Young Researcher's Consortium at ICCHP (11th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs) in Linz, Austria from July 7-11.
- Jun 15 - We've just had a paper accepted for publication at CoLing 2008 in Manchester. The paper is entitled Automatic Generation of Parallel Treebanks (with Ventsi and Andy).
- May 07 - Congratulations to Ventsi and his wife who just had a little baby boy on April 23!
- May 02 - We are pleased to announce that Prof. Mikel Forcada from the Universitat d'Alacant will be spending a year with our MT group from June 2009 given his successful application for an SFI Walton Scholarship
- May 02 - Congratulations to Sara who successfully defended her PhD thesis, entitled Data-Driven Machine Translation for Sign Languages! See here for more info
- Apr 29 - Congratulations to Patrik who successfully defended his PhD thesis, entitled Exploiting Lexical Information and Discriminative Alignment Training in Statistical Machine Translation, at the UPC in Barcelona.
- Apr 25 - Congratulations to Karolina who successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled A Novel Dependency-Based Evaluation Metric for Machine Translation! See here for more details.
- May 07 - We've just had a paper accepted for TALN-08 entitled Comparing Constituency and Dependency Representations for SMT Prase-Extraction (with Mary, Sylwia and John)
- May 02 - We've just had two papers accepted for LREC-08. The papers are entitled The ATIS Sign Language Corpus (with Sara, Andy, Jan Bungeroth, Daniel Stein, Hermann Ney and Lynette van Zijl) and Cross-corpus Evaluation of Word Alignment (with Sylwia Ozdowska).
- May 02 - We've just had a paper accepted for publication in Machine Translation. The paper is entitled Evaluating Machine Translation with LFG Dependencies (with Karolina, Andy and Josef)
- Apr 29 - Andy is on the Programme Committee for IWSLT 2008, to take place in Hawaii on October 20--21. IWSLT is co-located with AMTA 2008 this year.
- Mar 4 - Andy is a keynote speaker at the 2nd Symposium on Innovations in Machine Translation Technologies taking place in Tokyo between March 19--21. This is hosted by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT).
- Mar 4 - Andy is on the programme committee for the SSST workshop at ACL-08, to take place in June in Columbus, OH.
- Jan 21 - John was awarded a Microsoft Postgraduate Research Scholarship for word entitled Exploiting Parallel Treebanks to Improve Data-Driven Machine Translation. This story is featured in an article on the main DCU page here (and a clearer version of the picture here)
- Jan 21 - Andy will be reviewing the EuroMatrix project in Prague Feb 04-05.
- Jan 20 - Andy is one of the keynote speakers at the Mixing Approaches to Machine Translation workshop in Donostia in the Basque Country on Feb 14.
- Jan 18 - Andy will be giving a talk on EBMT, and conducting some reviewing at the Second Symposium on Innovations in Machine Translation Technologies put on by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Tokyo on March 19-21.
- Dec 9 - John attended TLT'07 in Bergen, Norway and presented a paper entitled Exploiting Parallel Treebanks to Improve Statistical Machine Translation
- Oct 25 - It's Official: our MaTrEx system is the best MT system (well, for one language pair, on one data set, according to one evaluation ...) At the recent IWSLT-07 workshop in Trento, Italy, it was announced officially that the output from our Arabic-->English system, built by Hany Hassan, was preferred more than any other system according to human evaluators. This is on top of good performance as indicated by the BLEU score. For those interested, consult the presentation of our system's results as prepared by Andy Way, or the full-length paper.
- Oct 24 - Sara attended the 4th IBM CAS Software & Systems Engineering Symposium and presented a poster entitled Combining Data-Driven Systems for Improved Sign Language Translation which received a special mention and the 'Best Poster Awards Ceremony'
- Oct 8 - We have a paper accepted for TLT '07 in Bergen, Norway entitled Exploiting Parallel Treebanks for use in Statistical Machine Translation (with John, Mary, and Andy)
- Sep 19 - Publications section updated with pdfs of all recent papers, including theses
- Sep 17 - New article in our Events section detailing our participation at the recent conferences: TMI and MT Summit
- Aug 31 - Congratulations to Bart who successfully defended his PhD thesis. His extern was Dr. Paul Bennett of the University of Manchester, Mary was internal examiner and Ray Walshe was Chair. See here for more info
- July 9 - Sara is featured in an article on the main DCU page, in a story regarding the Google Anita Borg Scholarship. You can read it here
- June 29 - We have five papers accepted for TMI 2007 in Skövde, Sweden in September 2007. The papers are entitled Exploiting Source Similarity for SMT using Context-Informed Features (with Nicolas Stroppa, Andy Way, and Antal van den Bosch), Capturing Translational Divergences with a Statistical Tree-to-Tree Aligner (with Mary Hearne, John Tinsley, Ventsislav Zhechev, and Andy Way), Hand in Hand: Automatic Sign Language to Speech Translation (with Andy Way, Daniel Stein, Philippe Dreuw, Hermann Ney, and Sara Morrissey), A Cluster-Based Representation for Multi-System MT Evaluation (with Nicolas Stroppa and Karolina Owczarzak), and Alignment-Guided Chunking (with Yanjun Ma, Nicolas Stroppa, and Andy Way).
