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RESEARCH   OBJECTIVE
Increase access of information and ideas across languages
through research in machine translation

RESEARCH   INTERESTS
Alignment models, Chunking, Data-driven machine translation,
Dependency parsing, Lexicon extraction, Multiword expressions,
Cross-lingual induction, Semi-supervised and unsupervised learning

PUBLICATIONS
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	<< January 23 to February 1, 2009 >> Attended the Machine Translation Marathon (MTM 2009) held in Prague, Czech Republic.
	<< January through April, 2009 >> Help organize the 12th Annual CLUKI research colloquium to be held in Dublin on April 23-24, 2009.
	<< January through April, 2009 >> Volunteering as a consulting tutor for the first-ever All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO 2009).
	<< December 23, 2008 to January 4, 2009 >> Away in Dubai, UAE.
	Srivastava, A., R. Haque, S. Naskar and A. Way. 2008. MaTrEx: the DCU MT System for ICON 2008. In Proceedings of the NLP Tools Contest: Statistical Machine Translation (English to Hindi), 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, Pune, India.
	<< December 19, 2008 >> My first publication! A system description for the English to Hindi machine translation shared task, part of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2008) held at Pune, India. The proceedings can be found here.
	<< November & December, 2008 >> Participated in the English to Hindi Statistical Machine Translation Contest, part of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2008). Joint work with Sudip Naskar, Rejwanul Haque, and Andy Way.
	<< November 14 to November 21, 2008 >> Away in New Delhi and Ranchi, India.
	<< October 9, 2008 >> Presented ongoing research entitled "Exploiting Multiple Aligned Models in Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation" at CNGL's Autumn 2008 Scientific Meeting.
	<< October 7 to December 16, 2008 >> Lab tutor for CA215: programming in Haskell component.
	<< October 2 to October 3, 2008 >> Attended the 13th Annual Internationalisation and Localisation Conference (LRC XIII) held at Marino Institute of Education, Dublin.
	<< September 10 to September 11, 2008 >> Attended the 2-day CNGL (Centre for Next Generation Localisation) Integration workshop held at TCD (Trinity College Dublin).
	<< August 4, 2008 onwards >> Playing with MaTrEx, specifically with aligned word and phrase pairs in the translation model.
	<< July 28 to July 31, 2008 >> Attended 4-day training program organized by the Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC). Courses included high performance computing, message passing interface, and OpenMP.
	<< July 28, 2008 >> I became a card-carrying (symbolically) member of EAMT, European Association for Machine Translation.
	<< July 24, 2008 >> Presented my master's project entitled "Learning a translation lexicon from non parallel corpora" at the NCLT / CNGL Workshop.
	<< July 1, 2008 >> Officially started my PhD research studies at Dublin City University. I am located in one of the L208 bays in the School of Computing.