Publications
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Documents
- 2008
"Problems with Evaluation of Unsupervised Empirical Grammatical Inference Systems",
Menno van Zaanen and Jeroen Geertzen,
Proceedings of the ICGI 2008, Saint-Malo, France, 2008, pp. 301-303.
"Composer classification using grammatical inference",
Jeroen Geertzen and Menno van Zaanen,
Proceedings of the MML 2008 International Workshop on Machine Learning and Music held in conjunction with ICML/COLT/UAI 2008, Helsinki, Finland, pp. 17-18, 2008.
"Chorale Harmonization in the Style of J.S. Bach, A Machine Learning Approach",
Alex Chilvers and Menno van Zaanen,
Proceedings of the MML 2008 International Workshop on Machine Learning and Music held in conjunction with ICML/COLT/UAI 2008, Helsinki, Finland, pp. 27-28, 2008.
"Multi-lingual Question Answering using OpenEphyra",
Menno van Zaanen,
Working Notes for the CLEF 2008 Workshop, 17-19 September, Aarhus,
Denmark, 2008.
- 2007
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- 2006
"AnswerFinder at TREC 2006",
Menno van Zaanen and Diego Mollá and Luiz Pizzato,
The 15th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006) Proceedings, Gaithersburg:MA, U.S.A., 2006.
"Named Entity Recognition for Question Answering",
Diego Mollá and Menno van Zaanen and Daniel Smith,
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop, Sydney, Australia, pp. 51-58, 2006.
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"Unsupervised Measurement of Translation Quality using
Multi-Engine, Bi-Directional Translation",
Menno van Zaanen and Simon Zwarts,
Proceedings of the nineteenth ACS Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Hobart, Australia, pp. 1208-1214, 2006.
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"The Tenjinno Machine Translation Competition",
Bradford Starkie, Menno van Zaanen, and Dominique Estival,
Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI), Tokyo, Japan, pp. 214--226, 2006.
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"Grammatical Inference for Syntax-Based Statistical Machine
Translation",
Menno van Zaanen and Jeroen Geertzen,
Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI), Tokyo, Japan, pp. 356-358, 2006.
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"Computational Grammatical Inference",
Pieter Adriaans and Menno van Zaanen,
Chapter 7 in "INNOVATIONS IN MACHINE LEARNING: Theory and Applications" by Lakhmi Jain and Dawn Holmes (eds.), pp. 187-203, 2006, ISBN: 3-540-30609-9, Springer Verlag.
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- 2005
"Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop",
Timothy Baldwin, James Curran, and Menno van Zaanen (eds.),
Sydney, Australia, 2005.
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"Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Grammatical Inference Applications: Successes and Future Challenges", (Held together with the 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,)
Colin de la Higuera, Tim Oates, Georgios Paliouras, Menno van Zaanen (eds.),
Edinburgh, U.K., 2005.
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"Question Classification by Structure Induction",
Menno van Zaanen, Luiz Augusto Pizzato, Diego Mollá,
Proceedings of the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh, U.K., pp. 1638-1639, 2005.
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"Learning of Graph Rules for Question Answering",
Diego Mollá and Menno van Zaanen,
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop, Sydney, Australia, pp. 15-23, 2005.
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"DEMOCRAT: Deciding between Multiple Outputs Created by Automatic Translation",
Menno van Zaanen and Harold Somers,
Proceedings of the 10th Machine Translation Summit, Phuket, Thailand, pp. 173-180, 2005.
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"Classifying Sentences Using Induced Structure",
Menno van Zaanen, Luiz Augusto Pizzato, and Diego Mollá,
Proceedings of the 12th Edition of the Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE2005), Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 139-150, 2005.
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"AnswerFinder at TREC 2005",
Diego Mollá and Menno van Zaanen,
The 14th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2005) Proceedings, Gaithersburg:MA, U.S.A., cd-rom, 2005.
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"Progressing the State-of-the art in Grammatical Inference by Competition",
Bradford Starkie, François Coste, Menno van Zaanen,
Special issue of the "AI Communications" journal, vol. 18, nr. 2, pp. 93-115, 2005.
