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Kevin Duh's Publications
2011
- K. Duh, J. Suzuki, M. Nagata, Distributed Learning-to-Rank on Streaming Data using Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers, NIPS Big Learning Workshop, 2011
- K. Duh, K. Sudoh, T. Iwata, H. Tsukada, Alignment Inference and Bayesian Adaptation for Machine Translation, Proc. of the Machine Translation Summit XIII, Xiamen, China, 2011
- K. Duh, K. Sudoh, X. Wu, H. Tsukada, M. Nagata, Generalized Minimum Bayes Risk System Combination, Proc. of the Int'l Joint Conf. on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2011
- K. Duh, A. Fujino, M. Nagata, Is Machine Translation Ripe for Cross-lingual Sentiment classification?, Proc. of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics (ACL) - short papers, Portand, USA, 2011
- K. Duh and A. Fujino, Flexible Sample Selection strategies for Transfer Learning in Ranking, Information Processing and Management Journal, 2011
- K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, Semi-supervised Ranking for Document Retrieval, Computer Speech and Language Journal, vol 25(2), April 2011, pg. 261-281
- K. Sudoh, K. Duh, H. Tsukada, M. Nagata, X. Wu, T. Matsuzaki, J. Tsujii, NTT-UT Statistical Machine Translation in NTCIR-9 PatentMT, Proceedings of the NTCIR-9 Workshop Meeting, 2011.
[Best performance in EJ track] [slides]
- S. Kondo, M. Komachi, Y. Matsumoto, K. Sudoh, K. Duh, H. Tsukada, Learning of Linear Ordering Problems and its Application to J-E Patent Translation in NTCIR-9 PatentMT, Proceedings of the NTCIR-9 Workshop Meeting, 2011.
- S. Basu, J. Dunagan, K. Duh, K.-K. Munuswamy-Reddy, BLR-D: Applying Bilinear Logistic Regression to Factored Diagnosis Problems, ACM SOSP Workshop on Managing Large-Scale Systems via the Analysis of System Logs and the Application of Machine Learning Techniques (SLAML) 2011; to appear shorting in the journal Operating Systems Review (OSR)
- K. Sudoh, X. Wu, K. Duh, H. Tsukada, M. Nagata, Post-ordering in Statistical Machine Translation, Proc. of the Machine Translation Summit XIII, Xiamen, China, 2011
- X. Wu, K. Sudoh, K. Duh, H. Tsukada, M. Nagata, Extracting Pre-ordering Rules from Chunk-based Dependency Trees for Japanese-to-English Translation, Proc. of the Machine Translation Summit XIII, Xiamen, China, 2011
- X. Wu, K. Sudoh, K. Duh, H. Tsukada, M. Nagata, Extracting Pre-ordering Rules from Predicate-Argument Structures, Proc. of the Int'l Joint Conf. on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2011 [Best Paper Finalist]
- J. Suzuki, K. Duh, M. Nagata, Distributed Minimum Error Rate Training of SMT using Particle Swarm Optimization, Proc. of the Int'l Joint Conf. on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2011
- H. Isozaki, K. Sudoh, H. Tsukada, K. Duh, HPSG-based Preprocessing for English-to-Japanese Translation, to appear in ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)
- C.-M. Au Yeung, K. Duh, and M. Nagata, Providing Cross-lingual Editing Assistance to Wikipedia Users, Proc. of the 12th International Conf. on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLING), 2011 [Best Presentation Award][Summary @ SIGWEB newsletter]
2010
- K. Duh, K. Sudoh, and H. Tsukada, Analysis of Translation Model Adaptation in SMT, International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) - Technical Papers track, Paris, France, 2010 [slides]
- K. Duh, K. Sudoh, H. Tsukada, H. Isozaki, and M. Nagata, N-best Reranking by Multitask Learning, ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2010), Uppsala, Sweden, 2010 [slides]
- K. Sudoh, K. Duh, and H. Tsukada, NTT Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2010, IWSLT 2010.
- H. Isozaki, T. Hirao, K. Duh, K. Sudoh, H. Tsukada, Automatic Evaluation of Translation Quality for Distant Language Pairs, EMNLP 2010. [code]
- K. Sudoh, K. Duh, H. Tsukada, T. Hirao, and M. Nagata, Divide and Translate: Improving Long Distance Reordering in Statistical Machine Translation, ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2010), Uppsala, Sweden, 2010
- H. Isozaki, H. Tsukada, K. Sudoh, and K. Duh, Head Finalization: A Simple Reordering Rule for SOV Languages, ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2010), Uppsala, Sweden, 2010
- K. Hayashi, S. Yamamoto, H. Tsukada, K. Sudoh, K. Duh, Hierarchical phrase-based machine translation with Word-based Reordering Model, International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Beijing, China, 2010
- S. Fujita, K. Duh, A. Fujino, H. Taira, H. Shindo, Investigating the Effectiveness of Domain Combinations and Topic Features for Word Sense Disambiguation, International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations (SemEval), 2010
2009
- K. Duh, Learning to Rank with Partially-Labeled Data, PhD Dissertation, University of Washington, 2009. [More info]
- M. Yang, A. Axelrod, K. Duh, and K. Kirchhoff, The University of Washington Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2009, International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, 2009.
