Francis M. Tyers

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‘In so moche that in my dayes happened that certayn marchauntes were in a shippe in Tamyse, for to haue sayled ouer the see into Selande, and for lacke of wynde thei taryed atte Forlond, and wente to lande for to refreshe them;
And specyally he axyed after eggys. And the good wyf answerde that she coude speke no frenshe. And the marchaunt was angry for he also coude speke no frenshe but wold haue hadde egges and she vnderstode hym not. And thenne at laste a nother sayd that he wolde haue eyren. Then the good wyf sayd that she vnderstood hym wel’

—Caxton's Eneydos (1490)

Publications

2023

Swanson, D., Didriksen, T. and Tyers, F. M. (2023) "WITH Context: Adding Rule-Grouping to VISL CG-3". Workshop on Constraint Grammar - Methods, Tools, and Applications.

Pugh, R. and Tyers, F. M. (2023) "The ITML Submission to the IberLEF2023 Shared Task on Guarani-Spanish Code Switching Analysis". IberLEF 2023.

Alam, M., O'Neil, A., Swanson, D. and Tyers, F. M. (2023) "A Finite-State Morphological Analyzer for Saraiki". 2nd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages.

Tyers, F. M., Pugh, R., and Berthoud, F., V. (2023) "Codex to corpus: Exploring annotation and processing for an open and extensible machine-readable edition of the Florentine Codex". Proceedings of the Third Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP).

Pugh, R., Castañeda, Q. and Tyers, F. M. (2023) "Developing finite-state language technology for Maya". Proceedings of the Third Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP).

Tyers, F. M. and Pugh, R. (2023) "A finite-state morphological analyser for Highland Puebla Nahuatl". Proceedings of the Third Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP).

O'Neil, A., Swanson, D., Pugh, R., Ngué Um, E. and Tyers, F. M. (2023) "Comparing methods of orthographic conversion for Bàsàá, a language of Cameroon". Fourth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages

Tyers, F. M. and Herrera Castro, S. (2023) "Towards a finite-state morphological analyser for San Mateo Huave". Proceedings ComputEL6.

2022

Washington, J. N., Tyers, F. M. and Salimzianov, I. (2022) "Non-finite verb forms in Turkic exhibit syncretism, not multifunctionality" Folia Linguistica. 56(3), pp. 693—742. doi:10.1515/flin-2022-2045

Kosyak, S. and Tyers, F. M. (2022) "Predictive text for agglutinative and polysynthetic languages". Field Matters Workshop (to appear)

Schwartz, L., Haley, C., and Tyers, F. M. (2022) "Interpretable word embeddings for every language, no corpus needed". Field Matters Workshop (to appear)

Chen, Y., Jo, E. L., Yao, Y., Lim, K., Silfverberg, M. Tyers, F. M., and Park, J. (2022) "Yet Another Format of Universal Dependencies for Korean". COLING 2022

Ngué Um, E., Ngo Tjomb Assembe, É., and Tyers, F. M. (2022) "Developing a rule-based machine translation system, Ewondo-French-Ewondo". International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 16.2, pp. 166—181

Pugh, R., Huerta Mendez, M., Sasaki, M. and Tyers, F. M. (2022) "Universal Dependencies for Western Sierra Puebla Nahuatl". 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.

Swanson, D. and Tyers, F. M. (2022) "A Universal Dependencies Treebank of Ancient Hebrew". 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.

Ivanova, S., North Washington, J. and Tyers, F. M. (2022) "A Free/Open-Source Morphological Analyser and Generator for Sakha". 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.

Kuznetsova, A., Kumar, A., Drexler Fox, J. and Tyers, F. M. (2022) "Curriculum optimization for low-resource speech recognition". ICASSP 2022 (to appear)

Andreo-Raynaud, G., Lissy, A. and Tyers, F. M. (2022) "Pilot survey on Common Voice and the sociolinguistic perspectives of techno-vehicular languages". Langue(s) en mondialisation. Libre(s) échange(s) à l’heure néolibérale ?. (Paris: Archives contemporaine) ISBN: 9782813004284

Ngai, C. H. and Tyers, F. M. (2022) "Gender in Sounds: Sound Symbolism in Mandarin First Names". ILL13 : Iconicity in Language and Literature.

