p.simianer.de /

• I take photos with film (film database) and digital cameras whenever I find the time, and have a growing photo book collection.
• I'm trying to blog a bit, see here. Just one post yet about Wi-Fi meshing w/ OpenWRT.
• MR images I've made with my wife of some fruits and vegetables (for training purposes).
• Non-scientific reviews of various chocolate breads.

• bin

  My ~/bin folder.

• dotfiles

  My dotfiles.

• nlp_scripts

  An assortment of mostly NLP related scripts for the shell.

• snippets

  Various snippets and templates for personal use.

• weather_logger

  Bare bones weather logger.

• zipf

  My little NLP library for ruby. Gem here. Name borrowed from George Kingsley Zipf.

Papers (and a patent) I contributed to, with accompanying materials, sorted by recency in descending order. My h-index is 8 according to Semantic Scholar.

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  Reinauer, Simianer, Uhlig, Mosig, and Wuebker
  Neural Machine Translation Models Can Learn to be Few-shot Learners

  Paper Preprint

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  Wuebker, Simianer, and Green:
  Apparatus and Method for an Adaptive Neural Machine Translation System

  Patent Patent@Google

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  Läubli, Simianer, Wuebker, Kovacs, Sennrich, and Green:
  The Impact of Text Presentation on Translator Performance

  Paper Preprint Press

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  Simianer, Wuebker, and DeNero:
  Measuring Immediate Adaptation Performance for Neural Machine Translation

  In Proceedings of the 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2019).

  Paper Talk Video BibTeX

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  Simianer:
  Preference Learning for Machine Translation

  Dissertation.

  PDF PDF/A DOI URN BibTeX

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  Wuebker, Simianer, and DeNero:
  Compact Personalized Models for Neural Machine Translation

  In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018).

  Paper Slides BibTeX

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  Karimova, Simianer, and Riezler:
  A User-Study on Online Adaptation of Neural Machine Translation to Human Post-Edits

  In Machine Translation, Volume 32, November 2018.

  Paper Paper@Springer Preprint BibTeX

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  Simianer, Karimova, and Riezler:
  A Post-editing Interface for Immediate Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation

  In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (System Demonstrations) [COLING 2016], Osaka, Japan.
  Talk given at AMTA 2016 Workshop on Interacting with Machine Translation (iMT 2016).

  Paper Slides Poster BibTeX

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  Jehl, Simianer, Hitschler, and Riezler:
  The Heidelberg University English-German translation system for IWSLT 2015

  In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2015), Da Nang, Vietnam.

  Paper Poster BibTeX

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  Karimova, Simianer, and Riezler:
  Offline Extraction of Overlapping Phrases for Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation

  In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2014), Lake Tahoe, United States.

  Paper BibTeX

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  Bertoldi, Simianer, Cettolo, Wäschle, Federico, and Riezler:
  Online Adaptation to Post-edits for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation

  In Machine Translation, Volume 28, December 2014.

  Paper Paper@Springer BibTeX

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  Riezler, Simianer, and Lawrence:
  Response-based Learning for Grounded Machine Translation

  In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014), Baltimore, United States.

  Paper Slides BibTeX

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  Simianer, Jehl, and Riezler:
  The Heidelberg University Machine Translation Systems for IWSLT2013

  In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2013), Heidelberg, Germany.

  Paper Poster BibTeX

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  Simianer and Riezler:
  Multi-Task Learning for Improved Discriminative Training in SMT

  In Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT13), Sofia, Bulgaria.

  Paper Slides Extended Slides BibTeX

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  Wäschle, Simianer, Bertoldi, Riezler, and Federico:
  Generative and Discriminative Methods for Online Adaptation in SMT

  In Proceedings of the Machine Translation Summit XIV (MTSUMMIT), Nice, France.

  Paper Slides BibTeX

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  Simianer, Stupperich, Jehl, Wäschle, Sokolov, and Riezler:
  The HDU Discriminative SMT System for Constrained Data PatentMT at NTCIR10

  In Proceedings of the 10th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Cross-Lingual Information Access, PatentMT, Tokyo, Japan.

