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

• New papers at EMNLP, COLING and WMT! See publications.

• Viktor is presenting new work on dealing with many-to-one and one-to-many translations (i.e., compositionality) at AMTA 2020. See publications.

• NEW: all topics are taken, thanks for your applications. [My research group is offering MA and BA topics in WS 2020/2021, please read this page carefully]

• I held a talk on recent research at the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics (here at LMU Munich), see here for a video.

• Marion Weller-Di Marco's paper on Modeling Word Formation in English-German Neural Machine Translation appeared at ACL. See publications.

• Silvia Severini and Viktor Hangya (in joint work with Hinrich and myself) had the best results in the Russian-English shared task at BUCC 2020. See publications.

• Congratulations to Leah Michel and Viktor Hangya on a study of the challenges of using standard post-hoc-mapped Bilingual Word Embeddings for the low-resource language Hiligaynon at LREC 2020. See publications.

• 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.

• 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 2020-2021)

Seminar on Information Extraction (Winter Semester 2020-2021)

Current Topics in NLP (Deep Learning and Neural Machine Translation) (Winter Semester 2020-2021, Fraser, Schütze)

Teaching - Past

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Bio

Biography

Post-docs

Viktor Hangya, ERC

Dr. Jindřich Libovický, ERC, DFG Unsup

Dr. Marion Di Marco (nee Weller), ERC

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

Wen (Lavine) Lai 10/2020-, LMU/CSC (currently visiting, funding deferred until 04/2021)

Sophie Henning 01/2021-, Bosch, with Annemarie Friedrich

Alexandra Chronopoulou 09/2019-, ERC, DFG Unsup

Dario Stojanovski 06/2017-, ERC

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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)