Selected Publications

Yanjun Ma. Constrained Word Alignment Models for Statistical Machine Translation. PhD thesis. Dublin City University. 2009. PDF BIB

Yanjun Ma and Andy Way. HMM word-to-phrase alignment with dependency constraints. In Proceedings of the COLING 2010/SIGMT SSST-4 workshop, Beijing, China. Forthcoming.

Yifan He, Yanjun Ma, Josef van Genabith and Andy Way. TM-SMT Integration as Ranking. In Proceedings of the COLING 2010, Beijing, China. Forthcoming.

Sergio Penkale, Yanjun Ma, Daniel Galron and Andy Way. Accuracy-Based Scoring for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the AMTA 2010, Denver, CO. Forthcoming.

Yifan He, Yanjun Ma, Johann Roturier, Andy Way and Josef van Genabith. Improving the Post-Editing Experience Using Translation Recommendation: A User Study. In Proceedings of AMTA 2010, Denver, CO. Forthcoming.

Yifan He, Yanjun Ma, Josef van Genabith and Andy Way. Bridging SMT and TM with Translation Recommendation. In Proceedings of the ACL 2010, Uppsala, Sweden. pp. 622-630.

Patrik Lambert, Simon Petitrenaud, Yanjun Ma and Andy Way. 2010. Statistical Analysis of Alignment Characteristics for Phrase-based Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Machine Translation, St. Raphael, France.

Yanjun Ma. Review of Wong, Li, Xu and Zhang's Introduction to Chinese Natural Language Processing. In Journal of Machine Translation.

Yanjun Ma and Andy Way. Bilingually Motivated Word Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation. In ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, 8(2). DOI.

Yanjun Ma and Andy Way. Bilingually Motivated Domain-Adapted Word Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the EACL 2009, Athens, Greece. pp. 549-557. PDF BIB SLIDES

Yanjun Ma, Tsuyoshi Okita, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Jinhua Du and Andy Way. Low-resource Machine Translation using MaTrEx: the DCU Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2009. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2009). Tokyo, Japan. pp.29-36. PDF BIB

Jinhua Du, Yanjun Ma and Andy Way. Source-Side Context-Informed Hypothesis Alignment for Combining Outputs from Machine Translation Systems. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XII, Ottawa, ON, Canada. PDF BIB

Patrik Lambert, Yanjun Ma, Sylwia Ozdowska and Andy Way. Tracking Relevant Alignment Characteristics for Machine Translation. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XII, Ottawa, ON, Canada. PDF BIB

Yanjun Ma, Patrik Lambert and Andy Way. Tuning Syntactically Enhanced Word Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the EAMT 2009, the 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Machine Translation, Barcelona, Spain. pp. 250-257. PDF BIB

Rejwanul Haque, Sudip Naskar, Yanjun Ma and Andy Way. 2009. Using Supertags as Source Language Context in SMT. In Proceedings of EAMT 2009, the 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Machine Translation, Barcelona, Spain. pp. 234-241. PDF BIB

Yanjun Ma, John Tinsley, Hany Hassan, Jinhua Du and Andy Way. Exploiting Alignment Techniques in MaTrEx: the DCU MT System for IWSLT 2008. In In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2008), Honolulu, HI, pp.26--33. PDF BIB

Yanjun Ma, Sylwia Ozdowska, Yanli Sun and Andy Way. Improving Word Alignment Using Syntactic Dependencies. In Proceedings of ACL08 workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-2) , pp.69-77, Columbus, OH. PDF BIB SLIDES

John Tinsley, Yanjun Ma, Sylwia Ozdowska and Andy Way. MaTrEx: the DCU MT System for WMT 2008. In Proceedings of ACL08 workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT2008) , pp.171-174, Columbus, OH. PDF BIB

Yanjun Ma, Nicolas Stroppa, and Andy Way. 2007. Boostrapping Word Alignment via Word Packing. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, pp.304--311. PDF BIB

Hany Hassan, Yanjun Ma, and Andy Way. 2007. MaTrEx: the DCU Machine Translation System for IWSLT2007. In In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2007), Trento, Italy, pp.69--75. PDF BIB

Yanjun Ma, Nicolas Stroppa, and Andy Way. 2007. Alignment-Guided Chunking . In Proceedings of The 11th Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI-07) , Skövde, Sweden, pp.114--121. PDF BIB SLIDES

10-minute presentation for EAMT 2009 best thesis award. May 28, 2010. PDF

Kevin Knight's Bayesian Inference with Tears. Presentation at NCLT Seminar Series. March 31st, 2010. PDF

Out of Giza: Efficient Models for Word Alignment. Presentation at NCLT Seminar Series. March 3rd, 2009. PDF

Generative Word Alignment Models. NCLT seminar series, February 13, 2008. PDF

New Word and Phrasal Alignment Methods for Machine Translation. Seminar for Visit of Prof. Hermann Ney . June 15, 2007. PDF

Toward Syntax-rich Statistical Machine Translation. NCLT seminar series, January 10, 2007. PDF