Jonathan May

Hello there. This is a text-positive environment, in the style of Prabhakar Ragde's Web space. I, however, make no image promises.

Once upon a time I went to Iceland and France .(Site design by Brian)

When I lived in Boston I went to Italy(but Marco took the pictures back then.)

Marco also took a lot of these pictures of Olympic National Park, but as I haven't had time to make a proper viewing gallery and these are the hi-res images, only a select few may be interested in them.

Seminar

The seminar page can be found here. It is maintained by Steve DeNeefe; email him at if you'd like to give a talk!

Software

Tiburon

Publications

2007

"Syntactic Re-Alignment Models for Machine Translation", (J. May and K. Knight), Poster Proc. EMNLP, 2007. Get paper in pdf. Get paper in PostScript. Get BibTex.
"Bisimulation Minimisation for Weighted Tree Automata", (J. Högberg, A. Maletti, and J. May). Proc. International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (DLT), Lecture Notes in Computer Science v.4588, copyright Springer-Verlag, 2007. Get paper in pdf. Get paper in PostScript Get BibTex. See talk slides.

2006

"Tiburon: A Weighted Tree Automata Toolkit", (J. May and K. Knight), Proc. International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA), Lecture Notes in Computer Science v.4094, copyright Springer-Verlag, 2006. Get paper in pdf. Get paper in PostScript Get BibTex.
"A Better N-Best List: Practical Determinization of Weighted Finite Tree Automata", (J. May and K. Knight), Proc. NAACL-HLT, 2006. Get paper in pdf. Get paper in PostScript. Get BibTex.

2003

"Surprise! What's in a Cebuano or Hindi Name?", (J. May, A. Brunstein, P. Natarajan, R. Weischedel), ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, volume 2, no. 3 (September, 2003). Get paper in pdf. Get BibTex.
"Answer Selection and Confidence Estimation", (J. Xu, A. Licuanan, J. May, S. Miller, R. Weischedel), New Directions in Question Answering, Papers from 2003 AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford University, Stanford, CA AAAI Press, 2003. Get BibTex

2002

"TREC 2002 QA at BBN: Answer Selection and Confidence Estimation", (J. Xu, A. Licuanan, J. May, S. Miller, R. Weischedel), Proc. TREC 2002. Get paper in pdf. Get BibTex.

Non-Publications

2007

"Bisimulation Minimisation of Weighted Tree Automata", (J. Högberg, A. Maletti, and J. May), Technical Report ISI-TR-634 (2007). Get paper in pdf.
"Backward and Forward Bisimulation Minimisation of Tree Automata", (J. Högberg, A. Maletti, and J. May), Technical Report ISI-TR-633 (2007). Get paper in pdf.