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Furthermore, I was author of Jane, RWTH's open-source statistical machine translation toolkit, free for non-commercial use.

2017

S. Peitz. Generative Training and Smoothing of Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation Models. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, March 2017.

2015

J. Peter, F. Toutounchi, S. Peitz, P. Bahar, A. Guta, and H. Ney. The RWTH Aachen German to English MT System for IWSLT 2015. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 15-22, Da Nang, Vietnam, December 2015.
M. Freitag, J. Peter, S. Peitz, M. Feng, and H. Ney. Local System Voting Feature for Machine Translation System Combination. In EMNLP 2015 Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2015), pages 467-–476, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2015.
J. Wuebker, S. Muehr, P. Lehnen, S. Peitz, and H. Ney. A Comparison of Update Strategies for Large-Scale Maximum Expected BLEU Training. In Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL HLT), pages 1516-1526, Denver, CO, USA, May 2015.

2014

S. Peitz, M. Freitag, and H. Ney. Better Punctuation Prediction with Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 271-278, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, December 2014.
M. Freitag, J. Wuebker, S. Peitz, H. Ney, M. Huck, A. Birch, N. Durrani, P. Koehn, M. Mediani, I. Slawik, J. Niehues, E. Cho, A. Waibel, N. Bertoldi, M. Cettolo, and M. Federico. Combined Spoken Language Translation. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 57-64, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, December 2014.
J. Wuebker, S. Peitz, A. Guta, and H. Ney. The RWTH Aachen Machine Translation Systems for IWSLT 2014. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 150-154, Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, December 2014.
M. Freitag, S. Peitz, J. Wuebker, H. Ney, M. Huck, R. Sennrich, N. Durrani, M. Nadejde, P. Williams, P. Koehn, T. Herrmann, E. Cho, and A. Waibel. EU-BRIDGE MT: Combined Machine Translation. In ACL 2014 Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2014), pages 105-113, Baltimore, MD, USA, June 2014.
S. Peitz, J. Wuebker, M. Freitag, and H. Ney. The RWTH Aachen German-English Machine Translation System for WMT 2014. In ACL 2014 Ninth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2014), pages 157-162, Baltimore, MD, USA, June 2014.
S. Peitz, D. Vilar, and H. Ney. Simple and Effective Approach for Consistent Training of Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Models. In Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), pages 174-179, Gothenburg, Sweden, April 2014.
C. Parra Escartín, S. Peitz, and H. Ney. German Compounds and Statistical Machine Translation. Can they get along?. In EACL 2014 Tenth Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2014), pages 48-56, Gothenburg, Sweden, April 2014.

2013

J. Wuebker, S. Peitz, T. Alkhouli, J. Peter, M. Feng, M. Freitag, and H. Ney. The RWTH Aachen Machine Translation Systems for IWSLT 2013. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 88-93, Heidelberg, Germany, December 2013.
M. Freitag, S. Peitz, J. Wuebker, H. Ney, N. Durrani, M. Huck, P. Koehn, T. Ha, J. Niehues, M. Mediani, T. Herrmann, A. Waibel, N. Bertoldi, M. Cettolo, and M. Federico. EU-BRIDGE MT: Text Translation of Talks in the EU-BRIDGE Project. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 128-135, Heidelberg, Germany, December 2013.
M. A. B. Shaik, Z. Tüske, S. Wiesler, M. Nussbaum-Thom, S. Peitz, R. Schlüter, and H. Ney. The RWTH Aachen German and English LVCSR systems for IWSLT-2013. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 120-127, Heidelberg, Germany, December 2013.
J. Wuebker, S. Peitz, F. Rietig, and H. Ney. Improving Statistical Machine Translation with Word Class Models. In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 1377-1381, Seattle, WA, USA, October 2013.
P. Lehnen, J. Peter, J. Wuebker, S. Peitz, and H. Ney. (Hidden) Conditional Random Fields Using Intermediate Classes for Statistical Machine Translation. In Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit), pages 151-158, Nice, France, September 2013.
M. Freitag, M. Feng, M. Huck, S. Peitz, and H. Ney. Reverse Word Order Models. In Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit), pages 159-166, Nice, France, September 2013.
S. Peitz, S. Mansour, J. Peter, C. Schmidt, J. Wuebker, M. Huck, M. Freitag, and H. Ney. The RWTH Aachen Machine Translation System for WMT 2013. In ACL 2013 Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2013), pages 193-199, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013.
S. Peitz, S. Mansour, M. Huck, M. Freitag, H. Ney, E. Cho, T. Herrmann, M. Mediani, J. Niehues, A. Waibel, A. Allauzen, Q. K. Do, B. Buschbeck, and T. Wandmacher. Joint WMT 2013 Submission of the QUAERO Project. In ACL 2013 Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2013), pages 185-192, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013.

