Past news

• 08/2021: A paper on a dataset and efficient baselines for summarization in German was accepted to the NewSum workshop of EMNLP 2021.
• 08/2021: Gave a keynote talk at LoResMT, a workshop of MT Summit, On Meaningful Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems.
• 05/2021: A paper by myself and Rico Sennrich on the biases and robustness of Minimum Bayes Risk decoding was accepted to ACL 2021!
• 04/2021: A new paper on the applicability of pose estimation for sign language recognition is accepted to the ChaLearn workshop of CVPR 2021. Recording
• 04/2021: Our paper on the quality of web-crawled multilingual corpora will be presented at the AfricaNLP Workshop of EACL 2021. Find a preprint here.
• 03/2021: Gave a talk at NLPWithFriends about scientific progress in machine translation, more info and recording.
• 12/2020: Check out a new series of blog posts about MT evaluation. All feedback is welcome!
• 10/2020: Our paper on improving zero-shot NMT is accepted to WMT.
• 10/2020: Our paper on "Domain Robustness in NMT" is accepted to AMTA.
• 08/2020: Finished my degree in "Hochschuldidaktik" recently, a two-year program for people who'd like to take teaching seriously. More info.
• 07/2020: I recently started a Youtube playlist where I explain sequence generation decoding algorithms such as beam search.
• 02/2020: Gave two (!) talks in a row in our kolloquium, on zero-shot translation and noisy parallel data. Slides.
• 01/2020: Wrote an all-new tutorial on multilingual neural machine translation with Sockeye. For feedback or comments please email me!
• 12/2019: An interview with Slator resulted in an article discussing the prospects of BLEU.
• 10/2019: Gave a "no-nonsense" talk about MT research at the fifth MT meetup in Zurich.
• 07/2019: I was co-author of the WMT 19 findings paper.

This year I am helping / organizing the WMT 19 News translation task human evaluation. Let me know if you would like to help!

Teaching a workshop on neural networks for PhD students from various corners of the UZH. More info to appear here: http://www.geo.uzh.ch/microsite/ml4sep/index.html.

Gave a talk in the kolloquium again, this time on "Domain Robustness". Contra Slides (PDF, 3 MB).

Going to EMNLP/WMT, we have 3 papers accepted in total (1 1EMNLP long paper, 1 WMT research track, 1 analysis of additional test suite material).

Talk on neural machine translation at BrainHack Zurich

June 15 to September 14: Summer Internship with Amazon, Berlin

Slides of spring 2018 Kolloquium talk: Contra Slides. Topic: contrastive evaluation of larger-context translation phenomena such as pronouns. (In machine translation, of course!)

Slides of fall 2017 Kolloquium talk: Contra Slides. Topic: document-level neural machine translation.

I was fortunate enough to be awarded the GSCL-Preis 2017 for my Master's Thesis. Thanks to Martin for suggesting this!

An interview appeared in the 2017 issue of Perspektiven Sprachwissenschaft. Unfortunately, it is not available for free - something I was informed of after the fact. Do not buy.

September 14 - September 15: GSCL, Berlin A smaller, more regional conference in Germany - going there mainly because I am shortlisted for the GSCL award!

September 7 - September 11: EMNLP, Copenhagen Among other things, I am going to the DiscoMT workshop (discourse in machine translation) and the WMT conference that is co-located.

August 28 - September 2: MT Marathon, Lisbon, working on Facebook-style deep convolutional encoding and decoding, have a look at the code here. Code has since been integrated into Sockeye master, but convolutional NMT systems are currently not fashionable anyway (adding this comment in 2019).

Together with Jeannette Roth, I frequently organize workshops for high school students. They are fun! Here are some demo slides: Roadshow Slides (PDF, 3 MB).