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- 2004
"Multi-Modal Information Retrieval using FINT",
Menno van Zaanen and Guido de Croon,
Multilingual Information Access for Text, Speech and Images: Results of the 5th CLEF Evaluation Campaign Revised Selected Papers, Bath, U.K., pp. 728-739, 2004.
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"The Omphalos Context-Free Grammar Learning Competition",
Bradford Starkie, François Coste, and Menno van Zaanen,
Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI), Athens, Greece, pp. 16-27, October 2004.
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"Grammatical Inference using Suffix Trees",
Jeroen Geertzen and Menno van Zaanen,
Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI), Athens, Greece, pp. 163-174, October 2004.
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"FINT: Find Images aNd Text",
Menno van Zaanen and Guido de Croon,
Working Notes of the Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, Bath, U.K., September 2004.
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"Learning Compound Boundaries for Afrikaans Spelling Checking",
Gerhard van Huyssteen and Menno van Zaanen,
Proceedings of the Workshop on International Proofing Tools and Language Technologies, Patras, Greece, pp. 101-108, July 2004.
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"A Multilingual Parallel Parsed Corpus as Gold Standard for Grammatical Inference Evaluation",
Menno van Zaanen, Andrew Roberts and Eric Atwell,
Proceedings of The Amazing Utility of Parallel and Comparable Corpora Workshop held at the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 58-61, May 2004.
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"Computational Grammar Induction for Linguists",
Pieter Adriaans and Menno van Zaanen,
Special issue of the journal "Grammars" with the theme "Grammar Induction", vol. 7, pp. 57-68, 2004.
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"Introduction to the Special Issue on Grammar Induction",
P. Adriaans, H. Fernau, C. de la Higuera, and M. van Zaanen,
Special issue of the journal "Grammars" with the theme "Grammar Induction", vol. 7, pp. 41-43, 2004.
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Special issue of the journal "Grammars" with the theme "Grammar Induction",
P. Adriaans, H. Fernau, C. de la Higuera, and M. van Zaanen (eds.),
2004.
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- 2003
"Various Uses of a Spelling Checker Project: Practical Experiences, Teaching, and Learning",
Menno van Zaanen and Gerhard van Huyssteen,
In "Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies", vol. 21, nr. 4, pp. 327-340, 2003.
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"Theoretical and Practical Experiences with Alignment-Based Learning",
Menno van Zaanen,
Proceedings of Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW2003) Melbourne, Australia, pp. 25-32, 10 December 2003.
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"Learning Natural Language Syntax from Large Corpora",
J. Geertzen and M. van Zaanen,
Poster at the Belgisch Nederlands AI Symposium voor studenten (BNAIS2003) Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 9 October 2003.
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Proceedings of the Workshop and Tutorial on Learning Context-Free Grammars, Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia, 22-26 September 2003. Held together with the 14th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) and the 7th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (PKDD),
Colin de la Higuera, Pieter Adriaans, Menno van Zaanen, and Jose Oncina (eds.),
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"Improving a Spelling Checker for Afrikaans",
Menno van Zaanen and Gerhard van Huyssteen,
Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) Conference, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, pp. 143-156, 2003.
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"Alignment-Based Learning versus Data-Oriented Parsing",
Menno van Zaanen,
Chapter 20 in "Data-Oriented Parsing" by Rens Bod, Remko Scha, and Khalil Sima'an (eds.), pp. 385-403, 2003, ISBN: 1-57586-435-5, University of Chicago Press.
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"A Memory-Based Approach to Meter Induction",
Menno van Zaanen, Rens Bod, and Henkjan Honing,
Proceedings of the 5th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), Hanover, Germany, pp. 250-253, September 2003.
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"A spellchecker for Afrikaans, based on morphological analysis",
Gerhard van Huyssteen and Menno van Zaanen,
Proceedings of the 6th International Terminology in Advanced Management Applications Conference (TAMA), Pretoria, South-Africa, pp. 189-194, February 2003.
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- 2002
Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 23-25 September 2002.
Pieter Adriaans, Henning Fernau, and Menno van Zaanen (eds.)
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"Implementing Alignment-Based Learning",
Menno van Zaanen,
Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 312-314, 23-25 September 2002.
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- 2001
"Bootstrapping Structure into Language: Alignment-Based Learning",
Menno van Zaanen,
PhD Thesis, School of Computing, University of Leeds, U.K., 2001.
