Faculty Profiles - WU Dekai | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Dekai WU
吳德愷

PhD in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley, 1992

Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

(852) 2358 6989
dekai@ust.hk
Room 3556
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ORCID

0000-0001-9833-361X

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12793699800

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Research Interest

Artificial intelligence
Human language and music technology
Computational linguistics
Natural language processing
Machine translation
Machine learning
Deep learning

Publications

All Years 168 2024 0 2023 0 2022 0 2021 0 2020 0 2019 1 2018 167

2019 1

Efficient Bilingual Generalization from Neural Transduction Grammar Induction

Yan, Yuchen; Wu, Dekai; Kumyol, Serkan
Conference paper

2018 2

Handling Ties Correctly and Efficiently in Viterbi Training Using the Viterbi Semiring

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 10792 LNCS, 2018, p. 284-295
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

SRL for Low Resource Languages Isn't Needed for Semantic SMT

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, May 2018, p. 59-68
Beloucif, Meriem; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2017 2

Injecting a Semantic Objective Function into Early Stage Learning of Spoken Language Translation

2016 Conference of the Oriental Chapter of International Committee for Coordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques, O-COCOSDA 2016, May 2017, article number 7919000, p. 141-146
Beloucif, Meriem; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Semantically Driven Inversion Transduction Grammar Induction for Early Stage Training of Spoken Language Translation

2016 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2016 - Proceedings, February 2017, article number 7846275, p. 265-272
Beloucif, Meriem; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2016 8

Foundations of Text Alignment: Statistical Machine Translation Models From Bitexts to Bigrammars

Wu, Dekai
Book

A semantically confidence-weighted ITG induction algorithm

Pre-Conference Proceedings of IJCAI Workshop on Semantic Machine Learning 2016, 2016
Beloucif, Meriem; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Driving inversion transduction grammar induction with semantic evaluation

Proceeding of the 5th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2016), Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2016, p. 55-63
Beloucif, Meriem; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Generalizing Transduction Grammars to Model Continuous Valued Musical Events

Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

How Blue Can You Get? Learning Structural Relationships for Microtones via Continuous Stochastic Transduction Grammars

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2016, Sony CSL, 2016, p. 286-293
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Improving Word Alignment for Low Resource Languages Using English Monolingual SRL

Beloucif, Meriem; Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning Musical Creativity via Stochastic Transduction Grammars: Combination, Exploration and Transformation

Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (MUME 2016), Jun 2016, Philippe Pasquier, Oliver Bown, Arne Eigenfeldt (Eds.)
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning Translations for Tagged Words: Extending the Translation Lexicon of an ITG for Low Resource Languages

Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual and Cross-lingual Methods in NLP, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016, p. 55-64
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2015 6

Compositional bilingual artificial neural networks for predicting hypermetrical structure among interacting flamenco parts

Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Freestyle: A Rap Battle Bot that Learns to Improvise

Wu, Dekai; Addanki, Karteek
Conference paper

Improving evaluation and optimization of MT systems against MEANT

Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation / Association for Computational Linguistics. Stroudsburg, USA : Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015, p. 434-441
Lo, Chi Kiu; Dowling, Philipp C.; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Improving Semantic SMT via Soft Semantic Role Label Constraints on ITG Alignments

Proceedings of MT Summit XV, v. 1, 2015, p. 333-345
Beloucif, Meriem; Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning to Rap Battle with Bilingual Recursive Neural Networks

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, v. 2015-January, 2015, p. 2524-2530
Wu, Dekai; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek
Conference paper

Neural Versus Symbolic Rap Battle Bots

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Proceedings of the 41st International Computer Music Conference, ICMC 2015 / Michigan Publishing. Michigan, USA : Michigan Publishing, 2015, p. 210-213
Wu, Dekai; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek
Conference paper

2014 12

Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation

Wu, Dekai; Carpuat, Marine; Carreras, Xavier; Vecchi, Eva Maria
Book

Better semantic frame based MT evaluation via inversion transduction grammars

Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014, p. 22-33
Wu, Dekai; Lo, Chi-kiu; Beloucif, Meriem; Saers, Markus
Conference paper

BiMEANT: Integrating Cross-lingual and Monolingual Semantic Frame Similarities in the MEANT Semantic MT Evaluation Metric

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 8791, 2014, p. 82-93
Lo, Chi Kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Evaluating Improvised Hip Hop Lyrics - Challenges and Observations

LREC 2014 Proceedings, Editors: Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis. European Language Resources Association, 2014, p. 4616-4623
Addanki, Karteek; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Improving MEANT Based Semantically Tuned SMT

Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign, 2014, p. 34-41
Beloucif, Meriem; Lo, Chi Kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning Music and Language with Stochastic Transduction Grammars

Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Lexical Access Preference and Constraint Strategies for Improving Multiword Expression Association within Semantic MT Evaluation

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex), Edited by Michael Zock, Reinhard Rapp, Chu-Ren Huang. Association for Computational Linguistics, Dublin City University, 2014, p. 144-153
Wu, Dekai; Lo, Chi-kiu; Saers, Markus
Conference paper

On the reliability and inter-annotator agreement of human semantic MT evaluation via HMEANT

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014, Edited by Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis. European Language Resources Association, 2014, p. 602-607
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Ternary Segmentation for Improving Search in Top-down Induction of Segmental ITGs

Proceedings of SSST-8: Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation, Edited by Dekai Wu, Marine Carpuat, Xavier Carreras and Eva Maria Vecchi. Stroudsburg, PA, USA : The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014, p. 86-93
Saers, Markus; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

The Magic Number 4: Evolutionary Pressures on Semantic Frame Structure

The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference (EVOLANG10), Edited by Erica A Cartmill, Seán Roberts, Heidi Lyn, and Hannah Cornish. Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2014, p. 361-368
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Transduction recursive auto-associative memory: Learning bilingual compositional distributed vector representations of inversion transduction grammars

Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014, p. 112-121
Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

XMEANT: Better Semantic MT Evaluation Without Reference Translations

Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014, v. 2, Jun 2014, p. 765-771
Lo, Chi-kiu; Beloucif, Meriem; Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2013 18

Bayesian Induction of Bracketing Inversion Transduction Grammars

Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Can Informal Genres Be Better Translated by Tuning on Automatic Semantic Metrics?

Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Combining Top-down and Bottom-up Search for Unsupervised Induction of Transduction Grammars

Proceedings of SSST-7: Seventh Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, Editors: Marine Carpuat, Lucia Specia and Dekai Wu. Stroudsburg : The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013, p. 48-57
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

FREESTYLE: A Challenge-Response System for Hip Hop Lyrics via Unsupervised Induction of Stochastic Transduction Grammars

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, , INTERSPEECH, 2013, p. 3478-3482
Wu, Dekai; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Saers, Markus Sidonius
Conference paper

Human Semantic MT Evaluation with HMEANT for IWSLT 2013

Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2013), Edited by: Joy Ying Zhang. , 2013
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Improving Machine Translation by Training Against an Automatic Semantic Frame Based Evaluation Metric

ACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, v. 2, 2013, p. 375-381
Lo, Chi-kiu; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Improving machine translation into Chinese by tuning against Chinese MEANT

Lo, Chi-kiu; Beloucif, Meriem; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Iterative Rule Segmentation Under Minimum Description Length for Unsupervised Transduction Grammar Induction

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 7978 LNAL, 2013, p. 224-235
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning Bilingual Categories in Unsupervised Inversion Transduction Grammar Induction

Saers, Markus; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning to Freestyle: Hip Hop Challenge-Response Induction via Transduction Rule Segmentation

EMNLP 2013 - 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference, 2013, p. 102-112
Wu, Dekai; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Saers, Markus Sidonius; Beloucif, Meriem
Conference paper

MEANT at WMT 2013: A Tunable, Accurate yet Inexpensive Semantic Frame Based MT Evaluation Metric

Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Modeling Hip Hop Challenge-Response Lyrics as Machine Translation

Machine Translation Summit XIV: Main Conference Proceedings, Editors: Andy Way, Khalil Sima’an, Mikel L.Forcada, Daniel Grasmick, Heidi Depaetere. , 2013, p. 109-116
Wu, Dekai; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Saers, Markus Sidonius
Conference paper

Proceedings of SSST-7, Seventh Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation

Proceedings of SSST-7, Seventh Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation
Carpuat, Marine; Specia, Lucia; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Segmenting vs. Chunking Rules: Unsupervised ITG Induction via Minimum Conditional Description Length

International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP, 2013, p. 584-592
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Simultaneous Unsupervised Learning of Flamenco Metrical Structure, Hypermetrical Structure, and Multipart Structural Relations

Proceedings of International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, v. , 2013, p. 155-160
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Unsupervised Learning of Bilingual Categories in Inversion Transduction Grammar Induction

Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2013), Edited by: Joy Ying Zhang. , 2013
Saers, Markus; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Unsupervised Rhyme Scheme Identification In Hip Hop lyrics Using Hidden Markov Models

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), (7978 LNAI), 2013, p. 39-50
Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Unsupervised Transduction Grammar Induction via Minimum Description Length

Second Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (ACL 2013): Proceedings of the Workshop, Stroudsburg : The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013, p. 67-73
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2012 8

Proceedings of SSST-6, Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation

Carpuat, Marine; Specia, Lucia; Wu, Dekai
Book

Sixth Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-6): Held in conjunction with ACL 2012, Jeju, Korea, 12 July 2012

Carpuat, Marine; Specia, Lucia; Wu, Dekai
Book

Accuracy and robustness in measuring the lexical similarity of semantic role ﬁllers for automatic semantic MT evaluation

Proceedings of the 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2012, 2012, p. 574-581
Tumuluru, Anand Karthik; Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

From finite-state to inversion transductions: Toward unsupervised bilingual grammar induction

24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of COLING 2012: Technical Papers, Mumbai; India, 8 December 2012 through 15 December 2012; Code 96421, p. 2325-2340
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Fully Automatic Semantic MT Evaluation

WMT 2012 Proceedings of 7th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 2012, p. 243-252
Lo, Chi-kiu; Tumuluru, Anand Karthik; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

LTG vs. ITG Coverage of Cross-Lingual Verb Frame Alternations

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2012 / Edited by Cettolo, Mauro; Federico, Marcello; Specia, Lucia; Way, Andy. Italy : The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), 2012, p. 295-302
Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Lo, Chi-kiu; Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Towards a Predicate-Argument Evaluation for MT

Proceedings of SSST-6, Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation, Jeju, South Korea, 12 Jul 2012, p. 30-38
Bojar, Ondřej; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Unsupervised vs. supervised weight estimation for semantic MT evaluation metrics

Proceedings of SSST-6, Sixth Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, 2012, p. 49-56
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2011 12

Proceedings of SSST-5, Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation

Wu, Dekai; Apidianaki, Marianna; Carpuat, Marine; Specia, Lucia
Book

A Radically Simple, Effective Annotation and Alignment Methodology for Semantic Frame Based SMT and MT Evaluation

International Workshop on Using Linguistic Information for Hybrid Machine Translation LIHMT / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona, Spain : Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; SERVIS GRÀFICS COPISTERIA IMATGE, S.L., 2011, p. 58-65
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

An Evaluation of MT Alignment Baseline Approaches upon Cross-Lingual Plagiarism Detection

Cross-Language !ndian Text Reuse (at FIRE 2011), Mumbai: Dec 2011
Addanki, Karteek; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Linear transduction grammars and zipper finite-state transducers

8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2011, Hissar; Bulgaria, September 2011, Code 92943, p. 640-647
Saers, Markus; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

MEANT: An Inexpensive, High-Accuracy, Semi-Automatic Metric for Evaluating Translation Utility based on Semantic Roles

Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies / Edited by Matsumoto, Yuji; Mihalcea, Rada. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2011, p. 220-229, The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistic: Human Language Technologies (ACL-2011), Portland, Oregon (ACL-HLT 2011) Portland, United States. v.1, 19-24 June 2011, Code 89192, p. 220-229
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Mining Parallel Documents Using Low Bandwidth and High Precision CLIR from the Heterogeneous Web

Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Natural. Language Processing / Edited by Wang, Haifeng; Yarowsky, David. Asian Federation of Natural Language Proceesing, 2011, p. 420-428
Shi, Yue Simon; Fung, Pascale; Prochasson, Emmanuel; Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

On the Expressivity of Linear Transductions

Machine Translation Summit XIII (MT Summit 2011), Xiamen, China, Sep 2011
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai; Quirk, Chris
Conference paper

Principled induction of phrasal bilexica

The 15th International Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2011, Leuven, Belgium, 30-31 May 2011, Code 88744, p. 313-320
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Reestimation of Reified Rules in Semiring Parsing and Biparsing

SSST-5, Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (ACL 2011), Portland, Oregon, USA, 23 Jun 2011
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

SMT versus AI redux: How semantic fames evaluate MT more accurately

Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-11 / Edited by Walsh, Toby. California, USA : AAAI Press / International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, p. 1838-1845
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Speech translation with grammar driven probabilistic phrasal bilexica extraction

