This is the home page of Jan Bungeroth, formerly PhD-student at the Chair of Computer Science 6 at RWTH Aachen - University of Technology, Germany.

The main research topics of the Chair are:

• Pattern Recognition,
• Human Language Technology,
• Image Processing and Recognition.

See the list of publications of the Chair here.

My research interests include:

• Phonological models and notation systems for Sign Languages,
• Sign Language corpora and lexica,
• Sign Language translation in spoken languages using statistical methods.

• L. F. D'Haro, R. San-Segundo, R. d. Córdoba, J. Bungeroth, D. Stein, and H. Ne:. Language Model Adaptation For a Speech to Sign Language Translation System Using Web Frequencies and a Map Framework. Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008.
• P. Dreuw, D. Stein, T. Deselaers, D. Rybach, M. Zahedi, J. Bungeroth, and H. Ney: Spoken Language Processing Techniques for Sign Language Recognition and Translation. Technology and Dissability, volume 20, number 2, pages 121-133, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2008.
• J. Bungeroth, D. Stein, P. Dreuw, H. Ney, S. Morrissey, A. Way, and L. van Zijl: The ATIS Sign Language Corpus. International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008.

• S. Morrissey, A. Way, D. Stein, J. Bungeroth, and H. Ney: Towards a Hybrid Data-Driven MT System for Sign Languages. Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit), pages 329-335, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2007.

• D. Stein, J. Bungeroth, and H. Ney: Morpho-Syntax Based Statistical Methods for Sign Language Translation. 11th Annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, Oslo, Norway, June 2006.
• J. Bungeroth, D. Stein, P. Dreuw, M. Zahedi, and H. Ney: A German Sign Language Corpus of the Domain Weather Report. 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Genoa, Italy, May 2006.

• J. Bungeroth and H. Ney: Automatic Generation of German Sign Language Glosses from German Words. 6th International Workshop on Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation (GW 2005) , Vannes, France, pp. 49-52, May 2005.

• J. Bungeroth and H. Ney: Statistical Sign Language Translation. Workshop on Representation and Processing of Sign Languages, 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004) , Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 105-108, May 2004.

• J. Bungeroth: A Formal Description of Sign Language Using HPSG. Diploma thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Stellenbosch, Lehrstuhl Informatik für Ingenieure und Naturwissenschaftler, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, October 2002. (.ps.gz, .pdf)

• J. Bungeroth. Automatisches Übersetzen von Gebärdensprache. Gebärdenworkshop GW2004, RWTH Aachen, October 2004. (.pdf)
• J. Bungeroth. A Formal Description of Sign Language Using HPSG. PhD seminar at Lehrstuhl für Informatik VI, RWTH Aachen, November 2003.
• J. Bungeroth. Eine formale Beschreibung der Gebärdensprache mit HPSG. Gebärdenworkshop GW2003, RWTH Aachen, October 2003. (.pdf)