2021

Ivanova, S., Tyers, F. M. and Washington, J. N. (2021) "A Prototype Free/Open-Source Morphological Analyser and Generator for Sakha". 5th Widening NLP (WiNLP2021) workshop (to appear)

Mirzakhalov, J., Babu, A., Ataman, D., Kariev, S., Tyers, F. M., Abduraufov, O., Hajili, M., Ivanova, S., Khaytbaev, A., Laverghetta, A., Moydinboyev, B., Önal, E., Pulatova, S., Wahab, A., Fırat, O. and Chellappan, S. (2021) "A Large-Scale Study of Machine Translation in Turkic Languages". Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (to appear)

Mirzakhalov, J., Babu, A., Kunafin, A., Wahab, A., Moydinboyev, B., Ivanova, S., Uzokova, M., Pulatova, S., Ataman, D., Kreutzer, J., Tyers, F. M., Fırat, O., Licato, J., and Chellappan, S. (2021) "Evaluating Multiway Multilingual NMT in the Turkic Languages ". Proceedings of the Sixth Conference in Machine Translation (WMT20) (to appear)

Hjortnæs, N., Partanen, N. and Tyers, F. M. (2021) "Keyword spotting for audiovisual archival search in Uralic languages". Seventh international workshop on computational linguistics of Uralic languages, pp. 20—26

Park, H., Tyers, F. M. and Schwartz, L. (2021) "Universal Dependencies for St. Lawrence Island Yupik". Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP). pp.

Pugh, R. and Tyers, F. M. (2021) "Investigating variation in written forms of Nahuatl using character-based language models". Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP). pp.

Kuznetsova, A. and Tyers, F. M. (2021) "A morphological analyser for Paraguayan Guaraní". Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP). pp.

Howell, N. and Tyers, F. M. (2021) "A survey of part-of-speech tagging approaches applied to K'iche'". Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP). pp.

Tyers, F. M. and Henderson, R. (2021) "A corpus of K'iche' annotated for morphosyntactic structure". Proceedings of the First Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP). pp.

Richardson, I. and Tyers, F. M. (2021) "A morphological analyser for Kʼicheʼ". Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural. No. 66, pp. 99—109

Pugh, R., Tyers, F. M., and Huerta Mendez, M. (2021) "Towards an Open Source Finite-State Morphological Analyzer for Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla Nahuatl". Proceedings of ComputEL4 pp.

Hjortnæs, N., Partanen, N., Rießler, M. and Tyers, F. M. (2021) "The Relevance of the Source Language in Transfer Learning for ASR". Proceedings of ComputEL4 pp.

2020

Tyers, F. M. and Nicholas Howell (2020) "Morphological analysis and disambiguation for Breton". Language Resources and Evaluation. doi://10.1007/s10579-020-09510-8

Tyers, F. M. and Mishchenkova, K. (2020) "Dependency annotation of noun incorporation in polysynthetic languages". Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2020). pp. 195—204

Zhou, H., Chung, J., Kübler, S. and Tyers, F. M. (2020) "Universal Dependency Treebank for Xibe". Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Universal Dependencies (UDW 2020). pp. 205—215

Washington, J. N., Tyers, F. M. and Kuyrukçu, O. (2020) "Multi-script morphological transducers and transcribers for seven Turkic languages". Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic 5.

Vylomova, E., White, J., Salesky, E., Mielke, J. S., Wu, S., Ponti, E., Hall Maudslay, R., Zmigrod, R., Valvoda, J., Toldova, S., Tyers, F. M., Klyachko, E., Yegorov, I., Krizhanovsky, N., Czarnowska, P., Nikkarinen, I., Krizhanovsky, A., Pimentel, T., Torroba Hennigen, L., Kirov, C., Nicolai, G., Williams, A., Anastasopoulos, A., Cruz, H., Chodroff, E., Cotterell, R., Silfverberg, M. and Hulden, M. (2020) "SIGMORPHON 2020 Shared Task 0: Typologically Diverse Morphological Inflection".

