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Universiteit van AmsterdamILLC

Khalil Sima'an   -- Ph.D. Computer Science

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  • Reut Tsarfaty is to defend her Ph.D. thesis on March 24, 2010 (Supervisors: Khalil Sima'an and Remko Scha).
  • Hany Hassan defended his Ph.D. Thesis successfully on January 12, 2009  at DCU. Title: Lexical Syntax for Statistical Machine Translation. Supervisors: Andy Way and Khalil Sima'an.
  • Maxim Khalilov joins the VIDI project in August 2009 as post doctoral researcher for two years.
  • Recent and upcoming invited talks/tutorials:
    • IEEE SLT08 15-18 Dec 2008, Goa, India (Lecture about MT)
    • ATILA Workshop, Antwerp/Tilburg/Gent, October 2008 (Talk about probabilistic memory-based models).
    • Workshop on Parsing and Semantic Role Labeling, 26 Feb 2008, Tilburg University (Talk about Parsing and MT).
    • NLP Colloquium at University of Sussex, UK, 17 Jan. 2008 (Talk about Bi-EM).
    • RIILP  13 Feb 2009, Wolverhampton, UK (Talk about MT)
    • CLUKI 2009 23-24 April 2009, Dublin, Ireland (Talk about MT)
    • ICCS  15 May 2009, Edinburgh, UK (About estimation for parsing and SMT)
    • Benelearn 18-19 May 2009, Tilburg, NL (Estimation for memory-based models)
    • CLCG Groningen University 19 June 2009, Groningen, NL (About estimation for memory-based models)


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Topics
  • Probabilistic Grammars
  • Statistical Parsing
  • Statistical Machine Translation
  • Statistical Estimation/Learning
  • Models of Language Processing
  • Algorithms and Computational Complexity
More than formal linguistics and logic: The case for Prediction and Learning
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