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2016

Y. Kim, A. Guta, J. Wuebker, and H. Ney. A Comparative Study on Vocabulary Reduction for Phrase Table Smoothing. In ACL 2016 First Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 2016), pages 110-117, Berlin, Germany, August 2016. [slides].

2015

A. Guta, J. Wuebker, M. Graça, Y. Kim, and H. Ney. Extended Translation Models in Phrase-based Decoding. In EMNLP 2015 Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2015), pages 282-293, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2015.
A. Guta, T. Alkhouli, J. Peter, J. Wuebker, and H. Ney. A Comparison between Count and Neural Network Models Based on Joint Translation and Reordering Sequences. In Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2015), pages 1401-1411, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2015.
J. Wuebker, S. Green, and J. DeNero. Hierarchical Incremental Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2015), pages 1059-1065, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2015.
J. Peter, F. Toutounchi, J. Wuebker, and H. Ney. The RWTH Aachen German-English Machine Translation System for WMT 2015. In EMNLP 2015 Tenth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2015), pages 158–163, 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

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.
J. Wuebker, H. Ney, A. Martínez-Villaronga, A. Giménez, A. Juan, C. Servan, M. Dymetman, and S. Mirkin. Comparison of Data Selection Techniques for the Translation of Video Lectures. In The Eleventh Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), pages 193-207, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 2014.
M. Sundermeyer, T. Alkhouli, J. Wuebker, and H. Ney. Translation Modeling with Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks. In Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), pages 14-25, Doha, Qatar, October 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.

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.
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.
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.
M. Huck, J. Wuebker, F. Rietig, and H. Ney. A Phrase Orientation Model for Hierarchical Machine Translation. In ACL 2013 Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2013), pages 452-463, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013.
J. Wuebker, and H. Ney. Length-incremental Phrase Training for SMT. In ACL 2013 Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2013), pages 309-319, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013.
M. Feng, C. Schmidt, J. Wuebker, M. Freitag, and H. Ney. The RWTH Aachen System for NTCIR-10 PatentMT. In Proceedings of the 10th NTCIR Conference (NTCIR-10), pages 309-314, Tokyo, Japan, June 2013.

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.
J. Wuebker, H. Ney, and R. Zens. Fast and Scalable Decoding with Language Model Look-Ahead for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation. In Annual Meeting of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 28-32, Jeju, Republic of Korea, July 2012.
J. Wuebker, and H. Ney. Phrase Model Training for Statistical Machine Translation with Word Lattices of Preprocessing Alternatives. In NAACL 2012 Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2012), pages 450-459, Montreal, Canada, June 2012.
J. Wuebker, M. Hwang, and C. Quirk. Leave-One-Out Phrase Model Training for Large-Scale Deployment. In NAACL 2012 Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT 2012), pages 460-467, Montreal, Canada, June 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.
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.
S. Mansour, J. Wuebker, and H. Ney. Combining Translation and Language Model Scoring for Domain-Specific Data Filtering. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 222-229, 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.

2010

C. Heger, J. Wuebker, D. Vilar, and H. Ney. A Combination of Hierarchical Systems with Forced Alignments from Phrase-Based Systems. In International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), pages 291-297, 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.
C. Heger, J. Wuebker, M. Huck, G. Leusch, S. Mansour, D. Stein, and H. Ney. The RWTH Aachen Machine Translation System for WMT 2010. In ACL 2010 Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and Metrics MATR (WMT 2010), pages 93-97, Uppsala, Sweden, July 2010.
J. Wuebker, A. Mauser, and H. Ney. Training Phrase Translation Models with Leaving-One-Out. In Annual Meeting of the Assoc. for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 475-484, Uppsala, Sweden, July 2010.

2009

J. Wuebker. Training Phrase Models for Statistical Machine Translatoin. Master Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, April 2009.

2018 - today	Director of Research at Lilt, Inc
2015 - 2018	Senior Research Scientist at Lilt, Inc
2009 - 2015	Research Assistant at the Lehrstuhl für Informatik 6, RWTH Aachen University
Jan - Mar 2012	Internship at the Microsoft Research NLP Group, Redmond, WA
2002 - 2009	Computer Science at the RWTH Aachen (Diplom)
2006 - 2007	Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh,

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