Dekai Wu

Orcid: 0000-0001-9833-361X

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  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology


According to our database1, Dekai Wu authored at least 125 papers between 1987 and 2019.

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2019
Efficient Bilingual Generalization from Neural Transduction Grammar Induction.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation, 2019

2018
Handling Ties Correctly and Efficiently in Viterbi Training Using the Viterbi Semiring.
Proceedings of the Language and Automata Theory and Applications, 2018

SRL for low resource languages isn't needed for semantic SMT.
Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 2018

2016
Driving inversion transduction grammar induction with semantic evaluation.
Proceedings of the Fifth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, 2016

Semantically driven inversion transduction grammar induction for early stage training of spoken language translation.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2016

How Blue Can You Get? Learning Structural Relationships for Microtones via Continuous Stochastic Transduction Grammars.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2016

Improving word alignment for low resource languages using English monolingual SRL.
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation, 2016

2015
Improving evaluation and optimization of MT systems against MEANT.
Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 2015

Improving semantic SMT via soft semantic role label constraints on ITG alignmens.
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XV: Papers, 2015

Learning to Rap Battle with Bilingual Recursive Neural Networks.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015

Neural Versus Symbolic Rap Battle Bots.
Proceedings of the Looking Back, 2015

2014
Better Semantic Frame Based MT Evaluation via Inversion Transduction Grammars.
Proceedings of SSST@EMNLP 2014, 2014

Ternary Segmentation for Improving Search in Top-down Induction of Segmental ITGs.
Proceedings of SSST@EMNLP 2014, 2014

Transduction Recursive Auto-Associative Memory: Learning Bilingual Compositional Distributed Vector Representations of Inversion Transduction Grammars.
Proceedings of SSST@EMNLP 2014, 2014

BiMEANT: Integrating Cross-Lingual and Monolingual Semantic Frame Similarities in the MEANT Semantic MT Evaluation Metric.
Proceedings of the Statistical Language and Speech Processing, 2014

On the reliability and inter-annotator agreement of human semantic MT evaluation via HMEANT.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2014

Evaluating Improvised Hip Hop Lyrics - Challenges and Observations.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2014

Improving MEANT based semantically tuned SMT.
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign@IWSLT 2014, 2014

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, 2014

XMEANT: Better semantic MT evaluation without reference translations.
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2014

2013
MEANT at WMT 2013: A Tunable, Accurate yet Inexpensive Semantic Frame Based MT Evaluation Metric.
Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 2013

Combining Top-down and Bottom-up Search for Unsupervised Induction of Transduction Grammars.
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Syntax, 2013

Iterative Rule Segmentation under Minimum Description Length for Unsupervised Transduction Grammar Induction.
Proceedings of the Statistical Language and Speech Processing, 2013

Unsupervised Rhyme Scheme Identification in Hip Hop Lyrics Using Hidden Markov Models.
Proceedings of the Statistical Language and Speech Processing, 2013

Segmenting vs. Chunking Rules: Unsupervised ITG Induction via Minimum Conditional Description Length.
Proceedings of the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, 2013

Can Informal Genres be better Translated by Tuning on Automatic Semantic Metrics?
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XIV: Papers, 2013

Modeling Hip Hop Challenge-Response Lyrics as Machine Translation.
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XIV: Papers, 2013

Unsupervised learning of bilingual categories in inversion transduction grammar induction.
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Papers, 2013

Human semantic MT evaluation with HMEANT for IWSLT 2013.
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign@IWSLT 2013, 2013

Improving machine translation into Chinese by tuning against Chinese MEANT.
Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation: Evaluation Campaign@IWSLT 2013, 2013

Simultaneous Unsupervised Learning of Flamenco Metrical Structure, Hypermetrical Structure, and Multipart Structural Relations.
Proceedings of the 14th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2013

Freestyle: a challenge-response system for hip hop lyrics via unsupervised induction of stochastic transduction grammars.
Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2013, 2013

Bayesian Induction of Bracketing Inversion Transduction Grammars.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2013

Unsupervised Transduction Grammar Induction via Minimum Description Length.
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation, 2013

Learning to Freestyle: Hip Hop Challenge-Response Induction via Transduction Rule Segmentation.
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2013

Improving machine translation by training against an automatic semantic frame based evaluation metric.
Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013

2012
Fully Automatic Semantic MT Evaluation.
Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 2012

Unsupervised vs. supervised weight estimation for semantic MT evaluation metrics.
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Syntax, 2012

