Steve DeNeefe

I'm a graduate student in Computer Science at University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute. I started the program in Fall of 2003, after working as a software developer at ESRI for about seven years. I am interested in using computers for translation between different human languages, and languages in general (both human languages and computer languages). My advisor is Kevin Knight.

Publications:

• Steve DeNeefe, Kevin Knight, Hayward H. Chan. 2005. Interactively Exploring a Machine Translation Model. Interactive Poster at ACL 2005.
• Michel Galley, Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, Steve DeNeefe, Wei Wang, Ignacio Thayer. 2006. Scalable Inference and Training of Context-Rich Syntactic Translation Models. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL-06). July 17-21, 2006. Sydney, Australia.
• Steve DeNeefe, Kevin Knight, Wei Wang, Daniel Marcu. 2007. What Can Syntax-Based MT Learn from Phrase-Based MT? Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL 2007). June 28-30, 2007. Prague, Czech Republic. (slides: PDF, ODF presentation)
• Steve DeNeefe, Ulf Hermjakob, Kevin Knight. 2008. Overcoming Vocabulary Sparsity in MT Using Lattices. Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2008). October 21-25, 2008. Waikiki, Hawaii.
• David Chiang, Steve DeNeefe, Yee Seng Chan, and Hwee Tou Ng. 2008. Decomposability of translation metrics for improved evaluation and efficient algorithms. Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2008). October 25-27, 2008. Waikiki, Hawaii.
• Steve DeNeefe, Kevin Knight. 2009. Synchronous Tree Adjoining Machine Translation. Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2009). August 6-7, 2009. Singapore.

Doctoral Thesis:

• Read my thesis proposal (date proposed: October 30, 2009). I'd love your feedback.

Recent Activities:

• Participation in NIST MT Evaluations 2006 - 2009
• Participation in GALE MT Evaluations 2007 - 2008