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I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

My main research interests are in statistical machine translation and natural language processing.

Publications

2011

    Khalilov M. and Sima'an K. Context-Sensitive Syntactic Source-Reordering by Statistical Transduction. Proc. of the The 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP'11), pages - to appear, Chiang Mai (Thailand), November 2011.

    Khalilov M. and Sima'an K. ILLC-UvA translation system for EMNLP-WMT 2011. Proc. of the EMNLP 2011 5th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT'11), pp. 413-419, Edinburg (UK), July 2011.

    Khalilov M. and Fonollosa J.A.R. Syntax-based reordering for Statistical Machine Translation. Computer Speech and Language journal (Elsevier), volume 25, issue 4, pages 761-788, October 2011.
2010

    Khalilov M. and Sima'an K. ILLC-UvA machine translation system for the IWSLT 2010 evaluation. Proc. of the 7th Int. Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT'10), pp. 197-203, Paris (France), December 2010.

    Wenniger G., Khalilov M. and Sima'an K. A Toolkit for Visualizing the Coherence of Tree-based Reordering with Word-Alignments. Proc. of the Open Source Convention at the Fifth Machine Translation Marathon (MT-Marathon), pp. 97-104, Le Mans (France), September 2010.

    Khalilov M. and Sima'an K. A discriminative syntactic model for source permutation via tree transduction. Proc. of the Fourth Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-4) at the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'10), pp. 92-100, Beijing (China), August 2010.

    Khalilov M., Kuvaldina N., Pretkalnina L. and Pereseina V. SMT of Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian languages: a comparative study. Proc. of the 4th Internation Conference on Human Language Technologies - the Baltic Perspective (HLT'10), pp. 117-124, Riga (Latvia), October 2010.

    Khalilov M. and Sima'an K. Source reordering using MaxEnt classifiers and supertags. Proc. of the 14th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT'10), pp. 292-299, St.Raphael (France), May 2010.

    Khalilov M., Fonollosa J.A.R., Skadina I., Bralitis E. and Pretkalnina L. English-Latvian SMT: the challenge of translating into a free word order language. Proc. of the second International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-resourced languages (SLTU'10), pp. 87-94, Penang (Malaysia), May 2010.

    Khalilov M., Fonollosa J.A.R., Skadina I., Bralitis E. and Pretkalnina L. Towards improving English-Latvian translation: a system comparison and a new rescoring feature. Proc. of the 7th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC'10), pp. 1719-1725, Valetta (Malta), May 2010.

2009

    Khalilov M. New statistical and syntactic models for machine translation Ph.D. thesis dissertation, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona (Spain), October 2009.

    Khalilov M., Fonollosa J.A.R. and Dras M. Coupling hierarchical word reordering and decoding in phrase-based statistical machine translation Proc. of The Third Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-3) at North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies conference (NAACL-HLT'09), pp. 78-86, Boulder, Colorado (USA), June 2009.

    Khalilov M., Fonollosa J.A.R. and Dras M. A new subtree-transfer approach to syntax-based reordering for statistical machine translation Proc. of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT'09), pp. 197-204, Barcelona (Spain), May 2009.

    Fonollosa J.A.R., Khalilov M., Costa-jussà M.R., Mariño J.B., Henríquez C.A., Hernández A.H. and Banchs R. The TALP-UPC phrase-based translation system for EACL-WMT 2009 Proc. of the 4th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT'09), pp. 85-89, Athens (Greece), March 2009.

    Khalilov M., Fonollosa J.A.R. and Dras M. A new subtree-transfer approach to syntax-based reordering for statistical machine translation Technical Report (TALP-UPC), February 2009.

   Khalilov M. and Fonollosa J.A.R. N-gram-based Statistical Machine Translation versus Syntax Augmented Machine Translation: comparison and system combination Proc. of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'09), pp. 424-432, Athens (Greece), April 2009.

2008

   Khalilov M., Fonollosa J.A.R., Zamora-Martínez F., Castro-Bleda M.J. and España-Boquera S. Arabic-English translation improvement by target-side neural network language modeling. Proc. of the 6th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, HLT&NLP within the Arabic World International Workshop (LREC'08/W18), Marrakech (Morocco), May 2008.

   Khalilov M., Hernández A.H., Costa-jussà M.R., Crego J.M., Henríquez C.A., Lambert P., Fonollosa J.A.R., Mariño J.B. and Banchs R. The TALP-UPC Ngram-based statistical machine translation system for ACL-WMT 2008. Proc. of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (ACL'08-SMT), pp. 127-130, Columbus (USA), June 2008.

   de Almeida A.T., Khalilov M., Fonseca P., Ferreira C., Jahn A., Muhling J. and Mansfield T. Fuel cell cost-effectiveness assessment for combined heat and power applications. International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), International Journal of Power and Energy Systems, volume 28/2008.

