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Prof. dr. K. (Khalil) Sima'an

Faculteit der Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Informatica
ILLC

Bezoekadres
  • Science Park 900
  • Kamernummer: L6.47
Postadres
  • Postbus 94242
    1090 GE Amsterdam
  • Publicaties

    2018

    • Rios, M., Aziz, W., & Sima'an, K. (2018). Deep Generative Model for Joint Alignment and Word Representation. In M. Walker, H. Ji, & A. Stent (Eds.), NAACL-HLT 2018 : The 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: proceedings of the conference : June 1-June 6, 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana (Vol. 1, pp. 1011-1023). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/N18-1092 [details]

    2017

    • Bastings, J., Titov, I., Aziz, W., Marcheggiani, D., & Sima'an, K. (2017). Graph Convolutional Encoders for Syntax-aware Neural Machine Translation. In M. Palmer, R. Hwa, & S. Riedel (Eds.), The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: proceedings of the conference : EMNLP 2017 : September 9-11, 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark (pp. 1957-1967). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D17-1209 [details]
    • Cuong, H., & Sima'an, K. (2017). A survey of domain adaptation for statistical machine translation. Machine Translation, 31(4), 187-224. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10590-018-9216-8 [details]
    • Cuong, H., & Sima'an, K. (2017). Induction of latent domains in heterogeneous corpora: a case study of word alignment. Machine Translation, 31(4), 225-249. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10590-018-9215-9 [details]
    • Stanojević, M., & Sima'an, K. (2017). Alternative objective functions for training MT evaluation metrics. In R. Barzilay, & M.-Y. Kan (Eds.), The 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: proceedings of the Conference : July 30-August 4, 2017, Vancouver, Canada (Vol. 2, pp. 20-25). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/P17-2004 [details]

    2016

    • Arnoult, S. I., & Sima'an, K. (2016). Factoring Adjunction in Hierarchical Phrase-Based SMT. In Proceedings of the 2nd Deep Machine Translation Workshop
    • Daiber, J., Stanojević, M., & Sima'an, K. (2016). Universal Reordering via Linguistic Typology. In Y. Matsumoto, & R. Prasad (Eds.), Proceedings of COLING 2016: technical papers: the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics : Osaka, Japan, December 11-17 2016 (pp. 3167-3176). The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C/C16/C16-1298 [details]
    • Daiber, J., Stanojević, M., Aziz, W., & Sima'an, K. (2016). Examining the Relationship between Preordering and Word Order Freedom in Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the First Conference on Machine Translation: Berlin, Germany, August 11-12, 2016 (Vol. 1, pp. 118-130). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W16-2213 [details]
    • Schulz, P., Aziz, W., & Sima'an, K. (2016). Word Alignment without NULL words. In K. Erk, & N. A. Smith (Eds.), The 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics : ACL 2016: proceedings of the conference : August 7-12, 2016, Berlin Germany (Vol. 2, pp. 169-174). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/P16-2028 [details]

    2015

    • Arnoult, S. I., & Sima'an, K. (2015). Modelling the Adjunct/Argument Distinction in Hierarchical Phrase-Based SMT. In Proceedings of the 1st Deep Machine Translation Workshop (DMTW 2015) (pp. 2-11). Praha, Czech Republic,.
    • Cuong, H., & Simaan, K. (2015). Latent Domain Word Alignment for Heterogeneous Corpora. In R. Mihalcea, J. Chai, & A. Sarkar (Eds.), NAACL HLT 2015: The 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Proceedings of the Conference : May 31-June 5, 2015, Denver, Colorado, USA (pp. 398-408). The Association for Computational Linguistics. http://aclweb.org/anthology/N/N15/N15-1043.pdf [details]
    • Daiber, J., & Sima'an, K. (2015). Machine Translation with Source-Predicted Target Morphology. In Y. Al-Onaizan, & W. Lewis (Eds.), Proceedings of MT Summit XV. - Vol. 1: MT Researchers' Track: MT Summit XV : October 30-November 3, 2015, Miami, FL, USA (pp. 283-296). Association for Machine Translation in the Americas. http://www.mt-archive.info/15/MTS-2015-Daiber.pdf [details]
    • Daiber, J., & Simaan, K. (2015). Delimiting Morphosyntactic Search Space with Source-Side Reordering Models. In Jan Hajič, & António Branco (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st Deep Machine Translation Workshop (Vol. 1, pp. 29-38). Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Praha, Czech Republic. http://jodaiber.github.io/doc/preordering_spaces.pdf
    • Stanojević, M., & Sima'an, K. (2015). Reordering Grammar induction. In L. Márquez, C. Callison-Burch, & J. Su (Eds.), EMNLP 2015 Lisbon : conference proceedings: September 17-21 : Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp. 44-54). The Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclweb.org/anthology/D/D15/D15-1005.pdf [details]