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2011, 2011, p. 2100-2103
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai; Lo, Chi-kiu; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek
Conference paper

Structured vs. Flat Semantic Role Representations for Machine Translation Evaluation

Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-5) / Edited by Wu, Dekai; Apidianaki, Marianna; Carpuat, Marine; Speecia, Lucia. Madison, USA : The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2011, p. 10-20
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2010 7

Fourth Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-4): at the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics 2010, Beijing, China, 28 August 2010

Wu, Dekai
Book

Alignment

Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition, CRC Press 2010 /Edited by Nitin Indurkhya, Fred J. Damerau. London: Chapman & Hall, 2010, Part II, Chapter 16, 367-408
Wu, Dekai
Book chapter

A Systematic Comparison between Inversion Transduction Grammar and Linear Transduction Grammar for Word Alignment

Fourth Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-4), 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics 2010 (COLING 2010), Beijing, 28 August 2010
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Nivre, Joakim; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Evaluating Machine Translation Utility via Semantic Role Labels

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010, 2010, p. 2873-2877
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Linear Inversion Transduction Grammar Alignments as a Second Translation Path

Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR (COLING 2010), Uppsala, Sweden, July 2010
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Nivre, Joakim; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Semantic vs. Syntactic vs. N-gram Structure for Machine Translation Evaluation

Proceedings of SSST-4 Fourth Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation / Edited by Wu, Dekai. Beijing, China : Chinese Information Processing Society of China, 2010, p. 28-33, COLING 2010 / SIGMT Workshop 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics Beijing, China
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Word alignment with stochastic bracketing linear inversion transduction grammar

NAACL HLT 2010 - Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 2-4 June 2010, Code 88929, Pages 341-344
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Nivre, Joakim; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2009 8

Proceedings of SSST-3, 3rd Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation

Wu, Dekai; Chiang, David
Book

Can semantic role labeling improve SMT?

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2009), Barcelona, Spain, 14-15 May 2009, Code 88743, Pages 218-225
Wu, Dekai; Fung, Pascale
Conference paper

Empirical lower bounds on translation unit error rate for the full class of inversion transduction grammars

11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'09), Paris, France, Oct 7-9 2009, Pages 33-36
Søgaard, Anders; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

HKUST Statistical Machine Translation Experiments for CWMT 2009

Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Improving Phrase-Based Translation via Word Alignments from Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars

Proceeding SSST '09 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-3), Boulder, Colorado, Jun 2009, p. 28-36
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning Stochastic Bracketing Inversion Transduction Grammars with a Cubic Time Biparsing Algorithm

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'09), Paris, France,, 7-9 October 2009, p. 29-32
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Nivre, Joakim; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Semantic Roles for SMT: A Hybrid Two-Pass Model

Proceeding NAACL-Short '09 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics(NAACL HLT 2009), Boulder, Colorado, 2009 June, Pages13-16
Wu, Dekai; Fung, Pascale
Conference paper

Toward machine translation with statistics and syntax and semantics

Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2009), Merano, Italy\g13-17 December 2009, Category numberCFP09SRW-USB, Code 79490, 2009, Article number 5373509, Pages 12-21
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2008 4

2nd Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-2): Held in conjunction with ACL-HLT 2008, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 20 June 2008

Chiang, David; Wu, Dekai
Book

Proceedings of SSST-2, Second Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation

Wu, Dekai; Chiang, David
Book

Evaluation of Context-Dependent Phrasal Translation Lexicons for Statistical Machine Translation

6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) Marrakech, Morocco (ELRA 2008) 28-30 MAY 2008, 2008, p.3520-3527
Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

WSD for Semantic SMT: Phrase Sense Disambiguation

Second Symposium on Innovations in Machine Translation Technologies (IMTT-2008), Tokyo, Japan, Mar 2008
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2007 6

NAACL-HLT 2007/ AMTA Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST): Held in conjunction with NAACL-HLT 2007, Rochester, New York, USA, 26 April 2007

Wu, Dekai; Chiang, David
Book

Context-Dependent Phrasal Translation Lexicons for Statistical Machine Translation

Machine Translation Summit XI (MT Summit XI) Copenhagen, Denmark, 10-14 Sep 2007
Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

HKUST Statistical Machine Translation Experiments for IWSLT 2007

4th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2007), 2007, p. 84-88
Shen, Yihai; Lo, Chi-kiu; Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

How Phrase Sense Disambiguation outperforms Word Sense Disambiguation for Statistical Machine Translation

11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 2007), Skövde, Sweden, 7-9 Sep 2007, p. 43-52
CARPUAT, Marine; WU, Dekai
Conference paper

Improving statistical machine translation using word sense disambiguation

EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Prague, Czech Republic, Code 867112007, 28 June 2007, p. 61-72
Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning Bilingual Semantic Frames: Shallow Semantic Parsing vs. Semantic Role Projection

11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 2007), Skövde, Sweden, 7- Sep 2007, p. 75-84
Fung, Pascale; WU, Zhaojun; YANG, Yongsheng; WU, Dekai
Conference paper

2006 6

A grammatical approach to understanding textual tables using two-dimensional SCFGs

COLING-ACL '06: Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference poster sessions / Association for Computational Linguistics. Stroudsburg, United States : Association for Computational Linguistics, 2006, p. 905-912
Wu, Dekai; Lee, Wing Kuen
Conference paper

Automatic learning of Chinese English semantic structure mapping

2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2006, Proceedings, Palm Beach, Aruba, 10-13 December 2006, Category number06EX1646, Code 729872006, 2006, Article number 4123404, p. 230-233
Fung, Pascale; Wu, Zhaojun; Yang, Yongsheng; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Boosting for Chinese Named Entity Recognition

Fifth SIGHAN Workshop of the Special Interest Group for Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN5) at COLING/ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia, Jul 2006
Yu, Xiaofeng; Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Inversion transduction grammar coverage of Arabic-English word alignment for tree-structured statistical machine translation

2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2006, Proceedings, Palm Beach, Aruba, 10-13 December 2006, Category number06EX1646, Code 72987, 2006, Article number 4123405, p. 234-237
Wu, Dekai; Carpuat, Marine; Shen, Yihai
Conference paper

Textual entailment recognition using inversion transduction grammars

1st PASCAL Machine Learning Challenges Workshop, MLCW 2005, Southampton, United Kingdom, 11-13 April 2005, Code 67738. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, v. 3944, 2006, p. 299-308
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Toward Integrating Word Sense and Entity Disambiguation into Statistical Machine Translation

Third International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2006), Kyoto, Japan, 27-28 Nov 2006
Carpuat, Marine; Shen, Yihai; Yu, Xiaofeng; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2005 6

MT model space: Statistical versus compositional versus example-based machine translation

Machine Translation, v. 19, (3), 2005, p. 213-227
Wu, Dekai
Article

Evaluating the Word Sense Disambiguation Performance of Statistical Machine Translation

2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2005), Jeju Island, South Korea, 11-13 October 2005
Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Inversion transduction grammar constraints for mining parallel sentences from quasi-comparable corpora

2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2005, Jeju Island, South Korea, 11-13 October 2005, Code 67122. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 3651, 2005, p. 257-268
Wu, Dekai; Fung, Pascale
Conference paper

NTPC: N-fold templated piped correction

First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing - IJCNLP 2004, Hainan Island, China, 22-24 March 2004, Code 65698. Lecture notes in computer science, v. 3248, 2005, p. 476-486
Wu, Dekai; Ngai, Grace; Carpuat, Marine
Conference paper

Recognizing Paraphrases and Textual Entailment using Inversion Transduction Grammars

Proceeding EMSEE '05 Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Empirical Modeling of Semantic Equivalence and Entailment (ACL-2005) Ann Arbor, MI, Jun 2005, p. 25-30
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Word Sense Disambiguation vs. Statistical Machine Translation

43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2005), Ann Arbor, MI, 25 June 2005, p. 387-394
Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2004 10

A Grammar-Based Chinese to English Speech Translation System for Portable Devices

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH 2004 - ICSLP). Jeju, Korea, 4-8 Oct 2004
Fung, Pascale; Liu, Yi; Yang, Yongsheng; Shen, Yihai; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

A Kernel PCA Method for Superior Word Sense Disambiguation

42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2004). Barcelona, Jul 2004
Wu, Dekai; Su, Weifeng; Carpuat, Marine
Conference paper

An Efficient Algorithm to Induce Minimum Average Lookahead Grammars for Incremental LR Parsing

ACL-2004 Workshop on Incremental Parsing: Bringing Engineering and Cognition Together. Barcelona, Jul 2004, p. 34-41
Wu, Dekai; Shen, Yihai
Conference paper

Augmenting Ensemble Classification for Word Sense Disambiguation with a Kernel PCA Model

Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text (Senseval-3). ACL-2004 Workshop. Barcelona, 25-26 Jul 2004
Carpuat, Marine; Su, Weifeng; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Joining forces to resolve lexical ambiguity: East meets West in Barcelona

Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text (Senseval-3). ACL-2004 Workshop. Barcelona, Spain, 25-26 Jul 2004
Wicentowski, Richard; Ngai, Grace; Wu, Dekai; Carpuat, Marine; Thomforde, Emily; Packel, Adrian
Conference paper

Raising the Bar: Stacked Conservative Error Correction Beyond Boosting

Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2004) Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004
Wu, Dekai; Ngai, Grace; Carpuat, Marine
Conference paper

Semantic Role Labeling with Boosting, SVMs, Maximum Entropy, SNOW, and Decision Lists

Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text (Senseval-3). ACL-2004 Workshop. Barcelona, 25-26 Jul 2004
Ngai, Grace; Wu, Dekai; Carpuat, Marine; Wang, Chi-Shing; Wang, Chi-Yung
Conference paper

Semi-Supervised Training of a Kernel PCA-Based Model for Word Sense Disambiguation

20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2004). Geneva, Aug 2004
Su, Weifeng; Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Using N-best Lists for Named Entity Recognition from Chinese Speech

Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL-2004) Boston, Massachusetts, 2-7 May 2004
Zhai, Lu-Feng; Fung, Pascale; Schwartz, Richard; Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Why Nitpicking Works: Evidence for Occam's Razor in Error Correctors

20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2004). Geneva, Aug 2004
Wu, Dekai; Ngai, Grace; Carpuat, Marine
Conference paper

2003 2

A Stacked, Voted, Stacked Model for Named Entity Recognition

Computational Natural Language Learning HLT/NAACL-2003, v. 4 (2003) p. 200-203
Wu, Dekai; Ngai, Grace; Carpuat, Marine
Conference paper

The HKUST leading question translation system

MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2002 1

Boosting for Named Entity Recognition

Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2002) Taipei, Taiwan, 31 August -1September 2002 p. 195-198
Wu, Dekai; Ngai, Grace; Carpuat, Marine; Larsen, Jeppe; Yang, Yongsheng
Conference paper

2001 1

The Berkeley UNIX Consultant Project

Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX / by Stephen J. Hegner, Paul Mc Kevitt, Peter Norvig, Robert Wilensky. Dordrecht: Kluwer (May 2001) p. 49-94
Wilensky, Robert; Chin, David N.; Luria, Marc; Martin, James H.; Mayfield, James; Wu, Dekai
Book chapter

2000 5

The Berkeley UNIX consultant project

Artificial Intelligence Review, v. 14, (1-2), 2000, APR, p. 43-88
Wilensky, Robert; Chin, David N.; Luria, Marc; Martin, James H.; Mayfield, James; Wu, Dekai
Article

Alignment

Handbook of Natural Language Processing / Edited by Robert DALE, Hermann MOISL, and Harold SOMERS, New York: Marcel Dekker, July 2000, p. 428-473
Wu, Dekai
Book chapter

Bracketing and aligning words and constituents in parallel text using Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars

Parallel Text Processing:Alignment and Use of Translation Corpora /Edited by Jean VERONIS, Dordrecht: Kluwer, August, 2000, p. 139-168
Wu, Dekai
Book chapter

A comparative study of classification based personal E-mail filtering

4th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2000, Kyoto, Japan, 18-20 April 2000, Code 122199. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 1805, 2000, p. 408-419
Diao, Yanlei; Lu, Hongjun; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

An information-theory-based feature type analysis for the modelling of statistical parsing

38TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE, 2000, p. 472-479
Sui, Zhifang; Zhao, Jun; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

1999 12

Trainable Coarse Bilingual Grammars for Parallel Text Bracketing

Text, Speech and Language Technology, v.11, 1999, p.235-252
Wu, Dekai
Article

Statistical Augmentation of a Chinese Machine-Readable Dictionary

Text, Speech and Language Technology - Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora / Edited by Susan Armstrong, Kenneth Church, Pierre Isabelle, Sandra Manzi, Evelyne TzoukermannKluwer, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, p. 137-155
Fung, Pascale; Wu, Dekai
Book chapter

Trainable Coarse Bilingual Grammars for Parallel Text Bracketing

Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora / Edited by Armstrong, S., Church, K., Isabelle, P., Manzi, S., Tzoukermann, E., Yarowsky, D. Netherlands: Springer, 1999
Wu, Dekai
Book chapter

A probabilistic approach to marker propagation

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference (IJCAI 1989) Detroit, MI, v. 1 (20-25 Aug 1989) p. 574-582
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

An information-based method for selecting feature types for word prediction

Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'99). Budapest, Hungary, 5-9 September 1999
Wu, Dekai; Sui, Zhifang; Zhao, Jun
Conference paper

An information-theoretic empirical analysis of dependency-based feature types for word prediction models

Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora (EMNLP/VLC-99), Maryland, 21-22 June 1999
Wu, Dekai; Zhao, Jun; Sui, Zhifang
Conference paper

Are phrase structured grammars useful in statistical parsing?

