Research Interests
- Machine Translation and Related techniques
- Information Retrieval and Mining
- Machine Learning Applications
- Digital Libraries
- Software Engineering - Process, Architecture and Assurance
Research Links
Current Research Projects
- AVENUE/LETRAS Translation Project at CMU
(external
, internal )
- Indian language translation systems - Combining Statistical and Transfer based approaches (My pet projects)
- Digital Library Projects
- Past Projects
Publications
2009
2008
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Vamshi Ambati and Alon Lavie:
Improving Syntax Driven Translation Models by Re-structuring Divergent
and Non-isomorphic Parse Tree Structures
: Student Research Symposium at the The Eighth Conference of the
Association for Machine Translation
in the Americas (AMTA 2008),Waikiki, Hawai'i.
(pdf)
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Alon Lavie, Alok Parlikar, Vamshi Ambati: Syntax-driven Learning of Sub-sentential Translation
Equivalents and Translation Rules from Parsed Parallel Corpora:
In Proceedings of Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST ) Workshop at ACL 2008.
(pdf)
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Christian Monson, Ariadna Font Llitj, Vamshi Ambati, Lori Levin Alon Lavie
Alison Alvarez, Roberto Aranovich, Jaime Carbonell, Robert Frederking,
Erik Peterson, Katharina Probst: Linguistic Structure and Bilingual Informants Help Induce
Machine Translation of Lesser-Resourced Languages. In Poster Proceedings of
LREC 2008
(pdf)
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Rohini U, Vamshi Ambati and Vasudeva Varma: Statistical Machine Translational Models for Personalized Search. Accepted at International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2008)
2007
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Vamshi Ambati and Rohini U: A Hybrid Approach to Example based Machine Translation for Indian Languages. (Poster Paper) Accepted at 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2007)
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Rohini U and Vamshi Ambati: Extracting Keyphrases from books using language modeling approaches. In Proceedings of the 3rd ICUDL November 2007, Pittsburgh, USA.
- Vamshi Ambati, N.Balakrishnan, Raj Reddy, Lakshmi Pratha, C V Jawahar:
The Digital Library of India Project: Process, Policies and
Architecture, Accepted for publication in the 2nd ICDL ,2007 New Delhi
(pdf)
2006
- N.Balakrishnan, Raj Reddy, Madhavi Ganapathiraju and Vamshi Ambati : Digital Library of India: A Test Bed for Indian Language Research
In the Proceedings of the
IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries(TCDL) Bulletin - 2006
(html)
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Vamshi Ambati and Rohini U: Using Monolingual Clickthrough data to build Cross Lingual Search Systems. Accepted at New Directions in Multilingual Information Access, Workshop held at SIGIR 2006.
- Rohini.U and Vamshi Ambati: Improving Search Results using Collaborative Filtering, In the Proceedings of 4th ITWP, Workshop held at AAAI 2006.
** This paper has also been accepted at the Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) 2006
- C.V Jawahar, Pramod Sankar, Vamshi Ambati: Digitizing Million Books: Challenges for Document Analysis,2006 New Zealand.
Accepted for publication at 7th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems
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Vamshi Ambati, Rohini U, Pramod P, Balakrishnan N, Raj Reddy:
Multilingual Information Access in a Digital Library : Information Retrieval and Translation
Accepted at the 2nd ICUDL November 2006, Alexandria
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Padmasree Lam, Vamshi Ambati, Anand Chandulal Jasthi and Sreenivasa Rao Meda:
Signature based duplicate detection in Digital Libraries
Accepted at the 2nd ICUDL November 2006, Alexandria
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Chetan Jakkoju, Sreekanth Vempati, Rakesh Bodla, Vamshi Ambati, C.V Jawahar
: Book Reader Interface: Image Processing Issues
Accepted at the 2nd ICUDL, November 2006, Alexandria
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Lakshmi Pratha, Manjunath Mattam, Vamshi Ambati, Raj Reddy
: Multimedia Digital Library: Performance and Scalability Issues
Accepted at the 2nd ICUDL, November 2006, Alexandria
2005 and before
- Rohini U and Vamshi Ambati: A Collaborative Filtering based Re-ranking
Strategy for search in Digital Libraries. In the proceedings of
8th ICADL - 2005, Bangkok
(pdf)
- Lakshmi Pratha, Vamshi Ambati and Pramod Sankar: Content Development for Digital Libraries: Regional Mega Scanning Centre Hyderabad
, Digital Libraries Special issue, VishwaBharati July'05 Magazine TDIL, Government of India.
(pdf)
- Vamshi Ambati and Raj Reddy: Towards a Self healing Information System for Digital Libraries
In the proceedings of the
1st ICUDL - 2005, Hangzhou, China (Also appears in the Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE - JZUS)
(pdf)
- Vamshi Ambati, Pramod Sankar, Lakshmi Pratha, C.V. Jawahar: Quality Management in Digital Libraries,
Accepted for publication in the 1st ICUDL - 2005, Hangzhou, China
(pdf)
- Vamshi Ambati and S.P. Kishore: How can Academic Software Research
and Open Source Software Engineering help each other?,
Positional Paper at the fourth International Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering, at the ICSE-2004, Scotland.
(pdf)
- Akshar Bharati, Sriram V, Vamshi Krishna A, Rajeev Sangal and
Sushma Bendre: An Algorithm for Aligning Sentences in Bilingual Corpora
Using Lexical Information. In Proceedings of ICON-2002, Bombay.
(pdf)
Reports/Talks
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Vamshi Ambati : Dependency Structure Trees in Syntax Based Machine Translation
11-734 Spring 2008, Survey Report
(pdf)
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Vamshi Ambati and Wei Chen: Cross-Lingual Syntax Projection for Resource-poor Languages
11-762 Fall 2007, Survey Report
(pdf)
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Vamshi Ambati: Occurence Based Statistics in Machine Translation
11-731 Spring 2007, Project Report
(pdf)
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Vamshi Ambati, Rohini U, Nazeer Hussain and Raj Reddy
: Autovita: A 360 degree view of Person Related Information on the WWW
Unpublished Report
(pdf)
- International User Interfaces: A Design Challenge
Presentation at CMU towards 17-763 Methods: Deciding what to design?, Fall 2005
- Dynamism in Software Architecture: A Survey
Report towards 17-765 Architectures for Software Systems, Spring 2004
(pdf)
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worked/working on.
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