Research
My research interests are broad and cover most areas of natural language processing, but have primarily focused on machine translation, both statistical and neural, and the related field of monotonic sequence-to-sequence transduction (for example transliteration generation).
Education
1984
1991 1995 |
B.Sc. Mathematics
M.Sc. Cognition, Computing and Psychology D.Phil. Computer Science (Neural Networks) |
University of Warwick
University of Warwick University of York |
Awards
- Honorable Mention of the Pattern Recognition Society Award for Outstanding Contribution for the paper “Matching Delaunay Graphs” published in the journal Pattern Recognition, 1997.
- Commendation for Science and Technology from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) for my contribution to multilingual speech translation research and development in Japan, 2010.
- Best paper award at the Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) conference, 2011.
- 58th Maejima Hisoka Award for the development of speech translation technology, 2013.
- Special Award (Emerging), “Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Myanmar Word Segmentation Approaches for Statistical Machine Translation”, 10th Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP), 2013.
Journal Articles
- Finch A.M. and Hancock E.R., Softening Discrete Relaxation, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, December 1996.
- Finch A.M., Wilson, R. and Hancock E.R., Matching Delaunay Graphs, Pattern Recognition, vol. 30, pp. 123-140, 1997. (Honorable Mention of the Pattern Recognition Society Award for Outstanding Contribution).
- Finch, AM, R Wilson, and ER Hancock, Symbolic graph matching with the EM algorithm, Pattern Recognition, vol. 31, pp. 1777-1790, 1998.
- Finch A.M., Wilson, R. and Hancock E.R., An Energy Function and Continuous Edit Process for Graph Matching, Neural Computation, vol. 10, issue 7, pp. 1873-1894, October 1998.
- Andrew Finch, Taro Watanabe, Yasuhiro Akiba, Eiichiro Sumita. Paraphrasing as Machine Translation. (Oct.2004) Journal of Natural Language Processing, Vol.11, No.5, pp.87-111.
- Young-Sook Hwang, Andrew Finch, Yutaka Sasaki. Improving Statistical Machine Translation Using Shallow Linguistic Knowledge (2007.4), Computer Speech and Language, April 2007, Vol.21, No.2, pp.350-372.
- Andrew Finch Eiichiro Sumita Satoshi Nakamura, Class-Dependent Modeling for Dialog Translation, IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Vol.E92-D No.12 pp.2469-2477, Dec 2009.
- Michael Paul, Andrew Finch, and Eiichiro Sumita, Model Adaptation and Transliteration for Spanish-English SMT, Workshop on Machine Translation (WMT), 2009.
- Sakriani Sakti, Michael Paul, Andrew Finch, Shinsuke Sakai, Thang Tat Vu, Noriyuki Kimura, Chiori Hori, Eiichiro Sumita, Satoshi Nakamura, Jun Park, Chai Wutiwiwatchai, Bo Xu, Hammam Riza, Karunesh Arora, Chi Mai Luong, Haizhou Li, "A-STAR: Toward Translating Asian Spoken Languages", Computer Speech and Language, Special issue on Speech-to-Speech Translation, 2011.
- Michael Paul, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, "Word Segmentation for Dialect Translation”, LNCS Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.6609, pp. 55-67, 2011.
- Michael Paul, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, "Integration of Multiple Bilingually-Trained Segmentation Schemes into Statistical Machine Translation", IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol.E94-D No.3 pp.690-697, 2011.
- Andrew Finch, Keiji Yasuda, Hideo Okuma, Eiichiro Sumita and Satoshi Nakamura, A Bayesian Model of Transliteration and its Human Evaluation when Integrated into a Machine Translation System, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 2011.
- Sakti, Sakriani and Paul, Michael and Finch, Andrew and Hu, Xinhui and Ni, Jinfu and Kimura, Noriyuki and Matsuda, Shigeki and Hori, Chiori and Ashikari, Yutaka and Kawai, Hisashi and Kashioka, Hideki and Sumita, Eiichiro and Nakamura, Satoshi, Distributed speech translation technologies for multiparty multilingual communication, ACM Transactions on Speech Processing, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 1-27, 2012.
