Barry Haddow

Contact information:

School of Informatics
The Informatics Forum
10 Crichton Street
Edinburgh EH8 9AB
email: bhaddow at inf dot ed dot ac dot uk

About Me

I am a research fellow in the ICCS at the University of Edinburgh.

Projects

Feb 2009 - Feb 2012 EUROMATRIXPLUS
Continuing the work of Euromatrix, but focussing on bringing translation to the user, with interactive tools, translation of news stories, and improvements to the core system.

Jan 2008 - Feb 2009 EUROMATRIX
This project is in statistical machine translation, working on tools and evaluations for the translation of all EU language pairs.

Sep 2005 - Dec 2007 TXM
A biomedical information extraction project aiming to produce natural language processing tools to assist curators in their work.

Publications

[1]	Philipp Koehn and Barry Haddow. Interactive assistance to human translators using statistical machine translation methods. In Proceedings of MT Summit XII, Ottawa, Canada, 2009. [ bib ]
[2]	Abhishek Arun, Chris Dyer, Barry Haddow, Phil Blunsom, Adam Lopez, and Philipp Koehn. Monte carlo inference and maximization for phrase-based translation. In Proceedings of the Conference on Natural Language Learning, Boulder, USA, June 2009. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[3]	Philipp Koehn and Barry Haddow. Edinburgh's submission to all tracks of the WMT 2009 shared task with reordering and speed improvements to Moses. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, pages 160-164, Athens, Greece, March 2009. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[4]	Nicola Bertoldi, Barry Haddow, and Jean-Baptiste Fouet. Improved minimum error rate training in moses. Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, No. 91:7-16, 2009. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[5]	Barry Haddow. Using automated feature optimisation to create an adaptable relation extraction system. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Current Trends in Biomedical Natural Language Processing, pages 19-27, Columbus, Ohio, June 2008. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[6]	Bea Alex, Claire Grover, Barry Haddow, Mijail Kabadjov, Ewan Klein, Michael Matthews, Stuart Roebuck, Richard Tobin, and Xinglong Wang. The ITI TXM Corpora: Tissue Expressions and Protein-Protein Interactions. In Proceedings of Workshop on Building and evaluating resources for biomedical text mining, LREC 2008, Marrakesh, Morocco, 2008. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[7]	Barry Haddow and Beatrice Alex. Exploiting multiply annotated corpora in biomedical information extraction tasks. In Proceedings of LREC, Marrakesh, Morocco, 2008. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[8]	Beatrice Alex, Claire Grover, Barry Haddow, Mijail Kabadjov, Ewan Klein, Michael Matthews, Richard Tobin, and Xinglong Wang. Automating curation using a natural language processing pipeline. Genome Biology, 9(Suppl 2):S10, 2008. [ bib \| http ]
[9]	Larry Smith et al. Overview of biocreative ii gene mention recognition. Genome Biology, 9(Suppl 2):S2, 2008. [ bib \| http ]
[10]	Florian Leitner et al. Introducing meta-services for biomedical information extraction. Genome Biology, 9(Suppl 2):S6, 2008. [ bib \| http ]
[11]	Beatrice Alex, Claire Grover, Barry Haddow, Mijail Kabadjov, Ewan Klein, Michael Matthews, Stuart Roebuck, Richard Tobin, and Xinglong Wang. Assisted curation: Does text mining really help? In Proceedings of Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Hawaii, USA, January 2008. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[12]	Barry Haddow and Michael Matthews. The extraction of enriched protein-protein interactions from biomedical text. In Biological, translational, and clinical language processing, pages 145-152, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[13]	Beatrice Alex, Barry Haddow, and Claire Grover. Recognising nested named entities in biomedical text. In Biological, translational, and clinical language processing, pages 65-72, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007. Association for Computational Linguistics. [ bib \| .pdf ]
[14]	Claire Grover, Barry Haddow, Ewan Klein, Michael Matthews, Leif Nielsen, Richard Tobin, and Xinglong Wang. Adapting a Relation Extraction Pipeline for the BioCreAtIvE II Tasks. In Proceedings of the Second BioCreative Challenge Workshop, pages 273-286, Madrid, Spain, 2007. CNIO. [ bib \| .pdf ]

Presentations

An IE Pipeline Approach to IPS: Error Analysis. Presentation given at the Second BioCreAtIvE Challenge Workshop, Madrid, April 2007.

Enriched Protein-Protein Interactions from Biomedical Text. Invited talk given at the Tokyo Forum on Advanced NLP and Textmining, March 2007.

What I Did Before

In 2005 I completed an MSc in Artificial Intelligence in Edinburgh University, specialising in Natural Language. Prior to that I worked for Orbism, a Dublin-based IT consultancy for several years. And going back even further, I gained a PhD in Mathematics from Aberdeen University, supervised by Graham Hall, in 1994.