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I am a tenured professor with membership in both the Faculty of Languages and Literature (Fak 13) and the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics (Fak 16, Zweitmitgliedschaft) at LMU Munich. I am interested in the intersection of natural language processing and machine learning.

I am also 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. Please always contact our Studienberatung first, rather than me (including for application to the program).

Recent Activities

• Keynote at BUCC 2022, attending LREC in Marseille was fun. Here are the slides, the paper on Pseudo Parallel Corpora for OOVs, Huck et al 2019, and Hangya et al 2021, the paper on Translating Unseen and Rare Senses.

• I gave an invited talk at the workshop AI in Science: Foundations and Applications on June 9-10, 2022 at the MCMP at LMU Munich. The topic was "Some Open Problems in (Multilingual) Natural Language Processing". Here are the slides.

• Looking forward to hearing the official word soon about the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) phase 2, in which I am a PI. This is an important focus of a wide range of efforts in machine learning in the Munich area. It is a joint effort by LMU and TUM.

• Jindrich's paper on neural string edit distance will appear at the ACL workshop on structure prediction! See publications.

• New technical report with Kristian Kersting's group on moral norms and multilingual models. Click here for the report.

• Katharina and Jindrich both have papers in Findings at ACL, congratulations! Katharina's (with Jindrich) is on combining the strengths of static and contextualized models, while Jindrich's (with long-time collaborator Helmut Schmid) explains why character-based MT models are not being used. The works will also be presented as posters at ACL. See publications.

• Report on arXiv by Marion and Matthias, on comparing our two approaches to dealing with target-side morphology in NMT. The two approaches are based on morphological analysis and on stemming. Experiments are on German and Czech. We hope this research will influence future work on translating into other morphologically languages. Here is the report.

• Submitted a demo proposal with Carsten Binnig's group on conversational agents. See Gassen et al, here.

• "Understanding Sorbian" on 21 Feb 2022 (International Mother Language Day!): writing about our first (unsupervised) Upper Sorbian/German system and the resonance of the shared tasks on Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian that we have organized at ACL-WMT. LMU Newsroom article in German, in English.

• New technical report on cross-lingual detection of hate speech with Irina, Viktor and Iryna Gurevych, click here.

• Lisa Woller and Viktor had a paper on Occitan embeddings at the 2021 Multilingual Representation Learning workshop, see the paper here, nice work!

• WMT 2021: Viktor has a paper on multi-sense words as part of our Cambridge collaboration (together with Flora Liu, Dario, Anna Korhonen), Jindrich organized a shared task and has a system paper, and Lavine has a system paper (with Jindrich), see publications, congrats!

• 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

Current Topics in NLP (Deep Learning and Neural Machine Translation) (Summer Semester 2022, Fraser, Schütze)

Teaching - Past

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Bio

Biography

Post-docs

Dr. Viktor Hangya, 01/2017-, ERC

Dr. Marion Di Marco (nee Weller), 09/2019-, ERC and DFG Unsup

Dr. Jindřich Libovický, 09/2019-12/2021, ERC and DFG Unsup

Dr. Matthias Huck, 04/2016-03/2020, 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

Irina Bigoulaeva (with Iryna Gurevych (TU Darmstadt) and Viktor Hangya). 10/2021-, TU Darmstadt funding; Transfer Learning and Hate Speech Detection

Katharina Hämmerl (with Jindrich Libovicky, now Charles U Prague). 07/2021-, DFG Unsup; Multilingual Representations

Prisca Piccirilli (with Sabine Schulte im Walde, U Stuttgart). 07/2021-, Joint Stuttgart and LMU DFG funding; Metaphor Translation

Wen (Lavine) Lai. 04/2021-, LMU/CSC; Low Resource NMT, Domain Adaptation

Sophie Henning (with Annemarie Friedrich, Bosch) 01/2021-, Bosch; Calibration

Alexandra Chronopoulou 09/2019-, ERC, DFG Unsup; Multilingual Transfer Learning, Unsupervised MT

Dr. rer. nat. Dario Stojanovski 06/2017-06/2021, Modeling Contextual Information in Neural Machine Translation, ERC; Context-Aware NMT, Domain Adaptation, Unsupervised MT. First permanent position after graduation: Microsoft.

Dr. phil. 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.

Dr. phil. Marion Weller-Di Marco (nee Weller) (with Sabine 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.

Dr. rer. nat. Fabienne Braune (with Andreas 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.

Dr. phil. 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.

Dr. rer. nat. Nadir Durrani (with Helmut 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.

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

Visiting Ph.D. Students

Denis Peskov (University of Maryland College Park). 01/2020 to 10/2020

Simon Rieß (LMU Data Science). 10/2019 to 12/2019

Viktor Hangya (University of Szeged). 10/2016 to 12/2016

Ales Tamchyna (Charles University Prague). 10/2015 to 05/2016

Marija Brkic (University of Zagreb, Croatia). 09/2010 to 02/2011

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Other Links

USC/ISI Natural Language Group

What I work on (for non-specialists)