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Prof Andy Way

Prof Andy WayName: Prof Andy Way
Phone Number: 5644
Room: L2.01C
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Work Area: Assoc Professor
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Research Interests:

Machine Translation Computational Linguistics

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

  • O' Hagan, M., A. Way. 2007. Teaching and Researching MT in Ireland: The DCU Experience. 39, , pp5-13.
  • Way, A., N. Gough. 2005. Comparing Example-Based and Statistical Machine Translation. Natural Language Engineering, 11, 3, pp295-309.
  • A. Way, L. Bowker, J. Pearson and D. Ui Bhraonain. 2000. Terminological Activity in Ireland. Terminology, 6, 1, pp145-148.
  • Way A. 1999. A hybrid architecture for robust MT using LFG-DOP. Journal Of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intell, 11,, pp441-471.
  • A. Way, I. Crookston and J. Shelton. 1997. A Typology of Translation Problems for Eurotra Translation Machines. Machine Translation, 12, , pp323-374.
  • A. Way, D. Arnold, D. Moffat and L. Sadler. 1991. Automatic Generation of Test Suites. Machine Translation, 8, , pp29-38.

Selected Books

Selected Chapters

  • A. Way, A. Frank, J. Van Genabith, L. Sadler. 2003. From Treebank Resources to LFG F-Structures. Treebanks: Building and Using Syntactically Annotated Corpora
  • A. Way. 2002. Machine Translation using LFG-DOP. Data-Oriented Parsing
  • A. Way. 2002. Translating with Examples: The LFG-DOT Models of Translation. Recent Advances in Example-Based Machine Translation, pp419-444.
  • A. Way, R. Schaeler, M. Carl. 2002. Beyong Translation Memories. Recent Advances in Example-Based Machine Translation, pp59-86.
  • A. Way, K. de Smedt, B. Black, A. van den Bosch, J. Lavid Lopez, P. McKevitt. 1999. European studies on computational linguistics. Computing in Humanities Education: A European Perspective , pp89-154.
  • A. Way. 1992. Some Transfer Problems in translating between Irish and English. AI and Cognitive Science '92 , pp224-234.

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

  • A. Way, L. Balkan, L. Humphreys, M. Jaeschke, S. Meyer. 1991. The Globalink Translation System. Personal Computer World, *,

Active Research Grants

  • Probabilistic Solutions to the Problem of Computerised Translation
  • ATTEMPT: ¿All Trees¿ Efficient Models of Parsing and Translation
  • Automated Creation of Annotated Bitexts (Andy Way is the Co PI)
  • Conference Award for 3rd Workshop on Example based Machine Translation

Conferences:

