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Nitin Madnani

Mailing address
Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
AVW 3126G
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Phone
(O) +1-301-405-6746
E-mail
(first initial+last name)@umiacs.umd.edu
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Research Interests
Statistical Machine Translation
Automatic Paraphrase Generation & Recognition
Automatic Text Summarization
Machine Learning
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I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park. I am also a graduate research assistant in the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Laboratory at the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, where I work with my advisor, Bonnie Dorr. My research is based on exploring the intersection of and interaction between statistical machine translation and automatic paraphrase generation.

Software

Python & Perl wrappers for SRILMs: Wrappers that will allow you to read and query an SRI language model directly in your Python and Perl code. taricon
clusterinfo: A Python script that displays current usage of a PBS-based cluster in a more condensed and easier-to-read format. taricon
LM Server: A Python-based XML-RPC server for an SRILM language model. Allows multiple clients to query the same language model that's loaded in memory in server mode. taricon
UMIACS Word Alignment Interface: A Java-based tool for creating and viewing word alignments between language pairs. It has been widely used across the community to create aligments for many language pairs including Welsh-English, Swahili-English, Czech-English and Chinese-English. pdficon

Publications

Fluency, Adequacy, or HTER? Exploring Different Human Judgments with a Tunable MT Metric. 2009. Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation. Matthew Snover, Nitin Madnani, Bonnie Dorr and Richard Schwartz. pdficon bibicon
Multiple Alternative Sentence Compressions and Word-Pair Antonymy for Automatic Text Summarization and Recognizing Textual Entailment. 2008. Text Analysis Conference (TAC) . Saif Mohammad, Bonnie J. Dorr, Melissa Egan, Nitin Madnani, David Zajic, and Jimmy Lin. pdficon bibicon
Applying Automatically Generated Semantic Knowledge: A Case Study in Machine Translation. 2008. Proceedings of the Symposium on Semantic Knowledge Discovery, Organization and Use . Nitin Madnani, Philip Resnik, Bonnie Dorr and Richard Schwartz. pdficon bibicon taricon
TERp: A System Description. 2008. Proceedings of the First NIST Metrics for Machine Translation Challenge (MetricsMATR). Matt Snover, Nitin Madnani, Bonnie Dorr and Richard Schwartz. pdficon bibicon
Are Multiple Reference Translations Necessary? Investigating the Value of Paraphrased Reference Translations in Parameter Optimization. 2008. Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2008). Nitin Madnani, Philip Resnik, Bonnie Dorr and Richard Schwartz. pdficon bibicon
Combining Open-Source with Research to Re-engineer a Hands-on Introductory NLP Course. 2008. Proceedings of the Third ACL Workshop on Issues in Teaching Computational Linguistics (TeachCL-08). Nitin Madnani and Bonnie Dorr. pdficon bibicon
TREC 2007 ciQA Task: University of Maryland. 2007. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). Nitin Madnani, Jimmy Lin, and Bonnie Dorr. pdficon
Using Paraphrases for Parameter Tuning in Statistical Machine Translation. 2007. Proceedings of the Second ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT-07). Nitin Madnani, Necip Fazil Ayan, Philip Resnik, Bonnie Dorr. pdficon bibicon
Getting Started on Natural Language Processing with Python. 2007. ACM Crossroads, Volume 13, Issue 4. Nitin Madnani.
[Note: The PDF version has been completely revised since the official ACM version to keep up to date with the changes made to the software used in the article. ]
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Measuring Variability in Sentence Ordering for News Summarization. 2007. Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG). Nitin Madnani, Rebecca Passonneau, John Conroy, Necip Fazil Ayan, Bonnie Dorr, Judith Klavans, Dianne O'Leary and Judith Schlesinger. pdficon bibicon
Multiple Alternative Sentence Compressions for Automatic Text Summarization. 2007. Proceedings of the Document Understanding Conference (DUC) at HLT/NAACL . Nitin Madnani, David Zajic, Bonnie Dorr, Necip Fazil Ayan and Jimmy Lin. pdficon slideicon bibcon
The Hiero Machine Translation System: Extensions, Evaluation, and Analysis. 2005. Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP . David Chiang, Adam Lopez, Nitin Madnani, Christof Monz, Philip Resnik and Michael Subotin. pdficon
Rapid Porting of DUSTer to Hindi. 2003. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, Volume 2, Issue 2 . Bonnie J. Dorr, Necip Fazil Ayan, Nizar Habash, Nitin Madnani, and Rebecca Hwa. pdficon bibcon

Invited Talks

Using Paraphrases for Parameter Tuning in Statistical Machine Translation. 2007. GALE Annual Technical Presentation. Nitin Madnani, Necip Fazil Ayan, Philip Resnik and Bonnie J. Dorr. slideicon

Posters

Exploring Emily Dickinson Letters. June 2005. HCIL 22nd Annual Symposium and Open House, University of Maryland. Catherine Plaisant, Nitin Madnani, Matt Kirschenbaum, Martha Nell Smith, Tanya Clement, Greg Lord. pdficon
Portable Divergence Unraveling - The Case of Hindi. 2004. Research Review Day, University of Maryland. Nitin Madnani, Necip Fazil Ayan, Bonnie Dorr, Nizar Habash, Christof Monz. pdficon

Other Talks & Presentations

Expectation Maximization. 2004. Advanced NLP Seminar slideicon
Decoding in Statistical Machine Translation. 2006. UMD StatMT Reading Group slideicon

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