Towards a Predicate-Argument Evaluation for MT.
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Syntax, 2012

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, 2012

LTG vs. ITG Coverage of Cross-Lingual Verb Frame Alternations.
Proceedings of the 16th Annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 2012

From Finite-State to Inversion Transductions: Toward Unsupervised Bilingual Grammar Induction.
Proceedings of the COLING 2012, 2012

2011
Reestimation of Reified Rules in Semiring Parsing and Biparsing.
Proceedings of Fifth Workshop on Syntax, 2011

Structured vs. Flat Semantic Role Representations for Machine Translation Evaluation.
Proceedings of Fifth Workshop on Syntax, 2011

Linear Transduction Grammars and Zipper Finite-State Transducers.
Proceedings of the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, 2011

On the Expressivity of Linear Transductions.
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XIII: Papers, 2011

Speech Translation with Grammar Driven Probabilistic Phrasal Bilexica Extraction.
Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2011, 2011

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, 2011

SMT Versus AI Redux: How Semantic Frames Evaluate MT More Accurately.
Proceedings of the IJCAI 2011, 2011

Principled Induction of Phrasal Bilexica.
Proceedings of the 15th Annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 2011

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, 2011

2010
Alignment.
Proceedings of the Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition., 2010

Linear Inversion Transduction Grammar Alignments as a Second Translation Path.
Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR, 2010

A Systematic Comparison between Inversion Transduction Grammar and Linear Transduction Grammar for Word Alignment.
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, 2010

Semantic vs. Syntactic vs. N-gram Structure for Machine Translation Evaluation.
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, 2010

Word Alignment with Stochastic Bracketing Linear Inversion Transduction Grammar.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2010

Evaluating Machine Translation Utility via Semantic Role Labels.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2010

2009
Improving Phrase-Based Translation via Word Alignments from Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars.
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, 2009

Semantic Roles for SMT: A Hybrid Two-Pass Model.
Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings, May 31, 2009

Empirical lower bounds on translation unit error rate for the full class of inversion transduction grammars.
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT-2009), 2009

Learning Stochastic Bracketing Inversion Transduction Grammars with a Cubic Time Biparsing Algorithm.
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT-2009), 2009

Can Semantic Role Labeling Improve SMT?
Proceedings of the 13th Annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, 2009

Toward machine translation with statistics and syntax and semantics.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2009

2008
Evaluation of Context-Dependent Phrasal Translation Lexicons for Statistical Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2008

2007
Learning bilingual semantic frames: shallow semantic parsing vs. semantic role projection.
Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages: Papers, 2007

How phrase sense disambiguation outperforms word sense disambiguation for statistical machine translation.
Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages: Papers, 2007

Context-dependent phrasal translation lexicons for statistical machine translation.
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XI: Papers, 2007

HKUST statistical machine translation experiments for IWSLT 2007.
Proceedings of the 2007 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 2007

Improving Statistical Machine Translation Using Word Sense Disambiguation.
Proceedings of the EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, 2007

2006
Inversion transduction Grammar Coverage of Arabic-English Word Alignment for Tree-Structured Statistical Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2006

Automatic Learning of Chinese English Semantic Structure Mapping.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2006

Toward integrating word sense and entity disambiguation into statistical machine translation.
Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 2006

A Grammatical Approach to Understanding Textual Tables Using Two-Dimensional SCFGs.
Proceedings of the ACL 2006, 2006

Boosting for Chinese Named Entity Recognition.
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, 2006

2005
MT model space: statistical versus compositional versus example-based machine translation.
Mach. Transl., 2005

Textual Entailment Recognition Using Inversion Transduction Grammars.
Proceedings of the Machine Learning Challenges, 2005

Inversion Transduction Grammar Constraints for Mining Parallel Sentences from Quasi-Comparable Corpora.
Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing, 2005

Statistical Machine Translation Part II: Tree-Based SMT.
Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing - IJCNLP 2005, Second International Joint Conference, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, October 11-13, 2005, 2005

Evaluating the Word Sense Disambiguation Performance of Statistical Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing - IJCNLP 2005, Second International Joint Conference, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, October 11-13, 2005, 2005

Recognizing Paraphrases and Textual Entailment Using Inversion Transduction Grammars.
Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Empirical Modeling of Semantic Equivalence and Entailment@ACL 2005, 2005

Word Sense Disambiguation vs. Statistical Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the ACL 2005, 2005