Schwartz, L., Tyers, F. M., Levin, L., Kirov, C., Littell, P., Lo, C., Prud'hommeaux, E., Park, H., Steimel, K., Knowles, R., Micher, J., Strunk, L., Liu, H., Haley, C., Zhang, K. J., Jimmerson, R., Andriyanets, V., Obaja Muis, A., Otani, N., Park, J. H. and Zhang, Z. (2020) "Neural Polysynthetic Language Modelling". arXiv. 2005.05477 [cs.CL]

Hjortnæs, N., Arkhangelskiy, T., Partanen, N., Rießler, M. and Tyers, F. M. (2020) "Improving the Language Model for Low-Resource ASR with Online Text Corpora". Proceedings of the 1st Joint SLTU and CCURL Workshop (SLTU-CCURL 2020). 336—341

Keleg, A., Tyers, F. M., Howell, N. and Pirinen, T. (2020) " An unsupervised method for weighting finite-state morphological analyzers". Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020). 3835—3843

Ardila, R., Branson, M., Davis, K., Henretty, M., Kohler, M., Meyer, J., Morais, R., Saunders, L., Tyers, F. M. and Weber, G. (2020) "Common Voice: A Massively-Multilingual Speech Corpus". Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020). 4211—4215

Zueva, A., Kuznetsova, A. and Tyers, F. M. (2020) "A Finite-State Morphological Analyser for Evenki". Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020). 2574—2582

Nivre, J., de Marneffe, M.-C., Ginter, F., Hajič, J., Manning, C. D., Pyysalo, S., Schuster, S., Tyers, F. M. and Zeman, D. (2020) "Universal Dependencies v2: An Evergrowing Multilingual Treebank Collection". Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020). 4027—4036

Bayatli, S., Kurnaz, S., Ali, A., Washington, J. N. and Tyers, F. M. (2020) "Unsupervised weighting of transfer rules in rule-based machine translation using a Maximum-Entropy approach". Journal of Information Science and Engineering 36 (1)

Hjortnæs, N., Partanen, N., Rießler, M. and Tyers, F. M. (2020) "Towards a Speech Recognizer for Komi, an Endangered and Low-Resource Uralic Language". Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics of Uralic Languages pp.

Howell, N. L., Bibaeva, M. and Tyers, F. M. (2020) "Effort versus performance tradeoff in Uralic lemmatisers". Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics of Uralic Languages pp.

2019

Malykh, V., Fjodorowa, M. and Tyers, F. M. (2019) "An approach to abstractive summarization for Norwegian Bokmål" 8th Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Conference (AINL 2019)

Washington, J. N. and Tyers, F. M. (2019) "Delineating Turkic non-finite verb forms by syntactic function". Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic 4. pp. 132—146.

Önal, E. and Tyers, F. M. (2019) "Building a morphological analyser for Laz". Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing.

Gökırmak, M., Washington, J. N. and Tyers, F. M. (2019) "Machine Translation for Crimean Tatar to Turkish". Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Low-resource Machine Translation

Heinecke, J. and Tyers, F. M. (2019) "Development of a Universal Dependencies treebank for Welsh". Proceedings of the 3rd Celtic Language Technology Workshop

Park, J. and Tyers, F. M. (2019) "A New Annotation Scheme for the Sejong Part-of-speech Tagged Corpus". Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop

Zampieri, M., Malmasi, S., Scherrer, Y., Samardžić, T., Tyers, F. M., Silfverberg, M., Klyueva, N., Pan, T., Huang, C., Ionescu, R. T., Butnaru, A. and Jauhiainen, T. (2019) "A Report on the Third VarDial Evaluation Campaign". Proceedings of the Third VarDial Workshop.

