The main research topics of
the Chair are:
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Pattern Recognition,
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Human Language Technology,
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Image Processing and Recognition.
See the list of publications of the Chair
here.
I am a researcher in the field of statistical machine translation and natural language processing in general.
Publications (inverse chronological order)
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E. Matusov. Combining Natural Language Processing Systems to Improve Machine Translation of Speech. PhD Thesis, Aachen, Germany, December 2009.
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M. Popović, D. Vilar, D. Stein, E. Matusov, and H. Ney. The RWTH Machine Translation System for WMT 2009. In Fourth EACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2009), pages 66-69, Athens, Greece, March 2009.
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G. Leusch, E. Matusov, and H. Ney. The RWTH System Combination System for WMT 2009. In Fourth EACL Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2009), pages 56-60, Athens, Greece, March 2009.
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Y. Zhang, E. Matusov, and H. Ney. Are Unaligned Words Important for Machine Translation ?. In Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), pages 226-233, Barcelona, March 2009.
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E. Matusov, G. Leusch, and H. Ney. Learning To Combine Machine Translation Systems. In Cyril Goutte, Nicola Cancedda, Marc Dymetman, and George Foster: Learning Machine Translation Chp. 13, pages 257-276, MIT Press, 2009.
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D. Vilar, D. Stein, Y. Zhang, E. Matusov, A. Mauser, O. Bender, S. Mansour, and H. Ney. The RWTH Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2008. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 108-115, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2008.
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G. Leusch, E. Matusov, and H. Ney. Complexity of finding the BLEU-optimal hypothesis in a confusion network. In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 839-847, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 2008.
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E. Matusov, G. Leusch, R. E. Banchs, N. Bertoldi, D. Dechelotte, M. Federico, M. Kolss, Y. Lee, J. B. Marino, M. Paulik, S. Roukos, H. Schwenk, and H. Ney. System Combination for Machine Translation of Spoken and Written Language. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, volume 16, number 7, pages 1222-1237, September 2008.
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E. Matusov, B. Hoffmeister, and H. Ney. ASR Word Lattice Translation with Exhaustive Reordering is Possible. In Interspeech, pages 2342-2345, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008.
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M. Ostendorf, B. Favre, R. Grishman, D. Hakkani-Tür, M. Harper, D. Hillard, J. Hirschberg, H. Ji, J. G. Kahn, Y. Liu, S. Maskey, E. Matusov, H. Ney, A. Rosenberg, E. Shriberg, W. Wang, and C. Wooters. Speech Segmentation and Spoken Document Processing. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, volume 25, number 3, pages 59-69, May 2008.
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O. Bender, E. Matusov, S. Hahn, S. Hasan, S. Khadivi, and H. Ney. The RWTH Arabic-to-English Spoken Language Translation System. In IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), pages 396-401, Kyoto, Japan, December 2007.
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E. Matusov, D. Hillard, M. Magimai-Doss, D. Hakkani-Tür, M. Ostendorf, and H. Ney. Improving Speech Translation by Automatic Boundary Prediction. In Interspeech, pages 2449 – 2452, Antwerp, Belgium, August 2007.
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A. Mauser, R. Zens, E. Matusov, S. Hasan, and H. Ney. The RWTH Statistical Machine Translation System for the IWSLT 2006 Evaluation. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 103-110, Kyoto, Japan, November 2006.
Best Paper Award.
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E. Matusov, A. Mauser, and H. Ney. Automatic Sentence Segmentation and Punctuation Prediction for Spoken Language Translation. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 158-165, Kyoto, Japan, November 2006.
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O. Bojar, E. Matusov, and H. Ney. Czech-English Phrase-Based Machine Translation. In FinTAL - 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, Springer Verlag, LNCS, pages 214-224, Turku, Finland, August 2006.
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E. Matusov, R. Zens, D. Vilar, A. Mauser, M. Popović, S. Hasan, and H. Ney. The RWTH Machine Translation System. In TC-STAR Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation, pages 31-36, Barcelona, Spain, June 2006.
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A. Mauser, E. Matusov, and H. Ney. Training a Statistical Machine Translation System Without GIZA++. In International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pages 715-720, Genoa, Italy, May 2006.
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E. Matusov, S. Kanthak, and H. Ney. Integrating Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: Where Do We Stand?. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pages V-1217-V-1220, Toulouse, France, May 2006.
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E. Matusov, N. Ueffing, and H. Ney. Computing Consensus Translation from Multiple Machine Translation Systems Using Enhanced Hypotheses Alignment. In Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), pages 33-40, Trento, Italy, April 2006.
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E. Matusov, H. Ney, and R. Schlüter. Phrase-based Translation of Speech Recognizer Word Lattices Using Loglinear Model Combination. In IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), pages 110-115, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 2005.
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E. Matusov, G. Leusch, O. Bender, and H. Ney. Evaluating Machine Translation Output with Automatic Sentence Segmentation. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 148-154, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 2005.
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J. Xu, E. Matusov, R. Zens, and H. Ney. Integrated Chinese Word Segmentation in Statistical Machine Translation. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 141-147, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 2005.
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R. Zens, O. Bender, S. Hasan, S. Khadivi, E. Matusov, J. Xu, Y. Zhang, and H. Ney. The RWTH Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation System. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 155-162, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 2005.
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D. Vilar, E. Matusov, S. Hasan, R. Zens, and H. Ney. Statistical Machine Translation of European Parliamentary Speeches. In Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit), pages 259-266, Phuket, Thailand, September 2005.
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E. Matusov, S. Kanthak, and H. Ney. On the Integration of Speech Recognition and Statistical Machine Translation. In Interspeech, pages 3177-3180, September 2005.
ISCA Best Student Paper Award.
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S. Kanthak, D. Vilar, E. Matusov, R. Zens, and H. Ney. Novel Reordering Approaches in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation. In ACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts, pages 167-174, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005.
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E. Matusov, S. Kanthak, and H. Ney. Efficient Statistical Machine Translation with Constrained Reordering. In Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), pages 181-188, Budapest, Hungary, May 2005.
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O. Bender, R. Zens, E. Matusov, and H. Ney. Alignment Templates: the RWTH SMT System. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 79-84, Kyoto, Japan, September 2004.
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E. Matusov, M. Popović, R. Zens, and H. Ney. Statistical Machine Translation of Spontaneous Speech with Scarce Resources. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 139-146, Kyoto, Japan, September 2004.
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E. Matusov, R. Zens, and H. Ney. Symmetric Word Alignments for Statistical Machine Translation. In International Conference on Computational Linguistics (CoLing), pages 219-225, Geneva, Switzerland, August 2004.
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R. Zens, E. Matusov, and H. Ney. Improved Word Alignment Using a Symmetric Lexicon Model. In International Conference on Computational Linguistics (CoLing), pages 36-42, Geneva, Switzerland, August 2004.
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Course work "Datastructures and Algorithms" (Prof. Ney), Summer 2004 with Thomas Deselaers and Nicola Ueffing.
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Various seminars and lab courses offered at the Lehrstuhl für Informatik 6 (2005-2007).
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