Machine Translation

Aminzadeh, A. R., Anderson, T., Slyh, R., Ore, B., Hansen, E., Shen, W., Drexler, J., Gleason, T., The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2011 MT system, Proc. IWSLT 2011, San Francisco, CA, Dec 2011.
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Shen, W., Anderson, T., Slyh R., Amizadeh, A. R., The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2010 MT system, Proc. IWSLT 2010, Paris, France, Dec 2010.
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Campbell, J. P., Campbell, W. M., McCree, A. V., Weinstein, C. J., Lewandowski, S. M., Cognitive Services for the User, Chapter 10, in B.A. Fette, ed, Cognitive Radio Technology, 2e, Academic Press (Elsevier), Burlington, 2009, pp 305-324.
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Shen, W., Delaney, B., The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT - 2009 MT System, International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, Tokyo, Japan, Dec. 1, 2009.
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Shen, W., Aminzadeh, R., Advocate: A Distributed Architecture for Speech-to-Speech Translation, Lincoln Laboratory Journal, Lexington, MA. Jul. 31, 2009.
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Jones, D., Shen, W., Machine Translation for Government Application, Lincoln Laboratory Journal, Lexington, MA, July 16, 2009.
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Aminzadeh, A., Shen, W., Advocate: A Distributed Voice-Oriented Computing Architecture, NAACL HLT 2009, Boulder, CO, May 31, 2009.
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Jones, D., Shen, W., Using Military and Government Standards for MT Evaluation, Gale Book Chapter, Lexington, MA, May 8, 2009.
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Aminzadeh, A. R., Shen, W., Low-Resource Speech Translation of Urdu to English Using Semi-Supervised Part-of-Speech Tagging and Transliteration, 2008 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Goa, India. Dec. 15-18, 2008.
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Shen, W., Delaney, B. W., The MIT-LL/AFRL IWSLT-2007 MT System, IWSLT 2007, Trento, Italy. Oct. 15-16, 2007.
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Jones, D. A., Jairam, A., Shen, W., ILR-Based MT Comprehension Test with Multi-Level Questions, HLT/NAACL 2007, Rochester, NY. Apr. 22-27, 2007.
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Jones, D., Jairam, A., Shen, W., Experimental Facility for Measuring the Impact of Environmental Noise and Speaker Variation on Speech-to-Speech Translation Devices, IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, Palm Beach, Aruba, 10–13 December 2006.
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Shen, W., The JHU Workshop 2006 IWSLT System, IWSLT 2006, Kyoto, Japan, 27 November 2006.
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Shen, W., Delaney, B., The MITLL/AFRL IWSLT-2006 MT System, IWSLT 2006, Kyoto, Japan, 27 November 2006.
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Delaney, B., Shen, W., An Efficient Graph Search Decoder for Phrase-Based Statistical machine Translation, IWSLT 2006, Kyoto, Japan, 27 November 2006.
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Jones, D., Shen, W., Delaney, B., Toward an Interagency Language Roundtable Based Assessment of Speech-to-Speech Translation Abilities, AMTA 2006, Boston, Massachusetts, August 8, 2006.
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Jones, D., Shen, W., Two New Experiments for ILR-Based MT Evaluation, AMTA 2006, Boston, MA, August 8, 2006.
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Jones, D. A., Shen, W., Reynolds, D., Two Experiments Comparing Reading with Listening for Human Processing of Conversational Telephone Speech, Interspeech 2005 – Eurospeech Conference, 2005.
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Shen, W., Delaney, B., The MIT-LL/AFRL MT System, IWSLT Workshop, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pennsylvania, 2005.
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Jones, D., Shen, W., Reynolds, D., Weinstein, C., Measuring Human Readability of Machine Generated Text: Three Case Studies in Speech Recognition and Machine Translation. ICASSP2005, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 18–23 March 2005.
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Jones, D. A. Measuring the Utility of Human Language Technology for Intelligence Analysis, International Conference on Intelligence Analysis, McLean, Virginia, May 2005.
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Jones, D., Shen, W., Weinstein, C. Measuring Translation Quality by Testing English Speakers with a New Defense Language Proficiency Test for Arabic, International Conference on Intelligence Analysis, McLean, Virginia, May 2005.
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Jones, D. A., Shen, W., Weinstein, C. New Measures of Effectiveness for Human Language Technology, Lincoln Laboratory Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2005.
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Clifford, R., Granoien, N., Jones, D., Shen, W., Weinstein, C., The Effect of Text Difficulty on Machine Translation Performance - a Pilot Study with ILR-Rated Texts in Spanish, Farsi, Arabic, Russian, and Korean, Proceedings Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2004), Lisbon, Portugal, May 2004.
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Jones, D., Two New Experimental Protocols for Measuring Speech Transcript Readability for Timed Question-Answering Tasks. DARPA EARS RT-04F Workshop, White Plaines, New York, November 8–11, 2004.
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Lee, Y. S., Sinder, D. J., Weinstein, C. J., Interlingua-based English-Korean Two-Way Speech Translation of Doctor-Patient Dialogues with CCLINC, Special Issue of Machine Translation 17: 213–243, 2002,  Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Weinstein, C. J., Speech-to-Speech Translation: Technology and Applications Study, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Technical Report 1080, ESC-TR-2001-060, 10 May 2002.
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Henstock, P. V., Lee, Y. S., Weinstein, C. J., Pack, D. J., Toward an Improved Concept-Based Information Retrieval System, SIGIR 2001, September 2001.
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Pack, D., Weinstein, C. J., The Use of Dynamic Segment Scoring for Language-Independent Question Answering, Proceedings of HLT 2001, First International Conference on Human Language Technology Research, J. Allan, ed., Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, 2001.
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Jones, D. A., Rusk, G., Toward a Scoring Function for Quality-Driven Machine Translation, In Proceedings for Conference for Computational Linguistics (COLING-2000), August 2000, Saarbruecken, Germany.

