email: Substitute My Last Name Here @cis.uni-muenchen.de
up-to-date web: https://alexfraser.github.io
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Old Position at LMU: I was 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.
New position: Chaired professorship for Data Analytics & Statistics at the computer science department of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in the School of Computation, Information and Technology.
My main functions at TUM will be at the new campus in Heilbronn (near Stuttgart). But I will also be in Munich and Garching occasionally.
I will continue to be a PI of the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) and member of the ELLIS Unit Munich. Interested in the intersection of natural language processing and machine learning.
This web page will no longer be updated. Please check my new web page here.
Publications and Research Interests
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)
Dr. Lukas Edman, 02/2024-, DFG Unsup, MCML
Dr. Marion Di Marco (nee Weller), 09/2019-, LMUExcellent, DFG Unsup
Dr. Viktor Hangya, 01/2017-, MCML, ERC
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
Sarah Ball (with Frauke Kreuter). 11/2023-, Fellow in Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Reliable AI; Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models
Faeze Ghorbanpour (with Viktor Hangya). 09/2023-, DFG Transfer Learning for Hate Speech Detection; Hate Speech Detection, Transfer Learning
Irina Bigoulaeva (with Iryna Gurevych, TU Darmstadt). 10/2021-, TU Darmstadt funding; Transfer Learning and Hate Speech Detection
Katharina Hämmerl (with Jindrich Libovicky, now Charles U Prague). 07/2021-, MCML, DFG Unsup; Multilingual Representations
Prisca Piccirilli (with Sabine Schulte im Walde, U Stuttgart). 07/2021-, Studienstiftung Scholarship, 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-, MCML, 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. Currently: Associate Professor, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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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