NLPRS'99 Workshop (MAL'99) Multi-lingual Information Processing and Asian Language processing, Beijing, China, 5 November 1999
Wong, Aboy Wah Hon; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Automatically merging lexicons that have incompatible part-of-speech categories

Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora (EMNLP/VLC-99). Maryland, 21-22 June 1999
Chan, Daniel Ka-Leung; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Improving n-gram modeling using distance-related unit association maximum entropy language modeling

Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'99). Budapest, Hungary, 5-9 September 1999
Zhang, Shuwu; Singer, Harald; Wu, Dekai; Sagisaka, Yoshinori
Conference paper

Inferring maximally invertible bi-grammars for example-based machine translation

NLPRS'99 Workshop (MAL'99) Multi-lingual Information Processing and Asian Language processing, Beijing, China, 5 November 1999
Carl, Michael; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning a lightweight robust deterministic parser

Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'99). Budapest, Hungary, 5-9 September 1999
Wong, Aboy Wah Hon; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

On the use of right context in sense-disambiguating language models

Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'99). Budapest, Hungary, 5-9 September 1999
Chow, Vincent; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

1998 2

A position statement on Chinese segmentation

The 1st Chinese Language Processing workshop 1998, Philadelphia, USA, 30 June - 2 July 1998
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Machine translation with a stochastic grammatical channel

COLING-ACL'98, Montreal\gAugust 1998 \tProceeding COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics, v. 2 (1998) p. 1408-1415
Wu, Dekai; Wong, Hongsing
Conference paper

1997 4

Stochastic inversion transduction grammars and bilingual parsing of parallel corpora

Computational Linguistics, v. 23, (3), 1997, SEP, p. 377-403
Wu, Dekai
Article

Dealing with Multilinguality in a Spoken Language Query Translator

Proceedings ACL/EACL '97 workshop on spoken language translation, Madrid, Spaing, 7-12 July 1997, p. 40-47
Fung, Pascale; Shi, Bertram E.; Wu, Dekai; Lam, Wai Bun; Wong, Shuen Kong
Conference paper

Structure and performance of a dependency language model

EUROSPEECH'97, 5th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE 20 ON SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY, RHODES, GREECE, 22-25 SEPTEMBER 1997
Chelba, Ciprian; Engle, David; Jelinek, Frederick; Jimenez, Victor; Khudanpur, Sanjeev; Mangu, Lidia; Printz, Harry; Ristad, Eric; Rosenfeld, Ronald; Stolcke, Andreas; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Structure and performance of a dependency language model

EUROSPEECH'97. Rhodes, Greece, September 1997
Chelba, Ciprian; Engle, David; Jelinek, Frederick; Jimenez, Victor; Khudanpur, Sanjeev; Mangu, Lidia; Printz, Harry; Ristad, Eric; Rosenfeld, Ronald; Stolcke, Andreas; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

1996 3

Learning restricted probabilistic link grammars

Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Connectionist, Statistical and Symbolic Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing / v.1040, 1996, p. 173-187
Fong, Eva Wai-man; Wu, Dekai
Book chapter

A polynomial-time algorithm for statistical machine translation

Proceeding ACL '96 Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics, June 1996, p. 152-158
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Parsing Chinese with an almost-context-free grammar

EMNLP-96, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Philadelphia, May 1996
Xia, Xuanyin; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

1995 8

Large-scale automatic extraction of an English-Chinese translation lexicon

Machine Translation, v. 9, (3-4), 1995, p. 285-313
Wu, Dekai; Xia, Xuanyin
Article

An algorithm for simultaneously bracketing parallel texts by aligning words

ACL-95: 33rd Annual Meeting of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics Cambridge, MA, June 1995, p. 244-251
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Coerced Markov Models for Cross-lingual Lexical-Tag Relations

Sixth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Leuven, Belgium, Jul.1995, p. 240-255
Fung, Pascale; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Grammarless extraction of phrasal translation examples from parallel texts

TMI-95, Sixth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Leuven, Belgium, v. 2 (July 1995) p. 354-372
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning restricted probabilistic link grammars

IJCAI-95 Workshop on New Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing, Montreal, Quebec, August 1995
Fong, Evaand; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Stochastic inversion transduction grammars, with application to segmentation, bracketing, and alignment of parallel corpora

IJCAI-95: 14th Intl. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Montreal, August 1995, p. 1328-1335
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Trainable coarse bilingual grammars for parallel text bracketing

WVLC-3: 3rd Annual Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Cambridge, MA, June 1995, p. 69-82
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Using brackets to improve search for statistical machine translation

PACLIC-10, 10th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Hong Kong, 13 December 1995
Wu, Dekai; Ng, Cindy
Conference paper

1994 4

Aligning a parallel English-Chinese corpus statistically with lexical criteria

32nd Annual Meeting of the Association-for-Computational-Linguistics (ACL-94) Las Cruces, NM, 27-30 June 1994, p. 80-87
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Improving Chinese tokenization with linguistic Filters on statistical lexical acquisition

ANLP-94: 4th Conf. on Applied Natural Language Processing, Stuttgart, October 1994, p. 180-181
Wu, Dekai; Fung, Pascale
Conference paper

Learning an English-Chinese lexicon from a parallel corpus

AMTA-94: First Conference of the ASSOCIATION FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION IN THE AMERICAS, Columbia, Maryland, 5-8 October 1994, p. 206-213.
Wu, Dekai; Xia, Xuanyin
Conference paper

Statistical Augmentation of a Chinese Machine-Readable Dictionary

Second Annual Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Kyoto, Aug.1994, p.69-85
Fung, Pascale; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

1993 4

Not all reflexive reasoning is deductive

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, v. 16, (3), 1993, p. 462-463
Hirst, Graeme; Wu, Dekai
Article

An image-schematic system of thematic roles

PACLING-93: 1st Conf. of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics, Vancouver, April 1993, p. 323-332
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

APPROXIMATING MAXIMUM-ENTROPY RATINGS FOR EVIDENTIAL PARSING AND SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION

13th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-93) CHAMBERY, FRANCE, 28 Aug - 3 Sep 1993, v. 1-2 (1993) p. 1290-1296
WU, DEKAI
Conference paper

Estimating probability distributions over hypotheses with variable unification

Proceedings of the 11th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Washington, DC, USA,, 11-15 July 1993, Code 20606, p. 790-795
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

1992 1

Tree matching with recursive distributed representations

AAAI 1992 Workshop on Integrating Neural and Symbolic Processes---The Cognitive Dimension, San Jose, CA, Jul 1992
Stolcke, Andreas; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

1991 2

Active acquisition of user models: Implications for decision-theoretic dialog planning and plan recognition

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, v. 1, (2), 1991, p. 149-172
Wu, Dekai
Article

A continuum of induction methods for learning probability distributions with generalization

13TH ANNUAL CONF OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOC, CHICAGO, IL (CogSci 1991), 7-10 Aug 1991, p. 949-953
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

1990 1

Probabilistic unification-based integration of syntactic and semantic preferences for nominal compounds

Proceeding COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, v. 2 (1990) p. 413-418
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

1988 1

The Berkeley UNIX Consultant Project

Computational Linguistics, v. 14, (3), 1988, p. 35-84
Wilensky, Robert; Chin, David N.; Luria, Marc; Martin, James H.; Mayfield, James; Wu, Dekai
Article

1987 1

Concretion inferences in natural language understanding

GWAI-87 11th German Workshop on Artifical Intelligence, v. 152 (1987) p. 74-83
Wu, Dekai
Article

Conference paper 1

Efficient Bilingual Generalization from Neural Transduction Grammar Induction

Yan, Yuchen; Wu, Dekai; Kumyol, Serkan

Conference paper 2

Handling Ties Correctly and Efficiently in Viterbi Training Using the Viterbi Semiring

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 10792 LNCS, 2018, p. 284-295
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai

SRL for Low Resource Languages Isn't Needed for Semantic SMT

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, May 2018, p. 59-68
Beloucif, Meriem; Wu, Dekai

Conference paper 2

Injecting a Semantic Objective Function into Early Stage Learning of Spoken Language Translation

2016 Conference of the Oriental Chapter of International Committee for Coordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques, O-COCOSDA 2016, May 2017, article number 7919000, p. 141-146
Beloucif, Meriem; Wu, Dekai

Semantically Driven Inversion Transduction Grammar Induction for Early Stage Training of Spoken Language Translation

2016 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2016 - Proceedings, February 2017, article number 7846275, p. 265-272
Beloucif, Meriem; Wu, Dekai

Book 1

Foundations of Text Alignment: Statistical Machine Translation Models From Bitexts to Bigrammars

Wu, Dekai

Conference paper 7

A semantically confidence-weighted ITG induction algorithm

Pre-Conference Proceedings of IJCAI Workshop on Semantic Machine Learning 2016, 2016
Beloucif, Meriem; Wu, Dekai

Driving inversion transduction grammar induction with semantic evaluation

Proceeding of the 5th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2016), Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2016, p. 55-63
Beloucif, Meriem; Wu, Dekai

Generalizing Transduction Grammars to Model Continuous Valued Musical Events

Wu, Dekai

How Blue Can You Get? Learning Structural Relationships for Microtones via Continuous Stochastic Transduction Grammars

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2016, Sony CSL, 2016, p. 286-293
Wu, Dekai

Improving Word Alignment for Low Resource Languages Using English Monolingual SRL

Beloucif, Meriem; Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai

Learning Musical Creativity via Stochastic Transduction Grammars: Combination, Exploration and Transformation

Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (MUME 2016), Jun 2016, Philippe Pasquier, Oliver Bown, Arne Eigenfeldt (Eds.)
Wu, Dekai

Learning Translations for Tagged Words: Extending the Translation Lexicon of an ITG for Low Resource Languages

Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual and Cross-lingual Methods in NLP, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016, p. 55-64
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai

Conference paper 6

Compositional bilingual artificial neural networks for predicting hypermetrical structure among interacting flamenco parts

Wu, Dekai

Freestyle: A Rap Battle Bot that Learns to Improvise

Wu, Dekai; Addanki, Karteek

Improving evaluation and optimization of MT systems against MEANT

Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation / Association for Computational Linguistics. Stroudsburg, USA : Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015, p. 434-441
Lo, Chi Kiu; Dowling, Philipp C.; Wu, Dekai

Improving Semantic SMT via Soft Semantic Role Label Constraints on ITG Alignments

Proceedings of MT Summit XV, v. 1, 2015, p. 333-345
Beloucif, Meriem; Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai

Learning to Rap Battle with Bilingual Recursive Neural Networks

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, v. 2015-January, 2015, p. 2524-2530
Wu, Dekai; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek

Neural Versus Symbolic Rap Battle Bots

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Proceedings of the 41st International Computer Music Conference, ICMC 2015 / Michigan Publishing. Michigan, USA : Michigan Publishing, 2015, p. 210-213
Wu, Dekai; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek

Book 1

Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation

Wu, Dekai; Carpuat, Marine; Carreras, Xavier; Vecchi, Eva Maria

Conference paper 11

Better semantic frame based MT evaluation via inversion transduction grammars

Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014, p. 22-33
Wu, Dekai; Lo, Chi-kiu; Beloucif, Meriem; Saers, Markus

BiMEANT: Integrating Cross-lingual and Monolingual Semantic Frame Similarities in the MEANT Semantic MT Evaluation Metric

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 8791, 2014, p. 82-93
Lo, Chi Kiu; Wu, Dekai

Evaluating Improvised Hip Hop Lyrics - Challenges and Observations

LREC 2014 Proceedings, Editors: Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis. European Language Resources Association, 2014, p. 4616-4623
Addanki, Karteek; Wu, Dekai

Improving MEANT Based Semantically Tuned SMT

Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign, 2014, p. 34-41
Beloucif, Meriem; Lo, Chi Kiu; Wu, Dekai

Learning Music and Language with Stochastic Transduction Grammars

Wu, Dekai

Lexical Access Preference and Constraint Strategies for Improving Multiword Expression Association within Semantic MT Evaluation

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex), Edited by Michael Zock, Reinhard Rapp, Chu-Ren Huang. Association for Computational Linguistics, Dublin City University, 2014, p. 144-153
Wu, Dekai; Lo, Chi-kiu; Saers, Markus

On the reliability and inter-annotator agreement of human semantic MT evaluation via HMEANT

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014, Edited by Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis. European Language Resources Association, 2014, p. 602-607
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai

Ternary Segmentation for Improving Search in Top-down Induction of Segmental ITGs

Proceedings of SSST-8: Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation, Edited by Dekai Wu, Marine Carpuat, Xavier Carreras and Eva Maria Vecchi. Stroudsburg, PA, USA : The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014, p. 86-93
Saers, Markus; Wu, Dekai

The Magic Number 4: Evolutionary Pressures on Semantic Frame Structure

The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference (EVOLANG10), Edited by Erica A Cartmill, Seán Roberts, Heidi Lyn, and Hannah Cornish. Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2014, p. 361-368
Wu, Dekai

Transduction recursive auto-associative memory: Learning bilingual compositional distributed vector representations of inversion transduction grammars

Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014, p. 112-121
Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai

XMEANT: Better Semantic MT Evaluation Without Reference Translations

Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014, v. 2, Jun 2014, p. 765-771
Lo, Chi-kiu; Beloucif, Meriem; Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai

Conference paper 18

Bayesian Induction of Bracketing Inversion Transduction Grammars

Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai

Can Informal Genres Be Better Translated by Tuning on Automatic Semantic Metrics?

Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai

Combining Top-down and Bottom-up Search for Unsupervised Induction of Transduction Grammars

Proceedings of SSST-7: Seventh Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, Editors: Marine Carpuat, Lucia Specia and Dekai Wu. Stroudsburg : The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013, p. 48-57
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai

FREESTYLE: A Challenge-Response System for Hip Hop Lyrics via Unsupervised Induction of Stochastic Transduction Grammars

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, , INTERSPEECH, 2013, p. 3478-3482
Wu, Dekai; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Saers, Markus Sidonius

Human Semantic MT Evaluation with HMEANT for IWSLT 2013

Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2013), Edited by: Joy Ying Zhang. , 2013
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai

Improving Machine Translation by Training Against an Automatic Semantic Frame Based Evaluation Metric

ACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, v. 2, 2013, p. 375-381
Lo, Chi-kiu; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai

Improving machine translation into Chinese by tuning against Chinese MEANT

Lo, Chi-kiu; Beloucif, Meriem; Wu, Dekai

Iterative Rule Segmentation Under Minimum Description Length for Unsupervised Transduction Grammar Induction

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 7978 LNAL, 2013, p. 224-235
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai

Learning Bilingual Categories in Unsupervised Inversion Transduction Grammar Induction

Saers, Markus; Wu, Dekai

Learning to Freestyle: Hip Hop Challenge-Response Induction via Transduction Rule Segmentation

EMNLP 2013 - 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference, 2013, p. 102-112
Wu, Dekai; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Saers, Markus Sidonius; Beloucif, Meriem

MEANT at WMT 2013: A Tunable, Accurate yet Inexpensive Semantic Frame Based MT Evaluation Metric

Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai

Modeling Hip Hop Challenge-Response Lyrics as Machine Translation

Machine Translation Summit XIV: Main Conference Proceedings, Editors: Andy Way, Khalil Sima’an, Mikel L.Forcada, Daniel Grasmick, Heidi Depaetere. , 2013, p. 109-116
Wu, Dekai; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Saers, Markus Sidonius

Proceedings of SSST-7, Seventh Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation

Proceedings of SSST-7, Seventh Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation
Carpuat, Marine; Specia, Lucia; Wu, Dekai

Segmenting vs. Chunking Rules: Unsupervised ITG Induction via Minimum Conditional Description Length

International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP, 2013, p. 584-592
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai

Simultaneous Unsupervised Learning of Flamenco Metrical Structure, Hypermetrical Structure, and Multipart Structural Relations

Proceedings of International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, v. , 2013, p. 155-160
Wu, Dekai

Unsupervised Learning of Bilingual Categories in Inversion Transduction Grammar Induction

Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2013), Edited by: Joy Ying Zhang. , 2013
Saers, Markus; Wu, Dekai

Unsupervised Rhyme Scheme Identification In Hip Hop lyrics Using Hidden Markov Models

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), (7978 LNAI), 2013, p. 39-50
Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai

Unsupervised Transduction Grammar Induction via Minimum Description Length

Second Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (ACL 2013): Proceedings of the Workshop, Stroudsburg : The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013, p. 67-73
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai

Book 2

Proceedings of SSST-6, Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation

Carpuat, Marine; Specia, Lucia; Wu, Dekai

Sixth Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-6): Held in conjunction with ACL 2012, Jeju, Korea, 12 July 2012

Carpuat, Marine; Specia, Lucia; Wu, Dekai

Conference paper 6

Accuracy and robustness in measuring the lexical similarity of semantic role ﬁllers for automatic semantic MT evaluation

Proceedings of the 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2012, 2012, p. 574-581
Tumuluru, Anand Karthik; Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai

From finite-state to inversion transductions: Toward unsupervised bilingual grammar induction

24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of COLING 2012: Technical Papers, Mumbai; India, 8 December 2012 through 15 December 2012; Code 96421, p. 2325-2340
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai

Fully Automatic Semantic MT Evaluation

WMT 2012 Proceedings of 7th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 2012, p. 243-252
Lo, Chi-kiu; Tumuluru, Anand Karthik; Wu, Dekai

LTG vs. ITG Coverage of Cross-Lingual Verb Frame Alternations

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2012 / Edited by Cettolo, Mauro; Federico, Marcello; Specia, Lucia; Way, Andy. Italy : The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), 2012, p. 295-302
Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Lo, Chi-kiu; Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai

Towards a Predicate-Argument Evaluation for MT

Proceedings of SSST-6, Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation, Jeju, South Korea, 12 Jul 2012, p. 30-38
Bojar, Ondřej; Wu, Dekai

Unsupervised vs. supervised weight estimation for semantic MT evaluation metrics

Proceedings of SSST-6, Sixth Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, 2012, p. 49-56
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai

Book 1

Proceedings of SSST-5, Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation

Wu, Dekai; Apidianaki, Marianna; Carpuat, Marine; Specia, Lucia

Conference paper 11

A Radically Simple, Effective Annotation and Alignment Methodology for Semantic Frame Based SMT and MT Evaluation

International Workshop on Using Linguistic Information for Hybrid Machine Translation LIHMT / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona, Spain : Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; SERVIS GRÀFICS COPISTERIA IMATGE, S.L., 2011, p. 58-65
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai

An Evaluation of MT Alignment Baseline Approaches upon Cross-Lingual Plagiarism Detection

Cross-Language !ndian Text Reuse (at FIRE 2011), Mumbai: Dec 2011
Addanki, Karteek; Wu, Dekai

Linear transduction grammars and zipper finite-state transducers

8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2011, Hissar; Bulgaria, September 2011, Code 92943, p. 640-647
Saers, Markus; Wu, Dekai

MEANT: An Inexpensive, High-Accuracy, Semi-Automatic Metric for Evaluating Translation Utility based on Semantic Roles

Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies / Edited by Matsumoto, Yuji; Mihalcea, Rada. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2011, p. 220-229, The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistic: Human Language Technologies (ACL-2011), Portland, Oregon (ACL-HLT 2011) Portland, United States. v.1, 19-24 June 2011, Code 89192, p. 220-229
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai

Mining Parallel Documents Using Low Bandwidth and High Precision CLIR from the Heterogeneous Web

Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Natural. Language Processing / Edited by Wang, Haifeng; Yarowsky, David. Asian Federation of Natural Language Proceesing, 2011, p. 420-428
Shi, Yue Simon; Fung, Pascale; Prochasson, Emmanuel; Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai

On the Expressivity of Linear Transductions

Machine Translation Summit XIII (MT Summit 2011), Xiamen, China, Sep 2011
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai; Quirk, Chris

Principled induction of phrasal bilexica

The 15th International Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2011, Leuven, Belgium, 30-31 May 2011, Code 88744, p. 313-320
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai

Reestimation of Reified Rules in Semiring Parsing and Biparsing

SSST-5, Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (ACL 2011), Portland, Oregon, USA, 23 Jun 2011
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai

SMT versus AI redux: How semantic fames evaluate MT more accurately

Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-11 / Edited by Walsh, Toby. California, USA : AAAI Press / International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, p. 1838-1845
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai

Speech translation with grammar driven probabilistic phrasal bilexica extraction

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2011, 2011, p. 2100-2103
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai; Lo, Chi-kiu; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek

Structured vs. Flat Semantic Role Representations for Machine Translation Evaluation

Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-5) / Edited by Wu, Dekai; Apidianaki, Marianna; Carpuat, Marine; Speecia, Lucia. Madison, USA : The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2011, p. 10-20
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai

Book 1

Fourth Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-4): at the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics 2010, Beijing, China, 28 August 2010

Wu, Dekai

Book chapter 1

Alignment

Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition, CRC Press 2010 /Edited by Nitin Indurkhya, Fred J. Damerau. London: Chapman & Hall, 2010, Part II, Chapter 16, 367-408
Wu, Dekai

Conference paper 5

A Systematic Comparison between Inversion Transduction Grammar and Linear Transduction Grammar for Word Alignment

Fourth Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-4), 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics 2010 (COLING 2010), Beijing, 28 August 2010
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Nivre, Joakim; Wu, Dekai

Evaluating Machine Translation Utility via Semantic Role Labels

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010, 2010, p. 2873-2877
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai

Linear Inversion Transduction Grammar Alignments as a Second Translation Path

Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR (COLING 2010), Uppsala, Sweden, July 2010
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Nivre, Joakim; Wu, Dekai

Semantic vs. Syntactic vs. N-gram Structure for Machine Translation Evaluation

Proceedings of SSST-4 Fourth Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation / Edited by Wu, Dekai. Beijing, China : Chinese Information Processing Society of China, 2010, p. 28-33, COLING 2010 / SIGMT Workshop 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics Beijing, China
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai

Word alignment with stochastic bracketing linear inversion transduction grammar

NAACL HLT 2010 - Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 2-4 June 2010, Code 88929, Pages 341-344
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Nivre, Joakim; Wu, Dekai

Book 1

Proceedings of SSST-3, 3rd Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation

Wu, Dekai; Chiang, David

Conference paper 7

Can semantic role labeling improve SMT?

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2009), Barcelona, Spain, 14-15 May 2009, Code 88743, Pages 218-225
Wu, Dekai; Fung, Pascale

Empirical lower bounds on translation unit error rate for the full class of inversion transduction grammars

11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'09), Paris, France, Oct 7-9 2009, Pages 33-36
Søgaard, Anders; Wu, Dekai

HKUST Statistical Machine Translation Experiments for CWMT 2009

Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai

Improving Phrase-Based Translation via Word Alignments from Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars

Proceeding SSST '09 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-3), Boulder, Colorado, Jun 2009, p. 28-36
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai

Learning Stochastic Bracketing Inversion Transduction Grammars with a Cubic Time Biparsing Algorithm

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'09), Paris, France,, 7-9 October 2009, p. 29-32
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Nivre, Joakim; Wu, Dekai

Semantic Roles for SMT: A Hybrid Two-Pass Model

Proceeding NAACL-Short '09 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics(NAACL HLT 2009), Boulder, Colorado, 2009 June, Pages13-16
Wu, Dekai; Fung, Pascale

Toward machine translation with statistics and syntax and semantics

Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2009), Merano, Italy\g13-17 December 2009, Category numberCFP09SRW-USB, Code 79490, 2009, Article number 5373509, Pages 12-21
Wu, Dekai

Book 2

2nd Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-2): Held in conjunction with ACL-HLT 2008, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 20 June 2008

Chiang, David; Wu, Dekai

Proceedings of SSST-2, Second Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation

Wu, Dekai; Chiang, David

Conference paper 2

Evaluation of Context-Dependent Phrasal Translation Lexicons for Statistical Machine Translation

6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) Marrakech, Morocco (ELRA 2008) 28-30 MAY 2008, 2008, p.3520-3527
Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai

WSD for Semantic SMT: Phrase Sense Disambiguation

Second Symposium on Innovations in Machine Translation Technologies (IMTT-2008), Tokyo, Japan, Mar 2008
Wu, Dekai

Book 1

NAACL-HLT 2007/ AMTA Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST): Held in conjunction with NAACL-HLT 2007, Rochester, New York, USA, 26 April 2007

Wu, Dekai; Chiang, David

Conference paper 5

Context-Dependent Phrasal Translation Lexicons for Statistical Machine Translation