  Paper Slides Poster BibTeX

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  Simianer, Riezler, and Dyer:
  Joint Feature Selection in Distributed Stochastic Learning for Large-Scale Discriminative Training in SMT

  In Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Jeju, Korea.

  Paper Slides BibTeX

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  Simianer, Wäschle, and Riezler:
  Multi-Task Minimum Error Rate Training for SMT

  In The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, Number 96, October 2011.

  Paper Slides BibTeX

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  Simianer:
  Tuning SMT on the Training Set

  Master's Thesis.

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  Simianer:
  Entwicklung einer webbasierten Suchmaschine und Evaluation der Bedeutung von Parametermodifikationen im Vektorraummodell

  Bachelor's Thesis.

Code and Data

• bold_reranking

  Reranker for moses that does bold updates only. Used for the 2014 MT Journal paper and 2013 MTSUMMIT paper.

• dtrain (discriminative training)

  Simple tuning technique implemented for cdec. Much of the code was originally written at the machine translation marathon 2011 at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) in Trento, Italy. My development fork can be found here which is was regularly merged into the original repo. Example data (checksum). Original slides by Stefan Riezler. Used in my Master's thesis, our ACL'12 paper, the NTCIR 10 paper, the WMT13 paper, the IWSLT 13 and 15 papers, and the user study on adaptation of statistical machine translation.

• lfpe

  Interface for exploring learning from post-editing. Usable in conjunction with a graphical derivation editor for outputs of hierarchical phrase-based machine translation outputs. Used for two user studies for statistical- and neural machine translation.

• mmert

  Multi-task MERT tuning algorithm. Used here.

• r01

  Implementation of the one-shot- and zero-shot recall metrics proposed in the NAACL'19 paper.

• rebol

  Code for grounded learning for SMT. Used for the ACL 2014 paper.

Peer Reviewing

I have served as reviewer for the following conferences and workshops.

1. 12x ACL Rolling Review, ACL ARR.
2. The 25rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2024.
3. The 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-24
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4. 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, NAACL 2024.
5. Eighth Conference on Machine Translation, WMT23
6. The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Industry Track.
7. The 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-24.
8. The Second Workshop on Corpus Generation and Corpus Augmentation for Machine Translation, CoCo4MT 2023.
9. The 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics}, IJCNLP-AACL 2023.
10. The 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2023.
11. The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2023
12. The 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2023.
13. Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-23.
14. Seventh Conference on Machine Translation, WMT22.
15. The First Workshop on Corpus Generation and Corpus Augmentation for Machine Translation, CoCo4MT 2022.
16. The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2022.
17. The 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, AACL-IJCNLP 2022.
18. AMTA Conference 2022.
19. Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, AAAI-22.
20. 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2022.
21. Sixth Conference on Machine Translation, WMT21.
22. The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2021.
23. Machine Translation Summit XVIII, MTSUMMIT 2021.
24. The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL-IJCNLP 2021.
25. 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2021.
26. 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, NAACL-HLT 2021.
27. 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-21.
28. 5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT20.
29. 1st Workshop on Post-Editing in Modern-Day Translation, PEMDT 2020 @AMTA.
30. 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, AACL-IJCNLP 2020.
31. 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2020.
32. European Science Foundation, 2020.
33. 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2020.
34. 2020 European Association for Machine Translation Best Thesis Award.
35. 58th Annual Meeting of the of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2020.
36. The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-20.
37. 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019.
38. 4th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT19
39. European Science Foundation, 2019.
40. 2019 European Association for Machine Translation Best Thesis Award.
41. Machine Translation Summit XVII, MTSUMMIT 2019.
42. 57th Annual Meeting of the of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2019.
43. 17th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, NAACL 2019.
44. 3rd Conference on Machine Translation, WMT18.
45. 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2018.
46. 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, NAACL 2018.
47. 2nd Conference on Machine Translation, WMT17.
48. 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2017.
49. 20th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2017.
50. The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL 2017.
51. 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2017.
52. 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2016.
53. The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL 2016.
54. 1st Conference on Machine Translation, WMT16.
55. 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016.
56. 10th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT15.
57. 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2015.
58. 13th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2015.
59. 1st Workshop on Interactive and Adaptive Machine Translation, IAMT 2014.
60. 9th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT14.
61. 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2013.