News
- New research project on interactive statistical machine translation
- FAUST: Feedback Analysis for User Adaptive Statistical Translation (FP7-ICT-2009-4 STREP)
- Partners: University of Cambridge, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Charles University, Language Weaver Inc., Softissimo Inc.
- Start date: 1 February 2010
- Advanced Computer Science MPhil: the syllabus for statistical machine translation is now online .
- Top-ranked Arabic-to-English translation system in the
NIST 2009 Open Machine Translation Evaluation !
Our system placed first in both the Single System Track and the System Combination Track.
Here's how we did it .
Research
Statistical modeling for speech and language processing
Current interests
- Weighted finite state transducer models and algorithms for statistical machine translation
- Parallel text alignment algorithms for machine translation
- Minimum Bayes risk estimation and decoding for machine translation and speech recognition
- Language modeling for machine translation
- Large-scale machine translation systems
- HMM-based speech synthesis
- Monolingual and cross-lingual acoustic model adaptation
- Personalized speech-to-speech translation
Publications and talks -- with papers, abstracts, posters, slides, etc.
Research staff, doctoral students, visiting researchers
- Dr. Matt Gibson, Research Associate -- Speech Recognition and Synthesis
- Juan Pino, Ph.D. student -- Statistical Machine Translation
- Matt Shannon, Ph.D. student -- Speech Synthesis
- Graeme Blackwood, Ph.D. student -- Statistical Machine Translation
- Jamie Brunning, Ph.D. student -- Statistical Machine Translation
- Gonzalo Iglesias, visiting Ph.D. student (March--December 2008),
University of Vigo, Spain -- Statistical Machine Translation - Past Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers -- with links to dissertations
Projects
- EMIME: Effective Multilingual Interaction in Mobile Environments
- AGILE: Autonomous Global Integrated Language Exploitation
- MTTK: alignment tools for machine translation
- International evaluations of speech recognition and machine translation -- NIST and others
- A list of research projects
Teaching
Masters in Computer Speech, Text and Internet Technology
- Module 1A: Speech Signal Processing, Speech Recognition -- local pages
- Module 2A: Statistical Machine Translation -- local pages
- Speech Reading Club -- local pages
MPhil in Advanced Computer Science
- Statistical Machine Translation, with Dr Stephen Clark and Dr Adria de Gispert -- to be offered in 2010-2011
Part II Engineering
Part I Engineering supervisions for Clare College
- IA Paper 4: Mathematics
- IB Paper 6: Communications Fourier Transforms and Signal and Data Analysis
Biography
Reader in Information Engineering
Member of the Speech Research
Group:
Steve Young,
Phil Woodland,
Mark Gales, and
Adria de Gispert
Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
I joined the Department of Engineering in 2004 as a University Lecturer. From 1994 to 2009 (part-time after 2004) I was at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Language and Speech Processing, first as an Associate Research Scientist and then as Associate Professor (Research). I have a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. I have also been involved with several speech technology companies, including Entropic Research Labs and Voice Signal Technologies.
Contact Information and Travel Schedule
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