Ulrich Germann, M.A.
Computational Linguist

• ElectAssist, a toolkit for the administration of online elections

• ISI ReWrite Decoder (in cooperation with Daniel Marcu)

• Ulrich Germann, Michael Jahr, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, and Kenji Yamada. Fast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation. Artificial Intelligence 154 (1-2): 127-143. This is an extended version of Germann et al. (2001) below.

• Greedy Decoding for Machine Translation in Almost Linear Time. Proceedings of HLT-NAACL 2003. Edmonton, Canada.

• Eduard Hovy, Andrew Philpot, Judith Klavans, Ulrich Germann, Peter T. Davis, and Samuel Popper. Extending Metadata Definitions by Automatically Extracting and Organizing Glossary Definitions. National Conference on Digital Government Research, Boston, MA.

• Anton Leuski, Chin-Yew Lin, Liang Zhou, Ulrich Germann, Franz Josef Och, and Eduard Hovy. Cross-lingual C*ST*RD: English access to Hindi information Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP) 2 (3): 245-269

• Yaser Al-Onaizan, Ulrich Germann, Ulf Hermjakob, Kevin Knight, Philipp Koehn, Daniel Marcu, and Kenji Yamada. Translation with Scarce Bilingual Resources. Machine Translation 17 (1): 1-17. Extended version of Al-Onaizan et al. (2000) below.

• Aligned Hansards of the 36^th Canadian Parliament
• Alignments of the LDC Hong Kong News Corpus
• Ulrich Germann, Michael Jahr, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu, and Kenji Yamada. Fast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation. Proceedings of ACL 2001. Toulouse, France. (Best Paper award.) [pdf only]
• "Building a Statistical Machine Translation System from Scratch: How Much Bang for the Buck Can We Expect?" ACL 2001 Workshop on Data-Driven Machine Translation. Toulouse, France, July 7, 2001.
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• Yaser Al-Onaizan, Ulrich Germann, Ulf Hermjakob, Kevin Knight, Philipp Koehn, Daniel Marcu, and Kenji Yamada: "Translating with Scarce Resources." American Association for Artificial Intelligence conference (AAAI'00)

• "A Deterministic Dependency Parser for Japanese". Proceedings of the MT Summit VII. Singapore, 1999. [postscript] [pdf]
  

• Making Semantic Interpretation Parser-Independent. (AMTA-98). In: Farwell/Gerber/Hovy. Machine Translation and the Information Soup. LNCS Vol. 1529. Springer, 1998. © Springer-Verlag, 1998
  [pdf] [postscript]
• "Visualization of Protocols of the Parsing and Semantic Interpretation Steps in a Machine Translation System". Workshop paper at the COLING-ACL '98 workshop on Content Visualization and Intermedia Representations (CVIR '98). [postscript] [pdf]