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Prof. Andy Way, B.A., M.Sc., Ph.D.

ALS Contact Details

Director of Language Technology
Address: Applied Language Solutions, Riverside Court, Huddersfield Road, Delph, Nr. Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL3 5FZ, UK.

Email: andy.way@appliedlanguage.com

DCU Contact Details

Associate Professor in Computing
Address: School of Computing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, IRELAND.

Tel: +353-1-7005644, Fax: +353-1-7005442, Email: away@computing.dcu.ie

I am currently on a 3-year career break from DCU at Applied Language Solutions, where I am the Director of Language Technology. I lead an industry-leading team of MT and NLP specialists, where our main task is to build customised MT engines for a range of high-profile clients. We have also built SmartMATE, a one-stop shop for translators encompassing TM, self-serve SMT, glossary injection as well as a collaborative editing environment.

Prior to that I was an Associate Professor in the School of Computing at Dublin City University from 1991--2011.

I am the Editor for the journal Machine Translation. Please contact me if you would like to submit to the journal.

I am also on the EAMT Committee, from the EAMT-09 conference as the President of EAMT. DCU also act as Webmaster for EAMT.

Following the MT Summit 2011, I am the President of the International Association for Machine Translation, from 2011--2013.

Recent News

Don't forget to come and visit us at EAMT 2012 in Trento, May 28--30. We had a record number of submissions this year, so the programme will be excellent! We're involved in six presentations:

From Subtitles to Parallel Corpora: M. Fishel, Y. Georgakopoulou, S. Penkale, V. Petukhova, M. Rojc, M. Volk, A. Way
BOLOGNA - Bologna Translation Service: H. Depraetere, J. van de Walle, A. Sagvall-Hein, S. Penkale, J. Pietrzak, A. Way
Domain Adaptation in SMT of User-Generated Forum Content Guided by OOV Word Reduction: Normalization and/or Supplementary Data?: P. Banerjee, S. K. Naskar, J. Roturier, A. Way, J. van Genabith
Extending CCG-based Syntactic Constraints in Hierarchical Phrase-Based SMT: H. Almaghout, J. Jiang, A. Way
MosesCore - Moses Open Source Evaluation and Support Co-ordination for OutReach and Exploitation: B. Haddow, O. Bojar, J. van der Meer, M. Federico, A. Way
SUMAT - An online service for SUbtitling by MAchine Translation: A. Del Pozo, L. Bywood, M. Fishel, Y. Georgakopoulou, G. van Loenhout, V. Petukhova, M. Sepesy Maucec, D. Spiliotopoulos, A. Turner, M. Volk and A. Way

We recently had a paper accepted for ESIRMT-HyTra, which took place in Avignon on April 23-24, 2012. The paper was entitled Combining EBMT, SMT, TM and IR Technologies for Quality and Scale, and represents joint work with Sandipan Dandapat, Sara Morrissey and Josef van Genabith.

We recently had two papers published in the Machine Translation journal:

Patrik Lambert, Simon Petitrenaud, Yanjun Ma and Andy Way. 2012. What types of word alignment improve statistical machine translation?
Rejwanul Haque, Sudip Kumar Naskar, Antal van den Bosch and Andy Way. 2011. Integrating Source-Language Context into Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation.

Older Items

News from 2010-11, Older News from 2009, Really Old News from 2008, Even Older News from 2007, Older News Still from 2006, Really Old News from 2005 & 2004, and Ancient News from 2003 (hardly 'news' at all now!)!

Andy Way, 3rd May, 2012.