Machine Translation Summit XI (MT Summit XI) Copenhagen, Denmark, 10-14 Sep 2007
Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai

HKUST Statistical Machine Translation Experiments for IWSLT 2007

4th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2007), 2007, p. 84-88
Shen, Yihai; Lo, Chi-kiu; Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai

How Phrase Sense Disambiguation outperforms Word Sense Disambiguation for Statistical Machine Translation

11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 2007), Skövde, Sweden, 7-9 Sep 2007, p. 43-52
CARPUAT, Marine; WU, Dekai

Improving statistical machine translation using word sense disambiguation

EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Prague, Czech Republic, Code 867112007, 28 June 2007, p. 61-72
Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai

Learning Bilingual Semantic Frames: Shallow Semantic Parsing vs. Semantic Role Projection

11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 2007), Skövde, Sweden, 7- Sep 2007, p. 75-84
Fung, Pascale; WU, Zhaojun; YANG, Yongsheng; WU, Dekai

Conference paper 6

A grammatical approach to understanding textual tables using two-dimensional SCFGs

COLING-ACL '06: Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference poster sessions / Association for Computational Linguistics. Stroudsburg, United States : Association for Computational Linguistics, 2006, p. 905-912
Wu, Dekai; Lee, Wing Kuen

Automatic learning of Chinese English semantic structure mapping

2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2006, Proceedings, Palm Beach, Aruba, 10-13 December 2006, Category number06EX1646, Code 729872006, 2006, Article number 4123404, p. 230-233
Fung, Pascale; Wu, Zhaojun; Yang, Yongsheng; Wu, Dekai

Boosting for Chinese Named Entity Recognition

Fifth SIGHAN Workshop of the Special Interest Group for Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN5) at COLING/ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia, Jul 2006
Yu, Xiaofeng; Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai

Inversion transduction grammar coverage of Arabic-English word alignment for tree-structured statistical machine translation

2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2006, Proceedings, Palm Beach, Aruba, 10-13 December 2006, Category number06EX1646, Code 72987, 2006, Article number 4123405, p. 234-237
Wu, Dekai; Carpuat, Marine; Shen, Yihai

Textual entailment recognition using inversion transduction grammars

1st PASCAL Machine Learning Challenges Workshop, MLCW 2005, Southampton, United Kingdom, 11-13 April 2005, Code 67738. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, v. 3944, 2006, p. 299-308
Wu, Dekai

Toward Integrating Word Sense and Entity Disambiguation into Statistical Machine Translation

Third International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2006), Kyoto, Japan, 27-28 Nov 2006
Carpuat, Marine; Shen, Yihai; Yu, Xiaofeng; Wu, Dekai

Article 1

MT model space: Statistical versus compositional versus example-based machine translation

Machine Translation, v. 19, (3), 2005, p. 213-227
Wu, Dekai

Conference paper 5

Evaluating the Word Sense Disambiguation Performance of Statistical Machine Translation

2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2005), Jeju Island, South Korea, 11-13 October 2005
Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai

Inversion transduction grammar constraints for mining parallel sentences from quasi-comparable corpora

2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2005, Jeju Island, South Korea, 11-13 October 2005, Code 67122. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 3651, 2005, p. 257-268
Wu, Dekai; Fung, Pascale

NTPC: N-fold templated piped correction

First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing - IJCNLP 2004, Hainan Island, China, 22-24 March 2004, Code 65698. Lecture notes in computer science, v. 3248, 2005, p. 476-486
Wu, Dekai; Ngai, Grace; Carpuat, Marine

Recognizing Paraphrases and Textual Entailment using Inversion Transduction Grammars

Proceeding EMSEE '05 Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Empirical Modeling of Semantic Equivalence and Entailment (ACL-2005) Ann Arbor, MI, Jun 2005, p. 25-30
Wu, Dekai

Word Sense Disambiguation vs. Statistical Machine Translation

43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2005), Ann Arbor, MI, 25 June 2005, p. 387-394
Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai

Conference paper 10

A Grammar-Based Chinese to English Speech Translation System for Portable Devices

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH 2004 - ICSLP). Jeju, Korea, 4-8 Oct 2004
Fung, Pascale; Liu, Yi; Yang, Yongsheng; Shen, Yihai; Wu, Dekai

A Kernel PCA Method for Superior Word Sense Disambiguation

42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2004). Barcelona, Jul 2004
Wu, Dekai; Su, Weifeng; Carpuat, Marine

An Efficient Algorithm to Induce Minimum Average Lookahead Grammars for Incremental LR Parsing

ACL-2004 Workshop on Incremental Parsing: Bringing Engineering and Cognition Together. Barcelona, Jul 2004, p. 34-41
Wu, Dekai; Shen, Yihai

Augmenting Ensemble Classification for Word Sense Disambiguation with a Kernel PCA Model

Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text (Senseval-3). ACL-2004 Workshop. Barcelona, 25-26 Jul 2004
Carpuat, Marine; Su, Weifeng; Wu, Dekai

Joining forces to resolve lexical ambiguity: East meets West in Barcelona

Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text (Senseval-3). ACL-2004 Workshop. Barcelona, Spain, 25-26 Jul 2004
Wicentowski, Richard; Ngai, Grace; Wu, Dekai; Carpuat, Marine; Thomforde, Emily; Packel, Adrian

Raising the Bar: Stacked Conservative Error Correction Beyond Boosting

Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2004) Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004
Wu, Dekai; Ngai, Grace; Carpuat, Marine

Semantic Role Labeling with Boosting, SVMs, Maximum Entropy, SNOW, and Decision Lists

Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text (Senseval-3). ACL-2004 Workshop. Barcelona, 25-26 Jul 2004
Ngai, Grace; Wu, Dekai; Carpuat, Marine; Wang, Chi-Shing; Wang, Chi-Yung

Semi-Supervised Training of a Kernel PCA-Based Model for Word Sense Disambiguation

20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2004). Geneva, Aug 2004
Su, Weifeng; Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai

Using N-best Lists for Named Entity Recognition from Chinese Speech

Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL-2004) Boston, Massachusetts, 2-7 May 2004
Zhai, Lu-Feng; Fung, Pascale; Schwartz, Richard; Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai

Why Nitpicking Works: Evidence for Occam's Razor in Error Correctors

20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2004). Geneva, Aug 2004
Wu, Dekai; Ngai, Grace; Carpuat, Marine

Conference paper 2

A Stacked, Voted, Stacked Model for Named Entity Recognition

Computational Natural Language Learning HLT/NAACL-2003, v. 4 (2003) p. 200-203
Wu, Dekai; Ngai, Grace; Carpuat, Marine

The HKUST leading question translation system

MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003
Wu, Dekai

Conference paper 1

Boosting for Named Entity Recognition

Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2002) Taipei, Taiwan, 31 August -1September 2002 p. 195-198
Wu, Dekai; Ngai, Grace; Carpuat, Marine; Larsen, Jeppe; Yang, Yongsheng

Book chapter 1

The Berkeley UNIX Consultant Project

Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX / by Stephen J. Hegner, Paul Mc Kevitt, Peter Norvig, Robert Wilensky. Dordrecht: Kluwer (May 2001) p. 49-94
Wilensky, Robert; Chin, David N.; Luria, Marc; Martin, James H.; Mayfield, James; Wu, Dekai

Article 1

The Berkeley UNIX consultant project

Artificial Intelligence Review, v. 14, (1-2), 2000, APR, p. 43-88
Wilensky, Robert; Chin, David N.; Luria, Marc; Martin, James H.; Mayfield, James; Wu, Dekai

Book chapter 2

Alignment

Handbook of Natural Language Processing / Edited by Robert DALE, Hermann MOISL, and Harold SOMERS, New York: Marcel Dekker, July 2000, p. 428-473
Wu, Dekai

Bracketing and aligning words and constituents in parallel text using Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars

Parallel Text Processing:Alignment and Use of Translation Corpora /Edited by Jean VERONIS, Dordrecht: Kluwer, August, 2000, p. 139-168
Wu, Dekai

Conference paper 2

A comparative study of classification based personal E-mail filtering

4th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2000, Kyoto, Japan, 18-20 April 2000, Code 122199. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 1805, 2000, p. 408-419
Diao, Yanlei; Lu, Hongjun; Wu, Dekai

An information-theory-based feature type analysis for the modelling of statistical parsing

38TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE, 2000, p. 472-479
Sui, Zhifang; Zhao, Jun; Wu, Dekai

Article 1

Trainable Coarse Bilingual Grammars for Parallel Text Bracketing

Text, Speech and Language Technology, v.11, 1999, p.235-252
Wu, Dekai

Book chapter 2

Statistical Augmentation of a Chinese Machine-Readable Dictionary

Text, Speech and Language Technology - Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora / Edited by Susan Armstrong, Kenneth Church, Pierre Isabelle, Sandra Manzi, Evelyne TzoukermannKluwer, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, p. 137-155
Fung, Pascale; Wu, Dekai

Trainable Coarse Bilingual Grammars for Parallel Text Bracketing

Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora / Edited by Armstrong, S., Church, K., Isabelle, P., Manzi, S., Tzoukermann, E., Yarowsky, D. Netherlands: Springer, 1999
Wu, Dekai

Conference paper 9

A probabilistic approach to marker propagation

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference (IJCAI 1989) Detroit, MI, v. 1 (20-25 Aug 1989) p. 574-582
Wu, Dekai

An information-based method for selecting feature types for word prediction

Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'99). Budapest, Hungary, 5-9 September 1999
Wu, Dekai; Sui, Zhifang; Zhao, Jun

An information-theoretic empirical analysis of dependency-based feature types for word prediction models

Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora (EMNLP/VLC-99), Maryland, 21-22 June 1999
Wu, Dekai; Zhao, Jun; Sui, Zhifang

Are phrase structured grammars useful in statistical parsing?

NLPRS'99 Workshop (MAL'99) Multi-lingual Information Processing and Asian Language processing, Beijing, China, 5 November 1999
Wong, Aboy Wah Hon; Wu, Dekai

Automatically merging lexicons that have incompatible part-of-speech categories

Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora (EMNLP/VLC-99). Maryland, 21-22 June 1999
Chan, Daniel Ka-Leung; Wu, Dekai

Improving n-gram modeling using distance-related unit association maximum entropy language modeling

Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'99). Budapest, Hungary, 5-9 September 1999
Zhang, Shuwu; Singer, Harald; Wu, Dekai; Sagisaka, Yoshinori

Inferring maximally invertible bi-grammars for example-based machine translation

NLPRS'99 Workshop (MAL'99) Multi-lingual Information Processing and Asian Language processing, Beijing, China, 5 November 1999
Carl, Michael; Wu, Dekai

Learning a lightweight robust deterministic parser

Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'99). Budapest, Hungary, 5-9 September 1999
Wong, Aboy Wah Hon; Wu, Dekai

On the use of right context in sense-disambiguating language models

Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'99). Budapest, Hungary, 5-9 September 1999
Chow, Vincent; Wu, Dekai

Conference paper 2

A position statement on Chinese segmentation

The 1st Chinese Language Processing workshop 1998, Philadelphia, USA, 30 June - 2 July 1998
Wu, Dekai

Machine translation with a stochastic grammatical channel

COLING-ACL'98, Montreal\gAugust 1998 \tProceeding COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics, v. 2 (1998) p. 1408-1415
Wu, Dekai; Wong, Hongsing

Article 1

Stochastic inversion transduction grammars and bilingual parsing of parallel corpora

Computational Linguistics, v. 23, (3), 1997, SEP, p. 377-403
Wu, Dekai

Conference paper 3

Dealing with Multilinguality in a Spoken Language Query Translator

Proceedings ACL/EACL '97 workshop on spoken language translation, Madrid, Spaing, 7-12 July 1997, p. 40-47
Fung, Pascale; Shi, Bertram E.; Wu, Dekai; Lam, Wai Bun; Wong, Shuen Kong

Structure and performance of a dependency language model

EUROSPEECH'97, 5th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE 20 ON SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY, RHODES, GREECE, 22-25 SEPTEMBER 1997
Chelba, Ciprian; Engle, David; Jelinek, Frederick; Jimenez, Victor; Khudanpur, Sanjeev; Mangu, Lidia; Printz, Harry; Ristad, Eric; Rosenfeld, Ronald; Stolcke, Andreas; Wu, Dekai

Structure and performance of a dependency language model

EUROSPEECH'97. Rhodes, Greece, September 1997
Chelba, Ciprian; Engle, David; Jelinek, Frederick; Jimenez, Victor; Khudanpur, Sanjeev; Mangu, Lidia; Printz, Harry; Ristad, Eric; Rosenfeld, Ronald; Stolcke, Andreas; Wu, Dekai

Book chapter 1

Learning restricted probabilistic link grammars

Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Connectionist, Statistical and Symbolic Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing / v.1040, 1996, p. 173-187
Fong, Eva Wai-man; Wu, Dekai

