Jonny Weese

PhD Candidate, Johns Hopkins University

About

The banner at the top says most of the relevant information already. I'm a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at JHU. My main research interest is in statistical machine translation, especially parsing-based methods that include syntactic information.

I am also interested in formal semantics, and, I suppose, pragmatics. I'm hoping it can lead to further improvements in MT.

The lab I work in is the Center for Language and Speech Processing, which is an inter-departmental center shared among the Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Cognitive Science Departments of JHU.

My advisor is Chris Callison-Burch.

Teaching (and assistant-teaching)

My office is in Hackerman 225.

In Spring semester 2012, I was a TA for EN.600.468, Machine Translation.

In Fall semester 2009, I was a TA for EN.600.465, Natural Language Processing.

Publications

PARMA: A Predicate Argument Aligner. Travis Wolfe, Benjamin Van Drume, Mark Dredze, Nicholas Andrews, Charley Beller, Chris Callison-Burch, Jay DeYoung, Justin Snyder, Jonathan Weese, Tan Xu and Xuchen Yao, 2013. To appear in Proceedings of ACL (short papers).

UMBC_EBIQUITY-CORE: Semantic Textual Similarity Systems. Lushan Han, Abhay L. Kashyap, Tim Finin, Jonathan Weese, and James Mayfield, 2013. To appear in Proceedings of *SEM.

Joshua 4.0: Packing, PRO, and Paraphrases. Juri Ganitkevitch, Yuan Cao, Jonathan Weese, Matt Post, and Chris Callison-Burch, 2012. In Proceedings of WMT12.

Processing Informal, Romanized Pakistani Text Messages. Ann Irvine, Jonathan Weese, and Chris Callison-Burch, 2012. In the NAACL Workshop on Language in Social Media.

Using Categorial Grammar to Label Translation Rules. Jonathan Weese, Chris Callison-Burch, and Adam Lopez, 2012. In Proceedings of WMT12.

Joshua 3.0: Syntax-based Machine Translation with the Thrax Grammar Extractor. Jonathan Weese, Juri Ganitkevitch, Chris Callison-Burch, Matt Post, and Adam Lopez, 2011. In Proceedings of WMT11.

Joshua 2.0: A Toolkit for Parsing-based Machine Translation with Syntax, Semirings, Discriminative Training and Other Goodies. Zhifei Li, Chris Callison-Burch, Chris Dyer, Juri Ganitkevitch, Ann Irvine, Lane Schwartz, Wren N.G. Thornton, Ziyuan Wang, Jonathan Weese and Omar F. Zaidan, 2010. In Proceedings of WMT10.

cdec: A Decoder, Alignment, and Learning Framework for Finite-State and Context-Free Translation Models. Chris Dyer, Adam Lopez, Juri Ganitkevitch, Jonathan Weese, Ferhan Ture, Phil Blunsom, Hendra Setiawan, Vladimir Eidelman and Philip Resnik, 2010. In Proceedings of the ACL 2010 System Demonstrations, Uppsala, Sweden, 13 July 2010.

Visualizing Data Structures in Parsing-based Machine Translation. Jonathan Weese and Chris Callison-Burch, 2010. In The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics (PBML), Number 93, January 2010.

The Machine Translation Toolpack for LoonyBin: Automated Management of Experimental Machine Translation HyperWorkflows. Jonathan H. Clark, Jonathan Weese, Byung Gyu Ahn, Andreas Zollmann, Qin Gao, Kenneth Heafield and Alon Lavie, 2010. In The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics (PBML), Number 93, January 2010.

Demonstration of Joshua: an open source toolkit for parsing-based machine translation. Zhifei Li, Chris Callison-Burch, Chris Dyer, Juri Ganitkevitch, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Lane Schwartz, Wren N.G. Thronton, Jonathan Weese, and Omar F. Zaidan, 2009. In Proceedings of of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP, Software Demonstrations, Suntec, Singapore, 3 August 2009.

Joshua: an open source toolkit for parsing-based machine translation. Zhifei Li, Chris Callison-Burch, Chris Dyer, Juri Ganitkevitch, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Lane Schwartz, Wren N.G. Thronton, Jonathan Weese, and Omar F. Zaidan, 2009. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, 30 March - 31 March 2009.

Joshua: an open source toolkit for parsing-based machine translation. Zhifei Li, Chris Callison-Burch, Chris Dyer, Juri Ganitkevitch, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Lane Schwartz, Wren Thronton, Jonathan Weese, and Omar Zaidan, 2009. In The Prague Bulletin for Mathematical Linguistics (PBML), Number 92, January 2009.

Projects

Visualization tools for the Joshua MT decoder.

Thrax, an extractor for synchronous context-free grammars for machine translation.

I am a contributor to the cdec MT decoder.

Contact

As you might have guessed from this page's url, my email is jonny at cs dot jhu dot edu.

You can also follow me on twitter @conformalmap.

I just started a research blog!