p.simianer.de /

• I take photos with film (film database) and digital cameras, and have a growing photo book collection.
• I blog sometimes:
  • Jun 2026Ollama generated captions with PhotoPrism Vision
  • Jul 2025Setting Up PhotoPrism Vision
  • Dec 2020Home WiFi Setup With 802.11s (Meshing) And 802.11r (Roaming)
• MR images I've made with my wife of some fruits and vegetables (for training purposes).
• An image circle visualizer for technical / view camera lenses.

• 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 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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  Shahnazaryan, Simianer, Wuebker
  Contextual Cues in Machine Translation: Investigating the Potential of Multi-Source Input Strategies in LLMs and NMT Systems

  In Proceedings of the 2025 International conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2025.

  Paper Preprint

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

  Preprint.

  Paper Preprint

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

  United States Patent.

  Patent Patent@Google

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

  In Target, International Journal of Translation Studies, Volume 34, Issue 2.

  Paper @Publisher 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.

Research 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, journals, and workshops.