Ulrich Germann, M.A.
Computational Linguist

• Yawat: Yet Another Word Alignment Tool, a web-based interface for manual word alignment.

• ElectAssist, a toolkit for the administration of online elections

• ISI ReWrite Decoder (in cooperation with Daniel Marcu)

• Samuel Larkin, Boxing Chen, George Foster, Ulrich Germann, Eric Joanis, Howard Johnson, and Roland Kuhn. Lessons from NRC's Portage System at WMT 2010. Joint Fith Workshop opn Statistical Machine translation and MetrixMATR, 127-132. Uppsala, Sweden.

• Ulrich Germann, Eric Joanis and Samuel Larkin. "Tightly Packed Tries: How to Fit Large Models into Memory, and Make them Load Fast, Too.. Workshop on Software Engingeering, Testing and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing (SETQA-NLP) at Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 31–39. Boulder, CO, USA.

• Ulrich Germann. Yawat: Yet Another Word Alignment Tool. 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies; Demo Session, 20–23. Columbus, OH, USA.

• Ulrich Germann. Two tools for creating and visualizing sub-sentential alignments of parallel text. Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW), 121–124. Prague, Czech Republic.

• 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.

• Ulrich Germann. 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.

• Ulrich Germann. 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]
• Ulrich Germann. "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)

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

• Ulrich Germann. "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
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• Ulrich Germann. "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]