Publications

inverse chronological order

2009

• Maja Popović and Hermann Ney. Syntax-oriented Evaluation Measures for Machine Translation Output. EACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, pages 29-32, Athens, Greece, March 2009.
• Maja Popović, David Vilar, Daniel Stein, Evgeny Matusov and Hermann Ney. The RWTH Machine Translation System for WMT 2009. EACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, pages 66-69, Athens, Greece, March 2009.

2007

• Maja Popović and Hermann Ney. Word Error Rates: Decompositon over POS classes and Applications for Error Analysis. ACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, pages 48-55, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007.

2006

• David Vilar, Maja Popović and Hermann Ney: AER: Do we need to "improve" our alignments? International Workshop on Spoken Language Processing (IWSLT), pages 205-212, Kyoto, Japan, November 2006.

• Maja Popović, Daniel Stein and Hermann Ney: Statistical Machine Translation of German Compound Words. FinTAL - 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, Springer Verlag, LNCS, pages 616-624, Turku, Finland, August 2006.

• Adrià de Gispert, Deepa Gupta, Maja Popović, Patrik Lambert, José B. Mariño, Marcello Federico, Hermann Ney and Rafael Banchs: Improving Statistical Word Alignments with Morpho-syntactic Transformations. FinTAL - 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, Springer Verlag, LNCS, pages 368-379, Turku, Finland, August 2006.
  

• Maja Popović and Hermann Ney. Error Analysis of Verb Inflections in Spanish Translation Output. TC-Star Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation, pages 99-103, Barcelona, Spain, June 2006.

• Evgeny Matusov, Richard Zens, David Vilar, Arne Mauser, Maja Popović, Saša Hasan and Hermann Ney: The RWTH Machine Translation System. TC-Star Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation, pages 31-36, Barcelona, Spain, June 2006.

• Maja Popović, Adrià de Gispert, Deepa Gupta, Patrik Lambert, Hermann Ney, José B. Mariño and Rafael Banchs. Morpho-syntactic Information for Automatic Error Analysis of Statistical Machine Translation Output. HLT/NAACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, pages 1-6, New York, NY, June 2006.

• Maja Popović and Hermann Ney. POS-based Word Reorderings for Statistical Machine Translation. 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pages 1278-1283, Genoa, Italy, May 2006.
  


• Maja Popović and Hermann Ney. Statistical Machine Translation with Small Amount of Bilingual Training Data. 5th LREC SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages, pages 25-29, Genoa, Italy, May 2006.

2005

• Maja Popović, David Vilar, Hermann Ney, Slobodan Jovičić and Zoran Šarić. Augmenting a Small Parallel Text with Morpho-syntactic Language Resources for Serbian-English Statistical Machine Translation. ACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data-Driven Machine Translation and Beyond, pages 41-48, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005. 

• Maja Popović and Hermann Ney. Exploiting Phrasal Lexica and Additional Morpho-syntactic Language Resources for Statistical Machine Translation with Scarce Training Data. 10th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), pages 212-218, Budapest, Hungary, May 2005. 

2004

• Evgeny Matusov, Maja Popović, Richard Zens and Hermann Ney. Statistical Machine Translation of Spontaneous Speech with Scarce Resources. International Workshop on Spoken Language Processing (IWSLT), pages 139-146, Kyoto, Japan, September 2004.

• Maja Popović, Slobodan Jovičić and Zoran Šarić. Statistical Machine Translation of Serbian-English. 9th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), pages 410-414, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, September 2004.

• Maja Popović and Hermann Ney. Improving Word Alignment Quality using Morpho-Syntactic Information.20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (CoLing), pages 310-314, Geneva, Switzerland, August 2004.

• Hermann Ney, Maja Popović, and David Sündermann. Error Measures and Bayes Decision Rules Revisited with Applications to POS Tagging. Conference on Empirical methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Barcelona, Spain, pages 270-276, July 2004.

• Maja Popović and Hermann Ney. Towards the Use of Word Stems and Suffixes for Statistical Machine Translation. 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pages 1585-1588, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2004.

1999

• Maja Popović. Acoustic characteristics of speech and influence of psychological-emotional factors. International Meeting on Speech and Language at the beginning of 3rd Millenium,  Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, October 1999.

• Maja Popović.  Influence of the environmental sounds on the sound of human voice. Conference on Chaos and Harmony, Serbian Academy of Art and Science Institute, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, May 1999.

1998

• Slobodan Jovičić, Maja Popović. Statistical distribution of vowel fundamental frequency. Nauka, Tehnika, Bezbednost, No. 1, 1998.

• Maja Popović, Slobodan Jovičić. Emotions and speech. Conference on Electronics, Telecommunications, Computer Science and Automation (ETRAN), Vrnjačka Banja, Serbia and Montenegro, June 1998.

• Maja Popović, Slobodan Jovičić. Discriminative properties of vowel acoustic characteristics. Conference on Digital Speech Processing (DOGS), Fruška Gora, Serbia and Montenegro, May 1998.

1997

• Maja Popović. Harmony in acoustical characteristics of human voice. Conference on Harmony in Science, Music and Art, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, November 1997.

• Maja Popović, Slobodan Jovičić. Stability of acoustic characteristics of vowel 'a'. Telecommunication Forum Conference (TELFOR), Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, November 1997.

• Maja Popović, Slobodan Jovičić. Acoustic characteristics of pathological voices. Conference on Electronics, Telecommunications, Computer Science and Automation (ETRAN), Zlatibor, Serbia and Montenegro, June 1997.

• Branko Antić , Maja Popović. Vowel quality - individual characteristics of speaker. Conference on Electronics, Telecommunications, Computer Science and Automation (ETRAN), Zlatibor, Serbia and Montenegro, June 1997.
  

1996

• Slobodan Jovičić, Maja Popović. Statistical analysis of first and second formant frequencies in Serbian vowels. Nauka, Tehnika, Bezbednost, No. 2, 1996.

• Slobodan Jovičić, Maja Popović and Milan Djordjević. Acoustic characteristics of whispered vowels. Conference on Automatics, Žabljak, Serbia and Montenegro, March 1996.