Research Projects as PI or Named Investigator, from 2000

University of Cambridge

  1. Cambridge Service for Data Driven Discovery (CSD3) - A National Data Intensive Science Cloud for Converged Simulation, AI & Analytics, EPSRC EP/T022159/1, 2020-2024.

  2. W. BYRNE (PI), I. BUDVYTIS, R. CIPOLLA, C. RASMUSSEN, R. TURNER. Toyota Centre for Next Generation Artificial Intelligence - Capacity Building Award and Framework Agreement, 2019-2024.

  3. A. COPESTAKE (DIRECTOR), W. BYRNE (CO-DIRECTOR), C. RASMUSSEN Huawei HiSilicon Studentships Fund, 2019-2024.

  4. Huawei – Cambridge, Joint Lab and Framework Research Agreement, Steering Committee, 2020-2025,

  5. I. ROBERTS (PI), W. BYRNE, A. COPESTAKE, M. TOMALIN. Giving Voice to Digital Democracies: The Social Impact of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology, Humanities and Social Change International Foundation, 2018-2021+.

  6. W. BYRNE. Improving Target Language Fluency in Statistical Machine Translation, EPSRC, 2015-2018.

  7. S. RENALS (LEAD INVESTIGATOR AT UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH), P.C. WOODLAND (LEAD INVESTIGATOR AT CU). NST: Natural Speech Technology, EPSRC Programme Grant, 2011-2016.

  8. P.C. WOODLAND (LEAD INVESTIGATOR AT CU), M.J.F. GALES, W. BYRNE. DELPHI: Distributed Empirical Language Processing for Human Interaction, U.S. DARPA, 2011-2013.

  9. W. BYRNE. Royal Society Travel Grant. With Prof. K. McKeown, Columbia University, USA. 2011.

  10. W. BYRNE. Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation with WFSTs, Google Inc. Unrestricted gift, 2010.

  11. W. BYRNE (TECHNICAL COORDINATOR), A. DE GISPERT, S. CLARK. FAUST - Feedback Analysis for User Adaptive Statistical Translation. EU FP7 (STREP), 2010-2013.

  12. S. KING (TECHNICAL COORDINATOR), W. BYRNE (LEAD INVESTIGATOR AT CAMBRIDGE). EMIME - Effective Multilingual Interaction in Mobile Environments. EU FP7 (STREP), 2008-2011.

  13. W. BYRNE. Statistical Phrase Based Speech Translation, Microsoft Research Inc. Unrestricted gift, 2005.

  14. W. BYRNE. Statistical Phrase Based Speech Translation, Google Inc. Unrestricted gift, 2005.

  15. P.C. WOODLAND (LEAD INVESTIGATOR AT CU), M.J.F. GALES, W. BYRNE. AGILE: Autonomous Global Integrated Language Exploitation, U.S. DARPA, 2005-2011.

The Johns Hopkins University

  1. W. BYRNE (PI), J. MAYFIELD, P. MCNAMEE. Integrated Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval, JHU Whiting School Development Award, 2002-2004.

  2. W. BYRNE (PI). ELAN Speech Triage Consultation, Department of Defense, 2002-2003.

  3. F. JELINEK (PI), W. BYRNE, J. EISNER, S. KHUDANPUR, D. YAROWSKY. Summer Workshops on Human Language Technology: Integrating Research and Education (WS02-WS06), NSF ITR, 2002-2006.

  4. S. GUSTMANN (PI), W. BYRNE (PI AT JHU), D. OARD, B. RHAMABHADRAN, M. PICHENEY. MALACH: Multilingual Access to Large Spoken Archives from the Holocaust, NSF ITR, 2001-2006.

  5. F. JELINEK (PI), W. BYRNE, J. EISNER, S. KHUDANPUR, D. YAROWSKY. University Center for Language and Speech Processing, Department of Defense, 2001-2005.

  6. D. YAROWSKY (PI), W. BYRNE, S. KHUDANPUR, P. RESNIK. Improving Statistical Translation Models via Text Analyzers Trained from Parallel Corpora, ONR MURI, 2001-2006.

  7. F. JELINEK (PI), W. BYRNE, S. KHUDANPUR. Language Engineering Workshop, NSF, 2001-2002.

  8. F. JELINEK (PI), W. BYRNE, S. KHUDANPUR. Robust Knowledge Discovery from Parallel Speech and Text Sources, DARPA TIDES, 2000-2003.

  9. D. OARD (PI), W. BYRNE (LEAD PI AT JHU), S. KHUDANPUR, PHILIP RESNIK, DAVID YAROWSKY. Translingual Information Detection, Extraction and Summarization, DARPA TIDES, 2000-2005.

  10. J. PICONE (PI), W. BYRNE, E. CHARNIAK, F. JELINEK, M. JOHNSON, M. OSTENDORF. Integrating Prosody, Speech Recognition, Parsing in Spoken-Language Information Retrieval, NSF ITR, 2000-2004.