Paul McNamee

According to our database, Paul McNamee authored at least 96 papers between 1998 and 2023.

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2023

Findings of the IWSLT 2023 Evaluation Campaign.

Sweta Agrawal, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Luisa Bentivogli, Ondrej Bojar, Claudia Borg, Marine Carpuat, Roldano Cattoni, Mauro Cettolo, Mingda Chen, William Chen, Khalid Choukri, Alexandra Chronopoulou, Anna Currey, Thierry Declerck, Qianqian Dong, Kevin Duh, Yannick Estève, Marcello Federico, Souhir Gahbiche, Barry Haddow, Benjamin Hsu, Phu Mon Htut, Hirofumi Inaguma, Dávid Javorský, John Judge, Yasumasa Kano, Tom Ko, Rishu Kumar, Pengwei Li, Xutai Ma, Prashant Mathur, Evgeny Matusov, Paul McNamee, John P. McCrae, Kenton Murray, Maria Nadejde, Satoshi Nakamura, Matteo Negri, Ha Nguyen, Jan Niehues, Xing Niu, Atul Kr. Ojha, John E. Ortega, Proyag Pal, Juan Pino, Lonneke van der Plas, Peter Polák, Elijah Rippeth, Elizabeth Salesky, Jiatong Shi, Matthias Sperber, Sebastian Stüker, Katsuhito Sudoh, Yun Tang, Brian Thompson, Kevin Tran, Marco Turchi, Alex Waibel, Mingxuan Wang, Shinji Watanabe, Rodolfo Zevallos

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation, 2023

An Extensive Exploration of Back-Translation in 60 Languages.

Paul McNamee, Kevin Duh

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, 2023

A Hyperparameter Optimization Toolkit for Neural Machine Translation Research.

Xuan Zhang, Kevin Duh, Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, 2023

2022

Non-Neural Baselines Experiments for CLIR at TREC 2022.

Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the Thirty-First Text REtrieval Conference, 2022

Overview of the TREC 2022 NeuCLIR Track.

Dawn J. Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Douglas W. Oard, Luca Soldaini, Eugene Yang

Proceedings of the Thirty-First Text REtrieval Conference, 2022

The Multilingual Microblog Translation Corpus: Improving and Evaluating Translation of User-Generated Text.

Paul McNamee, Kevin Duh

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2022

Findings of the IWSLT 2022 Evaluation Campaign.

Antonios Anastasopoulos, Loïc Barrault, Luisa Bentivogli, Marcely Zanon Boito, Ondrej Bojar, Roldano Cattoni, Anna Currey, Georgiana Dinu, Kevin Duh, Maha Elbayad, Clara Emmanuel, Yannick Estève, Marcello Federico, Christian Federmann, Souhir Gahbiche, Hongyu Gong, Roman Grundkiewicz, Barry Haddow, Benjamin Hsu, Dávid Javorský, Vera Kloudová, Surafel Melaku Lakew, Xutai Ma, Prashant Mathur, Paul McNamee, Kenton Murray, Maria Nadejde, Satoshi Nakamura, Matteo Negri, Jan Niehues, Xing Niu, John Ortega, Juan Miguel Pino, Elizabeth Salesky, Jiatong Shi, Matthias Sperber, Sebastian Stüker, Katsuhito Sudoh, Marco Turchi, Yogesh Virkar, Alexander Waibel, Changhan Wang, Shinji Watanabe

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation, 2022

Transfer Learning Approaches for Building Cross-Language Dense Retrieval Models.

Suraj Nair, Eugene Yang, Dawn J. Lawrie, Kevin Duh, Paul McNamee, Kenton Murray, James Mayfield, Douglas W. Oard

Proceedings of the Advances in Information Retrieval, 2022

2020

Tagging Location Phrases in Text.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, Cash Costello, Caitlyn Bishop, Shelby Anderson

Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020

Benchmarking Neural and Statistical Machine Translation on Low-Resource African Languages.

