| Date of birth: | September 25, 1969 |
| Place of birth: | Freiburg, Germany |
| Current address: |
USC Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001 Marina del Rey, CA Phone: (310) 448 - 8430 Email: germann@isi.edu http://www.isi.edu/~germann |
Education |
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| 11/96 | M.A. in General Linguistics, Japanese Linguistics, and Applied Linguistics with Particular Reference to the Teaching and Learning of Foreign Languages from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Title of Master's Thesis: "Die Übersetzbarkeit von Wörterbüchern des Cobuild®-Typs in HPSG-Lexika" (The Translatability of Dictionaries of the Cobuild® Type into HPSG Lexica) |
| 10/93 - 11/96 | Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany |
| 10/92 - 10/93 | Studies at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan |
| 10/91 - 10/92 | Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany |
| 9/90 - 5/91 | Studies at Pomona College, Claremont, CA |
| 10/88 - 8/90 | Studies at Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany |
| 5/88 | Graduation from the Karls-Gymnasium, Stuttgart, Germany |
Work Experience |
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| 3/00 - present |
Intelligent Systems Division, USC Information Sciences Institute,
Marina del Rey, CA Work on Statistical Machine Translation. |
| 12/98 - 3/00 |
Software Sciences Division, USC Information Sciences Institute,
Marina del Rey, CA Work on extending COTS applications (e.g., MS PowerPoint) to advanced design tools that allow domain experts to directly design and develop software applications without having to have any particular programming skills. |
| 6/97 - 11/98 | Gazelle Machine Translation Project; Intelligent Systems Division, USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA |
| 11/96 - 5/97 | Research Assistant, Department of Linguistics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany |
| 5/94 - 11/96 | Student Research Assistant, German Department and Department of Linguistics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany |
| 6/95 - 10/95 | Internship in the Gazelle Machine Translation Project; Intelligent Systems Division, USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, CA |