    2014

    • Arnoult, S., & Sima'an, K. (2014). How Synchronous are Adjuncts in Translation Data? In D. Wu, M. Carpuat, X. Carreras, & E. M. Vecchi (Eds.), Proceedings of SSST-8 : Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation: EMNLP 2014/SIGMT/SIGLEX Workshop : 25 October, 2014, Doha, Qatar (pp. 157-165). Association for Computational Linguistics. http://aclweb.org/anthology/W/W14/W14-4019.pdf [details]
    • Bastings, J., & Sima'an, K. (2014). All Fragments Count in Parser Evaluation. In N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, T. Declerck, H. Loftsson, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, A. Moreno, J. Odijk, & S. Piperidis (Eds.), Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2014: May 26-31, 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland : proceedings (pp. 78-82). European Language Resources Association (ELRA). http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/summaries/376.html [details]
    • Cuong, H., & Sima'an, K. (2014). Latent Domain Phrase-based Models for Adaptation. In A. Moschitti, B. Pang, & W. Daelemans (Eds.), EMNLP 2014: the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods In Natural Language Processing: proceedings of the conference: October 25-29, 2014, Doha, Qatar (pp. 566-576). Association for Computational Linguistics. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D/D14/D14-1062.pdf [details]
    • Cuong, H., & Simaan, K. (2014). Latent Domain Translation Models in Mix-of-Domains Haystack. In J. Tsujii, & J. Hajic (Eds.), COLING 2014: the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: proceedings of COLING 2014 : technical papers: August 23-29, 2014, Dublin, Ireland (pp. 1928-1939). Association for Computational Linguistics. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C14-1182 [details]
    • Deoskar, T., Mylonakis, M., & Sima'an, K. (2014). Learning structural dependencies of words in the Zipfian Tail. Journal of Logic and Computation, 24(2), 433-453. https://doi.org/10.1093/logcom/exs062 [details]
    • Maillette de Buij Wenniger, G., & Sima'an, K. (2014). Bilingual Markov Reordering Labels for Hierarchical SMT. In D. Wu, M. Carpuat, X. Carreras, & E. M. Vecchi (Eds.), Proceedings of SSST-8 : Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation: EMNLP 2014/SIGMT/SIGLEX Workshop : 25 October, 2014, Doha, Qatar (pp. 11-21). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W14/W14-4002.pdf [details]
    • Maillette de Buy Wenniger, G., & Sima'an, K. (2014). Visualization, Search and Analysis of Hierarchical Translation Equivalence in Machine Translation Data. The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, 101(1), 43-54. https://doi.org/10.2478/pralin-2014-0003 [details]
    • Stanojević, M., & Sima'an, K. (2014). BEER: BEtter Evaluation as Ranking. In O. Bojar, C. Buck, C. Federmann, B. Haddow, P. Koehn, C. Monz, M. Post, & L. Specia (Eds.), ACL 2014: Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation: proceedings of the workshop: June 26-27, 2014, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (pp. 414-419). Association for Computational Linguistics. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W14/W14-3354.pdf [details]
    • Stanojević, M., & Sima'an, K. (2014). Evaluating Word Order Recursively over Permutation-Forests. In D. Wu, M. Carpuat, X. Carreras, & E. M. Vecchi (Eds.), Proceedings of SSST-8 : Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation: EMNLP 2014/SIGMT/SIGLEX Workshop : 25 October, 2014, Doha, Qatar (pp. 138-147). Association for Computational Linguistics. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W14/W14-4017.pdf [details]
    • Stanojević, M., & Sima'an, K. (2014). Fitting Sentence Level Translation Evaluation with Many Dense Features. In A. Moschitti, B. Pang, & W. Daelemans (Eds.), EMNLP 2014: the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods In Natural Language Processing: proceedings of the conference: October 25-29, 2014, Doha, Qatar (pp. 202-206). Association for Computational Linguistics. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D/D14/D14-1.pdf [details]