Endresen, A., Klezovich, A., Lyashevskaya, O., Mordashova, D., Nordrum, M., Rakhilina, E., Tyers, F. M. and Zhukova, V. (2019) "Building a Constructicon for Russian: How to identify families of constructions?". Proceedings of the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference ICLC15

Janda, L. and Tyers, F. M. (2019) "Paradigms: cognitive plausibility and pedagogical application". Proceedings of the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference ICLC15

Tyers, F. M., Washington, J. N., Kavitskaya, D., Gökırmak, M., Howell, N. and Berberova, R. (2019) "A biscriptual morphological transducer for Crimean Tatar". Proceedings of the ComputEL-3 Workshop

Berkson, K., Lotven, S., Thang, P. H., Thawngza, T., Sung, Z., Wamsley, J. C., Tyers, F. M., Van Bik, K., Kübler, S., Williamson, D. and Anderson, M. (2019) "Building a Common Voice Corpus for Laiholh (Hakha Chin)". Proceedings of the ComputEL-3 Workshop

Silfverberg, M. and Tyers, F. M. (2019) "Data-Driven Morphological Analysis of Nominal Morphology for Uralic Languages". Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics of Uralic Languages pp.

2018

Ravfogel, S., Goldberg, Y. and Tyers, F. M. (2018) "Can LSTM Learn to Capture Agreement? The Case of Basque". Proceedings of the Workshop on Analyzing and interpreting neural networks for NLP

Tyers, F. M., Sheyanova, M., Martynova, A., Stepachev, P. and Vinogorodskiy, K. (2018) "Multi-source synthetic treebank creation for improved cross-lingual dependency parsing". Proceedings of the Universal Dependencies Workshop 2018 (UDW 2018)

Janda, L. A., Lyashevskaya, O., Nesset, T., Rakhilina, E., Tyers, F. M. (2018) "A constructicon for Russian: Filling in the gaps". Constructicography: Constructicon development across languages. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins).

Adriyanets, V. and Tyers, F. M. (2018) "A prototype finite-state morphological analyser for Chukchi". Proceedings of the Workshop All Together Now? Computational Modeling of Polysynthetic Languages

Janda, L. A. and Tyers, F. M. (2018) "Less is more: why all paradigms are defective, and why that is a good thing ". Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

Bayatli, S., Washington, J. N., Salimzyanov, I. and Tyers, F. M. (2018) "Rule-based machine translation from Kazakh to Turkish". Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (to appear).

Tyers, F. M. and Ravishankar, V. (2018) "A prototype dependency treebank for Breton''. Actes de la conférence Traitement Automatique de la LangueNaturelle, TALN 2018 197—204

Bayatli, S., Karanfil, G., Gökırmak, G. and Tyers, F. M. (2018) "Finite-state morphological analysis for Gagauz". Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC2018

Tyers, F. M., Sheyanova, M. and Washington, J. N. (2018) "UD Annotatrix: An annotation tool for Universal Dependencies". Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories

Aplonova, K. and Tyers, F. M. (2018) "Towards a dependency treebank for Bambara". Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories

Rueter, J. and Tyers, F. M. (2018) "Towards an open-source universal-dependency treebank for Erzya". Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics of Uralic Languages pp. 106—118

2017

Fronteddu, G., Alòs i Font, H., and Tyers, F. M. (2017) "Una eina per a una llengua en procés d’estandardització: el traductor automàtic català-sard". Linguamática, 9(2), pp. 3—20

Littell, P., Tian, T., Xu, R., Sheikh, Z., Mortensen, D., Levin, L., Tyers, F., Hayashi, H., Horwood, G., Sloto, S., Tagtow, E., Black, A., Yang, Y., Mitamura, T., and Hovy, E. (2017) "The ARIEL-CMU Situation Frame detection pipeline for LoReHLT16: A model translation approach". Machine Translation (to appear)

Washington, J. N., Makhazhanov, A., Çöltekin, Ç., Tyers, F. M. (2017) "An assessment of Universal Dependency annotation guidelines for Turkic languages". TurkLang 2017 (to appear)

Ravishankar, V., Gatt, A. and Tyers, F. M. (2017) "A morphological analyser for Maltese". Procedia Computer Science (to appear)

Gökırmak, M. and Tyers, F. M. (2017) "A dependency treebank for Kurmanji Kurdish". Proceedings of the the International Conference on Dependency Linguistics, Depling 2017. (to appear)

Ravishankar, V. and Tyers, F. M. (2017) "Finite-state morphological analysis for Marathi". Proceedings of The 13th International Conference on Finite State Methods and Natural Language Processing (to appear)