- Ohnmar Htun, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita and Yoshiki Mikami, Improving Transliteration Mining by Integrating Expert Knowledge with Statistical Approaches, International Journal of Computer Applications, Volume 58, November, 2012.
- Wei Song, Andrew Finch, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Keiji Yasuda, and Eiichiro Sumita, picoTrans: An Intelligent Icon-driven Interface for Cross-lingual Communication, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Information Systems TiiS 3(1): 5, 2013.
- Michael Paul, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita. "How to Translate Dialects: A Segmentation-Centric Pivot Translation Approach." Journal of Natural Language Processing, Vol.20, No.4, pp.563-583, September, 2013.
- Sakriani Sakti, Michael Paul, Andrew M. Finch, Shinsuke Sakai, Thang Tat Vu, Noriyuki Kimura, Chiori Hori, Eiichiro Sumita, Satoshi Nakamura, Jun Park, Chai Wutiwiwatchai, Bo Xu, Hammam Riza, Karunesh Arora, Chi Mai Luong, Haizhou Li: A-STAR: Toward translating Asian spoken languages. Computer Speech & Language 27(2): 509-527, 2013.
- Takaaki Fukunishi, Andrew M. Finch, Seiichi Yamamoto, Eiichiro Sumita: A Bayesian Alignment Approach to Transliteration Mining. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), 12(3): 9, 2013.
- Michael Paul, Andrew M. Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, How to Choose the Best Pivot Language for Automatic Translation of Low-Resource Languages. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), 12(4): 14, 2013.
- Wei Song, Andrew M. Finch, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Keiji Yasuda, Eiichiro Sumita. picoTrans: An intelligent icon-driven interface for cross-lingual communication. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Information Systems (TiiS) 3(1): 5, 2013. (Invited)
- Andrew M. Finch, Wei Song, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Eiichiro Sumita, Speaking Louder than Words with Pictures Across Languages. AI Magazine 34(2): 31-47, 2013. (Invited)
- Keiko Taguchi, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, and Seiichi Yamamoto, Automatic Induction of Romanization Systems from Bilingual Corpora, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, pp. 1745-1361, February, 2015.
- Andrew Finch, Tai Harada, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and Eiichiro Sumita, Inducing a Bilingual Lexicon from Short Parallel Multiword Sequences, TALLIP, 2017 (to appear).
International Conference Papers
- Finch A.M. and Austin J.A., A Neural Network for Dimension Reduction and its Application to Image Segmentation, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Sorrento, 1994.
- Finch A.M. and Hancock E.R., A Bayesian Framework for Matching Delaunay Graphs, 8th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, 1995.
- Finch A.M., Wilson R. and Hancock E.R., Matching Delaunay Triangulations by Probabilistic Relaxation, 6th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, 1995.
- Finch A.M. and Hancock E.R., Matching Deformed Delaunay Triangulations, International Symposium on Computer Vision, 1995.
- Moss S., Finch A.M. and Hancock E.R., Detecting and Matching Hedges in Partial Radar Images, IAPR/TC-7 Workshop on Methods for extracting roads, buildings, roads and other man-made structures from images, August 1996.
- Finch A.M., Hancock E.R, and Wilson R., Relational Matching with Mean Field Annealing, ICPR96, 1996.
- E. Black, A. Finch, H. Kashioka, Trigger-Pair Predictors in Parsing and Tagging, In Proceedings, ACL/COLING-98, Montreal, 1998.
- R. Zhang, E. Black, A. Finch. Using Detailed Linguistic Structure In Language Modelling, Eurospeech 99, Budapest, 1999.
- E. Black, A. Finch, R. Zhang, Applying Extrasentential Context To Maximum Entropy Based Tagging With A Large Semantic And Syntactic Tagset, Seventh Workshop on Very Large Corpora, Maryland, US, 1999.