Conference paper 2

A polynomial-time algorithm for statistical machine translation

Proceeding ACL '96 Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics, June 1996, p. 152-158
Wu, Dekai

Parsing Chinese with an almost-context-free grammar

EMNLP-96, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Philadelphia, May 1996
Xia, Xuanyin; Wu, Dekai

Article 1

Large-scale automatic extraction of an English-Chinese translation lexicon

Machine Translation, v. 9, (3-4), 1995, p. 285-313
Wu, Dekai; Xia, Xuanyin

Conference paper 7

An algorithm for simultaneously bracketing parallel texts by aligning words

ACL-95: 33rd Annual Meeting of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics Cambridge, MA, June 1995, p. 244-251
Wu, Dekai

Coerced Markov Models for Cross-lingual Lexical-Tag Relations

Sixth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Leuven, Belgium, Jul.1995, p. 240-255
Fung, Pascale; Wu, Dekai

Grammarless extraction of phrasal translation examples from parallel texts

TMI-95, Sixth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Leuven, Belgium, v. 2 (July 1995) p. 354-372
Wu, Dekai

Learning restricted probabilistic link grammars

IJCAI-95 Workshop on New Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing, Montreal, Quebec, August 1995
Fong, Evaand; Wu, Dekai

Stochastic inversion transduction grammars, with application to segmentation, bracketing, and alignment of parallel corpora

IJCAI-95: 14th Intl. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Montreal, August 1995, p. 1328-1335
Wu, Dekai

Trainable coarse bilingual grammars for parallel text bracketing

WVLC-3: 3rd Annual Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Cambridge, MA, June 1995, p. 69-82
Wu, Dekai

Using brackets to improve search for statistical machine translation

PACLIC-10, 10th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Hong Kong, 13 December 1995
Wu, Dekai; Ng, Cindy

Conference paper 4

Aligning a parallel English-Chinese corpus statistically with lexical criteria

32nd Annual Meeting of the Association-for-Computational-Linguistics (ACL-94) Las Cruces, NM, 27-30 June 1994, p. 80-87
Wu, Dekai

Improving Chinese tokenization with linguistic Filters on statistical lexical acquisition

ANLP-94: 4th Conf. on Applied Natural Language Processing, Stuttgart, October 1994, p. 180-181
Wu, Dekai; Fung, Pascale

Learning an English-Chinese lexicon from a parallel corpus

AMTA-94: First Conference of the ASSOCIATION FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION IN THE AMERICAS, Columbia, Maryland, 5-8 October 1994, p. 206-213.
Wu, Dekai; Xia, Xuanyin

Statistical Augmentation of a Chinese Machine-Readable Dictionary

Second Annual Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Kyoto, Aug.1994, p.69-85
Fung, Pascale; Wu, Dekai

Article 1

Not all reflexive reasoning is deductive

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, v. 16, (3), 1993, p. 462-463
Hirst, Graeme; Wu, Dekai

Conference paper 3

An image-schematic system of thematic roles

PACLING-93: 1st Conf. of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics, Vancouver, April 1993, p. 323-332
Wu, Dekai

APPROXIMATING MAXIMUM-ENTROPY RATINGS FOR EVIDENTIAL PARSING AND SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION

13th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-93) CHAMBERY, FRANCE, 28 Aug - 3 Sep 1993, v. 1-2 (1993) p. 1290-1296
WU, DEKAI

Estimating probability distributions over hypotheses with variable unification

Proceedings of the 11th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Washington, DC, USA,, 11-15 July 1993, Code 20606, p. 790-795
Wu, Dekai

Conference paper 1

Tree matching with recursive distributed representations

AAAI 1992 Workshop on Integrating Neural and Symbolic Processes---The Cognitive Dimension, San Jose, CA, Jul 1992
Stolcke, Andreas; Wu, Dekai

Article 1

Active acquisition of user models: Implications for decision-theoretic dialog planning and plan recognition

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, v. 1, (2), 1991, p. 149-172
Wu, Dekai

Conference paper 1

A continuum of induction methods for learning probability distributions with generalization

13TH ANNUAL CONF OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOC, CHICAGO, IL (CogSci 1991), 7-10 Aug 1991, p. 949-953
Wu, Dekai

Conference paper 1

Probabilistic unification-based integration of syntactic and semantic preferences for nominal compounds

Proceeding COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, v. 2 (1990) p. 413-418
Wu, Dekai

Article 1

The Berkeley UNIX Consultant Project

Computational Linguistics, v. 14, (3), 1988, p. 35-84
Wilensky, Robert; Chin, David N.; Luria, Marc; Martin, James H.; Mayfield, James; Wu, Dekai

Article 1

Concretion inferences in natural language understanding

GWAI-87 11th German Workshop on Artifical Intelligence, v. 152 (1987) p. 74-83
Wu, Dekai

2018 2

Handling Ties Correctly and Efficiently in Viterbi Training Using the Viterbi Semiring

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 10792 LNCS, 2018, p. 284-295
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

SRL for Low Resource Languages Isn't Needed for Semantic SMT

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, May 2018, p. 59-68
Beloucif, Meriem; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2017 2

Injecting a Semantic Objective Function into Early Stage Learning of Spoken Language Translation

2016 Conference of the Oriental Chapter of International Committee for Coordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques, O-COCOSDA 2016, May 2017, article number 7919000, p. 141-146
Beloucif, Meriem; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Semantically Driven Inversion Transduction Grammar Induction for Early Stage Training of Spoken Language Translation

2016 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2016 - Proceedings, February 2017, article number 7846275, p. 265-272
Beloucif, Meriem; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2016 8

Foundations of Text Alignment: Statistical Machine Translation Models From Bitexts to Bigrammars

Wu, Dekai
Book

A semantically confidence-weighted ITG induction algorithm

Pre-Conference Proceedings of IJCAI Workshop on Semantic Machine Learning 2016, 2016
Beloucif, Meriem; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Driving inversion transduction grammar induction with semantic evaluation

Proceeding of the 5th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2016), Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2016, p. 55-63
Beloucif, Meriem; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Generalizing Transduction Grammars to Model Continuous Valued Musical Events

Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

How Blue Can You Get? Learning Structural Relationships for Microtones via Continuous Stochastic Transduction Grammars

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2016, Sony CSL, 2016, p. 286-293
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Improving Word Alignment for Low Resource Languages Using English Monolingual SRL

Beloucif, Meriem; Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning Musical Creativity via Stochastic Transduction Grammars: Combination, Exploration and Transformation

Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (MUME 2016), Jun 2016, Philippe Pasquier, Oliver Bown, Arne Eigenfeldt (Eds.)
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning Translations for Tagged Words: Extending the Translation Lexicon of an ITG for Low Resource Languages

Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual and Cross-lingual Methods in NLP, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016, p. 55-64
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2015 6

Compositional bilingual artificial neural networks for predicting hypermetrical structure among interacting flamenco parts

Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Freestyle: A Rap Battle Bot that Learns to Improvise

Wu, Dekai; Addanki, Karteek
Conference paper

Improving evaluation and optimization of MT systems against MEANT

Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation / Association for Computational Linguistics. Stroudsburg, USA : Association for Computational Linguistics, 2015, p. 434-441
Lo, Chi Kiu; Dowling, Philipp C.; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Improving Semantic SMT via Soft Semantic Role Label Constraints on ITG Alignments

Proceedings of MT Summit XV, v. 1, 2015, p. 333-345
Beloucif, Meriem; Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning to Rap Battle with Bilingual Recursive Neural Networks

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, v. 2015-January, 2015, p. 2524-2530
Wu, Dekai; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek
Conference paper

Neural Versus Symbolic Rap Battle Bots

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Proceedings of the 41st International Computer Music Conference, ICMC 2015 / Michigan Publishing. Michigan, USA : Michigan Publishing, 2015, p. 210-213
Wu, Dekai; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek
Conference paper

2014 12

Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation

Wu, Dekai; Carpuat, Marine; Carreras, Xavier; Vecchi, Eva Maria
Book

Better semantic frame based MT evaluation via inversion transduction grammars

Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014, p. 22-33
Wu, Dekai; Lo, Chi-kiu; Beloucif, Meriem; Saers, Markus
Conference paper

BiMEANT: Integrating Cross-lingual and Monolingual Semantic Frame Similarities in the MEANT Semantic MT Evaluation Metric

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 8791, 2014, p. 82-93
Lo, Chi Kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Evaluating Improvised Hip Hop Lyrics - Challenges and Observations

LREC 2014 Proceedings, Editors: Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis. European Language Resources Association, 2014, p. 4616-4623
Addanki, Karteek; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Improving MEANT Based Semantically Tuned SMT

Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign, 2014, p. 34-41
Beloucif, Meriem; Lo, Chi Kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning Music and Language with Stochastic Transduction Grammars

Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Lexical Access Preference and Constraint Strategies for Improving Multiword Expression Association within Semantic MT Evaluation

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex), Edited by Michael Zock, Reinhard Rapp, Chu-Ren Huang. Association for Computational Linguistics, Dublin City University, 2014, p. 144-153
Wu, Dekai; Lo, Chi-kiu; Saers, Markus
Conference paper

On the reliability and inter-annotator agreement of human semantic MT evaluation via HMEANT

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2014, Edited by Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis. European Language Resources Association, 2014, p. 602-607
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Ternary Segmentation for Improving Search in Top-down Induction of Segmental ITGs

Proceedings of SSST-8: Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation, Edited by Dekai Wu, Marine Carpuat, Xavier Carreras and Eva Maria Vecchi. Stroudsburg, PA, USA : The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014, p. 86-93
Saers, Markus; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

The Magic Number 4: Evolutionary Pressures on Semantic Frame Structure

The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference (EVOLANG10), Edited by Erica A Cartmill, Seán Roberts, Heidi Lyn, and Hannah Cornish. Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2014, p. 361-368
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Transduction recursive auto-associative memory: Learning bilingual compositional distributed vector representations of inversion transduction grammars

Proceedings of SSST-8, Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014, p. 112-121
Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

XMEANT: Better Semantic MT Evaluation Without Reference Translations

Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014, v. 2, Jun 2014, p. 765-771
Lo, Chi-kiu; Beloucif, Meriem; Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2013 18

Bayesian Induction of Bracketing Inversion Transduction Grammars

Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Can Informal Genres Be Better Translated by Tuning on Automatic Semantic Metrics?

Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Combining Top-down and Bottom-up Search for Unsupervised Induction of Transduction Grammars

Proceedings of SSST-7: Seventh Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, Editors: Marine Carpuat, Lucia Specia and Dekai Wu. Stroudsburg : The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013, p. 48-57
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

FREESTYLE: A Challenge-Response System for Hip Hop Lyrics via Unsupervised Induction of Stochastic Transduction Grammars

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, , INTERSPEECH, 2013, p. 3478-3482
Wu, Dekai; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Saers, Markus Sidonius
Conference paper

Human Semantic MT Evaluation with HMEANT for IWSLT 2013

Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2013), Edited by: Joy Ying Zhang. , 2013
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Improving Machine Translation by Training Against an Automatic Semantic Frame Based Evaluation Metric

ACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, v. 2, 2013, p. 375-381
Lo, Chi-kiu; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Improving machine translation into Chinese by tuning against Chinese MEANT

Lo, Chi-kiu; Beloucif, Meriem; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Iterative Rule Segmentation Under Minimum Description Length for Unsupervised Transduction Grammar Induction

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), v. 7978 LNAL, 2013, p. 224-235
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning Bilingual Categories in Unsupervised Inversion Transduction Grammar Induction

Saers, Markus; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning to Freestyle: Hip Hop Challenge-Response Induction via Transduction Rule Segmentation

EMNLP 2013 - 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference, 2013, p. 102-112
Wu, Dekai; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Saers, Markus Sidonius; Beloucif, Meriem
Conference paper

MEANT at WMT 2013: A Tunable, Accurate yet Inexpensive Semantic Frame Based MT Evaluation Metric

Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Modeling Hip Hop Challenge-Response Lyrics as Machine Translation

Machine Translation Summit XIV: Main Conference Proceedings, Editors: Andy Way, Khalil Sima’an, Mikel L.Forcada, Daniel Grasmick, Heidi Depaetere. , 2013, p. 109-116
Wu, Dekai; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Saers, Markus Sidonius
Conference paper

Proceedings of SSST-7, Seventh Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation

Proceedings of SSST-7, Seventh Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation
Carpuat, Marine; Specia, Lucia; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Segmenting vs. Chunking Rules: Unsupervised ITG Induction via Minimum Conditional Description Length

International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP, 2013, p. 584-592
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Simultaneous Unsupervised Learning of Flamenco Metrical Structure, Hypermetrical Structure, and Multipart Structural Relations

Proceedings of International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, v. , 2013, p. 155-160
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Unsupervised Learning of Bilingual Categories in Inversion Transduction Grammar Induction

Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2013), Edited by: Joy Ying Zhang. , 2013
Saers, Markus; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Unsupervised Rhyme Scheme Identification In Hip Hop lyrics Using Hidden Markov Models

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), (7978 LNAI), 2013, p. 39-50
Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Unsupervised Transduction Grammar Induction via Minimum Description Length

Second Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (ACL 2013): Proceedings of the Workshop, Stroudsburg : The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013, p. 67-73
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2012 8

Proceedings of SSST-6, Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation

Carpuat, Marine; Specia, Lucia; Wu, Dekai
Book

Sixth Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-6): Held in conjunction with ACL 2012, Jeju, Korea, 12 July 2012

Carpuat, Marine; Specia, Lucia; Wu, Dekai
Book

Accuracy and robustness in measuring the lexical similarity of semantic role ﬁllers for automatic semantic MT evaluation

Proceedings of the 26th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, PACLIC 2012, 2012, p. 574-581
Tumuluru, Anand Karthik; Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

From finite-state to inversion transductions: Toward unsupervised bilingual grammar induction

24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of COLING 2012: Technical Papers, Mumbai; India, 8 December 2012 through 15 December 2012; Code 96421, p. 2325-2340
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Fully Automatic Semantic MT Evaluation

WMT 2012 Proceedings of 7th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 2012, p. 243-252
Lo, Chi-kiu; Tumuluru, Anand Karthik; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

LTG vs. ITG Coverage of Cross-Lingual Verb Frame Alternations

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2012 / Edited by Cettolo, Mauro; Federico, Marcello; Specia, Lucia; Way, Andy. Italy : The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), 2012, p. 295-302
Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek; Lo, Chi-kiu; Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Towards a Predicate-Argument Evaluation for MT

Proceedings of SSST-6, Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation, Jeju, South Korea, 12 Jul 2012, p. 30-38
Bojar, Ondřej; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Unsupervised vs. supervised weight estimation for semantic MT evaluation metrics

Proceedings of SSST-6, Sixth Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, 2012, p. 49-56
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2011 12

Proceedings of SSST-5, Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation

Wu, Dekai; Apidianaki, Marianna; Carpuat, Marine; Specia, Lucia
Book

A Radically Simple, Effective Annotation and Alignment Methodology for Semantic Frame Based SMT and MT Evaluation

International Workshop on Using Linguistic Information for Hybrid Machine Translation LIHMT / Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona, Spain : Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; SERVIS GRÀFICS COPISTERIA IMATGE, S.L., 2011, p. 58-65
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

An Evaluation of MT Alignment Baseline Approaches upon Cross-Lingual Plagiarism Detection

Cross-Language !ndian Text Reuse (at FIRE 2011), Mumbai: Dec 2011
Addanki, Karteek; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Linear transduction grammars and zipper finite-state transducers

8th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2011, Hissar; Bulgaria, September 2011, Code 92943, p. 640-647
Saers, Markus; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

MEANT: An Inexpensive, High-Accuracy, Semi-Automatic Metric for Evaluating Translation Utility based on Semantic Roles

Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies / Edited by Matsumoto, Yuji; Mihalcea, Rada. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2011, p. 220-229, The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistic: Human Language Technologies (ACL-2011), Portland, Oregon (ACL-HLT 2011) Portland, United States. v.1, 19-24 June 2011, Code 89192, p. 220-229
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Mining Parallel Documents Using Low Bandwidth and High Precision CLIR from the Heterogeneous Web

Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Natural. Language Processing / Edited by Wang, Haifeng; Yarowsky, David. Asian Federation of Natural Language Proceesing, 2011, p. 420-428
Shi, Yue Simon; Fung, Pascale; Prochasson, Emmanuel; Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

On the Expressivity of Linear Transductions

Machine Translation Summit XIII (MT Summit 2011), Xiamen, China, Sep 2011
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai; Quirk, Chris
Conference paper

Principled induction of phrasal bilexica

The 15th International Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2011, Leuven, Belgium, 30-31 May 2011, Code 88744, p. 313-320
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Reestimation of Reified Rules in Semiring Parsing and Biparsing

SSST-5, Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (ACL 2011), Portland, Oregon, USA, 23 Jun 2011
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

SMT versus AI redux: How semantic fames evaluate MT more accurately

Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-11 / Edited by Walsh, Toby. California, USA : AAAI Press / International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 2011, p. 1838-1845
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Speech translation with grammar driven probabilistic phrasal bilexica extraction

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2011, 2011, p. 2100-2103
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai; Lo, Chi-kiu; Addanki, Venkata Sai Karteek
Conference paper

Structured vs. Flat Semantic Role Representations for Machine Translation Evaluation

Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-5) / Edited by Wu, Dekai; Apidianaki, Marianna; Carpuat, Marine; Speecia, Lucia. Madison, USA : The Association for Computational Linguistics, 2011, p. 10-20
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2010 7

Fourth Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-4): at the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics 2010, Beijing, China, 28 August 2010

Wu, Dekai
Book

Alignment

Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition, CRC Press 2010 /Edited by Nitin Indurkhya, Fred J. Damerau. London: Chapman & Hall, 2010, Part II, Chapter 16, 367-408
Wu, Dekai
Book chapter

A Systematic Comparison between Inversion Transduction Grammar and Linear Transduction Grammar for Word Alignment

Fourth Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-4), 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics 2010 (COLING 2010), Beijing, 28 August 2010
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Nivre, Joakim; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Evaluating Machine Translation Utility via Semantic Role Labels

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010, 2010, p. 2873-2877
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Linear Inversion Transduction Grammar Alignments as a Second Translation Path

Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR (COLING 2010), Uppsala, Sweden, July 2010
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Nivre, Joakim; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Semantic vs. Syntactic vs. N-gram Structure for Machine Translation Evaluation

Proceedings of SSST-4 Fourth Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation / Edited by Wu, Dekai. Beijing, China : Chinese Information Processing Society of China, 2010, p. 28-33, COLING 2010 / SIGMT Workshop 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics Beijing, China
Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Word alignment with stochastic bracketing linear inversion transduction grammar

NAACL HLT 2010 - Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 2-4 June 2010, Code 88929, Pages 341-344
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Nivre, Joakim; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2009 8

Proceedings of SSST-3, 3rd Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation

Wu, Dekai; Chiang, David
Book

Can semantic role labeling improve SMT?

Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2009), Barcelona, Spain, 14-15 May 2009, Code 88743, Pages 218-225
Wu, Dekai; Fung, Pascale
Conference paper

Empirical lower bounds on translation unit error rate for the full class of inversion transduction grammars

11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'09), Paris, France, Oct 7-9 2009, Pages 33-36
Søgaard, Anders; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

HKUST Statistical Machine Translation Experiments for CWMT 2009

Lo, Chi-kiu; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Improving Phrase-Based Translation via Word Alignments from Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars

Proceeding SSST '09 Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-3), Boulder, Colorado, Jun 2009, p. 28-36
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning Stochastic Bracketing Inversion Transduction Grammars with a Cubic Time Biparsing Algorithm

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'09), Paris, France,, 7-9 October 2009, p. 29-32
Saers, Markus Sidonius; Nivre, Joakim; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Semantic Roles for SMT: A Hybrid Two-Pass Model

Proceeding NAACL-Short '09 Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics(NAACL HLT 2009), Boulder, Colorado, 2009 June, Pages13-16
Wu, Dekai; Fung, Pascale
Conference paper

Toward machine translation with statistics and syntax and semantics

Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU 2009), Merano, Italy\g13-17 December 2009, Category numberCFP09SRW-USB, Code 79490, 2009, Article number 5373509, Pages 12-21
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2008 4

2nd Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-2): Held in conjunction with ACL-HLT 2008, Columbus, Ohio, USA, 20 June 2008

Chiang, David; Wu, Dekai
Book

Proceedings of SSST-2, Second Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation

Wu, Dekai; Chiang, David
Book

Evaluation of Context-Dependent Phrasal Translation Lexicons for Statistical Machine Translation

6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) Marrakech, Morocco (ELRA 2008) 28-30 MAY 2008, 2008, p.3520-3527
Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

WSD for Semantic SMT: Phrase Sense Disambiguation

Second Symposium on Innovations in Machine Translation Technologies (IMTT-2008), Tokyo, Japan, Mar 2008
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2007 6

NAACL-HLT 2007/ AMTA Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST): Held in conjunction with NAACL-HLT 2007, Rochester, New York, USA, 26 April 2007

Wu, Dekai; Chiang, David
Book

Context-Dependent Phrasal Translation Lexicons for Statistical Machine Translation

Machine Translation Summit XI (MT Summit XI) Copenhagen, Denmark, 10-14 Sep 2007
Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

HKUST Statistical Machine Translation Experiments for IWSLT 2007

4th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2007), 2007, p. 84-88
Shen, Yihai; Lo, Chi-kiu; Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

How Phrase Sense Disambiguation outperforms Word Sense Disambiguation for Statistical Machine Translation

11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 2007), Skövde, Sweden, 7-9 Sep 2007, p. 43-52
CARPUAT, Marine; WU, Dekai
Conference paper

Improving statistical machine translation using word sense disambiguation

EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Prague, Czech Republic, Code 867112007, 28 June 2007, p. 61-72
Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning Bilingual Semantic Frames: Shallow Semantic Parsing vs. Semantic Role Projection

11th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI 2007), Skövde, Sweden, 7- Sep 2007, p. 75-84
Fung, Pascale; WU, Zhaojun; YANG, Yongsheng; WU, Dekai
Conference paper

2006 6

A grammatical approach to understanding textual tables using two-dimensional SCFGs

COLING-ACL '06: Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference poster sessions / Association for Computational Linguistics. Stroudsburg, United States : Association for Computational Linguistics, 2006, p. 905-912
Wu, Dekai; Lee, Wing Kuen
Conference paper

Automatic learning of Chinese English semantic structure mapping

2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2006, Proceedings, Palm Beach, Aruba, 10-13 December 2006, Category number06EX1646, Code 729872006, 2006, Article number 4123404, p. 230-233
Fung, Pascale; Wu, Zhaojun; Yang, Yongsheng; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Boosting for Chinese Named Entity Recognition

Fifth SIGHAN Workshop of the Special Interest Group for Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN5) at COLING/ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia, Jul 2006
Yu, Xiaofeng; Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Inversion transduction grammar coverage of Arabic-English word alignment for tree-structured statistical machine translation

2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2006, Proceedings, Palm Beach, Aruba, 10-13 December 2006, Category number06EX1646, Code 72987, 2006, Article number 4123405, p. 234-237
Wu, Dekai; Carpuat, Marine; Shen, Yihai
Conference paper

Textual entailment recognition using inversion transduction grammars

1st PASCAL Machine Learning Challenges Workshop, MLCW 2005, Southampton, United Kingdom, 11-13 April 2005, Code 67738. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, v. 3944, 2006, p. 299-308
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Toward Integrating Word Sense and Entity Disambiguation into Statistical Machine Translation

Third International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2006), Kyoto, Japan, 27-28 Nov 2006
Carpuat, Marine; Shen, Yihai; Yu, Xiaofeng; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2005 6

MT model space: Statistical versus compositional versus example-based machine translation

Machine Translation, v. 19, (3), 2005, p. 213-227
Wu, Dekai
Article

Evaluating the Word Sense Disambiguation Performance of Statistical Machine Translation

2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP 2005), Jeju Island, South Korea, 11-13 October 2005
Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Inversion transduction grammar constraints for mining parallel sentences from quasi-comparable corpora

2nd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2005, Jeju Island, South Korea, 11-13 October 2005, Code 67122. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 3651, 2005, p. 257-268
Wu, Dekai; Fung, Pascale
Conference paper

NTPC: N-fold templated piped correction

First International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing - IJCNLP 2004, Hainan Island, China, 22-24 March 2004, Code 65698. Lecture notes in computer science, v. 3248, 2005, p. 476-486
Wu, Dekai; Ngai, Grace; Carpuat, Marine
Conference paper

Recognizing Paraphrases and Textual Entailment using Inversion Transduction Grammars

Proceeding EMSEE '05 Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Empirical Modeling of Semantic Equivalence and Entailment (ACL-2005) Ann Arbor, MI, Jun 2005, p. 25-30
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Word Sense Disambiguation vs. Statistical Machine Translation

43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2005), Ann Arbor, MI, 25 June 2005, p. 387-394
Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2004 10

A Grammar-Based Chinese to English Speech Translation System for Portable Devices

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (INTERSPEECH 2004 - ICSLP). Jeju, Korea, 4-8 Oct 2004
Fung, Pascale; Liu, Yi; Yang, Yongsheng; Shen, Yihai; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

A Kernel PCA Method for Superior Word Sense Disambiguation

42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2004). Barcelona, Jul 2004
Wu, Dekai; Su, Weifeng; Carpuat, Marine
Conference paper

An Efficient Algorithm to Induce Minimum Average Lookahead Grammars for Incremental LR Parsing

