Papers & Presentations
Introductory presentation from the kick-off meeting.
Presentations Final Review, Luxembourg, 27-11-2009
Nicola Cancedda and Pierre Mahé: Factored sequence kernels, in Neurocomputing, 72 (7-9), March 2009
Stephane Clinchant and Jean-Michel Renders: Query Translation through Dictionary Adaptation, in Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval, 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, September 19-21, 2007
Stephane Clinchant and Jean-Michel Renders: Multi-Language Models and Meta-dictionary Adaptation for Accessing Multilingual Digital Libraries, in Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access, 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, September 17-19, 2008.
Ilias Flaounas, Marco Turchi, Tijl De Bie and Nello Cristianini: Inference and Validation of Networks, in Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, LNCS 5781/2009.
Ilias Flaounas, Marco Turchi and Nello Cristianini: Detecting Macro-patterns in the Mediasphere, in Workshop on Intelligent Analysis and Processing of Web News Content, WI-IAT, Milan, Italy, 2009.
Cyril Goutte, Nicola Cancedda, Marc Dymetman and George Foster (eds.): Learning Machine Translation, the MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2009.
Matti Kääriäinen: Sinuhe -- Statistical Machine Translation using a Globally Trained Conditional Exponential Family Translation Model, in Conference on Empirical Methods for Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2009), Singapore.
Yizhao Ni, Craig Saunders, Sandor Szedmak, Mahesan Niranjan: Handling phrase reordering for machine translation, in 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), Singapore, 2009.
Elisa Ricci, Tijl De Bie, Nello Cristianini: Learning to Align: a Statistical Approach, in Proceedings of
Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA 2007), Ljubljana ,September 2007.
Elisa Ricci, Tijl De Bie, Nello Cristianini: Discriminative sequence labeling by Z-score optimization, in Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2007), Warsaw, September
2007.
Elisa Ricci, Tijl De Bie, Nello Cristianini: Magic Moments for Structured Output Prediction, in Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 9(Dec):2803--2846, 2008.
Jan Rupnik and Blaz Fortuna: Regression Canonical Correlation Analysis, in NIPS workshop on Learning from Multiple Sources, Whistler, Canada, 2008.
Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi, Nicola Cancedda, Marc Dymetman and Nello Cristianini: Estimating the Sentence-Level Quality of Machine Translation Systems, in Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, Barcelona, Spain, 2009.
Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi, Zhuoran Wang, John Shawe-Taylor and Craig Saunders: Improving the Confidence of Machine Translation Quality Estimates., in Machine Translation Summit XII, Ottawa, Canada. 2009.
Nadi Tomeh, Nicola Cancedda and Marc Dymetman: Complexity-based Phrase-table Filtering for Statistical Machine Translation., in Machine Translation Summit XII, Ottawa, Canada. 2009.
Marco Turchi, Tijl De Bie, Nello Cristianini: An Intelligent Agent that Autonomously Learns how to Translate, in Workshop on Intelligent Analysis and Processing of Web News Content, WI-IAT, Milan, Italy, 2009.
H. Yu and J. Rousu: An Efficient Method for Large Margin Parameter Optimization in Structured Prediction Problems. Technical Report C-2007-87, Dept. Computer Science, Univ. of Helsinki, 2007.
Zhuoran Wang and John Shawe-Taylor: Large-Margin Structured Prediction via Linear Programming., in The Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2009), Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA, 2009.
Wang, Zhuoran and Shawe-Taylor, John and Szedmak, Sandor: Kernel Regression Based Machine Translation. In proceedings of Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Companion Volume, Short Papers, pp. 185-188.
Mikhail Zaslavski, Marc Dymetman and Nicola Cancedda: Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation as a Traveling Salesman Problem, in 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP 2009), Singapore, 2009.
Slides from the first year project review, Milan, January 7th, 2008:
Workpackage 2 - Advanced Statistical Translation Models
Workpackage 3 - Advanced Language Models
Workpackage 4 - Model Adaptation and Combination
Workpackage 6 - Evaluation
SMART Tutorial Workshop videos
SMART Dissemination Workshop videos