Past Postgraduate Students

I've been very fortunate to have supervised a number of great students, all of whom managed to graduate despite my intervention! The roll of honour is as follows:

PhD Students

• 2004: Aoife Cahill: Parsing with Automatically Acquired, Wide-Coverage, Robust, Probabilistic LFG Approximations (jointly, with Josef Van Genabith)
• 2005: Nano Gough: Example-Based Machine Translation Using the Marker Hypothesis
• 2005: Mary Hearne: Data-Oriented Models of Parsing and Translation
• 2005: Ruth O'Donovan: Automatic Extraction of Large-Scale Multilingual Lexical Resources (jointly, with Josef Van Genabith)
• 2006: Mick Burke: Automatic Treebank Annotation for the Aquisition of LFG Resources (jointly, with Josef Van Genabith)
• 2007: Declan Groves: Hybrid Data-Driven Models of Machine Translation
• 2007: Bart Mellebeek: TransBooster: Black Box Optimisation of Machine Translation Systems (jointly, with Josef Van Genabith)
• 2008: Karolina Owczarzak: A Novel Dependency-Based Evaluation Metric for Machine Translation (jointly, with Josef Van Genabith)
• 2008: Sara Morrissey: Data-Driven Machine Translation for Sign Languages
• 2009: Hany Hassan: Lexical Syntax for Statistical Machine Translation (jointly, with Khalil Sima'an)
• 2009: Ventsislav Zhechev: Automatic Generation of Parallel Treebanks: An Efficient Unsupervised System
• 2009: Yanjun Ma: Constrained Models of Word Alignment for Statistical Machine Translation

MSc Students

• 1995: Elaine Mahon: Modelling Discourse Theory
• 1996: Ken Gibson: Phoneme Recognition by Modular Construction of Large Phonemic Time-Delay Neural Networks
• 1996: Deirdre Carr: Head-Driven Machine Translation
• 1997: Michelle Timmons: Computer Applications, Dublin City University A Generic Comparison Process for Documentation Files
• 1998: Gary Hearne: A Generic Quality Assurance Tool for Windows Help Systems
• 1999: Lynne Bowker: A Corpus-Based Approach To Evaluating Translations In An Academic Setting
• 2000: Gerard Cleary: Classroom of the Future
• 2001: Bríd de Lóndra: The Creation and Evaluation of an Irish Language Learning Website for Gaelscoileanna
• 2003: Maireád McCarthy: Design and Evaluation of the Linguistic Basis of an Automatic F-Structure Annotation Algorithm for the Penn-II Treebank (jointly, with Josef Van Genabith)
• 2007: Ríona Finn: Grammatical Feature Data-Oriented Parsing
• 2007: Stephen Armstrong:Using EBMT to Produce Foreign Language Subtitles