2004
Joining forces to resolve lexical ambiguity: East meets West in Barcelona.
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text, 2004

Semantic role labeling with Boosting, SVMs, Maximum Entropy, SNOW, and Decision Lists.
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text, 2004

Augmenting ensemble classification for Word Sense Disambiguation with a kernel PCA model.
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text, 2004

Using N-best lists for Named Entity Recognition from Chinese Speech.
Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2004: Short Papers, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, May 2-7, 2004, 2004

Raising the Bar: Stacked Conservative Error Correction Beyond Boosting.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2004

A grammar-based Chinese to English speech translation system for portable devices.
Proceedings of the INTERSPEECH 2004, 2004

NTPC: N-fold Templated Piped Correction.
Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing, 2004

Why Nitpicking Works: Evidence for Occam's Razor in Error Correctors.
Proceedings of the COLING 2004, 2004

Semi-supervised training of a Kernel PCA-Based Model for Word Sense Disambiguation.
Proceedings of the COLING 2004, 2004

A Kernel PCA Method for Superior Word Sense Disambiguation.
Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2004

2003
A Stacked, Voted, Stacked Model for Named Entity Recognition.
Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Natural Language Learning, 2003

2002
Boosting for Named Entity Recognition.
Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Natural Language Learning, 2002

2000
The Berkeley UNIX Consultant Project.
Artif. Intell. Rev., 2000

A Comparative Study of Classification Based Personal E-mail Filtering.
Proceedings of the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2000

An Information-Theory-Based Feature Type Analysis for the Modeling of Statistical Parsing.
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2000

1999
Improving n-gram modeling using distance-related unit association maximum entropy language modeling.
Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

An information-based method for selecting feature types for word prediction.
Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

Learning a lightweight robust deterministic parser.
Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

On the use of right context in sense-disambiguating language models.
Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1999

An Information-Theoretic Empirical Analysis of Dependency-Based Feature Types for Word Prediction Models.
Proceedings of the Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora, 1999

Automatically Merging Lexicons that have Incompatible Part-of-Speech Categories.
Proceedings of the Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora, 1999

1998
Machine Translation with a Stochastic Grammatical Channel.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1998

1997
Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars and Bilingual Parsing of Parallel Corpora.
Comput. Linguistics, 1997

Structure and performance of a dependency language model.
Proceedings of the Fifth European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 1997

1996
Parsing Chinese With an Almost-Context-Free Grammar.
Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 1996

Panel: Next steps in MT research.
Proceedings of the Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 1996

A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Statistical Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1996

1995
Using Brackets to Improve Search for Statistical Machine Translation.
Proceedings of the 10th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 1995

Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars, with Application to Segmentation, Bracketing, and Alignment of Parallel Corpora.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1995

Learning restricted probabilistic link grammars.
Proceedings of the Connectionist, 1995

An Algorithm for Simultaneously Bracketing Parallel Texts by Aligning Words.
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1995

Trainable Coarse Bilingual Grammars for Parallel Text Bracketing.
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Very Large Corpora, 1995

1994
Large-scale automatic extraction of an English-Chinese translation lexicon.
Mach. Transl., 1994

Statistical Augmentation of a Chinese Machine-Readable Dictionary.
CoRR, 1994

Improving Chinese Tokenization With Linguistic Filters On Statistical Lexical Acquisition.
Proceedings of the 4th Applied Natural Language Processing Conference, 1994

Learning an English-Chinese Lexicon from a Parallel Corpus.
Proceedings of the First Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 1994

Aligning a Parallel English-Chinese Corpus Statistically with Lexical Criteria.
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 1994

1993
Approximating Maximum-Entropy Ratings for Evidential Parsing and Semantic Interpretation.
Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Chambéry, France, August 28, 1993

Estimating Probability Distributions over Hypotheses with Variable Unification.
Proceedings of the 11th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Washington, 1993

1991
Active Acquisition of User Models: Implications for Decision-Theoretic Dialog Planning and Plan Recognition.
User Model. User Adapt. Interact., 1991

1990
Probabilistic Unification-Based Integration Of Syntactic and Semantic Preferences For Nominal Compounds.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1990

1989
Review of Natural Language Understanding.
AI Mag., 1989

A Probabilistic Approach to Marker Propagation.
Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Detroit, 1989

1987
Concretion Inferences in NAtural Language Understanding.
Proceedings of the GWAI-87, 11th German Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Geseke, Germany, September 28, 1987


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