Christian Federmann

Please note: new phone number +49 (0) 681 857 75 5353, new office coordinates C +1.09.

Christian Federmann Researcher, Language Technology Lab, DFKI GmbH

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About Me

I am a researcher at the Language Technology Lab at DFKI.

My current research work is funded by the META-NET project where I lead the development of the META-SHARE platform for exchange of language resources.

I have studied computer science at Saarland University and submitted my diploma thesis in July 2007. My PhD project is titled «Community-based Machine Translation».

A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.

Alan M. Turing

My research interests are:

Machine Translation
Combining both Statistical and Rule-based Machine Translation into working, hybrid systems.
Extending MT evaluation efforts from automated scores to human annotation of translation results.
Knowledge Management
Creating a scalable, distributed network providing access to language resources.
Information Extraction
Retrieving information about companies or products from various sources and converting this data into structured form.
 

Contact

Company Address
DFKI GmbH
Campus D3 2
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbrücken
GERMANY
Office Address
Campus D3 1
Room C +1.09
Phone +49 (0) 681 857 75 5353
Fax +49 (0) 681 857 75 5338
 

Publications

No.Title
31

Mihael Arcan, Christian Federmann, Paul Buitelaar
Using Domain-specific and Collaborative Resources for Term Translation
Accepted for publication, 07/2012
30

Sabine Hunsicker, Yu Chen, Christian Federmann
Machine Learning for Hybrid Machine Translation
Accepted for publication, 06/2012
29

Christian Federmann, Dagmar Gromann, Thierry Declerck, Sabine Hunsicker, Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Gerhard Budin
Multilingual Terminology Acquisition for Ontology-based Information Extraction
Accepted for publication, 06/2012
28

Christian Federmann, Eleftherios Avramidis, Marta R. Costa-Jussa, Josef van Genabith, Maite Melero, Pavel Pecina
The ML4HMT Workshop on Optimising the Division of Labour in Hybrid Machine Translation
Accepted for publication, 05/2012
27

Christian Federmann, Byron Georgantopoulos, Christian Girardi, Olivier Hamon, Dimitris Mavroeidis, Salvatore Minutoli, Marc Schröder
META-SHARE v1: An Open Network of Repositories for Language Resources including Data and Tools
Accepted for publication, 05/2012
26

Eleftherios Avramidis, Aljoscha Burchardt, Christian Federmann, Maja Popović, Cindy Tscherwinka, David Vilar
Involving Language Professionals in the Evaluation of Machine Translation
Accepted for publication, 05/2012
25

Eleftherios Avramidis, Marta R. Costa-jussa, Christian Federmann, Josef van Genabith, Maite Melero , Pavel Pecina
A Richly Annotated, Multilingual Parallel Corpus for Hybrid Machine Translation
Accepted for publication, 05/2012
24

Christian Federmann
Can Machine Learning Algorithms Improve Phrase Selection in Hybrid Machine Translation?
Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Exploiting Synergies between Information Retrieval and Machine Translation (ESIRMT) and Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation (HyTra), 04/2012
23

Christian Federmann, Maite Melero, Josef van Genabith
Towards Optimal Choice Selection for Improved Hybrid Machine Translation
The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, Issue 97, 04/2012
22

Christian Federmann
Results from the ML4HMT Shared Task
Proceedings of the Shared Task on Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Optimise the Division of Labour in Hybrid Machine Translation, 11/2011
21

Christian Federmann, Sabine Hunsicker, Yu Chen, Rui Wang
DFKI System Combination using Syntactic Information at ML4HMT-2011
Proceedings of the Shared Task on Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Optimise the Division of Labour in Hybrid Machine Translation, 11/2011
20

Aljoscha Burchardt, Christian Federmann, Hans Uszkoreit
Hybrid Machine Translation for German in taraXÜ: Can translation costs be decreased without degrading quality?
Hamburg Working Paper in Multilingualism, Hamburg, Germany, GSCL, 9/2011
19

