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We have a paper accepted for IWSLT-06. The paper is entitled MaTrEx: DCU Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2006, and is joint work with Nicolas Stroppa.

We have a new page detailing all the activities of our DCU MT Group. Let us know what you think!

We have a paper accepted for Translating and the Computer 27, the annual ASLIB conference in London, in November. The paper is entitled Improving the Quality of Automated DVD Subtitles via Example-Based Machine Translation, and is joint work with Stephen Armstrong, Colm Caffrey, Marian Flanagan, Dorothy Kenny and Minako O'Hagan.

I've just received a grant of EUR 1500 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.

We have a paper accepted for the IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, which takes place in Aruba, December 10--13, 2006.The paper is called Syntactic Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation (with Hany Hassan, Mary Hearne and Khalil Sima'an).

We've recently updated the LFG-DOP home page. Thanks to Mary Hearne for this considerably improved version.

I spoke at the Edinburgh--Saarbruecken Summer School in Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics, on 6th September. My talk was entitled Hybrid Data-Driven Models of Machine Translation (slides (.ppt)).

We have three papers accepted for AMTA 2006 in Boston, in August. The papers are entitled Example-Based Machine Translation of the Basque Language (with Nicolas Stroppa, Declan Groves, and Kepa Separasola), Wrapper Syntax for Example-based Machine Translation (with Bart Mellebeek, Karolina Owczarzak, Declan Groves and Josef Van Genabith), and Multi-Engine Machine Translation by Recursive Sentence Decomposition (with Bart Mellebeek, Karolina Owczarzak and Josef Van Genabith).

We have a paper accepted for LFG 2006 in Konstanz, in July. The paper is entitled Extending the Tree-DOP Model with Grammatical Function Information (with Riona Finn, Mary Hearne, and Josef van Genabith).

We have a paper accepted for the SMT Workshop at HLT-NAACL 2006. The paper is entitled Contextual Bitext-Derived Paraphrases in Automatic MT Evaluation, and is joint work with Karolina Owczarzak, Declan Groves, and Josef Van Genabith.

We have 3 papers accepted for EAMT-06, in Oslo, June 19-20. These are papers on DOT (with Mary Hearne), TransBooster (with Bart Mellebeek, Karolina Owczarzak and Josef Van Genabith), and Hybrid Example-Based and Statistical Models of MT (with Declan Groves).

We have a paper on Sign Language Translation accepted for the SALTMIL workshop at LREC 2006 in Genoa, Italy, May 2006. This is joint work with Sara Morrissey.

I've been asked to serve on the programme committee for EMNLP 2006, to be held on July 22-23 in Sydney, immediately following COLING-ACL 2006.

Our project 'ATTEMPT: "All Trees" Efficient Models of Parsing and Translation' has just been accepted for Euro 166K (plus overhead) funding by SFI. This is in collaboration with Khalil Sima'an of the University of Amsterdam. We are looking for two strong students interested in conducting research at PhD level in this area.

I've been asked to serve on the programme committee for AMTA-06, to be held in Cambridge, MA., on August 8-12, 2006.

I've been asked to serve on the programme committee for the IEEE/ACL 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, which takes place in Aruba, December 10--13, 2006.

I've been asked to serve on the programme committee for the area of "Machine Translation and Multilinguality" at COLING-ACL 2006. This will be held in Sydney, Australia, July 17--21, 2006.

I've been asked to serve on the programme committee for IWSLT-06. This will be held in Kyoto, Japan, Nov 30 - Dec 1, 2006.

I'm on the programme committee for HLT-NAACL 2006.

I'm on the programme committee for EAMT-06, in Oslo, June 19-20. Deadline for submission is 15th Feb 2006.

I spoke at a workshop entitled "Whither DOP?", in Amsterdam, on December 9th, 2005.

I'm the Area Chair for the MT track for EACL-06, to be held in Trento, Italy, from April 3rd to 7th 2006.

Please note that Michael Carl and I are guest editors for a special issue of the Machine Translation Journal on the theme of EBMT. For interested researchers, submission details are now available. Deadline for submission is December 19th 2005.

I've recently had a large (Euro 642K) project proposal accepted for funding by SFI under their Principal Investigator programme. Over the next 4 years, we'll be investigating DOP parsing models for Arabic and Chinese, and DOP- and EBMT-based models of translation for English<=>Arabic and Chinese<=>English.

Together with Minako O'Hagan and Dorothy Kenny (both SALIS), we've had a project proposal (Euro 85K) accepted under the Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation (Proof of Concept) funding scheme to investigate an Example-based Machine Translation approach to translating subtitles on DVD.

I'm pleased to announce that my SFI/RIA China-Ireland funded project with the MT Lab at HIT, Harbin, China, has been recommended for a 2nd, and final, year of funding.

We presented a paper at MT Summit X in Phuket. This is joint work with Bart Mellebeek, Karolina Owczarzak, Anna Khasin, and Josef van Genabith.

We presented a paper at the EBMT Workshop at MT Summit X in Phuket. This is joint work with Sara Morrissey.

I gave a talk on May 20th on Comparing EBMT and SMT (.ppt slides) at the University of Edinburgh as part of the ICCS/HCRC seminar series.

We had a paper accepted for the ACL 2005 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data-Driven Machine Translation and Beyond, Ann Arbor, MI., in June. The paper is available on my publications page.

Together with Dan Melamed (NYU), Dekai Wu (HKUST) and Steve Clark (Oxford), we ran a Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation by Parsing in July-August 2005. This workshop was part of the prestigious CLSP workshop series at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore that has been taking place for the past 10 years or so. My postgraduate student Declan Groves was also on the team, as was my ex-student (now post-doctoral researcher!) Mary Hearne.

We had a paper accepted for the EAMT workshop in Budapest at the end of May.

I've (finally!) put my publications on-line.

I've been invited onto the CLUK steering committee.

Our EBMT book was out of stock, but apparently no longer is ...