  • van den Bosch, A., N. Stroppa, A. Way, A memory-based classification approach to marker-based EBMT, METIS-II Workshop on New Approaches to Machine Translation, 01-JAN-07 - 31-DEC-07,
  • Ma, Y., N. Stroppa, A. Way, Alignment-Guided Chunking, TMI 2007, 01-JAN-07 - 31-DEC-07, , 114 - 121
  • Ma, Y., N. Stroppa, A. Way, Bootstrapping Word Alignment Via Word Packing, 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-07), 01-JAN-07 - 31-DEC-07, , 304 - 311
  • Labaka, G., K. Sarasola, N. Stroppa, A. Way, Comparing Rule-Based and Data-Driven Approaches to Spanish-to-Basque Machine Translation, MT Summit XI, 01-JAN-07 - 31-DEC-07, , 297 - 304
  • Owczarzak, K., J. Van Genabith, A. Way, Dependency-Based Automatic Evaluation for Machine Translation, NAACL-HLT Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST), 01-JAN-07 - 31-DEC-07,
  • Stein, D., P. Dreuw, H. Ney, S. Morrissey, A. Way, Hand in Hand: Automatic Sign Language to Speech Translation, TMI 2007, 01-JAN-07 - 31-DEC-07, , 214 - 220
  • Morrissey, S., A. Way, Joining Hands: Developing a sign language machine translation system with and for the Deaf Community, Conference and Workshop on Assistive Technologies for People with Vision and Hearing Impairments - Assistive Technology for All Ages, 01-JAN-07 - 31-DEC-07,
  • Hassan, H., Y. Ma, A. Way, MaTrEx: DCU Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2007, International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT-07), 01-JAN-07 - 31-DEC-07,
  • Morrissey, S., D. Stein, J. Bungeroth, H. Ney, A. Way, Towards a Hybrid Data-Driven MT System for Sign Language Translation, MT Summit XI, 01-JAN-07 - 31-DEC-07, , 329 - 336
  • Tinsley, J., V. Zhechev, M. Hearne, A. Way, Robust Language Pair-Independent Sub-Tree Alignment, MT Summit XI, 01-JAN-07 - 31-DEC-07, , 467 - 474
  • Owczarzak, K., J. Van Genabith, A. Way, Labelled Dependencies in Machine Translation Evaluation, 2nd Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-07), 01-JAN-07 - 31-DEC-07,
  • Hassan, H., K. Sima'an, A. Way, Integrating Supertags into Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation, 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-07), 01-JAN-07 - 31-DEC-07, , 288 - 295
  • Stroppa, N., A. van den Bosch, A. Way, Exploiting Source Similarity for SMT using Context-Informed Features, TMI 2007, 01-JAN-07 - 31-DEC-07, , 231 - 240
  • Hearne, M., Tinsley, J., V. Zhechev, A. Way, Capturing Translational Divergences with a Statistical Tree-to-Tree Aligner, TMI 2007, 01-JAN-07 - 31-DEC-07, , 85 - 94
  • Mellebeek, B., K. Owczarzak, D. Groves, J. Van Genabith, A. Way, A Syntactic Skeleton for Statistical Machine Translation, 11th Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 01-JAN-06 - 31-DEC-06, , 195 - 202
  • Owczarzak, K., D. Groves, J. Van Genabith, A. Way, Contextual Bitext-Derived Paraphrases in Automatic MT Evaluation, SMT Workshop at HLT-NAACL 2006, 01-JAN-06 - 31-DEC-06,
  • Hearne, M., A. Way, Disambiguation Strategies for Data-Oriented Translation, 11th Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 01-JAN-06 - 31-DEC-06, , 59 - 68
  • Owczarzak, K., B. Mellebeek, D. Groves, J. Van Genabith, A. Way, Wrapper Syntax for Example-based Machine Translation, 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 01-JAN-06 - 31-DEC-06, , 148 - 155
  • Hassan, H., M. Hearne, A. Way, K. Sima'an, Syntactic Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation, IEEE 2006 Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 01-JAN-06 - 31-DEC-06,
  • Mellebeek, B., K. Owczarzak, J. Van Genabith, A. Way, Multi-Engine Machine Translation by Recursive Sentence Decomposition, 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 01-JAN-06 - 31-DEC-06, , 110 - 118
  • Armstrong, S., M. Flanagan, Y. Graham, D. Groves, B. Mellebeek, S. Morrissey, N. Stroppa, A. Way, MaTrEx: Machine Translation Using Examples, TC-STAR OpenLab Workshop on Speech Translation, 01-JAN-06 - 31-DEC-06,
  • Stroppa, N., A. Way, MaTrEx: DCU Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2006, International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT-06), 01-JAN-06 - 31-DEC-06, , 31 - 36