- June 8 - We had a paper accepted for the Conference and Workshop on Assistive Technology for People with Vision and Hearing Impairments entitled Joining Hands: Developing a Sign Language Machine Translation System with and for the Deaf Community (with Sara Morrissey and Andy Way)
- May 31 - We have three papers accepted for the MT Summit XI in Copenhagen in September 2007. The papers are entitled Comparing Rule-Based and Data-Driven Approaches to Spanish-to-Basque Machine Translation (with Gorka Labaka and Kepa Sarasola from the University of the Basque Country, and Nicolas Stroppa), Robust Language Pair-Independent Sub-Tree Alignment (with Mary Hearne, John Tinsley and Ventsislav Zhechev), and Towards a Hybrid Data-Driven MT System for Sign Language Translation (with Sara Morrissey, and Daniel Stein, Jan Bungeroth, and Hermann Ney from RWTH Aachen).
- May 28 - We have a post-doctoral research position available from August 1st. Please view the job advertisement and contact Prof. Andy Way if you're interested!
- May 17 - Congratulations to Yanjun Ma who has been successfully proposed as an EACL Student Board representative.
- May 9 - We have a paper accepted for the 2nd Workshop on SMT at ACL 2007, to take place in Prague, in June. The paper is entitled Labelled Dependencies in Machine Translation Evaluation, and is joint work with Karolina Owczarzak, Josef Van Genabith and Andy Way.
- April 11 - The 2nd call for papers for TMI 07, chaired by Andy, has been annouced, along with a new website.
- April 3 - Sara has been selected as a finalist for the Google Europe Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for Women in Computing
- Mar 26 - Andy is on the programme committee for the MT track in EMNLP, which directly follows ACL 2007.
- Mar 23 - We have two papers accepted for ACL 2007, to take place in Prague, in June. The first is entitled Integrating Supertags into Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation (with Hany Hassan and Khalil Sima'an) and the second is called Bootstrapping Word Alignment Via Word Packing with Yanjun Ma and Nicolas Stroppa.
- Mar 1 - We have a paper accepted for the Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST) workshop at NAACL-HLT 2007 entitled Dependency-Based Automatic Evaluation for Machine Translation (with Karolina Owczarzak and Josef Van Genabith).
- Feb 19 - 23: Daniel Stein, a PhD student in RWTH Aachen, visited to partake in collaborative research in the area of Sign Language MT
- Jan 12 - Nicolas gave a talk entitled Memory-Based Machine Translation at CLIN in the Netherlands
- Jan 11 - Nicolas attended the METIS-II workshop in Leuven, Belgium
- Dec 18 - Congratulations to Declan who successfully defended his PhD thesis. His extern was Prof. Philippe Langlais of theUniversity of Montreal, Josef was internal examiner and Mary was Chair.
- Andy is programme chair for TMI-07, to take place in Skövde, Sweden from September 7 - 9th
- Andy will serve on the programme committee for HLT-NAACL 2007
- November 27-28 : Nicolas presented the DCU EBMT system at IWSLT in Kyoto.
- Mary gave an invited talk at the first International Symposium on Parallel Treebanks in Stockholm.
- Hany, Khalil, Mary and Andy have had a paper accepted for the IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Translation
- Andy has just received a grant from the DCU OVPR under their International Visitors Programme to have Prof. Hermann Ney of RWTH Aachen visit us, probably in November 2006 and April 2007.
- September 6-7: Nicolas presented the DCU EBMT system at the NIST MT Workshop in Washington.
- August 8-12: Bart, Karolina and Andy present papers at AMTA in Boston.
- July 10-13 : Ríona and Mary presented a joint paper at LFG-06 in Konstanz, Germany.
- June 19-20: Bart, Declan and Mary present papers at EAMT in Oslo.
- We took over as webmasters for the LFG-DOP site.
- Andy is programme chair for the MT track at ACL-07 in Prague from June 24 - 29th 2007
- Antal, Nicolas, and Andy have had a paper accepted for the METIS-II Workshop on New Approaches to Machine Translation in Leuven.
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