Zeman, D., Popel, M., Straka, M., Hajič, J., Nivre, J., Ginter, F., Luotolahti, J., Pyysalo, S., Petrov, S., Potthast, M., Tyers, F. M., Badmaeva, E., Gökırmak, M., Nedoluzhko, A., Cinková, S., Hajič, J. jr., Hlaváčová, J., Kettnerová, V., Urešová, Z., Kanerva, J., Ojala, S., Missilä, A., Manning, C., Schuster, S., Reddy, S., Taji, D., Habash, N., Leung, H., de Marneffe, M.-C., Sanguinetti, M., Simi, M., Kanayama, H., de Paiva, V., Droganova, K., Martínez Alonso, H., Uszkoreit, H., Macketanz, V., Burchardt, A., Harris, K., Marheinecke, K., Rehm, G., Kayadelen, T., Attia, M., Elkahky, A., Yu, Zh., Pitler, E., Lertpradit, S., Mandl, M., Kirchner, J., Fernandez Alcalde, H., Strnadova, J., Banerjee, E., Manurung, R., Stella, A., Shimada, A., Kwak, S., Mendonça, G., Lando, T., Nitisaroj, R., Li, J. (2017) "CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies". Proceedings of the CoNLL 2017 Shared Task: Multilingual Parsing from Raw Text to Universal Dependencies. Association for Computational Linguistics. (to appear)

Tyers, F. M., Alos i Font, H., Fronteddu, G. and Martín-Mor, A. (2017) "Rule-based machine translation for the Italian--Sardinian language pair". Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the European Association of Machine Translation, EAMT12 (to appear)

Johnson, R., Pirinen, T., Puolakainen, T., Trosterud, T., Tyers, F. M., Unhammer, K. (2017) "North-Sámi to Finnish rule-based machine translation system". Proceedings of the 21st Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, NoDaLiDa. (131) 115—122

Antonsen, A., Gerstenberger, C., Kappfjell, M., Ráhka, S., Olthuis, M.-L., Trosterud, T., Tyers, F. M. (2017) "Machine translation with North Saami as a pivot language". Proceedings of the 21st Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics, NoDaLiDa. (131) 123—131

Sheyanova, M. and Tyers, F. M. (2017) "Annotation schemes in North Sámi dependency parsing". 3rd International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Uralic Languages.

Badmaeva, E. and Tyers, F. M. (2017) "A dependency treebank for Buryat". 15th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories.

2016

Gruzitis, N., Dannélls, D., Ranta, A., Tyers, F. M. (2016) "Grammatical Framework for implementing multilingual frames and constructions". 9th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG9)

Pirinen, Tommi A., Trosterud, T., Tyers, F. M., Vincze, V. Simon, E., Rueter, J. (2016) " Foreword to the Special Issue on Uralic Languages". Northern European Journal of Language Technology Vol. 4

Antonsen, L., Trosterud, T., Tyers, F. M. (2016) "A North Saami to South Saami Machine Translation Prototype". Northern European Journal of Language Technology Vol. 4

Sulubacak, U., Gökırmak, M., Tyers, F. M., Çöltekin, Ç., Nivre, J., Eryiğit, G. (2016) "Universal Dependencies for Turkish". COLING 2016.

Ageeva, E. and Tyers, F. M. (2016) "Combined morphological and syntactic disambiguation for cross-lingual dependency parsing". TurkLang 2016

Endresen, A., Janda, L. A., Reynolds, R. and Tyers, F. M. (2016) "Who needs particles? A challenge to the classification of particles as a part of speech in Russian". Russian Linguistics. 1--30

Assylbekov, Zh., Washington, J. N., Tyers, F. M., Nurkas, A., Sundetova, A., Karibayeva, A., Abduali, B., Amirova, D. (2016) "A free/open-source hybrid morphological disambiguation tool for Kazakh". 1st International Workshop on Turkic Computational Linguistics

Tyers, F. M., Washington, J. N., Bayyr-ool, A., Salchak, A. (2016) "A finite-state morphological analyser for Tuvan". Rodnoj Jazyk 1(4) pp. 156--187

Motlani, R., Tyers, F. M., Sharma, D. M. (2016) "A finite-state morphological analyser for Sindhi".