    2013

    • Maillette de Buij Wenniger, G., & Sima'an, K. (2013). A Formal Characterization of Parsing Word Alignments by Synchronous Grammars with Empirical Evidence to the ITG Hypothesis. In M. Carpuat, L. Specia, & D. Wu (Eds.), Proceedings of SSST-7 : Seventh Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation: SIGMT/SIGLEX Workshop : The 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (pp. 58-67). The Association for Computational Linguistics. http://aclweb.org/anthology/W/W13/W13-0807.pdf [details]
    • Maillette de Buij Wenniger, G., & Sima'an, K. (2013). Hierarchical Alignment Decomposition Labels for Hiero Grammar Rules. In M. Carpuat, L. Specia, & D. Wu (Eds.), Proceedings of SSST-7 : Seventh Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation: SIGMT/SIGLEX Workshop : The 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (pp. 19-28). The Association for Computational Linguistics. http://aclweb.org/anthology/W/W13/W13-0803.pdf [details]

    2012

    • Arnoult, S., & Sima'an, K. (2012). Adjunct alignment in translation data with an application to phrase-based statistical machine translation. In M. Cettolo, M. Federico, L. Specia, & A. Way (Eds.), EAMT 2012: proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation: Trento, Italy, May 28th-30th 2012 (pp. 287-294). Fondazione Bruno Kessler. http://www.mt-archive.info/EAMT-2012-Arnoult.pdf [details]
    • Khalilov, M., & Sima'An, K. (2012). Statistical translation after source reordering: Oracles, context-aware models, and empirical analysis. Natural Language Engineering, 18(4), 491-519. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1351324912000162 [details]

    2011

    • Deoskar, T., Mylonakis, M., & Sima'an, K. (2011). Learning Structural Dependencies of Words in the Zipfian Tail. In H. Bunt, J. Nivre, & Ö. Çetinoğlu (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parsing Technologies: IWPT 2011 : October 5-7, 2011, Dublin City University (pp. 80-91). Association for Computational Linguistics. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W11/W11-2911.pdf [details]
    • Hassan, H., Sima'an, K., & Way, A. (2011). Efficient accurate syntactic direct translation models: one tree at a time. Machine Translation, 26(1-2), 121-136. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10590-011-9116-7 [details]
    • Khalilov, M., & Sima'an, K. (2011). Context-sensitive syntactic source-reordering by statistical transduction. In Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP'11): Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 8-13, 2011 (pp. 38-46). Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing. [details]
    • Khalilov, M., & Sima'an, K. (2011). ILLC-UvA translation system for EMNLP-WMT 2011. In 6th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation 2011: (WMT 2011), held at EMNLP 2011: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 30-31 July 2011 (pp. 413-419). Curran. http://www.mt-archive.info/WMT-2011-Khalilov.pdf [details]
    • Mylonakis, M., & Sima'an, K. (2011). Learning Hierarchical Translation Structure with Linguistic Annotations. In Y. Matsumoto, & R. Mihalcea (Eds.), ACL HLT 2011 : The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: proceedings of the conference : 19-24 June, 2011, Portland, Oregon, USA (Vol. 1, pp. 642-652). Association for Computational Linguistics. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P/P11/P11-1065.pdf [details]

    2010

    • Khalilov, M., & Sima'an, K. (2010). A discriminative syntactic model for source permutation via tree transduction. In D. Wu (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-4), Beijing, China (pp. 92-100) http://www.mt-archive.info/SSST-2010-Khalilov.pdf [details]
    • Khalilov, M., & Sima'an, K. (2010). Source reordering using MaxEnt classifiers and supertags. In F. Yvon, & V. Hansen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT'10) (pp. 292-299) http://www.mt-archive.info/EAMT-2010-Khalilov.pdf [details]
    • Khalilov, M., & Sima'an, K. (2010). The ILLC-UvA SMT System for IWSLT 2010. In M. Federico, I. Lane, M. Paul, F. Yvon, & J. Mariani (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT'10): Paris, December 2nd and 3rd, 2010 (pp. 197-203) https://hermessvn.fbk.eu/svn/hermes/open/proceedings/iwslt2010/pdfs/iwslt10_ec_uva-illc.pdf [details]
    • Maillette de Buy Wenniger, G., Khalilov, M., & Sima'an, K. (2010). A toolkit for visualizing the coherence of tree-based reordering with word-alignments. The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, 94, 97-106. https://doi.org/10.2478/v10108-010-0024-4 [details]
    • Mylonakis, M., & Sima'an, K. (2010). Learning probabilistic synchronous CFGs for phrase-based translation. In CoNLL-2010 : Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: proceedings of the conference : 15-16 July 2010, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (pp. 117-125). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1870583 [details]
    • Tsarfaty, R., & Sima'an, K. (2010). Modeling morphosyntactic agreement in constituency-based parsing of modern Hebrew. In Proceedings of the first workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich Languages (SPMRL 2010) at NAACL HLT 2010, Los Angeles, CA (pp. 40-48). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1868771.1868776 [details]

