Publications

Forthcoming

• Knowledge-Rich Morphological Priors for Bayesian Language Models. Victor Chahuneau, Chris Dyer and Noah A. Smith. In Proceedings of NAACL 2013.

• A Simple, Fast, and Effective Reparameterization of IBM Model 2. Chris Dyer, Victor Chahuneau and Noah A. Smith. In Proceedings of NAACL 2013.

• An Information Theoretic Approach to Bilingual Word Clustering. Manaal Faruqui and Chris Dyer. In Proceedings of ACL 2013 (Short Papers).

• Large-Scale Discriminative Training for Statistical Machine Translation Using Held-Out Line Search. Jeffrey Flanigan, Chris Dyer and Jaime Carbonell. In Proceedings of NAACL 2013.

• Microblogs as Parallel Corpora. Wang Ling, Guang Xiang, Chris Dyer, Alan W. Black and Isabel Trancoso. In Proceedings of ACL 2013.

• Improved Part-of-Speech Tagging for Online Conversational Text with Word Clusters. Olutobi Owoputi, Brendan O’Connor, Chris Dyer, Kevin Gimpel, Nathan Schneider and Noah A. Smith. In Proceedings of NAACL 2013.

• Supersense Tagging for Arabic: the MT-in-the-Middle Attack. Nathan Schneider, Behrang Mohit, Chris Dyer, Kemal Oflazer and Noah A. Smith. In Proceedings of NAACL 2013.

• Identifying the L1 of non-native writers: the CMU-Haifa system. Yulia Tsvetkov, Naama Twitto, Nathan Schneider, Noam Ordan, Manaal Faruqui, Victor Chahuneau, Shuly Wintner and Chris Dyer. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications.

2012

• Transliteration by Sequence Labeling with Lattice Encodings and Reranking. Waleed Ammar, Chris Dyer and Noah A. Smith. In Proceedings of the NEWS Workshop at ACL.

• Bayesian Language Modelling of German Compounds. Jan A. Botha, Chris Dyer and Phil Blunsom. In Proceedings of COLING.

• pycdec: A Python Interface to cdec. Victor Chahuneau, Noah A. Smith and Chris Dyer. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics.

• One System, Many Domains: Open-Domain Statistical Machine Translation via Feature Augmentation. Jonathan H. Clark, Alon Lavie and Chris Dyer. In Proceedings of AMTA.

• Learning Semantics and Selectional Preference of Adjective-Noun Pairs. Karl-Moritz Hermann, Chris Dyer, Phil Blunsom and Stephen Pulman. In Proceedings of First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics.

• A Bayesian Model for Learning SCFGs with Discontiguous Rules. Abby Levenberg, Chris Dyer and Phil Blunsom. In Proceedings of EMNLP.

• Joint Feature Selection in Distributed Stochastic Learning for Large-Scale Discriminative Training in SMT. Patrick Simianer, Chris Dyer and Stefan Riezler. In Proceedings of ACL.

2011

• Unsupervised Bilingual POS Tagging with Markov Random Fields. Desai Chen, Chris Dyer, Shay B. Cohen and Noah A. Smith. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Unsupervised Learning in NLP.

• Better Hypothesis Testing for Statistical Machine Translation: Controlling for Optimizer Instability. Jonathan H. Clark, Chris Dyer, Alon Lavie and Noah A. Smith. In Proceedings of ACL.

• Unsupervised Word Alignment with Arbitrary Features. Chris Dyer, Jonathan H. Clark, Alon Lavie and Noah A. Smith. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

• The CMU-ARK German-English Translation System. Chris Dyer, Kevin Gimpel, Jonathan H. Clark and Noah A. Smith. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Machine Translation.

• Predicting a Scientific Community’s Response to an Article. Dani Yogatama, Michael Heilman, Brendan O’Connor, Chris Dyer, Bryan R. Routledge and Noah A. Smith. In Proceedings of EMNLP.

2010

• Monte Carlo techniques for phrase-based translation. Abhishek Arun, Barry Haddow, Philipp Koehn, Adam Lopez, Chris Dyer and Phil Blunsom. Machine Translation, 24, pp.103–121.

• A Formal Model of Ambiguity and its Applications in Machine Translation. Chris Dyer.

• Two monolingual parses are better than one (synchronous parse). Chris Dyer. In In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2010.

• Context-free reordering, finite-state translation. Chris Dyer and Philip Resnik. In In Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 2010.

• cdec: A Decoder, Alignment, and Learning framework for finite-state and context-free translation models. Chris Dyer, Adam Lopez, Juri Ganitkevitch, Johnathan Weese, Ferhan Ture, Phil Blunsom, Hendra Setiawan, Vladimir Eidelman and Philip Resnik. In Proceedings of ACL.

• The University of Maryland statistical machine translation system for the Fifth Workshop on Machine Translation. Vladimir Eidelman, Chris Dyer and Philip Resnik. In Proceedings of WMT.

• Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce. Jimmy Lin and Chris Dyer. Morgan and Claypool.

• Discriminative Word Alignment with a Function Word Reordering Model. Hendra Setiawan, Chris Dyer and Philip Resnik. In Proceedings of EMNLP.

2009

• Monte Carlo inference and maximization for phrase-based translation. Abhishek Arun, Chris Dyer, Phil Blunsom, Barry Haddow, Adam Lopez and Philipp Koehn. In Proceedings of CoNLL.

• A Gibbs sampler for phrasal synchronous grammar induction. Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Chris Dyer and Miles Osborne. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

• Using a maximum entropy model to build segmentation lattices for MT. Chris Dyer. In Proceedings of NAACL.

• The University of Maryland Statistical Machine Translation System for the Fourth Workshop on Machine Translation. Chris Dyer, Hendra Setiawan, Yuval Marton and Philip Resnik. In Proceedings of WMT.

• Efficient minimum error rate training and minimum Bayes-risk decoding for translation hypergraphs and lattices. Shankar Kumar, Wolfgang Macherey, Chris Dyer and Franz Och. In Proceedings of ACL.

• Joshua: An Open Source Toolkit for Parsing-Based Machine Translation. Zhifei Li, Chris Callison-Burch, Chris Dyer, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Lane Schwartz, Wren Thornton, Jonathan Weese and Omar Zaidan. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation.

2008

• Fast, Cheap, and Easy: Construction of Statistical Machine Translation Models with MapReduce. Chris Dyer, Aaron Cordova, Alexander Mont and Jimmy Lin. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT).

• Generalizing Word Lattice Translation. Chris Dyer, Smaranda Muresan and Philip Resnik. In Proceedings of ACL.

2007

• The “noiser channel:” Translation from morphologically complex languages). Chris Dyer. In Proceedings of WMT.

• The University of Maryland Translation System for IWSLT 2007. Chris Dyer. In Proceedings of the IWSLT.

• Moses: Open Source Toolkit for Statistical Machine Translation. Philipp Koehn, Hieu Hoang, Alexandra Birch, Chris Callison-Burch, Marcello Federico, Niccola Bertoldi, Brooke Cowan, Wade Shen, Christine Moran, Richard Zens, Chris Dyer, OndŖej Bojar, Alexandra Constantin and Evan Herbst. In Proceedings of ACL.

• The time-course of anaphoric processing and syntactic reconstruction. Akira Omaki, Chris Dyer, Shiti Malhotra, Jon Sprouse, Jeff Lidz and Collin Phillips. In Proceedings of CUNY.