  • Morrissey, S., A. Way, Lost in Translation: the Problems of Using Mainstream MT Evaluation Metrics for Sign Language Translation, SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages, 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), 01-JAN-06 - 31-DEC-06, , 91 - 98
  • Armstrong, S., C. Caffrey, M. Flanagan, D. Kenny, M. O'Hagan, A. Way, Improving the Quality of Automated DVD Subtitles via Example-Based Machine Translation, Translating and the Computer 28, 01-JAN-06 - 31-DEC-06,
  • Groves, D., A. Way, Hybridity in MT: Experiments on the Europarl Corpus., 11th Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 01-JAN-06 - 31-DEC-06, , 115 - 124
  • Finn, R., M. Hearne, A. Way, J. Van Genabith, GF-DOP: Grammatical Feature Data-Oriented Parsing, Eleventh International Conference on LFG, 01-JAN-06 - 31-DEC-06, , 202 - 221
  • Stroppa, N., D. Groves, K. Sarasola, A. Way, Example-based Machine Translation of the Basque Language, 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 01-JAN-06 - 31-DEC-06, , 232 - 241
  • Morrissey, S., A. Way, An Example-Based Approach to Translating Sign Language., Second Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, 01-JAN-05 - 31-DEC-05, , 109 - 116
  • Mellebeek, B., A. Khasin, J. Van Genabith, A. Way, TransBooster: Boosting the Performance of Wide-Coverage Machine Translation Systems, 10th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT-05), 01-JAN-05 - 31-DEC-05, , 189 - 197
  • Judge, J., M. Burke, A. Cahill, R. O'Donovan, J. van Genabith, A. Way, Strong Domain Variation and Treebank-Induced LFG Resources, Tenth International Conference on LFG, 01-JAN-05 - 31-DEC-05,
  • O'Donovan, R., A. Cahill, J. van Genabith, A. Way, Automatic Acquisition of Spanish LFG Resources from the CAST3LB Treebank, Tenth International Conference on LFG, 01-JAN-05 - 31-DEC-05,
  • Mellebeek, B., A. Khasin, K. Owczarzak, J. Van Genabith, A. Way, Improving Online Machine Translation Systems, 10th Machine Translation Summit, 01-JAN-05 - 31-DEC-05, , 290 - 297
  • Groves. D., A. Way, Hybrid Example-Based SMT: the Best of Both Worlds?, ACL 2005 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data-Driven Machine Translation and Beyond, 01-JAN-05 - 31-DEC-05, , 183 - 190
  • Burke, M. , J. van Genabith, A. Way, Evaluating Automatically Acquired F-Structures against Propbank, Tenth International Conference on LFG, 01-JAN-05 - 31-DEC-05,
  • Hearne, M., A. Way, Data-Oriented Parsing and the Penn Chinese Treebank, International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCLNP-04), 01-JAN-04 - 31-DEC-04, , 406 - 413
  • Jones, G., D. Groves, A. Khasin, A. Lam-Adesina, B. Mellebeek, A. Way, Dublin City University at CLEF 2004: Experiments with the ImageCLEF St. Andrew's Collection, Cross Language Evaluation Forum 2004 Workshop, 01-JAN-04 - 31-DEC-04, , 511 - 516
  • Burke, M., A. Cahill, R. O'Donovan, J. Van Genabith, A. Way, Evaluation of an Automatic Annotation Algorithm against the PARC 700 Dependency Bank, 9th International Conference on Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG-04), 01-JAN-04 - 31-DEC-04, , 101 - 121
  • Gough, N., A. Way, Example-Based Controlled Translation, Ninth Workshop of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT-04), 01-JAN-04 - 31-DEC-04, , 73 - 81
  • Burke, M., A. Cahill, R. O'Donovan, J. Van Genabith, A. Way, Treebank-Based Acquisition of Wide-Coverage, Probabilistic LFG Resources: Project Overview, Results and Evaluation., International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP-04), 01-JAN-04 - 31-DEC-04,
  • Burke, M., O. Lam, A. Cahill, R. Chan, R. O'Donovan, A. Bodomo, J. van Genabith, A. Way, Treebank-Based Acquisition of a Chinese Lexical-Functional Grammar, 18th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC-18), 01-JAN-04 - 31-DEC-04, , 161 - 172
  • Groves, D. M. Hearne, A. Way, Robust Sub-Sentential Alignment of Phrase-Structure Trees, 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 01-JAN-04 - 31-DEC-04, , 1072 - 1078
  • Gough, N. and A. Way, Robust Large-Scale EBMT with Marker-Based Segmentation, Tenth Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI-04), 01-JAN-04 - 31-DEC-04, , 95 - 104
  • M. Burke, A. Cahill, R. O'Donovan, J. Van Genabith, A. Way, Long-Distance Dependency Resolution in Automatically Acquired Wide-Coverage PCFG-Based LFG Approximations, 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-04), 01-JAN-04 - 31-DEC-04, , 319 - 326
