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Status

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.

Useful links

I do my best to make sure that all the links work, by please send me a mail if you see that I missed something really important or if some of the links do not work any more.

Resources:

MOSES: an open source SMT System (factored and unfactored phrase-based translation)
GIZA++: word-to-wird aligner
MARIE: open-source SMT decoder(unfactored phrase-based and N-gram-based translation
SRILM: statistical language modeling toolkit (n-grams)
Stanford Parser:a natural language statistical parser (English, German, Chinese and Arabic)
Freeling: natural language analyzer (English, Spanish and Catalan)
WordNet: a lexical database

Data:

Europarl Corpus: European Parliament Proceedings Parallel Corpus 1996-2006 (11 European languages)
LDC: Linguistic Data Consortium
JRC-ACQUIS: aligned multilingual parallel corpus (22 European languages)

Journals and conferences:

Computational Linguistics journal: one of the main journals in the field of computational linguistcs and statistical machine translation
Machine Translation journal: a journal that covers all branches of computational linguistics and language engineering, wherever they incorporate a multilingual aspect
NAACL-HLT 2010: Human Language Technologies: the annual conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL 2010: the annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
IWSLT 2010: the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation
WMT 2009: ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
LREC 2010: international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
Coling 2010: the international conference on Computational Linguistics
EAMT 2010: the annual meeting of the European Association for Machine Translation

Evaluation campaigns:

IWSLT 2009 evaluation campaign
WMT 2009 shared task
NIST 2009 open MT evaluation

Other links:

MT-list: discussion list for translation technology
Linguist List: online linguistic resource
NLP/CP conference calendar