Yanjun Ma, B.A., M.A, PhD

Researcher at Baidu Inc.

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I am a researcher at Baidu Inc. Prior to my current position, I was a Postdoctoral researcher of the Machine Translation Group at the Center for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) in Dublin City University (DCU). I hold a PhD in Computing from the same University under the supervision of Prof. Andy Way. I also hold a M.A. in Computational Linguistics from Tsinghua University and a BA from Shandong University, China.
During my PhD, I mainly focused on statistical word alignment models for machine translation (see publications). As I am dealing with many languages during my study, I also spend some time learning new languages. Besides Chinese and English, I can also read Japanese after taking a one-year course in Tsinghua University. I also spent some time learning French with Alliance Française in Dublin.
From 2007 to 2009, I was on the EACL student board and co-organised EACL 2009 student workshop in Athens, Greece. I am a member of ACL and EAMT.
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Lastest News:
Sep 19-23, 2011 I attended MT Summit 2011 in Xiamen, China, and (jointly with Yifan He, Josef van Genabith) gave a tutorial on MT confidence estimation. See publications.
In 2011 I am on the program commitee of EAMT 2011, MT Summit 2011, IJCNLP 2011, PACLIC 2011, JEC 2011, ACL 2012 and EACL 2012.
Jul 19-24, 2011 I attended ACL 2011 in Portland OR and presented our work in TM-MT integration.
Jan 19, 2011 I have started to work at Baidu Inc. as an associate researcher.
July 20, 2010 Together with our colleagues in the School of Computing, I have been awarded Research Capacity Building fund from the Faculty of Engineering and Computing to bring our in-house MT and IR technology to mobile devices. Stay tuned...
July 14, 2010 We have a paper accepted by the SSST workshop held at COLING 2010 in Beijing. See publication.
July 10, 2010 We have two papers accepted by the AMTA 2010 held in Denver, Colorado. See publication.
June 16, 2010 Together with our MT group team members, I am coordinating the building of 12 MT engines for Twanslator which translates 2010 world cup related tweets in a variety of European languages. We are constantly improving the translation quality as we collect more data in the course of the matches. Comments and feedbacks are welcome!
May 29, 2010 We have a paper accepted by COLING 2010. See publication.
May 22, 2010 I am a PC member of EMNLP 2010.
April 19, 2010 We have a full paper accepted by ACL 2010 for oral presentation. See publication.
March 29, 2010 My PhD thesis is selected as the winner of EAMT 2009 Best Thesis Award.
March 29, 2010 We have a paper accepted by the 14th Annual Meeting of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2010) for oral presentation. This paper is entitled "Statistical Analysis of Alignment Characteristics for Phrase-based Machine Translation" representing joint work with Patrik Lambert, Simon Petitrenaud and Andy Way.
December 10, 2009 I am granted a certificate from DCU graduate School for completing the graduate training element "IP and Commercialisation".
December 9, 2009 I attended a career development seminar on ''Transferable skills for Post Doctoral Researchers'' organised by the Human Resources.
November 13, 2009 I am on the programme committee of LREC 2010 to be held in Malta from May 17 to 23, 2010 .
November 10, 2009 I graduated and finished my 22 consecutive years student life!
November 6, 2009 I am on the programme committee of COLING 2010.
Last update: September, 2011