"Minimally Supervised Morphological Segmentation with Applications to Machine Translation" (J. Riesa and D. Yarowsky), Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), 2006.

"Building an English-Iraqi Arabic Machine Translation System for Spoken Utterances with Limited Resources" (J. Riesa, B. Mohit, K. Knight, M. Marcu), Proceedings of Interspeech - ICSLP, 2006.

• NAACL HLT 2010, Los Angeles, Local Co-Organizer,
  with David Chiang, Ed Hovy, and Jonathan May.
• USC/ISI NL Seminar, Organizer, Fall 2009.
• USC/ISI NLP Reading Group, Organizer, Fall 2008, Spring 2009.
• 2nd Annual ISD Graduate Student Symposium, Co-Organizer,
  with Wes Kerr and Jonathan May.

• USC/ISI Natural Language Group
• USC CREATE