News from 2008

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.