| | In the News | | - November 2008: Philip Resnik did a November 13 interview on Federal News Radio, in which he discussed cloud computing and its relevance to R&D in language technology.
- October 2008: TERp was at the top for more conditions than any of 38 other metrics submitted to NIST's Metric MATR workshop.
- Summer 2007: NAACL paper on System Combination co-authored by postdoc Necip Fazil Ayan (and others on the GALE BBN team) wins best paper award (see p. vii).
- Summer 2005: The paper on the Hiero statistical translation model, by postdoc David Chiang, wins the Best Paper award at the ACL 2005 conference.
- January 2005: The Linguist's Search Engine receives a nice mention in an article in the Economist.
- September 2004: Bonnie Dorr and the CLIP lab are featured in an article in the September issue of the University of Maryland Faculty and Staff Newspaper.
- August 2004: Bonnie Dorr was interviewed by the Washington Times about Machine Translation and Summarization.
- May 2004: Nizar Habash's joint-authored 2003 article (with Bonnie Dorr and David Traum) was recognized as the most viewed article in the history of the top international MT journal, Machine Translation Journal.
- February 2004: David Zajic and Bonnie Dorr's Topiary system placed first (out of 40 systems) in NIST's DUC Conference.
- January 2004: Bonnie Dorr was was listed in MIT's Technology Review as one of 8 international leaders in the area of universal translation.
- Sept 2001: Douglas Oard, associate professor in the College ofInformation Studies, together with Drs. Doermann, Dorr, and PhilipResnik, associate professor of linguistics, as well as researchers atJohns Hopkins University and IBM, received $7.5 million from the NSFspread over five years to develop multilingual access to large spokenarchives (the MALACH project).
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