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"Alignment-Based Learning versus EMILE: A Comparison",
Menno van Zaanen and Pieter Adriaans,
Proceedings of the Belgian-Dutch Conference on Artificial Intelligence (BNAIC), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 315-322, 25-26 October 2001.
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"Comparing Two Unsupervised Grammar Induction Systems: Alignment-Based Learning vs. EMILE",
Menno van Zaanen and Pieter Adriaans,
Technical Report: TR2001.05
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"Building Treebanks using a Grammar Induction System",
Menno van Zaanen,
Technical Report: TR2001.06
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- 2000
"ABL: Alignment-Based Learning",
Menno van Zaanen,
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 961-967, 31 Jul-4 Aug 2000.
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"Bootstrapping Syntax and Recursion using Alignment-Based Learning",
Menno van Zaanen,
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Machine Learning, Stanford, pp. 1063-1070, 29 Jun-2 Jul 2000.
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"Learning Structure using Alignment Based Learning",
Menno van Zaanen,
Proceedings of the 3rd Annual CLUK Research Colloquium, Brighton, U.K., pp. 75-82, 6-7 Apr 2000.
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- 1999
"Bootstrapping Structure using Similarity",
Menno van Zaanen,
Proceedings of the Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) Conference, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 235-245, 1999.
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"Error Correction using DOP",
Menno van Zaanen,
Proceedings of the 2nd Annual CLUK Research Symposium, Colchester, U.K., pp. 1-12, 11-12 Jan 1999.
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- 1998
"Publiceren en vertalen --- Problemen en oplossingen",
Menno van Zaanen,
MA Thesis University of Amsterdam (in Dutch), Amsterdam, 1998.
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- 1997
"Error Correction using DOP",
Menno van Zaanen,
MSc Thesis Vrije University, Amsterdam, 1997.
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Unpublished talks
Please contact me (by email menno@ics.mq.edu.au) if you want to get a copy of the slides of one of the following talks.
- 2006
"Inducing structure and using it"
Invited talk,
National ICT Australia Limited, Australia, 2006.
"A Collection of Great Machine Translation Topics"
LTG meeting,
Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia, 2006.
"Research, Collaboration, and Teaching"
Invited talk,
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K., 2006.
"An overview of things I find interesting"
LTG meeting,
Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia, 2006.
"Let a DEMOCRAT make the decisions",
Invited talk,
Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, 2006.
"How to get from A to ABL and Beyond",
Invited talk,
Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, 2006.
"Let a DEMOCRAT make the decisions",
Invited talk,
Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), Adelaide, Australia, 2006.
"How far can DEMOCRACY take us?",
LTG meeting,
Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia, 2006.
- 2005
"Combining Approaches to Language Acquisition",
HCSNet Summerfest,
Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia, 2005.
"Implementing AnswerFinder",
LTG meeting,
Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia, 2005.
"AnswerFinder at Macquarie University",
Invited talk,
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 2005.
- 2004
"How to get from A to ABL",
LTG meeting,
Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia, 2004.
"An Overview of Several Software Packages",
Talk at ILK meeting, Tilburg, The Netherlands, March 2004.
- 2003
"Alignment-Based Learning: An Overview and Some Details", Computer Science Department Meeting, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, December 2003.
"An Overview of ABL and (some of) its Applications",
Talk at ILK meeting, Tilburg, The Netherlands, March 2003.
- 2002
"Alignment-Based Learning of Language and Music",
Computing with Language and Inference Technology seminar, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, September 2002.
"Applying the ABL Grammar Induction System",
Talk at ITC-Irst, Trento, Italy, September 2002.
"Alignment-Based Learning and Music",
Talk at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 2002.
"Context-Sensitive Spelling Correction and Machine Learning",
International Symposium on the Development of Spelling Checkers for Southern African Languages, Potchefstroom, South-Africa, 14 March 2002.
- 2001
Talk in the course "Stringalgorithms" at the University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, June 2001.
"Grammar Introduction Made Easy",
Talk at the University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K., Jan 2001.
- 2000
- 1999
"Learning Structure from Scratch",
Talk at the University of Leeds, Leeds, U.K., Oct 1999.
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