We had a paper in the recent EBMT-3 workshop, entitled Hybrid Rule-Based -- Example-Based MT: Feeding Apertium with Sub-sentential Translation Units, representing joint work with Felipe Sánchez-Martínez and Mikel Forcada.
We had three papers accepted for PACLIC 23, the 23rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, to be held 3--5 Dec at the City University of Hong Kong. The papers were as follows:
We had a paper accepted for presentation at the project exhibition at the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), which took place in Bled, Slovenia, from September 7th to 11th, 2009. The paper was entitled Noise Reduction Experiments in Machine Translation, and is joint work with Tsuyoshi Okita and Sudip Naskar.
We had a paper accepted for presentation at IALP 2009, the
latest in the series of International Conferences on Asian Language
Processing. This year's conference took place on 7-9 December in Singapore. The paper was
entitled A Three-pass System Combination Framework by Combining Multiple
Hypothesis Alignment Methods, and is joint work with Jinhua Du.
Mikel
Forcada, in residence at the CNGL for the year, and I 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.
We've just heard that two of our papers have been accepted for publication in Machine Translation. The first paper is entitled Bidirectional Data-Driven Machine Translation for Irish and German Sign Languages, and represents joint work with Sara
Morrissey. The second paper is entitled Parallel
Treebanks and their Exploitability in Machine Translation, and represents joint work with John Tinsley.
We've just had a paper
accepted for presentation at Interspeech 2009, the 10th Annual Conference
of the International
Speech Communication
Association, which will take place on
6-10 September, 2009 in Brighton, UK. The paper is
entitled Using Same-Language Machine Translation to Create Alternative
Target Sequences for Text-To-Speech Synthesis, and is joint work with
Peter Cahill and Julie Berndsen of UCD, and Jinhua Du of DCU.
We've just had four papers
accepted for presentation at MT Summit 2009, the Twelfth Machine
Translation Summit, organized by the International Association for Machine
Translation and the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, which will
be held at the Château Laurier, Ottawa, Canada, 26-30 August 2009. The papers are as follows:
We've just had a paper accepted for presentation at RANLP 2009, the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, to take place September 14-16, 2009, in Borovets, Bulgaria. The paper is entitled Lexicalized Semi-Incremental Dependency Parsing and is joint work with Hany Hassan and Khalil Sima'an.
We've just had two papers accepted for presentation at EMNLP, which will be held on August 6--7 at the Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre, immediately following ACL/IJCNLP 2009. The first paper is entitled A Syntactified Direct Translation Model with Linear-time Decoding and is joint work with Hany Hassan and Khalil Sima'an. The second paper is entitled Accuracy-Based Scoring for DOT: A Step Towards Evaluation Measure Based MT Training and is joint work with Sergio Penkale and Daniel Galron, a student of Dan Melamed's who recently completed a placement in DCU funded by CNGL.
We've just had a paper accepted for presentation at the Named Entities Workshop (NEWS) 2009, to take place on 7th August, 2009 at ACL/IJCNLP 2009. The paper is entitled English--Hindi Transliteration Using Context-Informed PB-SMT: the DCU System, and is joint work with Rejwanul Haque, Ankit Srivastava and Sudip Naskar.
I'm on the programme committee for IWSLT 2009, which will be held in Tokyo, Japan, on December 1-2, 2009. This year IWSLT-09 will be co-located with IUCS 2009.
xAt the EAMT-09 conference in Barcelona, I was elected as the new President of EAMT, following the sterling service provided to our community in this regard by Bente Maegaard.
We had a paper accepted for presentation at SETQA-NLP 2009, a workshop at HLT-NAACL 2009, on "Software engineering, testing, and quality assurance for natural language processing". This will take place in Boulder, Colorado, on Friday, June 5th. The paper is entitled Web service integration for next generation localisation, and represents joint work with David Lewis, Stephen Curran, Kevin Feeney, Zohar Etzioni, John Keeney (all TCD) and Reinhard Schäler (University of Limerick).
I was on the programme committee for EMNLP, which will be held on August 6--7 at the Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre, immediately following ACL/IJCNLP 2009.
I was 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.
We had five papers accepted for presentation at EAMT-09, the 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Machine Translation, which will take place May 14-15 at UPC in Barcelona, Spain. The five papers are as follows:
I gave 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.
We had a paper accepted for presentation in the Special Issue on Machine Translation of Asian Languages of ACM TALIP. The paper is entitled Bilingually Motivated Word Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation, and is joint work with Yanjun Ma.
We 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, and is joint work with Jinhua Du, Yifan He and Sergio Penkale.
We had a paper accepted for presentation at CICLING 2009, to be held in Mexico City from March 1-7, 2009. The paper is entitled Parallel Treebanks in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation and is joint work with John Tinsley and Mary Hearne.
We 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 was on the
Programme Committee for the Joint
ACL-IJCNLP 2009 conference to be held in Singapore on August 2-7, 2009.
We 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 attended the JHU 2009 Summer Workshop Planning Meeting this weekend Nov 7--9. Khalil Sima'an and I put together an proposal to incorporate syntax into today's PB-SMT systems. We came fifth ...
I was 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
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 was on the organizing committee (as one of the publicity chairs)
for ACL-IJCNLP to
take place in Singapore 2-7 August 2009.