John Tinsley
PhD Student
National Centre for Language Technology

Publications

2009

Tinsley, J., M. Hearne and A. Way. 2009. Parallel Treebanks in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing-2009). Mexico City, Mexico. (to appear)

2008

Ma, Y., J. Tinsley,, H. Hassan, J. Du and A. Way, 2008. Exploiting Alignment Techniques in MaTrEx: the DCU System for IWSLT08 In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, Honolulu, Hawaii (to appear) [ | ]

Tinsley, J., Y. Ma, S. Ozdowska and A. Way, 2008. MaTrEx: the DCU MT System for WMT 2008 In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-08), Columbus, Ohio. [pdf | ]

Hearne, M., S. Ozdowska, J. Tinsley, 2008. Comparing Constituency and Dependency Representations for SMT Phrase-Extraction In Actes de la 15éme Conférence Annuelle sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN '08), Avignon, France. [pdf | bib]

2007

Tinsley, J., M. Hearne and A. Way. 2007. Exploiting Parallel Treebanks for use in Statistical Machine Translation In Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT '07). Bergen, Norway. p.175-187 [pdf | bib]

Tinsley, J., V. Zhechev, M. Hearne and A. Way. 2007. Robust Language Pair-Independent Sub-Tree Alignment In Machine Translation Summit XI. Copenhagen, Denmark. p.467-474 [pdf | bib ]

Hearne, M., J. Tinsley, V. Zhechev, and A. Way. 2007. Capturing Translational Divergences with a Statistical Tree-to-Tree Aligner In Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation. Skövde, Sweden. p.83-94 [pdf | bib ]


Presentations

PhD Transfer Presentation, DCU, Ireland - Apr 21, 2008 Parallel Treebanks and their Role in Machine Translation slides

TLT'07, Bergen, Norway - December 7, 2007 Exploiting Parallel Treebanks to Improve Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation slides

MT Summit XI, Copenhagen, Denmark - September 12, 2007 Robust Language Pair-Independent Sub-Tree Alignment slides

NCLT Seminar Series, DCU, Ireland - May 9, 2007 Robust Language Pair-Independent Sub-Tree Alignment slides


Awards

Awarded Microsoft Postgraduate Research Scholarship, worth €1610, for work entitled Exploiting Parallel Treebanks to Improve Data-Driven Machine Translation

Activties


Program Committee - AMTA 2008 Student Research Workshop