- R. Zhang, E. Black and A. Finch, Integrating Detailed Information into a Language Model, ICASSP, 2000.
- R. Zhang, E. Black, A. Finch, and Y. Sagisaka, A Tagger-Aided Language Model With a Stack Decoder, ICSLP, 2000.
- Andrew Finch, Ruiqiang Zhang, Ezra Black, Using Local Word-tag Features in Tagging. ICCPOL 2001 (19th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages), pp. 101-104, 2001.
- Ezra Black and Andrew Finch, Developing and Proving Effective Broad-coverage Semantic-and-Syntactic Tagsets for Natural Languages : the ATR Approach, ICCPOL 2001 (19th International Conference on Computer Processing of Oriental Languages), pp. 184-189, 2001.
- A. Finch and E. Black, Beyond Tag Trigrams: New Local Features for Tagging, LREC, 2002.
- Andrew Finch, Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita. Data-Oriented Paraphrasing. RANLP 2003 (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2003), pp.153-157, 2003.
- Eiichiro Sumita, Yasuhiro Akiba, Takao Doi, Andrew Finch, Kenji Imamura, Michael Paul, Mitsuo Shimohata, Taro Watanabe. A Corpus-Centered Approach to Spoken Language Translation, EACL-2003, pp.171-174, 2003.
- Andrew Finch, Yasuhiro Akiba, and Eiichiro Sumita, Using a Paraphraser to Improve Machine Translation Evaluation, IJCNLP, 2004.
- Eiichiro Sumita, Yasuhiro Akiba, Takao Doi, Andrew Finch, Kenji Imamura, Hideo Okuma, Michael Paul, and Mitsuo Shimohata. EBMT, SMT, Hybrid and More: ATR Spoken Language Translation System, IWSLT 2004 (International Workshop on Speech Language Translation), Proc. of IWSLT2004, pp.13-20, September 2004.
- Andrew Finch, Yasuhiro Akiba, and Eiichiro Sumita, How Does Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation Correlate with Human Scoring as the Number of Reference Translations Increases?, In Proc. of LREC-2004: the fourth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2004.
- Andrew Finch, Mitsuo Shimohata, Eiichiro Sumita. Sentence Simplification for Machine Translation. 165th IPSJ SIG Meeting:Natural Language, IPSJ SIG Technical Reports, Vol.2005, No.1, 2005-NL-165, pp.73-78., January 2005.
- Michael Paul, Takao Doi, Andrew Finch, Youngsook Hwang, Kenji Imamura, Hideo Okuma, Eiichiro Sumita, "Nobody is Perfect: ATR's Hybrid Approach to Spoken Language Translation", Proc. of the 2nd International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, pp. 55-62, Pittsburgh, USA, 2005.
- Andrew Finch, Young-Sook Hwang, Eiichiro Sumita. Using Machine Translation Evaluation Techniques to Determine Sentence-level Semantic Equivalence. Proc. of IWP2005 (IJCNLP-05), pp.17-24, October 2005.
- Andrew Finch, Mitsuo Shimohata, Eiichiro Sumita. A Maximum Entropy-based Sentence Simplifier for Machine Translation, Proc. of IEEE NLP-KE 2005, pp.646-650, October 2005.
- Andrew Finch, Ezra Black (Epimenides Corp.), Young-Sook Hwang (ETRI) and Eiichiro Sumita. Using Lexical Dependency and Ontological Knowledge to Improve a Detailed Syntactic and Semantic Tagger of English, Proc. of the COLING/ACL 2006, pp.215-222, July 2006.
- Ruiqiang Zhang, Hirofumi Yamamoto(NICT), Michael Paul, Hideo Okuma, Keiji Yasuda, Yves Lepage, Etienne Denoual, Daichi Mochihashi, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita. The NiCT-ATR Statistical Machine Translation System for the IWSLT 2006, Proc. of International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2006), pp.83-90, November 2006.