Washington, J. N., Bayyr-ool, A., Salchak, A., Tyers, F. M. (2016) "The development of a finite-state morphological analyser for Tuvan".

Tyers, F. M. and Pirinen, T. A. (2016) "Intermediate representation in rule-based machine translation for the Uralic languages". 2nd International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Uralic languages

2015

Janda, L. A.; Tyers, F. M., Reynolds, R., Endresen, A. (2015) "Do 'particles' deserve to be classified as a part of speech? A view from Russian". The 5th Conference of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition

Sundetova, A., Tyers, F. M. and Forcada, M. L. (2015) "A free/open-source machine translation system for English to Kazakh". Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Turkic Languages (TurkLang 2015). (to appear)

Tyers, F. M. and Washington, J. (2015) "Towards a free/open-source universal-dependency treebank for Kazakh". Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Turkic Languages (TurkLang 2015). (to appear)

Antonsen, L., Gerstenberger, C., Johnson, R., Olthuis, M.-L., Sarivaara, E., Trosterud, T. and Tyers, F. M. (2015) "Aanaar Saami e-lexicography". Proceedings of the Workshop on Language technology through citizen science. (to appear)

Tyers, F. M., Pirinen, T. A. and Washington, J. (2015) "Finite-state morphologies and text corpora as resources for improving morphological descriptions". Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Phonology and Morphology.

Tyers, F. M., Sánchez-Martínez, F. and Forcada, M. L. (2015) "Unsupervised training of maximum-entropy models for lexical selection in rule-based machine translation". Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation. pp. 145--153

Ageeva, E., Tyers, F. M., Forcada, M. L., Pérez-Ortíz, J. A. (2015) "Evaluating machine translation for assimilation via a gap-filling task". Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation. pp. 137--145

Reynolds, R. and Tyers, F. M. (2015) "A preliminary constraint grammar for Russian". Proceedings of the Constraint Grammar workshop at NODALIDA, the 20th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (to appear)

Reynolds, R. and Tyers, F. M. (2015) "Automatic word stress annotation of Russian unrestricted text". Proceedings of the 20th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (to appear)

Listenmaa, I. and Tyers, F. M. (2015) "Automatic conversion of colloquial Finnish to standard Finnish". Proceedings of the 20th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (to appear)

2014

Minocha, A. and Tyers, F. M. (2014) "Subsegmental language detection in Celtic language text". Proceedings of the Celtic language technology workshop (CLTW) organised with COLING2014 (to appear)

Nemeskey, D. M., Tyers, F. M. and Hulden, M. (2014) "Why Implementation Matters: Evaluation of an Open-source Constraint Grammar Parser". Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2014) (to appear)

Peradin, H., Petkovski, F. and Tyers, F. M. (2014) "Shallow-transfer rule-based machine translation for the Western group of South Slavic". Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology for Minority Languages (SALTMIL2014) organised with LREC2014 (to appear)

Moshagen, S., Trosterud, T., Rueter, J., Tyers, F. M. and Pirinen, T. A. (2014), "Open-source infrastructures for collaborative work on under-resourced languages". Proceedings of CCURL workshop 2014 organised with LREC2014

Washington, J. N., Salimzyanov, I., and Tyers, F. M. (2014) "Finite-state morphological transducers for three Kypchak languages". Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC2014 (to appear)

2013

Salimzyanov, I., Washington, J. N., and Tyers, F. M. (2013) "A free/open-source Kazakh-Tatar machine translation system". Proceedings of MT Summit XIV (to appear)

Tyers, F. M. (2013) "Feasible lexical selection for rule-based machine translation". PhD thesis July, 2013. Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Infomàtics, Universitat d'Alacant, Spain.