Kevin Duh, Paul McNamee, Matt Post, Brian Thompson

Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020

Dragonfly: Advances in Non-Speaker Annotation for Low Resource Languages.

Cash Costello, Shelby Anderson, Caitlyn Bishop, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee

Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 2020

2019

JHU System Description for the MADAR Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task.

Tom Lippincott, Pamela Shapiro, Kevin Duh, Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the Fourth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, 2019

Curriculum Learning for Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation.

Xuan Zhang, Pamela Shapiro, Gaurav Kumar, Paul McNamee, Marine Carpuat, Kevin Duh

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2019

Identifying Fluently Inadequate Output in Neural and Statistical Machine Translation.

Marianna J. Martindale, Marine Carpuat, Kevin Duh, Paul McNamee

Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XVII Volume 1: Research Track, 2019

2018

An Empirical Exploration of Curriculum Learning for Neural Machine Translation.

Xuan Zhang, Gaurav Kumar, Huda Khayrallah, Kenton Murray, Jeremy Gwinnup, Marianna J. Martindale, Paul McNamee, Kevin Duh, Marine Carpuat

CoRR, 2018

Freezing Subnetworks to Analyze Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation.

Brian Thompson, Huda Khayrallah, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Arya D. McCarthy, Kevin Duh, Rebecca Marvin, Paul McNamee, Jeremy Gwinnup, Tim Anderson, Philipp Koehn

Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers, 2018

Platforms for Non-speakers Annotating Names in Any Language.

Ying Lin, Cash Costello, Boliang Zhang, Di Lu, Heng Ji, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee

Proceedings of ACL 2018, Melbourne, Australia, July 15-20, 2018, System Demonstrations, 2018

2017

Using of heterogeneous corpora for training of an ASR system.

Jan Trmal, Gaurav Kumar, Vimal Manohar, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Matt Post, Paul McNamee

CoRR, 2017

Overview of TAC-KBP2017 13 Languages Entity Discovery and Linking.

Heng Ji, Xiaoman Pan, Boliang Zhang, Joel Nothman, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Cash Costello

Proceedings of the 2017 Text Analysis Conference, 2017

HLTCOE Participation in TAC KBP 2017: Cold Start and EDL Pilot.

Tim Finin, Dawn J. Lawrie, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Cash Costello

Proceedings of the 2017 Text Analysis Conference, 2017

High Recall Text Classification for Public Health Systematic Review.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, Samantha Y. Rowe, Alexander K. Rowe, Hannah L. Jackson, Megan Baker

Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2017

Language-Independent Named Entity Analysis Using Parallel Projection and Rule-Based Disambiguation.

James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Cash Costello

Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing, 2017

2016

Language and Dialect Discrimination Using Compression-Inspired Language Models.

Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the Third Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects, 2016

HLTCOE Participation in TAC KBP 2016: Cold Start and EDL.

Tim Finin, Dawn J. Lawrie, Jessa Laspesa, Micheal Latman, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the 2016 Text Analysis Conference, 2016

Putting the "human" back in HLT: The importance of human evaluation in assessing the quality and potential uses of translation technology.

Erica Michael, Petra Bradley, Paul McNamee, Matt Post

Proceedings of the 12th Conferences of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: MT Users' Track, 2016

2015

Cross-language person-entity linking from 20 languages.

Dawn J. Lawrie, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Douglas W. Oard

J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2015

Interactive Knowledge Base Population.

Travis Wolfe, Mark Dredze, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Craig Harman, Tim Finin, Benjamin Van Durme

CoRR, 2015

A Domain Independent Approach to Clinical Decision Support.

Paul McNamee

Proceedings of The Twenty-Fourth Text REtrieval Conference, 2015

HLTCOE Participation in TAC KBP 2015: Cold Start and TEDL.