  • M. Burke, A. Cahill, R. O'Donovan, J. Van Genabith and A. Way, Large-Scale Induction and Evaluation of Lexical Resources from the Penn-II Treebank, 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-04), 01-JAN-04 - 31-DEC-04, , 367 - 374
  • A. Cahill, M. McCarthy, R. O'Donovan, J. Van Genabith, A. Way, A Suite of Tools for Use with the Penn-II Treebank, 8th International Conference on LFG, 01-JAN-03 - 31-DEC-03,
  • A. Cahill, M. McCarthy, R. O'Donovan, J. Van Genabith, A. Way, Extracting large-Scale LFG Resources from the Penn-II Treebank, 8th International Conference on LFG, 01-JAN-03 - 31-DEC-03,
  • N. Gough, A. Way, Controlled Generation in Example-Based Machine Translation, MT Summit IX, 01-JAN-03 - 31-DEC-03, , 133 - 140
  • M. Hearne, A. Way, Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Data-Oriented Translation, MT Summit IX, 01-JAN-03 - 31-DEC-03, , 165 - 172
  • A. Cahill, M. Forst, M. McCarthy, R. O' Donovan, C. Rohrer, J. van Genabith, A. Way, Treebank-Based Multilingual Unification-Grammar Development, 15th European Summer School in Logic Language and Information, 01-JAN-03 - 31-DEC-03,
  • A. Way, N. Gough, Teaching and Assessing Empirical Approaches to Machine Translation, MT Summit IX Workshop on Teaching Translation Technologies and Tools (T4), 01-JAN-03 - 31-DEC-03, , 49 - 55
  • A. Cahill, M. McCarthy, R. O'Donovan, J. Van Genabith, A. Way, Lexicalisation of Long-Distance Dependencies in a Treebank-Based, Statistical LFG Grammar, 8th International Conference on LFG, 01-JAN-03 - 31-DEC-03,
  • A. Cahill, M. McCarthy, J. van Genabith, A. Way, Quasi-Logical Forms for the Penn Treebank., Fifth International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-05), 01-JAN-03 - 31-DEC-03, , 55 - 71
  • A. Cahill, M. McCarthy, J. van Genabith, A. Way, Automatic Annotation of the Penn-Treebank with LFG F-Structure Information., Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 01-JAN-02 - 31-DEC-02, , 9 - 15
  • A. Way, Teaching and Assessing Students' Understanding of Complex Transfer, 6th EAMT Workshop: Teaching Machine Translation, 01-JAN-02 - 31-DEC-02, , 53 - 61
  • M. Carl, R. Schaeler, A. Way, Toward a Hybrid Integrated Translation Environment, 5th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-2002), 01-JAN-02 - 31-DEC-02, , 11 - 20
  • N. Gough, M. Hearne, A. Way, Example-Based Machine Translation via the Web, 5th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-2002), 01-JAN-02 - 31-DEC-02, , 74 - 83
  • A. Cahill, M. McCarthy, J. van Genabith, A. Way, Parsing with PCFGs and Automatic F-Structure Annotation, Seventh International Conference on LFG, 01-JAN-02 - 31-DEC-02, , 76 - 95
  • A. Cahill, M. McCarthy, J. van Genabith, A.Way, Evaluating Automatic F-Structure Annotation for the Penn-II Treebank, First Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2002), 01-JAN-02 - 31-DEC-02, , 42 - 60
  • A. Way, Translating with Examples, MT Summit VIII Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, 01-SEP-01 - 05-SEP-01, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • A. Way, D. Kenny, Teaching Machine Translation & Translation Technology: A Contrastive Study , MT Summit VIII Workshop on Teaching Machine Translation, 01-SEP-01 - 05-SEP-01, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • A. Way, LFG-DOT: Translation via c-structures with monolingual f-structure filtering , 6th International Conference on Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG-2001), 01-AUG-01 - 05-AUG-01, Hong Kong
  • A. Way, J. Van Genabith, A. Frank , Treebank vs. X-BAR based Automatic F-Structure Annotation , 6th International Conference on Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG-2001), 01-AUG-01 - 05-AUG-01, Hong Kong
  • A. Way, LFG-DOT: A Hybrid Model for Robust MT, 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN-2000), 01-DEC-00 - 05-DEC-00, Tilburg, The Netherlands
  • A. Way, A. Frank, J. Van Genabith, L. Sadler , Automatic F-structure Annotation of Treebank Trees and CFGs extracted from Treebanks , 5th International Conference on Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG-2000), 01-JUL-00 - 05-JUL-00, Berkeley, CA
