Bill Byrne

My research is in statistical modeling for speech and language processing. Some current interests are:

• Statistical Machine Translation -- for info see SMT at Cambridge
• 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
• HMM-based speech synthesis -- Monolingual and cross-lingual acoustic model adaptation
• Personalized speech-to-speech translation

Publications

Papers and presentations -- with pre-prints, abstracts, posters, slides, etc.

Research staff

• Dr. Adria de Gispert , Senior Research Associate -- Statistical Machine Translation
• Dr. Gonzalo Iglesias, Research Associate -- Statistical Machine Translation
• Dr. Marcus Tomalin, Research Associate -- Natural Language Generation
• Dr. Federico Flego -- Statistical Machine Translation

Doctoral students

• Juan Pino, Ph.D. student -- Statistical Machine Translation
• Matt Shannon, Ph.D. student -- Speech Synthesis
• Rory Waite, Ph.D. student -- Statistical Machine Translation

Recent PhDs

• Graeme Blackwood, 2010. Thesis: Lattice Rescoring Methods for Statistical Machine Translation [.pdf]
• Jamie Brunning, 2010. Thesis: Alignment Models and Algorithms for Statistical Machine Translation [.pdf]

Past Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers -- with links to dissertations

Projects

• NST: Natural Speech Technology, EPSRC Programme Grant
• FAUST: Feedback Analysis for User Adaptive Statistical Translation, EC FP7 STREP
• AGILE: Autonomous Global Integrated Language Exploitation
• MTTK: alignment tools for machine translation
• International evaluations of speech recognition and machine translation
• Complete list of research projects

• MPhil in Advanced Computer Science -- Pages for Current Students
• Part IA Exposition
• Part II Engineering: Module 4F11 - Speech and Language Processing
• Part I Engineering supervisions for Clare College: IA Paper 4: Mathematics; IB Paper 6: Communications Fourier Transforms and Signal and Data Analysis

• © Bill Byrne. Last updated: January 2010.