    2009

    • Deoskar, T., Rooth, M., & Sima'an, K. (2009). Smoothing fine-grained PCFG lexicons. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT) (pp. 214-217). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1697236.1697278 [details]
    • Hassan, H., Sima'an, K., & Way, A. (2009). A syntactified direct translation model with linear-time decoding. In Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2009): Volume 3 (pp. 1182-1191). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1699664 [details]
    • Hassan, H., Sima'an, K., & Way, A. (2009). Lexicalized semi-incremental dependency parsing. In Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP 2009), 14-16 September 2009, Borovets, Bulgaria http://doras.dcu.ie/15186/ [details]
    • Tsarfaty, R., Sima'an, K., & Scha, R. (2009). An alternative to head-driven approaches for parsing a (relatively) free word-order language. In Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: a meeting of SIGDAT, a special interest group of ACL : 6-7 August 2009, Singapore, held in conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2009 (Vol. 2, pp. 842-851). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). http://140.116.245.248/ACL-IJCNLP-2009/EMNLP/pdf/EMNLP088.pdf [details]

    2008

    2007

    • Hassan, H., Sima'an, K., & Way, A. (2007). Supertagged Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computional Linguistics (ACL'07) (pp. 288-295). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). [details]
    • Mansour, S., Sima'an, K., & Winter, Y. (2007). Smoothing a Lexicon-based POS tagger for Arabic and Hebrew. In Proceedings of ACL 2007 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages: Common Issues and Resources (pp. 97-103). Prague, Czech Republic: Association for Computational Linguistics. [details]
    • Mylonakis, M., & Sima'an, K. (2007). Translation Lexicon Estimates from Non-Parallel Corpora Pairs. In D. J. E. Dastani, M. (Ed.), Proceedings Belgian-Netherlands AI Conference (BNAIC) (pp. 237-244). Utrecht. [details]
    • Mylonakis, M., Sima'an, K., & Hwa, R. (2007). Unsupervised Estimation for Noisy-Channel Models. ACM International Conference Proceedings Series, 227, 665-672. [details]
    • Tsarfaty, R., & Sima'an, K. (2007). Accurate Unlexicalized Parsing for Modern Hebrew. In V. Matoušek, & P. Mautner (Eds.), Text, Speech and Dialogue: 10th International Conference, TSD 2007, Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 3-7, 2007 : proceedings (pp. 39-47). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 4629), (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74628-7_8 [details]
    • Tsarfaty, R., & Sima'an, K. (2007). Three-Dimensional Parametrization for Parsing Morphologically Rich Languages. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'07). (pp. 156-167). Prague, Czech Republic: Association for Computational Linguistics. [details]

    2006

    • Bar-Haim, R., Sima'an, K., & Winter, Y. (2006). Choosing an Optimal Architecture for Segmentation and POS-Tagging of Modern Hebrew. In Proceedings of ACL 2005 Association for Computational Linguistics. [details]
    • Hassan, H., Hearne, M., Sima'an, K., & Way, A. (2006). Syntactic Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings IEEE/ACL first International Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT) Aruba. [details]
    • Hwa, R., Nichols, C., & Sima'an, K. (2006). Corpus Variations for Translation Lexicon Induction. In Proceedings of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2006) (pp. 74-81). Cambridge, ,USA. [details]
    • Prescher, D. H. J. K., Scha, R. J. H., Sima'an, K., & Zollman, A. (2006). What are Treebank Grammars? In proceedings of the Belgian-Netherlands Artificial Intelligence Conference (BNAIC) Namur, Belgium. [details]

    2007

    • Tsarfaty, R., & Sima'an, K. (2007). Dimensions of Parameterization for Modern Hebrew Statistical Parsing. In Proceedings Bar Ilan Symposium on Artificial Intelligence (BISFAI 2007) Tel Aviv, Israel. [details]

    2006

    • Chiang, D., Diab, R. M., Habash, N., Hwa, R., Levy, R., Rambow, O., & Sima'an, K. (2006). Parsing Arabic Dialects. (The Johns Hopkins Summer Workshop Series on Natural Language Engineering). Baltimore, U.S.A.: Johns Hopkins University. [details]
    • Sima'an, K. (2006). Preface. In The Sixteenth Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (pp. v). (Proceedings of the 16th Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands).
    • Sima'an, K., de Rijke, M., Scha, R. J. H., & van Son, R. J. J. H. (2006). Proceedings of the 16th CLIN. (Proceedings of CLIN). Universiteit van Amsterdam. [details]

    2017

    • Hoàng, C. (2017). Latent domain models for statistical machine translation. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
    • Stanojević , M. (2017). Permutation forests for modeling word order in machine translation. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
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