Martin Popel
Ph.D. student (supervised by doc. Ing. Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Ph.D.) at
Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (ÚFAL)Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Charles University in Prague
Address:
Malostranské náměstí 25, CZ-118 00 Praha
room 409, 4th floor, left from the staircase/elevator
phone: +420 221 914 289
e-mail: popel@ufal.mff.cuni.cz
Research interests
dependency-based MT, parsing, language modeling, MT evaluation, treebanking, machine learning in NLP
Tools
- Treex (NLP framework)
- TectoMT (MT system)
- a tool for comparing two MT outputs, see a sample HTML output
- Perl script for BLEU confidence intervals evaluation via pairwise bootstrap resampling
Teaching
- NPFL095 Modern Methods in Computational Linguistics a.k.a. Reading Group
- NPRG045 Software Project – see my proposals (in Czech)
Supervision
- 2010–2011 Master student Amir Kamran
- Since 2011 Bachelor student Ondřej Klejch
- Since 2011 Bachelor student Michal Koutný
Publications
Theses
- Master thesis: Ways to Improve the Quality of English-Czech Machine Translation, 2009 [pdf] slides in Czech [pdf]
- Bachelor thesis: Animace algoritmů z teorie automatů, 2007 (in Czech) [pdf]
Papers
2012
- Ondřej Bojar, Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Ondřej Dušek, Petra Galuščáková, Martin Majliš, David Mareček, Jiří Maršík, Michal Novák, Martin Popel, and Aleš Tamchyna: The Joy of Parallelism with CzEng 1.0. In Proceedings of LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, May 21–27, 2012. [pdf]
- Daniel Zeman, David Mareček, Martin Popel, Loganathan Ramasamy, Jan Štěpánek, Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Jan Hajič: HamleDT: To Parse or Not to Parse?. In Proceedings of LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, May 21–27, 2012. [pdf]
2011
- Ondřej Bojar, Miloš Ercegovčević, Martin Popel and Omar Zaidan: A Grain of Salt for the WMT Manual Evaluation. In Proceedings of WMT 2011, EMNLP 6th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Edinburgh, UK, July 30, 2011, pp. 1–11. [pdf] presentation [pdf]
- Martin Popel, David Mareček, Nathan Green and Zdeněk Žabokrtský: Influence of Parser Choice on Dependency-Based MT. In Proceedings of WMT 2011, EMNLP 6th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Edinburgh, UK, July 31, 2011, pp. 433–439. [pdf] poster [jpg]
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2010
- Martin Popel, David Mareček: Perplexity of n-gram and Dependency Language Models. In Proceedings of TSD 2010, 13th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialog, Brno, Czechia, September 8, 2010, pp. 173–180. [pdf] presentation [pdf]
- Martin Popel, Zdeněk Žabokrtský: TectoMT: Modular NLP Framework. In Proceedings of IceTAL, 7th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, Reykjavík, Iceland, August 17, 2010, pp. 293–304. [pdf] presentation [pdf]
- David Mareček, Martin Popel, Zdeněk Žabokrtský: Maximum Entropy Translation Model in Dependency-Based MT Framework. In Proceedings of the Joint 5th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR, Uppsala, Sweden, 15–16 July 2010, pp. 201–206. [pdf] poster [pdf]
- Martin Popel: English-Czech Machine Translation Using TectoMT. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of Doctoral Students WDS 2010, Prague, Czech Republic, 1–4 June 2010, pp. 88–93. [pdf] presentation [pdf]
2009
- Martin Popel, Zdeněk Žabokrtský: Improving English-Czech Tectogrammatical MT. In The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics No. 92, 2009, pp. 115–134. [pdf]
- Zdeněk Žabokrtský, Martin Popel: Hidden Markov Tree Model in Dependency-based Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Singapore, 2009, pp. 145–148 [pdf] poster [ppt]
- Ondřej Bojar, David Mareček, Václav Novák, Martin Popel, Jan Ptáček, Jan Rouš, Zdeněk Žabokrtský: English-Czech MT in 2008. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2009 [pdf]
Other talks
- LaTeX, Odborné vyjadřování a styl (NPOZ 009), Prague, 2012-03-28 [pdf] (in Czech)
- NSF talk (Treex applications and Deep-syntactic Machine Translation), Prague, 2012-03-07 [pdf]
- Treex Tutorial: Introduction, CLARA Winter School on New Developments in Computational Linguistics, Prague, 2012-02-16 [pdf]
- TectoMT: Machine Translation System, FEAST, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany, 2011-11-16 [pdf]
- From the Jungle to a Park: Harmonizing Dependency Treebanks of 30 Languages – Coordination styles and transformations, ÚFAL Monday Seminary, 2011-10-31 [pdf]
- Treex: Modular NLP Framework, Malá Skála, 2011-09-17 [pdf]
- My profile and MT results, Malá Skála, 2011-09-15 5 slides [pdf]
- LaTeX, Odborné vyjadřování a styl (NPOZ 009), Prague, 2011-03-23 [pdf] (in Czech)
- TectoMT Machine Translation System, Zdeněk Žabokrtský and Martin Popel, META-NET Course on Advanced MT Resources, Prague, 2010-12-17 [pdf]
- Prague Dependency Treebank Tutorial: Technology. Zdeněk Žabokrtský and Martin Popel: Introduction to TectoMT, CLARA Course on Treebank Annotation, Prague, 2010-12-15 [pdf]
- Treex: Modular NLP Framework, LATE-lunch talk at DFKI Language Technology Lab, Germany, 2010-11-04 [pdf]
- TectoMT: Machine Translation System, informal talk at Universität des Saarlandes, Germany, 2010-11-04 [pdf]
- Strojový překlad přes tektogramatickou rovinu v systému TectoMT, Pondělní seminář ÚFALu, 2010-03-22 (in Czech) [pdf]
- Deep Syntactic Machine Translation with Hidden Markov Tree Models, 5th PIRE meeting, 2009-12-12 [pdf]
- Kombinování překladových systémů, Seminar for Ph.D. Students, 2009-11-03 (in Czech) [pdf]