I am the Editor for the journal Machine Translation. Please contact me if you would like to submit to the journal.

I am also on the EAMT Committee, by virtue of being their Webmaster.

I am also a member of the National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT), and am a member of the Language and Intelligence Research group in our School.

I am also the track leader for Integrated Language Technologies in the Centre for Next Generation Localisation, aiming at facilitating optimal multilingual applications for deployment in the localisation industry.

Recent News

We've just had a paper accepted for presentation at EACL-09 to be held in Athens, Greece, from March 30-April 3, 2009. The paper is entitled Bilingually Motivated Domain-Adapted Word Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation and is joint work with Yanjun Ma.

I'm on the Programme Committee for the Joint ACL-IJCNLP 2009 conference to be held in Singapore on August 2-7, 2009.

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.

I'm attending the JHU 2009 Summer Workshop Planning Meeting this weekend Nov 7--9. Khalil Sima'an and I have put together an proposal to incorporate syntax into today's PB-SMT systems. We'll see how we get on ...

I'm on the Programme Committee for the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-09) to be held in Athens, Greece, from March 30-April 3, 2009.

New recruits to our team include Marianna Apidianiki (Jussieu, Paris: postdoc), Anton Bryl (Trento: postdoc), Yifan He (Tsinghua Univ., Beijing: PhD), Rejwanul Haque (Jadavpur Univ., Kolkata: PhD), and Sandipan Dandapat (IIT-Hyderabad: PhD). Welcome all!

We've just had a paper accepted for presentation at the Second IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) workshop to be held in Goa, India in December 2008. The paper is entitled A Syntactic Language Model based on Incremental CCG Parsing, and is joint work with Hany Hassan and Khalil Sima'an.

I'm on the organizing committee (as one of the publicity chairs) for ACL-IJCNLP to take place in Singapore 2-7 August 2009.

I'm on the Programme Committee for the 8th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-08) to be held in Waikiki, Hawaii, from October 21-25, 2008.

I'm delighted to state that Dr. Jinhua Du has joined us from the Chinese Academy of Science in Beijing as a post-doctoral researcher. Jinhua started on July 1st, and will be with us for a year on the Next Generation Localisation CSET project.

I'm pleased to announce that Sudip Naskar from the Computer Science and Engineering Dept. at Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India, will be joining us on the Prospect MT project as a postdoctoral researcher from July 1st.

We've just had a paper accepted for presentation at Coling 2008 to take place in Manchester from August 18-22. The paper is entitled Automatic Generation of Parallel Treebanks, and is joint work with Ventsislav Zhechev.

I'm delighted to announce that Mikel Forcada of the Universitat d'Alacant in Spain has successfully applied for an SFI Walton scholarship, to enable him to spend a year with our MT group from June 2009.

Sara Morrissey has successfully defended her PhD (2nd May). See here for more details.

I'm on the Programme Committee for the Second International Symposium on Universal Communication to be held in Osaka, Japan from December 15-16 2008.

Karolina Owczarzak has successfully defended her PhD (25th April). See here for more details.

I'm on the Programme Committee for the Second IEEE Spoken Language Technology (SLT) workshop to be held in Goa, India in December 2008.

We had a paper accepted for presentation at the 2nd SSST workshop at ACL-08, to take place in June in Columbus, OH. The paper is entitled Improving Word Alignment Using Syntactic Dependencies, and is joint work with Yanjun Ma, Yanli Sun, and Sylwia Ozdowska.

I'm delighted to state that Dr. Patrik Lambert has joined us from the UPC in Barcelona as a post-doctoral researcher. Patrik started on April 1st, and will be with us for a year on the Next Generation Localisation CSET project.

An article of ours has just appeared in Computational Linguistics. It's entitled Wide-Coverage Deep Statistical Parsing Using Automatic Dependency Structure Annotation, and is joint work with Aoife Cahill, Mick Burke, Ruth O'Donovan, Stefan Riezler, and Josef Van Genabith.

