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. For example, this is roughly what I
look like. Sometimes I wish I could make a web page like Hal's. While I'm at it
I should mention that I really like Andreas's quote.
I've been working on my CV.
It's never too soon to start working on your submissions for NAACL HLT 2010 in Los
Angeles! For those unfamiliar with the area,
perhaps this
video will be of interest.
I was recently told that students tend to take on the style of their
advisors. I have no idea
what was meant by this.
This
guy has it all figured out. Some day I hope to create a Joint
Dependency Language Model, or maybe the May Tagger.
Seminar
The seminar page can be found here.
It is maintained by Sujith Ravi;
email him at
if you'd like to give a talk!
Software
Tiburon
Publications
2009
"Determinization of Weighted Tree Automata using Factorizations",
(M. Büchse, J. May, and H. Vogler), Proc. FSMNLP,
2009. To appear.
"Backward and Forward Bisimulation Minimization of Tree Automata",
(J. Högberg, A. Maletti, and J. May), Theoretical Computer
Science (2009). In press.
"Applications of Weighted Automata in Natural Language Processing",
(K. Knight and J. May), Handbook of Weighted Automata (M. Droste,
W. Kuich, H. Vogler, eds.), 2009.
2008
"Training Tree Transducers", (J. Graehl and K. Knight and J. May),
Computational Linguistics, volume 34, no. 3 (September,
2008).
Download pdf from MIT Press. Get BibTex.
2007
"Syntactic Re-Alignment Models for Machine Translation", (J. May and
K. Knight), Proc. EMNLP, 2007. Get
paper in pdf. Get paper in
PostScript. Get BibTex.
"Backward and Forward Bisimulation Minimisation of Tree Automata",
(J. Högberg, A. Maletti, and J. May). Proc. International
Conference on on Implementation and Application of
Automata (CIAA), Lecture Notes in
Computer Science v.4783, copyright Springer-Verlag, 2007. 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
2008
"A Weighted Tree Transducer Toolkit for Syntactic Natural Language
Processing Models", (J. May). Thesis Proposal (Qualifying
Exam). Passed July 24, 2008. Committee: Kevin Knight (chair), Daniel
Marcu, David Chiang, David Kempe, Shrikanth Narayanan (outside
member), Fernando Pereira (external member). Get paper in pdf. See slides.
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.
Other Stuff (badly out of date)
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.