2012

Susanto, R. H., Lasarati, S. D., and Tyers, F. M. (2012) "Rule-based Machine Translation between Indonesian and Malaysian". Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing at COLING 2012. (to appear)

Tyers, F. M., Sánchez-Martínez, F., and Forcada, M. L. (2012) "Flexible finite-state lexical selection for rule-based machine translation". Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference of the European Association of Machine Translation, EAMT12 (to appear)

Martínez Cortés, J. P., O'Regan, J., and Tyers, F. M. (2012) "Free/Open Source Shallow-Transfer Based Machine Translation for Spanish and Aragonese". Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC2012 pp. 2153--2157

Washington, J. N., Ipasov, M. and Tyers, F. M. (2012) "A finite-state morphological analyser for Kyrgyz". Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC2012 (to appear)

Martínez-Cortés, J. P., O'Regan, J. and Tyers, F. M. (2012) "Free/open-source shallow-transfer based machine translation for Spanish and Aragonese". Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC2012 (to appear)

Tyers, F. M., Washington, J. N., Salimzyanov, I., and Batalov, R. (2012) "A prototype machine translation system for Tatar and Bashkir based on free/open-source components". Proceedings of the Turkic Languages Workshop at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC2012 (to appear)

Pirinen, T. and Tyers, F. M. (2012) "Compiling Apertium dictionaries with HFST and using them in HFST applications". Proceedings of the SALTMIL Workshop at LREC2012.

2011

Forcada, M. L., Ginestí-Rosell, M., Nordfalk, J., O’Regan, J., Ortiz-Rojas, S., Pérez-Ortiz, J. A., Sánchez-Martínez, F., Ramírez-Sánchez, G. and Tyers, F. M. (2011) "Apertium: a free/open-source platform for rule-based machine translation. Machine Translation 24(1) pp. 1--18

Otte, P. and Tyers, F. M. (2011) "Rapid rule-based machine translation between Dutch and Afrikaans". Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the European Association of Machine Translation, EAMT11

Brandt, M. D and Loftsson, H. and Sigurþórsson, H. and Tyers, F. M. (2011) "Apertium-IceNLP: A rule-based Icelandic to English machine translation system". Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the European Association of Machine Translation, EAMT11

2010

Wiechetek, L. and Tyers, F. M. and Omma, T. (2010) "Shooting at flies in the dark: Rule-based lexical selection for a minority language pair". Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Volume 6233/2010, pp. 418--429

Tyers, F. M. (2010) "An treiñ emgefreek diazezet war reolennoù evit treiñ ar brezhoneg e galleg". Hor Yezh 262 (Mezheven 2010) pp. 27--39 _{[Translation by Thierry Fohanno]}

Tyers, F. M. (2010) "Rule-based Breton to French machine translation". Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the European Association of Machine Translation, EAMT10 pp. 174--181. _[poster]

Tyers, F. M. and Alperen, M. S. (2010) "SETimes: A parallel corpus of Balkan languages". Proceedings of the MultiLR Workshop at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC2010

Tyers, F. M. and Sánchez-Martínez, F. and Ortiz-Rojas, S. and Forcada, M. L. (2010) "Free/open-source resources in the Apertium platform for machine translation research and development". The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics No. 93, pp. 67--76

2009

Ginestí-Rosell, M. and Ramírez-Sánchez, G. and Ortiz-Rojas, S. and Tyers, F. M. and Forcada, M. L. (2009) "Development of a free Basque to Spanish machine translation system". Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural No. 43, pp. 185--197 _[slides]
Tyers, F. M. (2009) "Rule-based augmentation of training data in Breton–French statistical machine translation ". Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association of Machine Translation, EAMT09. pp. 213--218 _[poster]
Tyers, F. M. and Wiechetek, L. and Trosterud, T. (2009) "Developing prototypes for machine translation between two Sámi languages". Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association of Machine Translation, EAMT09. pp. 120--128 _[poster]
Tyers, F. M. and Donnelly, K. (2009) "apertium-cy - a collaboratively-developed free RBMT system for Welsh to English". The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics No. 91, pp. 57--66. _[slides]

2008

Tyers, F. M. and Pienaar, J. A. (2008) "Extracting bilingual word pairs from Wikipedia". Proceedings of the SALTMIL Workshop at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC2008. pp. 19--22. _[slides]

Other talks

Tyers, F. M. (2018) "Speech synthesis on a shoe string". at Computational Methods for Endangered Language Documentation and Description, Paris, France, 1st February 2018
Tyers, F. M. (2011) "The only option is open: Why should language technology and resources be free?" at Workshop on visibility and availability of LT resources in conjunction with NoDaLiDa 2011, Riga, Latvia, 11th May 2011

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