  • A. Way, LFG-DOT: a Probabilistic, Constraint-Based Model for Machine Translation , 5th International Conference on Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG5), 01-MAY-00 - 05-MAY-00, Paris
  • A. Way, LFG-DOT: Combining Constraint-Based and Empirical Methodologies for Robust MT , 12th Conference of the Nordic Association for Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA-99), 01-DEC-99 - 05-DEC-99, Trondheim, Norway
  • A. Way, Improving the mobility of technically-oriented workers in Europe: the VOCALL project , Eurocall 1999, 01-SEP-99 - 05-SEP-99, Besancon, France
  • A. Way, A Hybrid Translation Model using LFG-DOP, 10th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, 01-SEP-99 - 05-SEP-99, Cork
  • A. Way, J. Van Genabith, L. Sadler, Semi-Automatic Generation of F-Structures from Treebanks , 4th International Conference on Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG-99), 01-AUG-99 - 05-AUG-99, Manchester
  • A. Way, J. Van Genabith, L. Sadler, Deriving an LFG from a Treebank Resource, ATALA International Workshop on Treebanks, 01-JUL-99 - 05-JUL-99, Paris
  • A. Way, J. Van Genabith, L. Sadler , Data-Driven Compilation of LFG Semantic Forms, International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-99), 01-JUN-99 - 05-JUN-99, Bergen, Norway
  • A. Way, VOCALL: a Web-based CALL Tool for Vocational Learners, Eurocall 1998, 01-SEP-98 - 05-SEP-98, Leuven, Belgium
  • A. Way, Towards the Standardisation of Curricula in Computational Linguistics in Europe , International Conference on Computers in the Humanities, 01-JUL-98 - 05-JUL-98, Bergen, Norway
  • A. Way, Autonomous Language-Learning of Less Widely Used Languages in a Vocational Context , Worldcall 1998, 01-JUL-98 - 05-JUL-98, Melbourne, Australia
  • A.Way, Autonomous Language-Learning for Vocational Students: the VOCALL project , International Conference on Language for Special Purposes, 01-MAR-98 - 05-MAR-98, Dublin
  • A. Way, T. Veale, GAIJIN: A Bootstrapping Approach to Eaxmple-Based Machine Translation, 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, 01-SEP-97 - 05-SEP-97, Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria
  • A. Way, VOCALL: a Vocationally-oriented Computer Assisted Language Learning Tool , Eurocall 1997, 01-SEP-97 - 05-SEP-97, Dublin
  • A. Way, Providing Terminological Resources for Vocational Training in LWULTs: The VOCALL project , International Congress on Terminology, 01-SEP-97 - 05-SEP-97, San Sebastian, Spain
  • A. Way, Curriculum Development in the Area of Natural Language Processing in Europe , Curriculum Curriculum Development in Advanced Computing in the Humanities (ACO*HUM), 01-JUL-97 - 05-JUL-97, Madrid
  • A. Way, Curriculum Development in the area of Computational Linguistics in a European framework , Evaluation Conference on Inter-University Cooperation in Europe in the Field of Computing, 01-JUN-96 - 05-JUN-96, Dublin
  • A. Way, Redundancy in Nominal Compounds, 2nd International Conference on Compound Nouns, 01-JUL-94 - 05-JUL-94, Geneva
  • A. Way, Automatic Generation of Test Suites, International Workshop on Machine Translation, 01-MAY-94 - 05-MAY-94, Limerick
  • A. Way, Some Transfer Problems in translating between Irish and English , 5th Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, 01-SEP-93 - 05-SEP-93, Limerick
  • A. Way, Redundant Acronyms, 2nd International Conference of the Cognitive Science of NLP, 01-JUN-92 - 05-JUN-92, Dublin
  • A. Way, Developer-Oriented Evaluation of MT Systems, International Working Group on Evaluation of MT Systems, 01-OCT-91 - 05-OCT-91, Vaud, Switzerland
  • A. Way, L. Balkan, L. Humphreys, M. Jaeschke, S. Meyer , Declarative Evaluation of an MT System: Practical Experiences , International Working Group on Evaluation of MT Systems, 01-OCT-91 - 05-OCT-91, Vaud, Switzerland
  • A. Way, The Specification of Environments in the NLP Lexicon , International Conference on Computational Lexicography, 01-SEP-90 - 05-SEP-90, Balatonszabadi, Hungary
  • A. Way, D. Arnold, L. Sadler, I. Crookston , LFG as a translation notation: some methodological issues, Third International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages, 01-JUL-90 - 05-JUL-90, University of Texas

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