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Christy Doran

Christy Doran has 3 papers in our library, in 1994–2010, most of them on English, Machine translation, Evaluation & benchmarks; often with Dan Parvaz, John Aberdeen, Sherri Condon.

3 papers in our library · 1994–2010

OpenAlex · h-index 8 · 18 works · 240 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 3 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 44 times in our library · 1 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8352

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 Affiliations

🏢MitreBedford · United States2003–2011 · 6 papers🎓University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia · United States1994 · 4 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 4The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 3 worksArts and Humanities · 3 worksComputer Science · 3 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 3 works

🧭 Topics 6Research subjects and languages the work is about.English · 3 worksMorphology · 1 workEvaluation & benchmarks · 2 worksMachine translation · 2 worksSemitic languages · 2 worksSpeech & spoken language · 1 work

 Works by year

2010s

20101 paper

2000s

20091 paper

1990s

19941 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. XTAG System - A Wide Coverage Grammar for English (1994 · 46 citations)
    The paper describes XTAG, a grammar development environment for building a broad-coverage English grammar in Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG). In LTAG, each word anchors elementary trees that encode its local syntactic and predicate-argument constraints. The system chains several components:
  2. Evaluation of Machine Translation Errors in English and Iraqi Arabic (2010 · 22 citations)
    The paper tackles a gap in machine translation evaluation. Human ratings and automatic scores say how good a translation is, but not what went wrong. MITRE linguists analyzed errors from 4 English–Iraqi Arabic speech translation systems built for DARPA's TRANSTAC program, at two evaluations in 2008. They used text…
  3. Normalization for Automated Metrics: English and Arabic Speech Translation (2009 · 11 citations)
    In the DARPA TRANSTAC speech translation evaluations, automated metrics such as BLEU, TER and METEOR tracked bilingual human judgments well for output in English but poorly for output in Iraqi Arabic.

All works

4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. XTAG System - A Wide Coverage Grammar for EnglishInternational Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)Christy Doran, Dania Egedi, Beth Ann Hockey, et al.1994 · 46 citations
  2. Evaluation of Machine Translation Errors in English and Iraqi ArabicLanguage Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)Sherri Condon, Dan Parvaz, John Aberdeen, et al.2010 · 22 citations
  3. Applying Automated Metrics to Speech Translation Dialogs ↗Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08) · no summary yetSherri Condon et al.2008 · 14 citations
  4. Normalization for Automated Metrics: English and Arabic Speech TranslationMachine Translation Summit (MT Summit)Sherri Condon, Gregory A. Sanders, Dan Parvaz, et al.2009 · 11 citations

 Co-authors here

7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 44 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 8 citing papers with a page here →.

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