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

Office: C110
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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 organizing the WMT 2020 shared task on Unsupervised Machine Translation and Very Low Resource Machine Translation. The tasks are to translate from German to Upper Sorbian, and from Upper Sorbian to German. Please participate! More information here.

• My research group is offering MA and BA topics in SS 2020, please read this page carefully.

• Veronika Hintzen presented on email analytics and Costanza Conforti presented as a GSCL finalist at Konvens 2019 in Erlangen, see publications.

• Congratulations to Jindřich Libovický for winning the Dimitris Chorafas prize for the best hard science PhD thesis in 2019 at Charles University Prague.

• Congratulations to Costanza Conforti for being a finalist for the GSCL award for her work with Matthias and me on Rich POS tagging on a lemma representation.

• Welcome to Alexandra Chronopoulou, Jindřich Libovický, and Marion Di Marco (Weller-Di Marco)!

• On a panel on the future of machine translation at the ACL Conference on Machine Translation 2019 (WMT) with moderator Ondrej Bojar, other panelists Alon Lavie, Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Yvette Graham, should be fun.

• Lots of new research papers to be presented in summer 2019, including curriculum training, document MT, unsupervised MT, unsupervised parallel sentence extraction, bilingual lexicon induction for MT OOVs, multilingual POS tagging, see publications. Thanks team!

• My research group is offering MA and BA topics in WS 2019/2020, please read this page carefully.

• We are co-organizing the ACL 2019 Conference on Machine Translation Unsupervised Shared Task, please participate!

• 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

Einführung in der Computerlinguistik (VL und Übung) (Winter Semester 2019-2020, Fraser, Zangenfeind)

Lecture on Information Extraction (Winter Semester 2019-2020)

Seminar on Information Extraction (Winter Semester 2019-2020)

Current Topics in NLP (Deep Learning and Neural Machine Translation) (Winter Semester 2019-2020, Fraser, Schütze)

Teaching - Past

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Bio

Biography

Post-docs

Viktor Hangya, ERC

Dr. Matthias Huck, ERC and HimL

Dr. Jindřich Libovický, ERC

Dr. Marion Di Marco (nee Weller), ERC

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

Alexandra Chronopoulou 09/2019-

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: Research Scientist at 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

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)