Statistical Machine Translation at the University of Edinburgh

The dream of automatically translating documents from foreign languages into English (or between any two languages) is one of the oldest pursuits of artificial intelligence research. Now, armed with vast amounts of example translations and powerful computers, we can witness significant progress toward achieving that dream. Statistical analysis of bilingual parallel corpora allow for the automatic construction of machine translation systems. Already, for language pairs such as Chinese-English or Arabic-English, statistical systems are the best machine translation systems currently available.

People

Alumni

  • Abhishek Arun (PhD), now research scientist at Bing
  • Michael Auli, (PhD), now at Microsoft Research
  • Amittai Axelrod (MSc), UW Ph.D. 2014, now postdoc at University of Maryland
  • Phil Blunsom (postdoctoral researcher), now associate professor at Oxford University
  • Chris Callison-Burch (PhD), now assistant professor at University of Pennsylvania
  • Trevor Cohn (postdoc), now senior lecturer at University of Melbourne
  • Loďc Dugast (PhD), now at Systran
  • Nadir Durrani, now scientist at QCRI
  • Yang Gao (MSc), now at a startup in California
  • Eva Hasler (PhD), now postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University
  • Kenneth Heafield, (research associate), now research scientist at Bloomberg
  • Abby Levenberg (PhD), now postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University
  • David Matthews (graduate student) now at Skyscanner
  • Josh Schroeder (MSc), now software engineer at Google
  • Miles Osborne, (Reader), now at Bloomberg
  • David Talbot (PhD), now research scientist at Google
  • Chara Tsoukala, now NLP Engineer at Unbabel
  • Oliver Wilson, now in industry in Australia

Visitors

  • Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt (lecturer, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) March-May 2014
  • Rico Sennrich (researcher, U. Zurich), Nov 2013-Apr 2015
  • Chara Tsoukala (PhD student, U Groningen), Feb-Aug 2013
  • Youzheng Wu (NICT), Mar-Jun 2013
  • Jesús González Rubio (researcher, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia), Jun-Aug 2010
  • Anoop Sarkar (associate professor, Simon Fraser U.), Sep 2009-Apr 2010
  • Andreas Zollmann (PhD student, CMU), Jul-Aug 2009
  • Juri Ganitkevitch (Phd student, Johns Hopkins), Jul-Aug 2009
  • Chris Dyer (Phd student, U. Maryland), Feb-Mar 2009

Projects

  • CASMACAT, 2011-2014: Cognitive analysis and statistical methods for advanced computer aided translation
  • MateCat, 2011-2014: Machine translation enhanced computer assisted translation
  • EU BRIDGE, 2012-2015: Speech translation
  • ACCEPT, 2012-2015: Automated community content editing portal
  • MosesCore, 2012-2015: Support action for open source machine translation development, evaluation, and dissemination
  • Thunderbolt/BOLT, 2011-2013: DARPA challenge to translate Chinese and Arabic dialects
  • EuroMatrixPlus, 2009-2012: Bringing machine translation for all European Language Pairs to the User
  • LetsMT, 2010-2013: Platform for online sharing of training data and building user tailored MT
  • AGILE/GALE, 2005-2011: DARPA challenge to translate Arabic-English, Chinese-English. Text to text translation, speech to text translation, distillation. (press)
  • EuroMatrix, 2006-2009: Text to text translation between EU languages with focus on problems associated with translating into languages other than English. As part of the project we created 462 MT systems, which is all pairs of 22 official EU languages (demo)
  • Demeter, 2006-2009: EPSRC project looking at large-scale discriminative training.

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