PhD Student
Department of Computer Science
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London, E1 4NS
United Kingdom
Office: 437
E-mail: "first name" at eecs dot qmul dot ac dot uk
Research Interests
Statistical machine translation
Statictical machine learning methods in information retrieval
Evolutionary-based approaches to information retrieval
Publications
2012
Hany Azzam, Sirvan Yahyaei, Marco Bonzanini, and Thomas Roelleke. A Schema-Driven Approach for Knowledge-Oriented Retrieval and Query Formulation. Workshop on Keyword Search on Structured Data (KEYS), SIGMOD, Arizona, 2012
Miguel Martinez-Alvarez, Sirvan Yahyaei and Thomas Roelleke. Semi-Automatic Document Classification: Exploiting Document Difficulty. 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) Barcelona, Spain 2012.
2011
Hany Azzam, Thomas Roelleke, and Sirvan Yahyaei. Ranking-based Processing of SQL Queries. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011)
Sirvan Yahyaei, Marco Bonzanini and Thomas Roelleke. Cross-lingual Text Fragment Alignment using Divergence from Randomness. In Proceedings of the 18th edition of the International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2011).
2010
Sirvan Yahyaei and Christof Monz. The QMUL System Description for IWSLT 2010. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT). 2010, 157-162
Sirvan Yahyaei and Christof Monz. Dynamic Distortion in a Discriminative Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT). 2010, 353-360
2009
Sirvan Yahyaei and Christof Monz. Decoding by Dynamic Chunking for Statistical Machine Translation. In MT Summit XII: Proceedings of the twelfth Machine Translation Summit. 2009, Canada; pages 160-167.
2008
Sirvan Yahyaei and Christof Monz. Applying Maximum Entropy to Known-Item Email Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2008), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4956, pages 406-413, 2008.
Simon Carter, Christof Monz and Sirvan Yahyaei, The QMUL System Description for IWSLT 2008 in Proc. of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation pp. 104-107, 2008