ACL-2004 Workshop on Incremental Parsing: Bringing Engineering and Cognition Together. Barcelona, Jul 2004, p. 34-41
Wu, Dekai; Shen, Yihai
Conference paper

Augmenting Ensemble Classification for Word Sense Disambiguation with a Kernel PCA Model

Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text (Senseval-3). ACL-2004 Workshop. Barcelona, 25-26 Jul 2004
Carpuat, Marine; Su, Weifeng; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Joining forces to resolve lexical ambiguity: East meets West in Barcelona

Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text (Senseval-3). ACL-2004 Workshop. Barcelona, Spain, 25-26 Jul 2004
Wicentowski, Richard; Ngai, Grace; Wu, Dekai; Carpuat, Marine; Thomforde, Emily; Packel, Adrian
Conference paper

Raising the Bar: Stacked Conservative Error Correction Beyond Boosting

Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2004) Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28 May 2004
Wu, Dekai; Ngai, Grace; Carpuat, Marine
Conference paper

Semantic Role Labeling with Boosting, SVMs, Maximum Entropy, SNOW, and Decision Lists

Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text (Senseval-3). ACL-2004 Workshop. Barcelona, 25-26 Jul 2004
Ngai, Grace; Wu, Dekai; Carpuat, Marine; Wang, Chi-Shing; Wang, Chi-Yung
Conference paper

Semi-Supervised Training of a Kernel PCA-Based Model for Word Sense Disambiguation

20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2004). Geneva, Aug 2004
Su, Weifeng; Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Using N-best Lists for Named Entity Recognition from Chinese Speech

Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT/NAACL-2004) Boston, Massachusetts, 2-7 May 2004
Zhai, Lu-Feng; Fung, Pascale; Schwartz, Richard; Carpuat, Marine; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Why Nitpicking Works: Evidence for Occam's Razor in Error Correctors

20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2004). Geneva, Aug 2004
Wu, Dekai; Ngai, Grace; Carpuat, Marine
Conference paper

2003 2

A Stacked, Voted, Stacked Model for Named Entity Recognition

Computational Natural Language Learning HLT/NAACL-2003, v. 4 (2003) p. 200-203
Wu, Dekai; Ngai, Grace; Carpuat, Marine
Conference paper

The HKUST leading question translation system

MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

2002 1

Boosting for Named Entity Recognition

Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2002) Taipei, Taiwan, 31 August -1September 2002 p. 195-198
Wu, Dekai; Ngai, Grace; Carpuat, Marine; Larsen, Jeppe; Yang, Yongsheng
Conference paper

2001 1

The Berkeley UNIX Consultant Project

Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX / by Stephen J. Hegner, Paul Mc Kevitt, Peter Norvig, Robert Wilensky. Dordrecht: Kluwer (May 2001) p. 49-94
Wilensky, Robert; Chin, David N.; Luria, Marc; Martin, James H.; Mayfield, James; Wu, Dekai
Book chapter

2000 5

The Berkeley UNIX consultant project

Artificial Intelligence Review, v. 14, (1-2), 2000, APR, p. 43-88
Wilensky, Robert; Chin, David N.; Luria, Marc; Martin, James H.; Mayfield, James; Wu, Dekai
Article

Alignment

Handbook of Natural Language Processing / Edited by Robert DALE, Hermann MOISL, and Harold SOMERS, New York: Marcel Dekker, July 2000, p. 428-473
Wu, Dekai
Book chapter

Bracketing and aligning words and constituents in parallel text using Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars

Parallel Text Processing:Alignment and Use of Translation Corpora /Edited by Jean VERONIS, Dordrecht: Kluwer, August, 2000, p. 139-168
Wu, Dekai
Book chapter

A comparative study of classification based personal E-mail filtering

4th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2000, Kyoto, Japan, 18-20 April 2000, Code 122199. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, v. 1805, 2000, p. 408-419
Diao, Yanlei; Lu, Hongjun; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

An information-theory-based feature type analysis for the modelling of statistical parsing

38TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE, 2000, p. 472-479
Sui, Zhifang; Zhao, Jun; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

1999 12

Trainable Coarse Bilingual Grammars for Parallel Text Bracketing

Text, Speech and Language Technology, v.11, 1999, p.235-252
Wu, Dekai
Article

Statistical Augmentation of a Chinese Machine-Readable Dictionary

Text, Speech and Language Technology - Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora / Edited by Susan Armstrong, Kenneth Church, Pierre Isabelle, Sandra Manzi, Evelyne TzoukermannKluwer, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, p. 137-155
Fung, Pascale; Wu, Dekai
Book chapter

Trainable Coarse Bilingual Grammars for Parallel Text Bracketing

Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora / Edited by Armstrong, S., Church, K., Isabelle, P., Manzi, S., Tzoukermann, E., Yarowsky, D. Netherlands: Springer, 1999
Wu, Dekai
Book chapter

A probabilistic approach to marker propagation

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Joint Conference (IJCAI 1989) Detroit, MI, v. 1 (20-25 Aug 1989) p. 574-582
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

An information-based method for selecting feature types for word prediction

Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'99). Budapest, Hungary, 5-9 September 1999
Wu, Dekai; Sui, Zhifang; Zhao, Jun
Conference paper

An information-theoretic empirical analysis of dependency-based feature types for word prediction models

Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora (EMNLP/VLC-99), Maryland, 21-22 June 1999
Wu, Dekai; Zhao, Jun; Sui, Zhifang
Conference paper

Are phrase structured grammars useful in statistical parsing?

NLPRS'99 Workshop (MAL'99) Multi-lingual Information Processing and Asian Language processing, Beijing, China, 5 November 1999
Wong, Aboy Wah Hon; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Automatically merging lexicons that have incompatible part-of-speech categories

Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora (EMNLP/VLC-99). Maryland, 21-22 June 1999
Chan, Daniel Ka-Leung; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Improving n-gram modeling using distance-related unit association maximum entropy language modeling

Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'99). Budapest, Hungary, 5-9 September 1999
Zhang, Shuwu; Singer, Harald; Wu, Dekai; Sagisaka, Yoshinori
Conference paper

Inferring maximally invertible bi-grammars for example-based machine translation

NLPRS'99 Workshop (MAL'99) Multi-lingual Information Processing and Asian Language processing, Beijing, China, 5 November 1999
Carl, Michael; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning a lightweight robust deterministic parser

Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'99). Budapest, Hungary, 5-9 September 1999
Wong, Aboy Wah Hon; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

On the use of right context in sense-disambiguating language models

Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH'99). Budapest, Hungary, 5-9 September 1999
Chow, Vincent; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

1998 2

A position statement on Chinese segmentation

The 1st Chinese Language Processing workshop 1998, Philadelphia, USA, 30 June - 2 July 1998
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Machine translation with a stochastic grammatical channel

COLING-ACL'98, Montreal\gAugust 1998 \tProceeding COLING '98 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Computational linguistics, v. 2 (1998) p. 1408-1415
Wu, Dekai; Wong, Hongsing
Conference paper

1997 4

Stochastic inversion transduction grammars and bilingual parsing of parallel corpora

Computational Linguistics, v. 23, (3), 1997, SEP, p. 377-403
Wu, Dekai
Article

Dealing with Multilinguality in a Spoken Language Query Translator

Proceedings ACL/EACL '97 workshop on spoken language translation, Madrid, Spaing, 7-12 July 1997, p. 40-47
Fung, Pascale; Shi, Bertram E.; Wu, Dekai; Lam, Wai Bun; Wong, Shuen Kong
Conference paper

Structure and performance of a dependency language model

EUROSPEECH'97, 5th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE 20 ON SPEECH COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY, RHODES, GREECE, 22-25 SEPTEMBER 1997
Chelba, Ciprian; Engle, David; Jelinek, Frederick; Jimenez, Victor; Khudanpur, Sanjeev; Mangu, Lidia; Printz, Harry; Ristad, Eric; Rosenfeld, Ronald; Stolcke, Andreas; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Structure and performance of a dependency language model

EUROSPEECH'97. Rhodes, Greece, September 1997
Chelba, Ciprian; Engle, David; Jelinek, Frederick; Jimenez, Victor; Khudanpur, Sanjeev; Mangu, Lidia; Printz, Harry; Ristad, Eric; Rosenfeld, Ronald; Stolcke, Andreas; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

1996 3

Learning restricted probabilistic link grammars

Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Connectionist, Statistical and Symbolic Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing / v.1040, 1996, p. 173-187
Fong, Eva Wai-man; Wu, Dekai
Book chapter

A polynomial-time algorithm for statistical machine translation

Proceeding ACL '96 Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics, June 1996, p. 152-158
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Parsing Chinese with an almost-context-free grammar

EMNLP-96, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Philadelphia, May 1996
Xia, Xuanyin; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

1995 8

Large-scale automatic extraction of an English-Chinese translation lexicon

Machine Translation, v. 9, (3-4), 1995, p. 285-313
Wu, Dekai; Xia, Xuanyin
Article

An algorithm for simultaneously bracketing parallel texts by aligning words

ACL-95: 33rd Annual Meeting of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics Cambridge, MA, June 1995, p. 244-251
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Coerced Markov Models for Cross-lingual Lexical-Tag Relations

Sixth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Leuven, Belgium, Jul.1995, p. 240-255
Fung, Pascale; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Grammarless extraction of phrasal translation examples from parallel texts

TMI-95, Sixth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Leuven, Belgium, v. 2 (July 1995) p. 354-372
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Learning restricted probabilistic link grammars

IJCAI-95 Workshop on New Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing, Montreal, Quebec, August 1995
Fong, Evaand; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Stochastic inversion transduction grammars, with application to segmentation, bracketing, and alignment of parallel corpora

IJCAI-95: 14th Intl. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence, Montreal, August 1995, p. 1328-1335
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Trainable coarse bilingual grammars for parallel text bracketing

WVLC-3: 3rd Annual Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Cambridge, MA, June 1995, p. 69-82
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Using brackets to improve search for statistical machine translation

PACLIC-10, 10th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, Hong Kong, 13 December 1995
Wu, Dekai; Ng, Cindy
Conference paper

1994 4

Aligning a parallel English-Chinese corpus statistically with lexical criteria

32nd Annual Meeting of the Association-for-Computational-Linguistics (ACL-94) Las Cruces, NM, 27-30 June 1994, p. 80-87
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

Improving Chinese tokenization with linguistic Filters on statistical lexical acquisition

ANLP-94: 4th Conf. on Applied Natural Language Processing, Stuttgart, October 1994, p. 180-181
Wu, Dekai; Fung, Pascale
Conference paper

Learning an English-Chinese lexicon from a parallel corpus

AMTA-94: First Conference of the ASSOCIATION FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION IN THE AMERICAS, Columbia, Maryland, 5-8 October 1994, p. 206-213.
Wu, Dekai; Xia, Xuanyin
Conference paper

Statistical Augmentation of a Chinese Machine-Readable Dictionary

Second Annual Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Kyoto, Aug.1994, p.69-85
Fung, Pascale; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

1993 4

Not all reflexive reasoning is deductive

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, v. 16, (3), 1993, p. 462-463
Hirst, Graeme; Wu, Dekai
Article

An image-schematic system of thematic roles

PACLING-93: 1st Conf. of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics, Vancouver, April 1993, p. 323-332
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

APPROXIMATING MAXIMUM-ENTROPY RATINGS FOR EVIDENTIAL PARSING AND SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION

13th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-93) CHAMBERY, FRANCE, 28 Aug - 3 Sep 1993, v. 1-2 (1993) p. 1290-1296
WU, DEKAI
Conference paper

Estimating probability distributions over hypotheses with variable unification

Proceedings of the 11th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Washington, DC, USA,, 11-15 July 1993, Code 20606, p. 790-795
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

1992 1

Tree matching with recursive distributed representations

AAAI 1992 Workshop on Integrating Neural and Symbolic Processes---The Cognitive Dimension, San Jose, CA, Jul 1992
Stolcke, Andreas; Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

1991 2

Active acquisition of user models: Implications for decision-theoretic dialog planning and plan recognition

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, v. 1, (2), 1991, p. 149-172
Wu, Dekai
Article

A continuum of induction methods for learning probability distributions with generalization

13TH ANNUAL CONF OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOC, CHICAGO, IL (CogSci 1991), 7-10 Aug 1991, p. 949-953
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

1990 1

Probabilistic unification-based integration of syntactic and semantic preferences for nominal compounds

Proceeding COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, v. 2 (1990) p. 413-418
Wu, Dekai
Conference paper

1988 1

The Berkeley UNIX Consultant Project

Computational Linguistics, v. 14, (3), 1988, p. 35-84
Wilensky, Robert; Chin, David N.; Luria, Marc; Martin, James H.; Mayfield, James; Wu, Dekai
Article

1987 1

Concretion inferences in natural language understanding

GWAI-87 11th German Workshop on Artifical Intelligence, v. 152 (1987) p. 74-83
Wu, Dekai
Article

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