About Me

I'm a Researcher in the Natural Language Processing Group, working primarily in machine translation. My research interests include discriminative structure prediction (supervised approaches to parsing, transduction and translation), as well as task-directed unsupervised learning.

I did my PhD at the University of Alberta with Dekang Lin. If you're curious, here's the old Alberta homepage.

Publications

2009

Kristina Toutanova and Colin Cherry, A global model for joint lemmatization and part-of-speech prediction, in Proceedings of ACL, Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2009
Colin Cherry and Hisami Suzuki, Discriminative Substring Decoding for Transliteration, in Proceedings of EMNLP, Association for Computational Linguistics, August 2009
Nguyen Bach, Stephan Vogel, and Colin Cherry, Cohesive Constraints in A Beam Search Phrase-based Decoder, in Proceedings of NAACL-HLT, Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2009
Susan Bartlett, Grzegorz Kondrak, and Colin Cherry, On the Syllabification of Phonemes, in Proceedings of NAACL-HLT, Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2009
Hoifung Poon, Colin Cherry, and Kristina Toutanova, Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation with Log-Linear Models, in Proceedings of NAACL-HLT, Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2009

2008

Colin Cherry and Chris Quirk, Discriminative, Syntactic Language Modeling through Latent SVMs, in Proceeding of AMTA, Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, 23 October 2008
Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Colin Cherry, and Grzegorz Kondrak, Joint Processing and Discriminative Training for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion, in Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Association for Computational Linguistics, Columbus, Ohio, June 2008
Susan Bartlett, Grzegorz Kondrak, and Colin Cherry, Automatic Syllabification with Structured SVMs for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion, in Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Association for Computational Linguistics, Columbus, Ohio, June 2008
Colin Cherry, Cohesive Phrase-Based Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation, in Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT, Association for Computational Linguistics, Columbus, Ohio, June 2008

2007

Colin Cherry and Dekang Lin, Inversion Transduction Grammar for Joint Phrasal Translation Modeling, in Proceedings of SSST, NAACL-HLT 2007 / AMTA Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation, Association for Computational Linguistics, Rochester, New York, April 2007

2006

Colin Cherry and Dekang Lin, Soft Syntactic Constraints for Word Alignment through Discriminative Training, in Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, Association for Computational Linguistics, Sydney, Australia, July 2006
Qin Wang, Colin Cherry, Dan Lizotte, and Dale Schuurmans, Improved Large Margin Dependency Parsing via Local Constraints and Laplacian Regularization, in Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-X), Association for Computational Linguistics, New York City, June 2006
Colin Cherry and Dekang Lin, A Comparison of Syntactically Motivated Word Alignment Spaces , in Proceedings of EACL, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2006

2005

Colin Cherry and Shane Bergsma, An Expectation Maximization Approach to Pronoun Resolution, in Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-2005), Association for Computational Linguistics, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005
Chris Quirk, Arul Menezes, and Colin Cherry, Dependency Treelet Translation: Syntactically Informed Phrasal SMT, in Proceedings of ACL, Association for Computational Linguistics, June 2005

2004

Chris Quirk, Arul Menezes, and Colin Cherry, Dependency Tree Translation: Syntactically Informed Phrasal SMT, no. MSR-TR-2004-113, November 2004

2003

Colin Cherry and Dekang Lin, A Probability Model to Improve Word Alignment, in Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Association for Computational Linguistics, Sapporo, Japan, July 2003
Dekang Lin and Colin Cherry, Word Alignment with Cohesion Constraint, in Proceedings of HLT/NAACL, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2003
Dekang Lin and Colin Cherry, ProAlign: Shared Task Description, in Proceedings of the HLT/NAACL 2003 Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2003