2012

S. Peitz, S. Wiesler, M. Nussbaum-Thom, and H. Ney. Spoken Language Translation Using Automatically Transcribed Text in Training. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 276-283, Hong Kong, December 2012.
S. Peitz, A. Mauser, J. Wuebker, and H. Ney. Forced Derivations for Hierarchical Machine Translation. In International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pages 933-942, Mumbai, India, December 2012.
J. Wuebker, M. Huck, S. Peitz, M. Nuhn, M. Freitag, J. Peter, S. Mansour, and H. Ney. Jane 2: Open Source Phrase-based and Hierarchical Statistical Machine Translation. In International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pages 483-491, Mumbai, India, December 2012.
S. Peitz, S. Mansour, M. Freitag, M. Feng, M. Huck, J. Wuebker, M. Nuhn, M. Nußbaum-Thom, and H. Ney. The RWTH Aachen Speech Recognition and Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2012. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 69-76, Hong Kong, December 2012.
M. Huck, J. Peter, M. Freitag, S. Peitz, and H. Ney. Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation with Jane 2. The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, number 98, pages 37-50, Prague, Czech Republic, October 2012.
M. Freitag, S. Peitz, M. Huck, H. Ney, T. Herrmann, J. Niehues, A. Waibel, A. Allauzen, G. Adda, B. Buschbeck, J. M. Crego, and J. Senellart. Joint WMT 2012 Submission of the QUAERO Project. In NAACL 2012 Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2012), pages 322-329, Montreal, Canada, June 2012.
M. Huck, S. Peitz, M. Freitag, M. Nuhn, and H. Ney. The RWTH Aachen Machine Translation System for WMT 2012. In NAACL 2012 Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2012), pages 304-311, Montreal, Canada, June 2012.
M. Huck, S. Peitz, M. Freitag, and H. Ney. Discriminative Reordering Extensions for Hierarchical Phrase-Based Machine Translation. In 16th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), pages 313-320, Trento, Italy, May 2012.

2011

J. Wuebker, M. Huck, S. Mansour, M. Freitag, M. Feng, S. Peitz, C. Schmidt, and H. Ney. The RWTH Aachen Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2011. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 106-113, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2011.
S. Peitz, M. Freitag, A. Mauser, and H. Ney. Modeling Punctuation Prediction as Machine Translation. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 238-245, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2011.
K. Boudahmane, B. Buschbeck, E. Cho, J. M. Crego, M. Freitag, T. Lavergne, H. Ney, J. Niehues, S. Peitz, J. Senellart, A. Sokolov, A. Waibel, T. Wandmacher, J. Wuebker, and F. Yvon. Advances on Spoken Language Translation in the Quaero Program. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 114-120, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2011.
M. Feng, C. Schmidt, J. Wuebker, S. Peitz, M. Freitag, and H. Ney. The RWTH Aachen System for NTCIR-9 PatentMT. In Ninth NTCIR Workshop Meeting (NTCIR-9), pages 600-605, Tokyo, Japan, December 2011.
M. Freitag, G. Leusch, J. Wuebker, S. Peitz, H. Ney, T. Herrmann, J. Niehues, A. Waibel, A. Allauzen, G. Adda, J. M. Crego, B. Buschbeck, T. Wandmacher, and J. Senellart. Joint WMT Submission of the QUAERO Project. In EMNLP 2011 Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2011), pages 358-364, Edinburgh, UK, July 2011.
M. Huck, J. Wuebker, C. Schmidt, M. Freitag, S. Peitz, D. Stein, A. Dagnelies, S. Mansour, G. Leusch, and H. Ney. The RWTH Aachen Machine Translation System for WMT 2011. In EMNLP 2011 Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2011), pages 405-412, Edinburgh, UK, July 2011.
D. Stein, D. Vilar, S. Peitz, M. Freitag, M. Huck, and H. Ney. A Guide to Jane, an Open Source Hierarchical Translation Toolkit. The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, number 95, pages 5-18, Prague, Czech Republic, April 2011.

2010

D. Vilar, D. Stein, S. Peitz, and H. Ney. If I Only Had a Parser: Poor Man's Syntax for Hierarchical Machine Translation. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 345-352, Paris, France, December 2010.
S. Mansour, S. Peitz, D. Vilar, J. Wuebker, and H. Ney. The RWTH Aachen Machine Translation system for IWSLT 2010. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 163-168, Paris, France, December 2010.
D. Stein, S. Peitz, D. Vilar, and H. Ney. A Cocktail of Deep Syntactic Features for Hierarchical Machine Translation. In Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas 2010 (AMTA 2010), Denver, CO, USA, October 2010.
S. Peitz. Extending Statistical Machine Translation Using Syntax. Master Thesis, Aachen, Germany, March 2010.

April 2016 - present	Research Scientist at Apple Inc., Siri Speech team
Jul 2010 - April 2016	Research Assistant at the Chair of Computer Science 6, RWTH Aachen University
May 2015 - Jul 2015	Internship with Apple Inc., Siri Speech team, Cupertino, CA, USA
Oct 2005 - May 2010	Computer Science at the RWTH Aachen University (Diplom)

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