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Journal papers

• Rayner M., Bouillon P., Estrella P., Christian G. & Nakao Y., Bootstrapping a Statistical Speech Translator From a Rule-Based One, Linguistic Issues in Language Technology – LiLT, Submitted, March 2011.
• Bouillon P., Rayner M., Estrella P., Gerlach J. & Georgescul M., Pour une interlangue utile en traduction automatique de la parole dans des domaines limités, Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) Varia 52/1, September 2011.
• Estrella P., Popescu-Belis A., & King M. - The FEMTI guidelines for contextual MT evaluation: principles and tools. In Daelemans W. & Hoste V., eds., Evaluation of Translation Technology, Linguistica Antverpiensia, new series, 8/2009.
• Estrella P & Duboue P. - Experiments on Language Normalization for Spanish to English Machine Translation. Iberoamerican Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 9, Nr. 26, pp. 29 - 37

Conference papers

• Paula Estrella, "Metadata for a Mocoví - Quechua - Spanish parallel corpus", Workshop on "Describing LRs with Metadata: Towards Flexibility and Interoperability in the Documentation of LRs", LREC 2012, Istambul, Turkey.
• Tsourakis N. & Estrella P., An ISO-based Quality Model for Evaluating Mobile Medical Speech Translators, MobiHealth Conference, Kos Island, Greece, October 2011.
• Starlander M. & Estrella P., Looking for the best Evaluation Method for interlingua-based Spoken Language Translation in the medical domain, NLPCS Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2011.
• Rayner M., Estrella P. & Bouillon P., Bootstrapping A Statistical Speech Translator From A Rule-Based One , Second International Workshop on Free/Open-Source Rule-based Machine Translation, Barcelona, Spain, January 2011
• A Bootstrapped Interlingua-Based SMT Architecture, M. Raynner, P. Estrella, P. Bouillon, EAMT 2010
• Dialogue Systems for Virtual Environments, L. Benotti, P. Estrella, C. Areces, NAACL-HLT Young Investigators Workshop 2010
• Relating recognition, translation and usability of two different versions of MedSLT, M. Starlander and P. Estrella, in Proceedings of the XII MT Summit, Ottawa, Canada, 2009.
• Using Artificial Data to Compare the Difficulty of Using Statistical Machine Translation in Different Language Pairs, M. Rayner, P. Estrella, P. Bouillon and Y. Nakao, in Proceedings of the XII MT Summit, Ottawa, Canada, 2009.
• Using Artificially Generated Data to Evaluate Statistical Machine Translation, Rayner M., Estrella P., Bouillon P., Hockey B., Nakao Y., in: Proceedings of the GEAF Workshop at ACL-IJNLP, Singapore, 2009, pp. 13-21.
• Improving Contextual Quality Models for MT Evaluation Based on Evaluators' Feedback. Estrella P., Popescu-Belis A. & King M., In Proceedings of LREC 2008 (6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation), Marrakech, Morocco, 5 p.
• A New Method for the Study of Correlations between MT Evaluation Metrics and Some Surprising Results, Estrella P., Popescu-Belis A. and King M., in: Proceedings of TMI-07 (11th Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation), Skvvde, Sweden, 10 p.
• How Much Data is Needed for Reliable MT Evaluation? Using Bootstrapping to Study Human and Automatic Metrics, Estrella P., Hamon O. and Popescu-Belis A. in: Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XI, Copenhagen, 8 p.
• Generating Usable Formats for Metadata and Annotations in a Large Meeting Corpus, Popescu-Belis A. and Estrella P., in: Proceedings of ACL 2007 (45th International Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics) Interactive Poster and Demonstration Sessions, Prague, Czech Republic, p.93-96.
• A model for context-based evaluation of language processing systems and its application to machine translation evaluation, Popescu-Belis A., Estrella P., King M. and Underwood N., in: LREC 2006 (Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation), Genoa, Italy, p.691-696.
• Finding the System that Suits you Best: Towards the Normalization of MT Evaluation, Estrella P., Popescu-Belis A. and Underwood N., in: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Translating and the Computer, ASLIB, 24-25 November 2005, London.
• Experimentos en normalizacion de lenguages. Estrella P. & Duboue P., In Proceedings of the Argentinian Simposium for AI (ASAI 2004), Cordoba, Argentina.

Other presentations

• Estrella P. & Popescu-Belis A. (2008) - Multi-Eval: an evaluation framework for multimodal dialogue annotations. Poster at the Joint IM2 and Affective Sciences Summer Institute, 1-3 September 2008, Riederalp, and at the IM2 Annual Review Meeting, 12 November 2008, Martigny.
• Hartley T., King M., Popescu-Belis A. & Estrella P. (2008) - Evaluating Machine Translation in Use: from Theory to Practice. Tutorial presented at LREC 2008, 26 May 2008, Marrakech.
• King M., Popescu-Belis A. & Estrella P. (2007) - Context-based Evaluation of MT Systems: Principles and Tools. Tutorial presented at the Machine Translation Summit XI, 10 September 2007, Copenhagen.
• Popescu-Belis A. & Estrella P. (2006) - Increasing the usability of metadata and annotation databases: application to the IM2/AMI multimodal meeting corpus. Poster at the IM2 Annual Site Visit, 16 November 2006, Martigny, and at the IM2 Winter Institute, 20 February 2007, L�wenberg/Morat, Switzerland.
• Popescu-Belis A., Estrella P., King M. & Underwood N. (2005) - Towards Automatic Generation of Evaluation Plans for Context-based MT Evaluation. ISSCO Working Paper n. 64, August 2005, University of Geneva, 18 p.