Tim Finin, Dawn J. Lawrie, Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, Douglas W. Oard, Ning Gao, Nanyun Peng, Yiu-Chang Lin, Josh MacKin, Tim Dowd

Proceedings of the 2015 Text Analysis Conference, 2015

2014

HLTCOE at TREC 2014: Microblog and Clinical Decision Support.

Tan Xu, Douglas W. Oard, Paul McNamee

Proceedings of The Twenty-Third Text REtrieval Conference, 2014

A Comparison of the Events and Relations Across ACE, ERE, TAC-KBP, and FrameNet Annotation Standards.

Jacqueline Aguilar, Charley Beller, Paul McNamee, Benjamin Van Durme, Stephanie M. Strassel, Zhiyi Song, Joe Ellis

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on EVENTS: Definition, 2014

KELVIN: Extracting Knowledge from Large Text Collections.

James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Craig Harman, Tim Finin, Dawn J. Lawrie

Proceedings of the 2014 AAAI Fall Symposia, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 13-15, 2014, 2014

2013

Entity Linking: Finding Extracted Entities in a Knowledge Base.

Delip Rao, Paul McNamee, Mark Dredze

Proceedings of the Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization, 2013

Improving Word Similarity by Augmenting PMI with Estimates of Word Polysemy.

Lushan Han, Tim Finin, Paul McNamee, Anupam Joshi, Yelena Yesha

IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 2013

HLTCOE at TREC 2013: Temporal Summarization.

Tan Xu, Douglas W. Oard, Paul McNamee

Proceedings of The Twenty-Second Text REtrieval Conference, 2013

HLTCOE Participation at TAC 2013.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, Tim Finin, Dawn J. Lawrie

Proceedings of the Sixth Text Analysis Conference, 2013

KELVIN: a tool for automated knowledge base construction.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, Tim Finin, Tim Oates, Dawn J. Lawrie, Tan Xu, Douglas W. Oard

Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, 2013

Comparing and Evaluating Semantic Data Automatically Extracted from Text.

Dawn J. Lawrie, Tim Finin, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the 2013 AAAI Fall Symposia, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 15-17, 2013, 2013

2012

The HLTCOE Approach to the TREC 2012 KBA Track.

Brian Kjersten, Paul McNamee

Proceedings of The Twenty-First Text REtrieval Conference, 2012

HLTCOE Participation at TAC 2012: Entity Linking and Cold Start Knowledge Base Construction.

Paul McNamee, Veselin Stoyanov, James Mayfield, Tim Finin, Tim Oates, Tan Xu, Douglas W. Oard, Dawn J. Lawrie

Proceedings of the Fifth Text Analysis Conference, 2012

Creating and Curating a Cross-Language Person-Entity Linking Collection.

Dawn J. Lawrie, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Douglas W. Oard

Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2012

2011

Cross-Language Entity Linking in Maryland during a Hurricane.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, Veselin Stoyanov, Douglas W. Oard, Tan Xu, Wu Ke, David S. Doermann

Proceedings of the Fourth Text Analysis Conference, 2011

Cross-Language Entity Linking.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, Dawn J. Lawrie, Douglas W. Oard, David S. Doermann

Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2011

Building a Cross-Language Entity Linking Collection in Twenty-One Languages.

James Mayfield, Dawn J. Lawrie, Paul McNamee, Douglas W. Oard

Proceedings of the Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation, 2011

2010

HLTCOE Efforts in Entity Linking at TAC KBP 2010.

Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the Third Text Analysis Conference, 2010

Wikipedia and the Web of Confusable Entities: Experience from Entity Linking Query Creation for TAC 2009 Knowledge Base Population.

Heather Simpson, Stephanie M. Strassel, Robert Parker, Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2010

An Evaluation of Technologies for Knowledge Base Population.

Paul McNamee, Hoa Trang Dang, Heather Simpson, Patrick Schone, Stephanie M. Strassel

Proceedings of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2010

Using Syllables As Indexing Terms in Full-Text Information Retrieval.