Christian Federmann
MT Server Land Translation Services
Hamburg Working Paper in Multilingualism, Hamburg, Germany, GSCL, 9/2011
18

Christian Federmann, Sabine Hunsicker
Improving an Existing RBMT System by Stochastic Analysis
Hamburg Working Paper in Multilingualism, Hamburg, Germany, GSCL, 9/2011
17

Christian Federmann, Sabine Hunsicker
Stochastic Parse Tree Selection for an Existing RBMT System
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, EMNLP, 7/2011
16

Christian Federmann, Sabine Hunsicker, Petra Wolf, Ulrike Bernardi
From Statistical Term Extraction to Hybrid Machine Translation
Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, Leuven, Belgium, EAMT, 5/2011
15

Christian Federmann
How can we measure machine translation quality?
Proceedings of the Tralogy Conference, Paris, France, 3/2011
14

Christian Federmann, Andreas Eisele
MT Server Land: An Open-Source MT Architecture
The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics volume 94, Prague, Czech Republic, 9/2010
13

Christian Federmann, Andreas Eisele, Hans Uszkoreit, Yu Chen, Sabine Hunsicker, Jia Xu
Further Experiments with Shallow Hybrid MT Systems
Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR, Uppsala, Sweden, 7/2010
12

Christian Federmann
Appraise: An Open-Source Toolkit for Manual Phrase-Based Evaluation of Translations
Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation, Valletta, Malta, LREC, 5/2010
11

Christian Federmann, Thierry Declerck
Extraction, Merging, and Monitoring of Company Data from Heterogeneous Sources
Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation, Valletta, Malta, LREC, 5/2010
10

Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, James Hodson
Towards an effective toolkit for translators
Proceedings of the ASLIB Translating and the Computer Conference 31, London, United Kingdom, ASLIB, 11/2009
9

Christian Federmann, Silke Theison, Andreas Eisele, Hans Uszkoreit, Yu Chen, Michael Jellinghaus, Sabine Hunsicker
Translation Combination using Factored Word Substitution
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, EACL, 3/2009
8

Yu Chen, Michael Jellinghaus, Andreas Eisele, Yi Zhang, Sabine Hunsicker, Silke Theison, Christian Federmann, Hans Uszkoreit
Combining Multi-Engine Translations with Moses
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, EACL, 3/2009
7

Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hans Uszkoreit, Hervé Saint-Amand, Martin Kay, Michael Jellinghaus, Sabine Hunsicker, Teresa Herrmann, Yu Chen
Hybrid Architectures for Multi-Engine Machine Translation
Proceedings of Translating and the Computer 30, London, United Kingdom, ASLIB, 11/2008
6

Ulrich Schäfer, Hans Uszkoreit, Christian Federmann, Torsten Marek, Yajing Zhang
Extracting and Querying Relations in Scientific Papers
Proceedings of the 31st Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 9/2008
5

Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hans Uszkoreit, Hervé Saint-Amand, Martin Kay, Michael Jellinghaus, Sabine Hunsicker, Teresa Herrmann, Yu Chen
Hybrid Machine Translation Architectures within and beyond the EuroMatrix project
Proceedings of the European Machine Translation Conference, Hamburg, Germany, EAMT, 9/2008
4

Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hervé Saint-Amand, Michael Jellinghaus, Teresa Herrmann, Yu Chen
Using Moses to Integrate Multiple Rule-Based Machine Translation Engines into a Hybrid System
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Columbus, United States, ACL, 6/2008
3

Ulrich Schäfer, Hans Uszkoreit, Christian Federmann, Torsten Marek, Yajing Zhang
Extracting and Querying Relations in Scientific Papers on Language Technology
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Marrakesh, Morocco, LREC, 5/2008
2

Christian Federmann
Very large language models for machine translation
Mastersthesis, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, 7/2007
1

Yu Chen, Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Eva Hasler, Michael Jellinghaus, Silke Theison
Multi-Engine Machine Translation with an Open-Source (SMT) Decoder
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Prague, Czech Republic, ACL, 6/2007