Research Activities

What I do, what I have done, and what I plan to do.


Overview

I am currently studying under Dekang Lin doing Natural Language Processing, specifically Machine Translation. Even more specifically, I am interested in Word Alignment in bitext, and putting those word-alignments to use.

My current research focuses on phrasal alignment.

Publications

Colin Cherry and Dekang Lin. 2007. Inversion Transduction Grammar for Joint Phrasal Translation Modeling. In Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST 2007), Rochester, USA [PDF]

Colin Cherry and Dekang Lin. 2006. Soft Syntactic Constraints for Word Alignment through Discriminative Training. In Proceedings of ACL/COLING 2006 (Poster), Sydney, Australia. [PDF]

Qin Iris Wang, Colin Cherry, Dan Lizotte and Dale Schuurmans. 2006. Improved Large Margin Dependency Parsing via Local Constraints and Laplacian Regularization. In Proceedings of CoNLL 2006, New York City, USA. [PDF]

Colin Cherry and Dekang Lin. 2006. A Comparison of Syntactically Motivated Word Alignment Spaces. In Proceedings of EACL 2006, Trento, Itally. [PDF]

Colin Cherry and Shane Bergsma. 2005. An Expectation Maximization Approach to Pronoun Resolution. In Proceedings of CoNLL 2005, pp 88--95, Ann Arbor, USA. [PDF]

Chris Quirk, Arul Menezes, and Colin Cherry. 2005. Dependency Tree Translation: Syntactically Informed Phrasal SMT. In Proceedings of ACL 2005, pp. 271--279, Ann Arbor, USA. [PDF]

Chris Quirk, Arul Menezes, and Colin Cherry. 2004. Dependency Tree Translation: Syntactically Informed Phrasal SMT. Microsoft Research Technical Report: MSR-TR-2004-113. [PDF]

Colin Cherry and Dekang Lin. 2003. A Probability Model to Improve Word Alignment. In Proceedings of ACL 2003. Sapporo, Japan. [PDF][PS]

Dekang Lin and Colin Cherry. 2003. Word Alignment with Cohesion Constraint. In Proceedings of HLT/NAACL 2003. Companion Volume, pp. 49-51, Edmonton, Canada. [PDF][PS]

Dekang Lin and Colin Cherry. 2003. Linguistic Heuristics in Word Alignment. In Proceedings of PACLing 2003. Halifax, Canada. [PDF][PS]

Dekang Lin and Colin Cherry. 2003. ProAlign: Shared Task Description. In Proceedings of the HLT/NAACL 2003 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts, pp. 11-14, Edmonton, Canada. [PDF][PS]

Theses

Colin Cherry. 2003. A Probability Model to Improve Word Alignment. University of Alberta M.Sc. thesis. Edmonton, Canada. [PDF][PS]

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