Kimmo Kettunen, Paul McNamee, Feza Baskaya

Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies - The Baltic Perspective, 2010

Streaming Cross Document Entity Coreference Resolution.

Delip Rao, Paul McNamee, Mark Dredze

Proceedings of the COLING 2010, 2010

Entity Disambiguation for Knowledge Base Population.

Mark Dredze, Paul McNamee, Delip Rao, Adam Gerber, Tim Finin

Proceedings of the COLING 2010, 2010

2009

HLTCOE Approaches to Knowledge Base Population at TAC 2009.

Paul McNamee, Mark Dredze, Adam Gerber, Nikesh Garera, Tim Finin, James Mayfield, Christine D. Piatko, Delip Rao, David Yarowsky, Markus Dreyer

Proceedings of the Second Text Analysis Conference, 2009

Addressing morphological variation in alphabetic languages.

Paul McNamee, Charles K. Nicholas, James Mayfield

Proceedings of the 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2009

Translation Corpus Source and Size in Bilingual Retrieval.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, Charles K. Nicholas

Proceedings of the Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings, May 31, 2009

JHU Experiments in Monolingual Farsi Document Retrieval at CLEF 2009.

Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the Working Notes for CLEF 2009 Workshop co-located with the 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2009) , Corfù, Greece, September 30, 2009

Cross-Document Coreference Resolution: A Key Technology for Learning by Reading.

James Mayfield, David Alexander, Bonnie J. Dorr, Jason Eisner, Tamer Elsayed, Tim Finin, Clayton Fink, Marjorie Freedman, Nikesh Garera, Paul McNamee, Saif M. Mohammad, Douglas W. Oard, Christine D. Piatko, Asad B. Sayeed, Zareen Syed, Ralph M. Weischedel, Tan Xu, David Yarowsky

Proceedings of the Learning by Reading and Learning to Read, 2009

Using Wikitology for Cross-Document Entity Coreference Resolution.

Tim Finin, Zareen Syed, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Christine D. Piatko

Proceedings of the Learning by Reading and Learning to Read, 2009

2008

Don't have a stemmer?: be un+concern+ed.

Paul McNamee, Charles K. Nicholas, James Mayfield

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2008

Learning Named Entity Hyponyms for Question Answering.

Paul McNamee, Rion Snow, Patrick Schone, James Mayfield

Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2008

Retrieval Experiments at Morpho Challenge 2008.

Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the Working Notes for CLEF 2008 Workshop co-located with the 12th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2008) , 2008

JHU Ad Hoc Experiments at CLEF 2008.

Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the Working Notes for CLEF 2008 Workshop co-located with the 12th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2008) , 2008

2007

N-Gram Morphemes for Retrieval.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield

Proceedings of the Working Notes for CLEF 2007 Workshop co-located with the 11th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2007), 2007

2006

QACTIS Enhancements in TREC QA 2006.

Patrick Schone, Gary M. Ciany, R. Cutts, Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, Tom Smith

Proceedings of the Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2006

Improving QA retrieval using document priors.

James Mayfield, Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2006: Proceedings of the 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2006

JHU/APL Ad Hoc Experiments at CLEF 2006.

Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval, 2006

Translation of Multiword Expressions Using Parallel Suffix Arrays.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield

Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers, 2006

2005

QACTIS-based Question Answering at TREC 2005.

Patrick Schone, Gary M. Ciany, R. Cutts, Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, Thomas Smith

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2005

JHU/APL at TREC 2005: QA Retrieval and Robust Tracks.

James Mayfield, Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2005

Translating pieces of words.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2005: Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2005

Exploring New Languages with HAIRCUT at CLEF 2005.

Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the Working Notes for CLEF 2005 Workshop co-located with the 9th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2005), 2005

2004

Character N-Gram Tokenization for European Language Text Retrieval.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield

Inf. Retr., 2004

Question Answering with QACTIS at TREC 2004.