2008
- K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, Learning to Rank with Partially-Labeled Data, ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2008)[slides]
- K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, Beyond Log-linear Models: Boosted Minimum Error Rate Training for N-best Re-ranking, ACL 2008 (Short Paper)
- K. Duh, Ranking vs. Regression in Machine Translation Evaluation, Proc. of ACL 2008 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (Shared Evaluation Task), Columbus, Ohio, 2008.
- K. Duh, S. Medero, M. Schultz, and T. Eng, Beyond the Search Box: Helping Users find Health information on the Web, Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (HCIR), 2008.
- K. Kirchhoff, J. Bilmes, and K. Duh, Factored Language Models - a Tutorial, UW-EE Technical Report, 2008-0004, Dept. of Electrical Eng., Univ. of Washington, Feb 2008.
- A. Axelrod, M. Yang, K. Duh, K. Kirchhoff, The UW Machine Translation System for ACL WMT 2008, Proc. of ACL 2008 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (Shared Translation Task), Columbus, Ohio, 2008
2006
- K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, Lexicon Acquisition for Dialectal Arabic Using Transductive Learning, Proc. of EMNLP (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing), Sydney, Australia, 2006. [slides]
- S. Corston-Oliver, A. Aue, K. Duh, E. Ringger, Multilingual Dependency Parsing using Bayes Point Machines, Proc. of NAACL-HLT 2006,New York. [slides] (of a talk I gave at Academia Sinica; refer to paper for updated results)
- K. Kirchhoff, D. Vergyri, J. Bilmes, K. Duh, and A. Stolcke, Morphology-based Language Modeling for Arabic Speech Recognition, Computer Speech and Language 20(4), 2006, pp.589-608
- K. Kirchhoff, M. Yang, and K. Duh, Statistical Machine Translation of Parliamentary Proceedings Using Morpho-Syntactic Knowledge, Proc. of the TC-STAR Workshop on Speech to Speech Translation, Barcelona, Spain, 2006.
- K. Kirchhoff, K. Duh, and C. Lim, The University of Washington Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2006, Proc. of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, Kyoto, Japan, 2006.
2005
- K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, Structured Multi-label Transductive Learning: a Case Study in Lexicon Acquisition, NIPS 2005, Advances in Structured Learning for Text and Speech Processing Workshop, Whistler, Canada, Dec 2005.
- K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, POS Tagging of Dialectal Arabic: A Minimally Supervised Approach, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics (ACL2005), Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, June 2005.
- K. Duh, Jointly Labeling Multiple Sequences: A Factorial HMM Approach, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2005), Student Research Workshop, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, June 2005.
- C. Bartels, K. Duh, J. Bilmes, K. Kirchhoff, S. King, Genetic Triangulation of Graphical Models for Speech and Language Processing, Proceedings of Eurospeech/Interspeech 2005, Lisboa, Portugal, September 2005.
- General Tsao, et. al., Automatic Generation of Fortune Cookie Messages, The First and Last Workshop on Un-natural Language Processing, April 1, 2004. [Download the Fortune Cookie Corpus]
2004 and prior
- K. Duh and K. Kirchhoff, Automatic Learning of Language Model Structure, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2004), Geneva, Switzerland, August 2004.[slides]
- K. Duh, Least Squares Estimation of GPS L1-L2 Satellite and Receiver Bias, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Project Report, Nov 2003.
- D. Vergyri, K. Kirchhoff, K. Duh, A. Stolcke, Morphology-Based Language Modeling for Arabic Speech Recognition, International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP/Interspeech 2004), October 2004.
My fellow co-authors
- while at UW:
Katrin Kirchhoff,
Jeff Bilmes,
Mei Yang,
Amittai Axelrod,
Chris Bartels,
Chris Lim
- while at MSR:
Sumit Basu,
John Dunagan,
Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy,
Simon Corston-Oliver,
Anthony Aue,
Eric Ringger
- while at NTT:
Hajime Tsukada,
Katsuhito Sudoh,
Masaaki Nagata,
Albert Au Yeung,
Akinori Fujino,
Jun Suzuki,
Hideki Isozaki,
Xianchao Wu,
Tomoharu Iwata,
Sanae Fujita,
Tsutomu Hirao,
Hiroyuki Shindo,
Hirotoshi Taira
- others: Dimitra Vergyri, Andreas Stolcke, Simon King, Mike Schultz, Shawn Medero, Tom Eng, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Seiichi Yamamoto, Y. Matsumoto, M. Komachi, S. Kondo, T. Matsuzaki, J. Tsujii.