Project-Related Publications

• David Chiang, Adam Lopez, Nitin Madnani, Christof Monz, Philip Resnik, and Michael Subotin, "The Hiero Machine Translation System: Extensions, Evaluation, and Analysis", to appear at HLT/EMNLP 2005, Vancouver, October 2005.

• Adam Lopez and Philip Resnik, "Pattern Visualization for Machine Translation Output", to appear at the demonstration session of HLT/EMNLP 2005, Vancouver, October 2005.

• David Chiang, "A Hierarchical Phrase-Based Model for Statistical Machine Translation". In Proceedings of ACL 2005, pages 263--270. (Best Paper award)

• Clara Cabezas and Philip Resnik, ``Using WSD Techniques for Lexical Selection in Statistical Machine Translation'', Technical report CS-TR-4736/LAMP-TR-124/UMIACS-TR-2005-42, July 2005.

• Fazil Ayan, Bonnie J. Dorr, and Nizar Habash, "Application of Alignment to Real-World Data: Combining Linguistic and Statistical Techniques for Adaptable MT", in Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-2004), Georgetown University, Washington DC, 2004.

• Dorr, Bonnie J., Nizar Y. Habash, and Christof Monz, "Symbolic MT with Statistical NLP Components", LAMP-TR-112, CAR-TR-996, CS-TR-4595, UMIACS-TR-2004-38, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2004.

• Philip Resnik, ``Exploiting Hidden Meanings: Using Bilingual Text for Monolingual Annotation''. In Alexander Gelbukh (ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2945: Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, Springer, 2004, pp. 283-299.

• Adam Lopez and Philip Resnik, ``Improved HMM Alignment Models for Languages with Scarce Resources''. In P. Koehn et al., eds., Proceedings of the ACL 2005 Workshop on Parallel Text, June 29-30 2005, pp. 83-86.

• Rebecca Hwa, Philip Resnik, Amy Weinberg, Clara Cabezas, and Okan Kolak, "Bootstrapping Parsers via Syntactic Projection across Parallel Texts", Natural Language Engineering, June 2005.

• Philip Resnik and Noah A. Smith, " The Web as a Parallel Corpus", Computational Linguistics 29(3), pp. 349-380, September 2003. (Earlier version appeared as University of Maryland technical report UMIACS-TR-2002-61, July 2002.)

• Dorr, Bonnie J., Lisa Pearl, Rebecca Hwa, and Nizar Habash, "DUSTer: A Method for Unraveling Cross-Language Divergences for Statistical Word-Level Alignment," Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA-2002,Tiburon, CA, 2002. PS PDF

• Habash, Nizar and Bonnie J. Dorr, "Handling Translation Divergences: Combining Statistical and Symbolic Techniques in Generation-Heavy Machine Translation", In Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, AMTA-2002,Tiburon, CA, 2002. PS PDF

• Philip Resnik and Noah Smith, The Web as a Parallel Corpus, University of Maryland technical report UMIACS-TR-2002-61 (also listed by techreport numbers CS-TR-4381 and LAMP-TR-089), July 2002.

• Rebecca Hwa, Philip Resnik, Amy Weinberg, and Okan Kolak, ``Evaluating Translational Correspondence using Annotation Projection'' 40th Anniversary Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-02), Philadelphia, July, 2002.

• Mona Diab and Philip Resnik, ``An Unsupervised Method for Word Sense Tagging using Parallel Corpora'', 40th Anniversary Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-02), Philadelphia, July, 2002.

• Rebecca Hwa, Philip Resnik, and Amy Weinberg, ``Breaking The Resource Bottleneck For Multilingual Parsing'' , Workshop on ``Linguistic Knowledge Acquisition and Representation: Bootstrapping Annotated Language Data'', Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2000), Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, June 1, 2002.

• Adam Lopez, Michael Nossal, Rebecca Hwa, and Philip Resnik, ``Word-Level Alignment For Multilingual Resource Acquisition'', Workshop on ``Linguistic Knowledge Acquisition and Representation: Bootstrapping Annotated Language Data'', Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2000), Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, June 1, 2002.

• Ayan, Necip Fazil and Bonnie J. Dorr, "Generating A Parsing Lexicon from an LCS-Based Lexicon," In Proceedings of the LREC-2002 Workshop on Linguistic Knowledge Acquisition and Representation, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain, 2002. PDF PS

• Dorr, Bonnie J. (with Mari Olsen, Nizar Habash, and Scott Thomas), LCS Verb Database, Online Software Database of Lexical Conceptual Structures and Documentation, UMCP, 2001. HTML

• Cabezas, Clara, Bonnie J. Dorr, and Philip Resnik, "Spanish Language Processing at University of Maryland: Building Infrastructure for Multilingual Applications," Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Spanish Language Processing and Language Technologies (SLPLT-2), Jaen, Spain, 2001. HTML

• Clara Cabezas, Philip Resnik, and Jessica Stevens, ``Supervised Sense Tagging using Support Vector Machines'', Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Systems (SENSEVAL-2), Toulouse, France, 5-6 July 2001.

• Habash, Nizar and Bonnie J. Dorr, "Large Scale Language Independent Generation: Using Thematic Hierarchies," Proceedings of the MT-Summit, Santiago, Spain, 2001. PS PDF