This page is devoted to my life as a rat in the ivory tower of academia. I am a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute (part of the School of Computer Science). My research is currently focused on furthering the state of the art in machine translation. As part of this work I have released the Cunei Machine Translation Platform which I would encourage you to check out.

My thesis defense will on January 26th, 2012 at 1:00pm EST in room 6115 of the Gates Hillman Complex at Carnegie Mellon University. It is open to the public. [Download Slides]

Aaron B. Phillips. "Cunei: Open-Source Machine Translation with Relevance-Based Models of Each Translation Instance." Machine Translation, 25(2):161-177, 2011. Aaron B. Phillips and Ralf D. Brown. "Training Machine Translation with a Second-Order Taylor Approximation of Weighted Translation Instances." Machine Translation Summit XIII, Xiamen, China, September 2011. Aaron B. Phillips. "Cunei Machine Translation Platform for WMT'10." The Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Uppsala, Sweden, July 2010. Aaron B. Phillips and Ralf D. Brown. "Cunei Machine Translation Platform: System Description." 3rd Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, Dublin, Ireland, November 2009. Kathy Baker, Steven Bethard, Michael Bloodgood, Ralf Brown, Chris Callison-Burch, Glen Coppersmith, Bonnie Dorr, Wes Filardo, Kendall Giles, Ann Irvine, Mike Kayser, Lori Levin, Justin Martineau, Jim Mayfield, Scott Miller, Aaron Phillips, Andrew Philpot, Christine Piatko, Lane Schwartz, and David Zajic. "Semantically-Informed Machine Translation." Technical Report 002, Johns Hopkins Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, Summer Camp for Applied Language Exploration, 2009 Phillips, Aaron B. "Sub-Phrasal Matching and Structural Templates in Example-Based MT." The 11th Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI-07), Skövde, Sweden, September 2007. Phillips, Aaron B., Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, and Ralf Brown. "Improving Example Based Machine Translation Through Morphological Generalization and Adaptation." Machine Translation Summit XI, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2007. Phillips, Aaron B. and Violetta Cavalli-Sforza. "Arabic-to-English Example Based Machine Translation Using Context-Insensitive Morphological Analysis." Journées d'Etudes sur le Traitement Automatique de la Langue Arabe (JETALA), Rabat, Morocco, June 2006. Fitzgerald, Will, R. James Firby, Aaron B. Phillips, and Jordan Kairys. "Complex Event Pattern Recognition for Long-Term System Monitoring." Proceedings of 'The Workshop on Interaction between Humans and Autonomous Systems over Extended Operation' at the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium, San Mateo, CA, 2004. Phillips, Aaron B., Jordan Kairys, and Will Fitzgerald, "Complex Event Pattern Recognition Software for Multimodal User Interfaces." Proceedings of the 2004 Midwest Instruction and Computing Symposium, Morris, MN 2004.