John Tinsley | PhD Student

Hello

"Researchers and scientists are working away in laboratories. They are responsible individuals, not at all unbalanced, as many believe."
- A quote from a session of the European Parliament in Nov. 2001

Me and the Acropolis in Athens, Greece

Short Bio

My name is John Tinsley. I'm a Ph.D. student at the National Centre for Language Technology in DCU. My research is in the area of Machine Translation (MT), more specifically syntax-motivated SMT, Example-based MT, Tree Alignment, and Parallel Treebanking amongst other things. I'm under the supervision of Prof. Andy Way. I received my BSc. in Applied Computational Linguistics from DCU in 2006.

Latest news

Sep 29 - Along with Declan Groves of Traslán, I launched a new redesigned webpage for the EAMT, found here
Sep 5 - I will be attending AMTA/IWSLT/EMNLP in Hawai'i this coming October
Aug 20 - Paper accepted to IWSLT! See publications
Apr 21 - I successfully negotiated my PhD transfer process
Apr 14 - Paper accepted to WMT! See publications
Apr 3 - Submitted paper entitled MaTrEx: the DCU Machine Translation System for WMT-08 to WMT-08
March 28 - Paper accepted to TALN! See publications
March 6 - I am the new webmaster and MT-list admin for the European Association for Machine Translations (EAMT)
February 20 - I am tutoring lab sessions for CA106 - Web Design Course notes can here found here
February 18 - Submitted paper entitled Comparing Constituency and Dependency Representations for SMT Phrase-Extraction to TALN with Mary and Sylwia
January 22 - The DCU main page features an article here regarding the Microsoft Postgraduate Research Scholarships, one of which I received. A higher res copy of the photo can be seen here
December 7 - I presented our paper Exploiting Parallel Treebanks to Improve Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation at TLT'07 in Bergen, Norway. Slides here
December 6 - I was awarded a Microsoft Postgraduate Research Scholarship, worth €1610, for work entitled "Exploiting Parallel Treebanks to Improve Data-Driven Machine Translation"
October 11 - I'll be co-chairing the NCLT Seminar Series this year with Ventsi. See here for more details.
October 8 - Paper accepted to TLT! See publications
September 12 - Presented our paper Robust Language Pair-Independent Subtree Alignment at MT Summit XI in Copenhagen, Denmark. Slides here
September 5 to 16 - Attended TMI and MT Summit in Skovde and Copenhagen respectively. Photos here
August 31 - Submitted paper entitled Exploiting Parallel Treebanks to Improve Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation to TLT with Mary and Andy
June 30 - Paper accepted to TMI! See publications
May 31 - Paper accepted to MT Summit! See publications
May 23 - :-(
May 14 - Submitted paper entitled Capturing Translational Divergences with a Statistical Tree-to-Tree aligner to TMI with Ventsi, Mary, and Andy
May 9 - Presentation at NCLT Seminar Series entitled Robust Language Pair-Independent Sub-Tree Alignment with Ventsi. Slides here
May 1 - Witnessed that nerve wracking semi-final in person
April 16 to 20 - Attending First MT Marathon @ University of Edinburgh
April 15 - Submitted paper entitled Robust Language Pair-Independent Sub-Tree alignment to MT Summit with Ventsi, Mary, and Andy
Feb 21 - Went to see Liverpool beat Barcelona 2-1 :D
Feb 05 - I am tutoring lab sessions for CA146 - Introduction to Programming (C++). Course notes can here found here
Nov 10 - I am now the webmaster for the NCLT's MT site