We've just had a paper accepted for publication in Machine Translation. The paper is entitled Evaluating Machine Translation with LFG Dependencies, and is joint work with Karolina Owczarzak and Josef Van Genabith.

We've just had a paper accepted for presentation at LREC-08. The paper is entitled The ATIS Sign Language Corpus, and represents joint work with Jan Bungeroth, Daniel Stein, Hermann Ney, Sara Morrissey, and Lynette van Zijl.

I'm on the Programme Committee for IWSLT 2008, to take place in (ahem!) Hawaii on October 20--21. IWSLT is co-located with AMTA 2008 this year.

I'm 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).

I'm on the programme committee for the SSST workshop at ACL-08, to take place in June in Columbus, OH.

I reviewed the EuroMatrix project in Prague Feb 04-05.

I gave a talk at the Mixing Approaches to Machine Translation workshop in Donostia in the Basque Country on Feb 14.

Items from 2007

We had a paper accepted for Sixth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT-07), to take place in Bergen, Norway, in December 07. The paper is entitled Exploiting Parallel Treebanks to Improve Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation, and is joint work with John Tinsley and Mary Hearne.

I presented our system's results at IWSLT-07 in Trento, Italy, on Oct 15th.

I'm delighted to state that Sylwia Ozdowska has joined us from the University of Toulouse as a post-doctoral researcher. Sylwia started on Sept 1st, and will be with us for two years on the PROSPECT project.

Bart Mellebeek recently successfully defended his PhD. See here for more details.

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The list of accepted papers for TMI 07 is now available.

We had five papers accepted for TMI 07 to be held in Skövde, Sweden, from September 7-9. The papers are entitled Exploiting Source Similarity for SMT using Context-Informed Features (with Nicolas Stroppa and Antal van den Bosch), Capturing Translational Divergences with a Statistical Tree-to-Tree Aligner (with Mary Hearne, John Tinsley and Ventsislav Zhechev), Hand in Hand: Automatic Sign Language to Speech Translation (with Daniel Stein, Philippe Dreuw, Hermann Ney, and Sara Morrissey), A Cluster-Based Representation for Multi-System MT Evaluation (by Nicolas Stroppa and Karolina Owczarzak), and Alignment-Guided Chunking (with Yanjun Ma and Nicolas Stroppa).

We had a paper accepted for the Conference and Workshop on Assistive Technologies for People with Vision and Hearing Impairments - Assistive Technology for All Ages, to take place in Granada, Spain, in August 2007. The paper is entitled Joining Hands: Developing a sign language machine translation system with and for the Deaf Community, and is joint work with Sara Morrissey.

We had 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).

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 and Josef Van Genabith.

We've just announced the 2nd call for papers for TMI 07 to be held in Skövde, Sweden, from September 7-9, just before MT Summit XI in Copenhagen.

I'm on the programme committee for MT Summit 2007, to be held in Copenhagen from September 10-14, right after TMI in in Skövde, Sweden (September 7-9).

I'm on the programme committee for IWSLT 2007, to be held in Trento on 15-16 October.

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.

I'm on the programme committee for the MT track in EMNLP, which directly follows ACL 2007.

We have a paper accepted for the Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST) workshop at NAACL-HLT 2007. It is entitled Dependency-Based Automatic Evaluation for Machine Translation (with Karolina Owczarzak and Josef Van Genabith).

I was programme chair for the track on MT at ACL-07, to take place in Prague June 24--29th, 2007.

Much more important than all this MT-related nonsense, our 3rd child Rachel Amy arrived safely at 1.04 am Weds 8th November, 7lb 12 oz (3.5kg). All delighted!

As programme chair, I announced the 1st call for papers for TMI 2007, to be held in Skövde, Sweden, from September 7-9, just before MT Summit XI in Copenhagen.

We have a paper accepted for the METIS-II Workshop on New Approaches to Machine Translation to be held in Leuven on January 11th, 2007. The paper is entitled A memory-based classification approach to marker-based EBMT, and is joint work with Antal van den Bosch and Nicolas Stroppa.

I was on the programme committee for HLT-NAACL 2007.

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