email: SubstituteMyLastName@cis.uni-muenchen.de
tel.: +49 89 2180-9710
web: http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/~fraser

Office hours: by appointment (please email)
Office address: I am in both Freimann (research group) and Oettingenstr (teaching), please ask where a meeting is if this is not clear.

I am the coordinator for the Masters in Computational Linguistics at LMU Munich. This is a mostly German language program (however some required courses are taught only in English). For more information about immatriculation in the program, please see this link. If you have questions about which courses you need, please contact our Studienberatung.

Recent Activities

• New job: As of September 1st, I am Professor of Information and Language Processing (CIS, LMU Munich).

• Congratulations to Matthias Huck and Fabienne Braune for their neural machine translation system for English to German translation, which had the best results according to human evaluation at WMT! See the system paper in publications for more details.

• New Papers: Matthias Huck and Simon Riess, Aleš Tamychyna and Marion Weller-Di Marco have two papers about dealing with rich morphology on the target-side in neural machine translation (looking at linguistic segmentation and tag-lemma representation respectively), which were accepted to WMT. Valentin Deyringer has a paper on training with Hogwild! at MTM and Leonie Weißweiler has a paper on German stemming at GSCL. See publications for more details.

• The proceedings of the research track at EAMT (European Association for Machine Translation) 2017, which is in Prague, are out. There are some great research posters, here are the boaster slides (2 slides per poster).

• Congratulations to Anita Ramm and Costanza Conforti for accepted papers (two papers on verbal morphology and preordering and a paper on Venetan respectively)! See publications for more details.

• I'll be the program chair (research track) at EAMT (European Association for Machine Translation) 2017, which will be in Prague.

• Congratulations to Marion Weller-Di Marco, and to Matthias Huck and Aleš Tamchyna, for papers about translation to morphologically rich languages, which were accepted to EACL! See publications for more details.

• One post-doc and one PhD student position are available, click here (deadline has now passed)

• I was interviewed in the Süddeutsche Zeitung (newspaper), see here.

• Congratulations to Fabienne Braune for winning the EAMT 2015 Best Thesis Award, which she collected in Riga! For more information, click here.

• I gave a keynote on translation to morphologically rich languages at the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2016) in Riga. Here are the slides.

• Munich hosted the May 2016 meeting of the Health in my Language (HimL) project.

• Thanks to Prof. Francois Yvon of LIMSI, who was a Visiting Fellow at the LMU Center of Advanced Studies and held a very interesting talk on cross-lingual transfer, as well as participating in much of the HimL meeting (and giving a talk there as well on his collaboration with HimL partner Cochrane! See his LREC paper).

• I was profiled in University of Munich's "Einsichten" Magazine (German), click here.

• More here

Research

Publications and Research Interests

Curriculum Vitae

ERC Starting Grant (EU Horizon2020)

Health in my Language (HimL) (EU Horizon2020)

Models of Morphosyntax for Statistical Machine Translation (DFG Project (2 phases))

TTC - Terminology Extraction, Translation Tools and Comparable Corpora (EU FP7 Project)

Teaching - Current

Lecture on Computational Morphology and Electronic Dictionaries (Summer Semester 2017)

Exercise on Computational Morphology and Electronic Dictionaries (Summer Semester 2017)

Lecture Erweiterungsmodul: Machine Translation (Summer Semester 2017)

Exercise Erweiterungsmodul: Machine Translation (Summer Semester 2017)

Current Topics in NLP (Deep Learning and Neural Machine Translation) (Summer Semester 2017, Fraser, Schütze)

Teaching - Past

click here

Bio

Biography

Postdocs

Dr. Fabienne Braune, ERC and HimL

Dr. Liane Guillou, 04/2016-09/2016, HimL

Matthias Huck, ERC and HimL

Dr. Tsuyoshi Okita, 01/2016-12/2016, ERC

Dr. Aleš Tamchyna, 01/2017-04/2017. HimL and ERC (jointly supervised with Prof. Jan Hajic, Charles University Prague)

Ph.D. Students

Fabienne Braune (with Maletti), 10/2009-11/2015, Decoding Strategies for Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation. Post-doc on deep learning and comparable corpora in my group.

Fabienne Cap (nee Fritzinger), 10/2009-10/2014, Morphological Processing of Compounds for Statistical Machine Translation. First position after defense: Post-doc at Uppsala with Joakim Nivre.

Nadir Durrani (with Schmid), 04/2008-11/2012, A Joint Translation Model With Integrated Reordering. First position after defense: Post-doc with Philipp Koehn, U. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Anita Ramm (nee Gojun) (with Schulte im Walde), 05/2013-

Hassan Sajjad (with Schmid), 04/2008-10/2012, Statistical Models for Unsupervised, Semi-supervised and Supervised Transliteration Mining. Now at QCRI, Qatar.

Dario Stojanovski 06/2017-

Marion Weller-Di Marco (nee Weller) (with Schulte im Walde), 12/2011-

Masters Students

Fabienne Braune (U. Freiburg, Switzerland), Masters in Computer Science, Analysing and Improving Unsupervised Sentence Alignment, completed 09/2009

Valentin Deyringer, Masters in Computational Linguistics, Parallelization of Neural Machine Translation, completed 08/2016

Fabienne Fritzinger, Diplom in Computational Linguisics, Extracting Multiword Expressions from Parallel Text, completed 08/2008

Anita Gojun, Diplom in Computational Linguistics, Null Subjects in Statistical Machine Translation: A Case Study on Aligning English and Italian Verb Phrases with Pronominal Subjects, completed 08/2010

Stefan Schätz, Masters in Computational Linguistics, Producing German Compounds in Statistical Machine Translation through Phrase Table Enrichment, completed 08/2016

Jekaterina Siilivask, Masters in Computational Linguistics, Statistical Machine Translation of Russian with Full Morphological Generalization, completed 08/2016

Renjing Wang, Diplom in Computer Science, Self-Training for German Parsing, completed 09/2011

Marion Weller, Diplom in Computational Linguistics, An Empirical Analysis of Source Context Features for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation, completed 08/2010

Bachelors Students

Luisa Berlanda, Bachelors in Computational Linguistics, Part-of-speech Tagging for Spoken Language Corpora, completed 05/2016

Fabian Dreer, Bachelors in Computational Linguistics, Focused Crawling for Statistical Machine Translation, completed 01/2016

Ronny Jauch, Studienarbeit in Computational Linguistics, Umordnung von quellsprachlichen Sätzen in die Satzstruktur der Zielsprache (Reordering of Source-Language Sentences into the Ordering of the Target Language), completed 08/2011

Iryna Markovych, Bachelors in Computational Linguistics, Comparative Error Analysis of Machine Translation into Slavic Languages, completed 05/2016

Tetsuhiro Tamada, Bachelors in Computational Linguistics, Context-dependent Neural Machine Translation, completed 05/2016

Renjing Wang, Studienarbeit in Computer Science, Parsing Bitext, completed 05/2009

Marion Weller, Studienarbeit in Computational Linguistics, Separate Morphologiebehandlung als Methode zur Verbesserung statistischer maschineller Übersetzung (Separate Morphological Processing as a Method for Improving Statistical Machine Translation), completed 05/2009

Alexander Zap, Bachelors in Computational Linguistics, Classifier-based Domain Adaptation with an Application to Machine Translation, completed 05/2016

Information for New Students

Guidelines for students who are interested in visiting

Other Links

USC/ISI Natural Language Group

What I work on (for non-specialists)