Lee, Y. S., Weinstein, C. J., An Integrated approach to English-Korean Translation and Translingual Information Access, C-STAR Workshop Proceedings, Schwetzingen, Germany, September 1999.
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Lee, Y. S., Weinstein, C. J., Hong, S. H., Machine-Assisted Translation for U.S./ROK Combined Forces Command, Army RD&A Magazine, pp. 38–41, November-December 1999.
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Jones, D. A., Havrilla, R., Twisted Pair Grammar: Support for Rapid Development of Machine Translation for Low Density Languages, In the Proceedings of the Association of Machine Translation in the Americas. October 1998, Langhorne, Pennsylvania.

Lee, Y. S., Weinstein, C. J., Seneff, S., Tummala, D., Ambiguity Resolution for Machine Translation of Telegraphic Messages, Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Madrid, Spain, July 1997.
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Weinstein, C. J., Lee, Y. S., Seneff, S., Tummala, D. R., Carlson, B., Lynch, J. T., Hwang, J. T., Kukolich, L. C., Automated English/Korean Translation for Enhanced Coalition Communications, Lincoln Laboratory Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 35-60, 1997.
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Weinstein, C. J., Tummala, D., Lee, Y. S., Seneff, S., Automatic English-to-Korean Text Translation of Telegraphic Messages in a Limited Domain, International Conference on Computational Linguistics 1996, Copenhagen, Denmark. Also published in C-STAR II Proceedings of the Workshop, ATR International Workshop on Speech Translation, September 1996, Kyoto, Japan.
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Tummala, D., Seneff, S., Paul, D. B., Weinstein, C. J., Yang, D., CCLINC: System Architecture and Concept Demonstration of Speech-to-Speech Translation for Limited-Domain Multilingual Applications, Proceedings of the 1995 ARPA Spoken Language Technology Workshop, Austin, Texas, January 1995, pp. 227–232.
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