Department of Engineering

I am a PhD student supervised by Dr. Bill Byrne in the Machine Translation Group at the Cambridge University Engineering Department.

My main interest is lattice-based parameter estimation methods for machine translation models.

I am also interested in improving existing models by using MapReduce and BigTable big data infrastructure

Publications & Reports

• J. Pino, A. Waite, and W. Byrne (2012)
  Simple and efficient model filtering in statistical machine translation
  The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics
  
• A. Waite, G. Blackwood and W. Byrne (2012)
  Lattice-based minimum error rate training using weighted finite-state transducers with tropical polynomial weights
  The 10th edition of the International Workshop on Finite State Methods and Natural Language Processing
  
• A. Waite, G. Blackwood and W. Byrne (2012)
  Lattice-based minimum error rate training using weighted finite-state transducers with tropical polynomial weights
  Technical Report CUED/F-INFENG/TR.644, University of Cambridge, UK
  
• Waite A. and W. Byrne (2009)
  Hadoop cluster for statistical speech and language processing
  MPhil thesis, University of Cambridge, UK
  

Software

I will soon be releasing a software toolkit to perform minimum error training on word lattices. The toolkit is built upon OpenFst.

Contact

Email: aaw35 AT cam.ac.uk