Patrick Schone, T. Bassi, A. Kulman, Gary M. Ciany, Paul McNamee, James Mayfield

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2004

JHU/APL at TREC 2004: Robust and Terabyte Tracks.

Christine D. Piatko, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, R. Scott Cost

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2004

Triangulation without translation.

James Mayfield, Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2004: Proceedings of the 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2004

Cross-Language Retrieval Using HAIRCUT at CLEF 2004.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield

Proceedings of the Multilingual Information Access for Text, 2004

Cross-Language Retrieval Using HAIRCUT for CLEF 2004.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield

Proceedings of the Working Notes for CLEF 2004 Workshop co-located with the 8th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004), 2004

2003

Combining Methods for the TREC 2003 Robust Track.

James Mayfield, Paul McNamee

Proceedings of The Twelfth Text REtrieval Conference, 2003

Single n-gram stemming.

James Mayfield, Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2003: Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, July 28, 2003

Named Entity Recognition using Hundreds of Thousands of Features.

James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Christine D. Piatko

Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Natural Language Learning, 2003

JHU/APL Experiments in Tokenization and Non-Word Translation.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield

Proceedings of the Working Notes for CLEF 2003 Workshop co-located with the 7th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2003), 2003

N-Grams for Translation and Retrieval in CL-SDR.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield

Proceedings of the Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems, 2003

Lattice-based tagging using support vector machines.

James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Christine D. Piatko, Claudia Pearce

Proceedings of the 2003 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2003

2002

JHU/APL at TREC 2002: Experiments in Filtering and Arabic Retrieval.

Paul McNamee, Christine D. Piatko, James Mayfield

Proceedings of The Eleventh Text REtrieval Conference, 2002

Comparing cross-language query expansion techniques by degrading translation resources.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2002

Converting on-line bilingual dictionaries from human-readable to machine-readable form.

James Mayfield, Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the SIGIR 2002: Proceedings of the 25th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2002

Knowledge-light Asian Language Text Retrieval at the NTCIR-3 Workshop.

Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the Third NTCIR Workshop on Research in Information Retrieval, 2002

Entity Extraction without Language-Specific Resources.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield

Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Natural Language Learning, 2002

Scalable Multilingual Information Access.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield

Proceedings of the Working Notes for CLEF 2002 Workshop co-located with the 6th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2002), 2002

2001

JHU/APL at TREC 2001: Experiments in Filtering and in Arabic, Video, and Web Retrieval.

James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Cash Costello, Christine D. Piatko, Amit Banerjee

Proceedings of The Tenth Text REtrieval Conference, 2001

Experiments in the Retrieval of Unsegmented Japanese Text at the NTCIR-2 Workshop.

Paul McNamee

Proceedings of the Third Second Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Chinese & Japanese Text Retrieval and Text Summarization, 2001

JHU/APL Experiments at CLEF: Translation Resources and Score Normalization.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield

Proceedings of the Evaluation of Cross-Language Information Retrieval Systems, 2001

2000

The HAIRCUT System at TREC-9.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, Christine D. Piatko

Proceedings of The Ninth Text REtrieval Conference, 2000

A Language-Independent Approach to European Text Retrieval.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield, Christine D. Piatko

Proceedings of the Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Evaluation, 2000

A Language-Independent Approach to European Text Retrieval.

Paul McNamee, James Mayfield

Proceedings of the Working Notes for CLEF 2000 Workshop co-located with the 4th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2000), 2000

1999

The JHU/APL HAIRCUT System at TREC-8.

James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Christine D. Piatko

Proceedings of The Eighth Text REtrieval Conference, 1999

1998

Developing a Tool for Memoizing Functions in C++ (C++ Toolbox).

Paul McNamee, Marty Hall

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 1998

Indexing Using Both N-Grams and Words.

James Mayfield, Paul McNamee

Proceedings of The Seventh Text REtrieval Conference, 1998