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PhD Theses - RWTH Aachen University - Computer Science Department

2017

J. W�bker. Effective Training and Effcient Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, February 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.
D. Nolden. Progress in Decoding for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, April 2017.

2016

M. Freitag. Investigations on Machine Translation System Combination. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, April 2016.
M. Sundermeyer. Improvements in Language and Translation Modeling. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, June 2016.
M. A. B. Shaik. Investigation on Language Modelling Approaches for Open Vocabulary Speech Recognition. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, December 2016.
S. B. Wiesler. Optimization of Discriminative Models for Speech and Handwriting Recognition. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, December 2016.
C. A. Schmidt. Handling Multimodality and Scarce Resources in Sign Language Machine Translation. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, August 2016.

2015

A. Mauser. Training and Models for Statistical Machine Translation. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, November 2015.
J. L��f. Investigations on Acoustic Model Speaker Adaptation. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, July 2015.
M. A. Tahir. Discriminative Training of Linear Transformations and Mixture Density Splitting for Speech Recognition. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, November 2015.

2014

C. Plahl. Neural Network based Feature Extraction for Speech and Image Recognition. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, January 2014.
S. Hahn. Monotone String-to-String Translation for NLU and ASR Tasks. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, November 2014.
D. Rybach. Investigations on Search Methods for Speech Recognition using Weighted Finite-State Transducers. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, April 2014.
A. El-Desoky Mousa. Sub-Word Based Language Modeling of Morphologically Rich Languages for LVCSR. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, June 2014.
C. Gollan. Efficient Setup of Acoustic Models for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, August 2014.

2012

P. Dreuw. Probabilistic Sequence Models for Image Sequence Processing and Recognition. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, April 2012.
D. Stein. Soft Features for Statistical Machine Translation of Spoken and Signed Languages. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, January 2012.
Y. Zhang. The Application of Source Language Information in Chinese-English Statistical Machine Translation. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, November 2012.

2011

D. Vilar. Investigations on Hierarchical Phrase-based Machine Translation. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, November 2011.
S. Hasan. Triplet Lexicon Models for Statistical Machine Translation. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, November 2011.
B. Hoffmeister. Bayes Risk Decoding and its Application to System Combination. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, July 2011.

2010

O. Bender. Robust Machine Translation for Multi-Domain Tasks. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, March 2010.
J. Xu. Sequence Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, September 2010.
G. Heigold. A Log-Linear Discriminative Modeling Framework for Speech Recognition. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, June 2010.
W. Macherey. Discriminative Training and Acoustic Modeling for Automatic Speech Recognition. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, March 2010.

2009

E. Matusov. Combining Natural Language Processing Systems to Improve Machine Translation of Speech. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, December 2009.
M. Popović. Machine Translation: Statistical Approach with Additional Linguistic Knowledge. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, April 2009.
K. Macherey. Statistical Methods in Natural Language Understanding and Spoken Dialogue Systems. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, September 2009.

2008

T. Deselaers. Image Retrieval, Object Recognition, and Discriminative Models. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, December 2008.
R. Zens. Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation: Models, Search, Training. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, February 2008.
S. Khadivi. Statistical Computer-Assisted Translation. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, July 2008.
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2007

M. Zahedi. Robust Appearance-based Sign Language Recognition. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, September 2007.

2006

D. Keysers. Modeling of Image Variability for Recognition. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, March 2006.
N. Ueffing. Word Confidence Measures for Machine Translation. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, March 2006.
H. Schramm. Modeling Spontaneous Speech Variability for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, March 2006.
A. Zolnay. Acoustic Feature Combination for Speech Recognition. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, August 2006.

2005

M. Pitz. Investigations on Linear Transformations for Speaker Adaptation and Normalization. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, March 2005.
S. Vogel. Statistical Machine Translation with Cascaded Probabilistic Transducers. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, December 2005.

2004

F. Hilger. Quantile Based Histogram Equalization for Noise Robust Speech Recognition. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, December 2004.

2003

A. Sixtus. Across-Word Phoneme Models for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, January 2003.
S. Molau. Normalization in the Acoustic Feature Space for Improved Speech Recognition. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, February 2003.

2002

S. Nießen. Improving Statistical Machine Translation using Morpho-syntactic Information. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, December 2002.
F. J. Och. Statistical Machine Translation: From Single-Word Models to Alignment Templates. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, October 2002.
F. Wessel. Word Posterior Probabilities for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, July 2002.

2001

J. Dahmen. Invariant Image Object Recognition using Gaussian Mixture Densities. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, October 2001.
C. Tillmann. Word Re-Ordering and Dynamic Programming based Search Algorithm for Statistical Machine Translation. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, May 2001.

2000

R. Schlüter. Investigations on Discriminative Training Criteria. PhD Thesis, Aachen, Germany, September 2000.
P. Beyerlein. Diskriminative Modellkombination in Spracherkennungssystemen mit großem Wortschatz. PhD Thesis, Aachen, Germany, October 2000.
S. C. Martin. Statistische Auswahl von Wortabhängigkeiten in der automatischen Spracherkennung. PhD Thesis, Aachen, Germany, February 2000.

1999

L. Welling. Merkmalsextraktion in Spracherkennungssystemen für großen Wortschatz. PhD Thesis, Aachen, Germany, January 1999.
K. Beulen. Phonetische Entscheidungsbäume für die automatische Spracherkennung mit großem Vokabular. PhD Thesis, Aachen, Germany, July 1999.

1998

S. Ortmanns. Effiziente Suchverfahren zur Erkennung kontinuierlich gesprochener Sprache. PhD Thesis, Aachen, Germany, November 1998.
H. Aust. Sprachverstehen und Sprachmodellierung in natürlichsprachlichen Informationssystemen. PhD Thesis, Aachen, Germany, July 1998.