   Khalilov M. and Fonollosa J.A.R. Comparación y combinación de los sistemas de traducción automática basados en n-gramas y en sintaxis. Proc. of the XXIV edición del Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural 2008 (SEPLN'08), pp. 259-266, Madrid (Spain), September 2008.

   Khalilov M., Costa-jussà M.R., Henríquez C.A., Fonollosa J.A.R., Hernández A.H., Mariño J.B., Banchs R., Boxing C., Zhang M., Aw A. and Li H. The TALP&I2R SMT Systems for IWSLT 2008. Proc. of the 5th Int. Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT'08), pp. 116-123, Hawaii (USA), October 2008.

   Khalilov M., Fonollosa J.A.R., Zamora-Martínez F., Castro-Bleda M.J. and España-Boquera S. Neural Network Language Models for Translation with Limited Data. Proc. of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI'08), pp. 445-451, Dayton, Ohio (USA), November 2008.

   Khalilov M., Fonollosa J.A.R. and Dras M. Deriving benefit from a generalized syntax-based reordering Proc. of las V Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla - the V Biennial Workshop on Speech Technology, pp. 269-272, Bilbao (Spain), November, 2008. Best Student Paper Award.

   Henríquez C.A., Khalilov M., Mariño J.B. and Ezeiza N. The AVIVAVOZ phrase-based statistical machine translation system for ALBAYZIN 2008 Proc. of las V Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla - the V Biennial Workshop on Speech Technology, pp. 123-125, Bilbao (Spain), November, 2008.

2007

   Khalilov, M. Improving target language modeling techniques for statistical machine translation. Proc. of the Doctoral Consortium at the 8th EUROLAN Summer School, pp. 39-45, Iasi (Romania), July-August 2007.

   Costa-jussà M.R., Lambert P., Crego J.M., Khalilov M., Fonollosa J.A.R., Mariño J.B. and Banchs R. Ngram-based system enhanced with multiple weighted reordering hypotheses. Proc. of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (ACL'07/Wkshp), pp. 167-170. Prague (Czech Republic), June 2007.

  Khalilov M. N-gram model improvement for Statistical Machine Translation. Ph.D. Thesis Proposal, Department of Signal Theory and Communications, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona (Spain), June 2007.

   Lambert P., Costa-jussà M.R., Crego J.M., Khalilov M., Mariño J.B., Banchs R., Fonollosa J.A.R. and Schwenk, H. The TALP ngram-based SMT system for IWSLT 2007. Proc. Of the 4th Int. Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT'07), pp. 169-174, Trento (Italy), October 2007.

2006

   Costa-jussà, M.R., Crego, J.M., de Gispert, A., Lambert, P., Khalilov, M., Banchs, R., Mariño, J.B. and Fonollosa, J.A.R. TALP Phrase-based statistical translation system for European language pairs. Proc. of the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translatiion (HLT-NAACL'06/Wkshp), pp. 142-145, New York (USA), June 2006.

   Crego, J.M., de Gispert, A., Lambert, P., Costa-jussà, M.R., Khalilov, M., Banchs, R., Mariño, J.B. and Fonollosa, J.A.R. N-gram-based SMT System Enhanced with Reordering Patterns. Proc. of the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translatiion (HLT-NAACL'06/Wkshp), pp. 162-165, New York (USA), June 2006.

   Mariño, J.B., Banchs, R., Crego, J.M., de Gispert, A., Lambert, P., Fonollosa, J.A.R., Costa-jussà, M.R. and Khalilov, M. UPC's Bilingual N-gram Translation System. Proc. of the TC-Star Speech to Speech Translation Workshop (TC-Star'06/Wkshp), Barcelona (Spain), June 2006.

   Costa-jussà, M.R., Crego, J.M., de Gispert, A., Lambert, P., Khalilov, M., Fonollosa, J.A.R., Mariño,J.B.,and Banchs, R. TALP Phrase-based System and TALP System Combination for the IWSLT 2006. Proc. of the 3rd Int. Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT'06),pp. 123-129, Kyoto (Japan), November 2006.

   Crego, J.M., de Gispert, A., Lambert, P., Khalilov, M., Costa-jussà, M.R., Mariño,J.B., Banchs, R. and Fonollosa, J.A.R. TALP Ngram-based SMT System for IWSLT 2006. Proc. of the 3rd Int. Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT'06), pp. 116-122, Kyoto (Japan), November 2006.

   Khalilov, M. and Fonollosa, J.A.R. Language modeling for verbatim translation task. Proc. of the IV Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla - the IV Biennial Workshop on Speech Technology, pp. 83-87, Zaragoza (Spain), November, 2006.