email: SubstituteMyLastName@cis.uni-muenchen.de
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web: http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/~fraser

Office: C110
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Telephone hours: by appointment (please email)

I am the coordinator for the Masters in Computational Linguistics at LMU Munich. This is a mostly German language program (however, in addition to German, you must also have a strong competency in English). For more information about applying to the program, please see this link. If you have questions please first contact our Studienberatung.

Recent Activities

• We are offering MA and BA topics, please read this page carefully (see at the bottom of the page, it is only accessible to CIS students)

• Post-doc position available, click here.

• PhD position available, German required, click here.

• New research paper at the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) from Viktor, Fabienne and Yuliya on unsupervised extraction of parallel sentences from comparable corpora. See publications.

• I gave a keynote on translation to morphologically rich languages at Baltic Human Language Technologies 2018 in Tartu at the end of September.

• New research paper at the conference on machine translation (WMT) from Dario on using oracles to explore context NMT. Dario, Matthias and Viktor also have three new WMT shared task papers (which are unsupervised, bio/news and filtering). See publications.

• Congratulations to Dr. Matthias Huck for the successful defense of his PhD thesis at RWTH Aachen!

• One post-doc and two PhD student positions are available, click here.

• Two new papers at ACL, one on domain adaptation of bilingual tasks by Viktor and Fabienne, and one from Philipp Dufter and others on massively multilingual embeddings. See publications.

• Congratulations to Dr. Anita Ramm for the successful defense of her PhD thesis!

• Two new papers, one from Costanza and Matthias on neural POS-tagging of lemma sequences at AMTA 2018, and one from Fabienne, Viktor, and Tobias on bilingual lexicon induction of rare words at NAACL 2018. See publications.

• The Health in My Language (HimL) project (funded by EU Horizon2020) is coming to a close, was a great experience working with our user partners Cochrane and NHS24, along with Edinburgh, Lingea and Prague. This blog post looks at Cochrane's use of post-editing of our systems' output.

• If you need to explain machine translation to a German-speaking 8-year-old, check out my interview on the German children's TV show "Erde an Zukunft", which was a lot of fun. Pick "Eine Sprache für alle", here (it is no longer on page 1, go to page 2).

• Older activities 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 Information Extraction (Winter Semester 2018-2019)

Seminar on Information Extraction (Winter Semester 2018-2019)

Current Topics in NLP (Deep Learning and Neural Machine Translation) (Winter Semester 2018, Fraser, Schütze)

Lectures on Machine Translation in the Masters Basismodul (Winter Semester 2018, Fraser, Huck)

Teaching - Past

click here

Bio

Biography

Post-docs

Viktor Hangya, ERC

Dr. Matthias Huck, ERC and HimL

Dr. Fabienne Braune, 01/2016-12/2017, ERC and HimL (also Morphosyntax 2)

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

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

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

Ph.D. Students

Dario Stojanovski 06/2017-

Anita Ramm (nee Gojun), 05/2013-03/2018, Modeling the position and inflection of verbs in English to German machine translation. First position after graduation: BeOne Stuttgart GmbH.

Marion Weller-Di Marco (nee Weller) (with Schulte im Walde), 12/2011-09/2017, Using Morpho-Syntactic and Semantic Information to Improve Statistical Machine Translation. First position after graduation: Post-doc at University of Amsterdam with Khalil Sima'an.

Fabienne Braune (with Maletti), 10/2009-11/2015, Decoding Strategies for Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation. First position after graduation: 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 graduation: 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 graduation: Post-doc with Philipp Koehn, U. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

Hassan Sajjad (with Schmid), 04/2008-10/2012, Statistical Models for Unsupervised, Semi-supervised and Supervised Transliteration Mining. First position after graduation: Qatar Computing Research Institute.

Masters Students (Selected)

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 (Selected)

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)