- Andrew Finch, Etienne Denoual, Hideo Okuma, Michael Paul, Hirofumi Yamamoto, Keiji Yasuda, Ruiqiang Zhang, Eiichiro Sumita. The NICT/ATR Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2007, Proc. of IWSLT 2007, October 2007, pp.103-110, October 2007.
- Michael Paul, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita. Reducing Human Assessment of Machine Translation Quality to Binary Classifier. (2007.9) Proc. of TMI 2007 (The 11th Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation), pp.154-162, September 2007.
- Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita. Phrase-based Part-of-Speech Tagging. (2007.8) Proc. of IEEE NLP-KE 2007, pp.215-220, August 2007.
- S. Nakamura, E. Sumita, T. Shimizu, S. Sakti, S. Sakai, J. Zhang, A. Finch, N. Kimura, Y. Asikari, "A-STAR: Asia Speech Translation Consortium", in Proc. ASJ Autumn Meeting, pp. 45-46, Yamanashi, Japan, 2007.
- Masao Utiyama (NICT), Andrew Finch, Hideo Okuma, Michael Paul, Hailong Cao (NICT), Hirofumi Yamamoto, Keiji Yasuda, Eiichiro Sumita. The NICT/ATR Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2008. (2008.10) Proc. of IWSLT (International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation) 2008, pp.77-84, October 2008.
- Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita, Dynamic Model Interpolation for Statistical Machine Translation. (2008.6). Proc. of Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, ACL-08:HLT, pp.208-215, June 2008.
- Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita. Phrase-based Machine Transliteration. (2008.01) Proc. of IJCNLP 2008, Workshop on Technologies and Corpora for Asia-Pacific Speech Translation (TCAST), pp.13-18, January 2008.
- Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita. Using Statistical Machine Translation to Grade Training Data, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Universal Communication, Osaka, Japan, December 2008.Michael Paul, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, "Language Independent Word Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation", Proc. of the 3rd International Universal Communication Symposium, pp. 36-40, Tokyo, Japan, 2009.
- S. Sakti, T. Vu, A. Finch, M. Paul, R. Maia, S. Sakai, T. Hayashi, S. Matsuda, N. Kimura, Y. Ashikari, E. Sumita, S. Nakamura, "NICT/ATR Asian Spoken Language Translation System for Multi-Party Travel Conversation", in Proc. TCAST, pp. 26-30, Singapore, August 2009.
- Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita, Bidirectional Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pp 1124-1132, Singapore, August 2009.
- Michael Paul, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, "Integration of Multiple Bilingually-Learned Segmentation Schemes into Statistical Machine Translation", Proc. of the 5th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, pp. 400-408, Uppsala, Sweden, 2010.
- Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita, Transliteration using a Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation System to Re-score the Output of a Joint Multigram Model. In Proceedings of the 2010 Named Entities Workshop, ACL 2010, pp. 48-52, Uppsala, Sweden, 2010.
- Chooi-Ling Goh, Taro Watanabe, Michael Paul, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, "The NICT Translation System for IWSLT 2010", Proc. of the 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, pp. 139-146, Paris, France, 2010.
- Chooi-Ling Goh, Taro Watanabe, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita.Discriminative Reranking for SMT using Various Global Features. In Proceedings of the 4th International Universal Communication Symposium (IUCS 2010), pp.8-14, Beijing, China, 2010.
- Hailong Cao, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita, Syntactic Constraints on Phrase Extraction for Phrase-Based Machine Translation. In Proceedings of SSST-4, Fourth Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, COLING, pp.28-33, Beijing, China, 2010.
- Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita. 2010. A Bayesian Model of Bilingual Segmentation for Transliteration. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2010), pp.259-266, Paris, France, December 2010.
- Michael Paul, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, "Dialect Translation: Integrating Bayesian Co-segmentation Models with Pivot-based SMT", Proc. of the First Workshop on Algorithms and Resources for Modelling of Dialects and Language Varieties, pp. 1-9, 2011.
- Maike Erdmann, Andrew M. Finch, Kotaro Nakayama, Eiichiro Sumita, Takahiro Hara, Shojiro Nishio: Calculating Wikipedia Article Similarity Using Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics. AINA Workshops, pp. 620-625, 2011.
- Sakriani Sakti, Andrew M. Finch, Ryosuke Isotani, Hisashi Kawai, Satoshi Nakamura: Unsupervised determination of efficient Korean LVCSR units using a Bayesian Dirichlet process model, ICASSP, pp. 4664-4667, 2011.
- Keiji Yasuda, Andrew M. Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, A Method to Measure the Reading Difficulty of Japanese Words, CICLing'11: Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing, pp. 436-445, 2011.
- Wei Song, Andrew Finch, Wei Song, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and Eiichiro Sumita, picoTrans: an icon-driven user interface for machine translation on mobile devices, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2011. (awarded best paper at the conference).
- Andrew Finch, Wei Song, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and Eiichiro Sumita, picoTrans: Using Pictures as Input for Machine Translation on Mobile Devices, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Barcelona, 2011.
- Andrew Finch, Wei Song, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and Eiichiro Sumita, Source Language Generation from Pictures for Machine Translation on Mobile Devices, In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science (NLPCS), Special Issue: Human-Machine Interaction in Translation, Copenhagen, 2011.
- Takaaki Fukunishi, Andrew Finch, Seiichi Yamamoto, and Eiichiro Sumita, Using Features from a Bilingual Alignment Model in Transliteration Mining, 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Named Entities Workshop, 2011.
- Andrew Finch, Paul Dixon and Eiichiro Sumita, Integrating Models Derived from non-Parametric Bayesian Co-segmentation into a Statistical Machine Transliteration System, 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Named Entities Workshop, 2011.
- Andrew Finch, Takaaki Fukunishi, Andrew Finch, Seiichi Yamamoto, and Eiichiro Sumita, The Application of Bayesian Alignment Techniques to Transliteration Generation and Mining, Proceedings of the 5th International Universal Communication Symposium (IUCS), 2011.
- Andrew Finch, Chooi-Ling Goh, Graham Neubig and Eiichiro Sumita, The NICT Translation System for IWSLT 2011, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, San Francisco, 2011.
- Paul R. Dixon, Andrew Finch, Chiori Hori and Hideki Kashioka, Investigation on the Effects of ASR Tuning on Speech Translation Performance, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, San Francisco, 2011.
- Paul, Michael and Finch, Andrew and Dixon, Paul R. and Sumita, Eiichiro, Dialect translation: integrating Bayesian co-segmentation models with pivot-based SMT, DIALECTS '11: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Algorithms and Resources for Modelling of Dialects and Language Varieties, 2011.
- Yasuda, Keiji and Finch, Andrew and Sumita, Eiichiro, Method to build a bilingual lexicon for speech-to-speech translation systems, CICLing'12: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, pp. 122-131, 2012.
- Andrew Finch, Paul Dixon, and Eiichiro Sumita, Rescoring a Phrase-based Machine Transliteration System with Recurrent Neural Network Language Models, Proceedings of the 4th Named Entity Workshop (NEWS) 2012, pages 47-51, Jeju, Korea, 2012.
- Andrew Finch, Ohnmar Htun, and Eiichiro Sumita, The NICT Translation System for IWSLT2012, International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2012), Hong Kong, 2012.
- Tingting Li, Tiejun Zhao, Andrew Finch and Chunyue Zhang, A Tightly-coupled Unsupervised Clustering and Bilingual Alignment Model for Transliteration, Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2013), Sofia Bulgaria, 2013.
- Ye Kyaw Thu, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, Yoshinori Sagisaka, A Purely Monotonic Approach to Machine Translation for Similar Languages, Proceedings of the International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP 203), Urumqi, China, 2013.
- Keiko Taguchi, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita and Seiichi Yamamoto, "Inducing Romanization Systems", Proceedings of the XIV Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit 2013), Nice France, 2013.
- Ye Kyaw Thu, Andrew Finch, Yoshinori Sagisaka and Eiichiro Sumita, A Study of Myanmar Word Segmentation Schemes for Statistical Machine Translation, In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2013), pp. 167-179, Yangon, Myanmar, 2013.
- Ye Kyaw Thu, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, Yoshinori Sagisaka. Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Myanmar Word Segmentation Approaches for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Tenth Symposium on Natural Language Processing (SNLP 2013), pp.47-54, Phuket, Thailand, October, 2013. (Special Award).
- Ye Kyaw Thu, Andrew Finch, Akihiro Tamura, Eiichiro Sumita, Yoshinori Sagisaka. "Factored Machine Translation for Myanmar to English, Japanese and Vice Versa'', In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2014), pp.171-177, Yangon, Myanmar, February 2014.
- Xiaolin Wang, Masao Utiyama, Andrew M. Finch, Eiichiro Sumita: Empirical Study of Unsupervised Chinese Word Segmentation Methods for SMT on Large-scale Corpora. ACL (2) 2014: 752-758.
- Ye Kyaw Thu, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, Yoshinori Sagisaka. Integrating Dictionaries into an Unsupervised Model for Myanmar Word Segmentation, 5th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian NLP (WSSANLP), 2014.
- Xiaolin Wang, Masao Utiyama, Andrew M. Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, Refining Word Segmentation Using a Manually Aligned Corpus for Statistical Machine Translation, Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2014.
- Xiaolin Wang, Masao Utiyama, Andrew M. Finch, Taro Watanabe, and Eiichiro Sumita, The NICT Translation System for IWSLT 2014, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, South Lake Tahoe, 2014.
- Chenchen Ding, Ye Kyaw Thu, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch, and Eiichiro Sumita, and Eiichiro Sumita, Empirical Dependency-Based Head Finalization for Statistical Chinese-, English-, and French-to-Myanmar (Burmese) Machine Translation, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, South Lake Tahoe, 2014.
- Andrew Finch, Xiaolin Wang, and Eiichiro Sumita, An Exploration of Segmentation Strategies in Stream Decoding, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, South Lake Tahoe, 2014.
- Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Andrew Finch, Aye Mya Hlaing, Hay Mar Soe Naing, Eiichiro Sumita and Chiori Hori, 2015, Syllable Pronunciation Features for Myanmar Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA 2015), pp. 161-167, Yangon, Myanmar, Feb 2015.
- Andrew Finch, Lemao Liu, Xiaolin Wang, Eiichiro Sumita. Neural Network Transduction Models in Transliteration Generation. In Proceedings of the Fifth Named Entity Workshop (NEWS2015), joint with 53rd ACL and the 7th IJCNLP, pages 61-66, Beijing, China, July 26-31, 2015.
- Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Andrew Finch, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, Eiichiro Sumita. HMM Based Myanmar Text to Speech System. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2015), pages 2237-2241, Dresden, Germany, September 6-10, 2015.
- Andrew Finch, Xiaolin Wang, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita. Hierarchical Phrase-based Stream Decoding. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, September 17-21, 2015.
- Andrew Finch, Lemao Liu, Xiaolin Wang, Eiichiro Sumita. Neural Network Transduction Models in Transliteration Generation. In Proceedings of the Fifth Named Entity Workshop (NEWS2015), joint with 53rd ACL and the 7th IJCNLP, pages 61-66, Beijing, China, July 26-31, 2015.
- Xiaolin Wang, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch, Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita. Leave-one-out Word Alignment without Garbage Collector Effects. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2015), Lisbon, Portugal, September 17-21, 2015.
- Hideya Mino, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita. Learning Bilingual Phrase Representations with Recurrent Neural Networks. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XV (MT Summit 2015), Miami, Florida, USA, October30-November 3, 2015.
- Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Jinfu Ni, Yoshinori Shiga, Andrew Finch, Chiori Hori, Hisashi Kawai, Eiichiro Sumita. HMM Based Myanmar Text to Speech System. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (INTERSPEECH 2015), pages 2237-2241, Dresden, Germany, September 6-10, 2015.
- Win Pa Pa, Ye Kyaw Thu, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita. Word Boundary Identification for Myanmar Text Using Conditional Random Fields. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, pages 447-456, Yangon, Myanmar, August 26-28, 2015.
- Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Andrew Finch, Jinfu Ni, Eiichiro Sumita and Chiori Hori, The Application of Phrase Based Statistical Machine Translation Techniques to Myanmar Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion, In Proceedings of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics Conference (PACLING 2015), pp. 170-176, Legian, Bali, Indonesia, May, 2015.
- Xiaolin Wang, Andrew Finch, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita. An Efficient and Effective Online Sentence Segmenter for Simultaneous Interpretation, 3rd Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2016), 2016.
- Xiaolin Wang, Andrew Finch, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita. A Prototype Automatic Simultaneous Interpretation System. COLING System Demonstrations, 2016.
- Lemao Liu, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita. Neural Machine Translation with Supervised Attention, COLING, 2016.
- Lemao Liu, Andrew Finch, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita. Agreement on Target-bidirectional Neural Machine Translation. NAACL, 2016.
- Lemao Liu, Andrew Finch, Masao Utiyama and Eiichiro Sumita. Agreement on Target-Bidirectional LSTMs for Sequence-to-Sequence Learning. AAAI, 2016.
- Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Masao Utiyama, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita. Introducing the Asian Language Treebank (ALT). LREC, 2016.
- Ye Kyaw Thu, Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita, Interlocking Phrases in Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation, NAACL, 2016.
- A. Finch, L. Liu, X. Wang, and E Sumita, Target-Bidirectional Neural Models for Machine Transliteration, NEWS Workshop, ACL, 2016.
Domestic Conference Papers
- Andrew Finch, Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita. Paraphrasing by Statistical Machine Translation. Forum on Information Technology 2002 (FIT 2002), (Vol.2) pp.187-188, 2002.
- Andrew Finch and Eiichiro Sumita. Using Ontological Knowledge to Disambiguate Unknown Words in Semantic Tagging. Proc. Forum on Information Technology (FIT 2006), pp.377-380, September 2006.
- Andrew Finch, 隅田英一郎. "Exploiting Directional Asymmetry in Phrase-table Generation for Statistical Machine Translation." 言語処理学会第16回年次大会講演論文集, pp.1002-1005, 2010.
- Keiko Taguchi, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita and Seiichi Yamamoto, “Inducing Romanization Systems from Bilingual Alignment”, Proceedings of the Association for Natural Language processing, Nagoya, 2013.
- 田口惠子, Finch Andrew, 山本誠一, 隅田英一郎. "対訳コーパスに基づく最適なローマ字化システムの構築." 第12回情報科学技術フォーラム(FIT2013), pp.111-116, 2013.
- Koki Nakatani, Andrew Finch, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, and Eiichiro Sumita. 確率的ブロック編集距離, 言語処理学会第20回年次大会講演論文集, Sapporo, 2014.
- Hay Mar Soe Naing, Ye Kyaw Thu, Win Pa Pa, Hiroaki Kato, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita, Chiori Hori. Rule Based Katakana to Myanmar Transliteration for Post-editing Machine Translation, 言語処理学会第21回年次大会講演論文集, Kyoto, 2015.
- Keiko Taguchi, Andrew Finch, Eiichiro Sumita and Seiichi Yamamoto. The Application of Machine Transliteration Techniques to Spelling Correction, 言語処理学会第21回年次大会講演論文集, Kyoto, 2015.
- Tai Harada, Andrew Finch, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, and Eiichiro Sumita. Transliterationの拡張としてのWikipediaからの 意味的翻訳対の抽出, 言語処理学会第21回年次大会講演論文集, Kyoto, 2015.