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Ulf Hermjakob, Ph.D.
Computer Scientist
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin
Diplom, Computer Science, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Research Summary
Current research
Phonetic search
Morphology
Tools to support human translators of no-resource languages
Machine translation, with current focus on low-resource languages
Foreign languages, grammar
Previous research
Abstract Meaning Representation
Universal romanization tool uroman
Translation tool Chinese Room to enable people to translate from low-resource languages (such as Uyghur or Zulu) to English, even without any prior knowledge of the source language
Computer-based foreign language learning (Tactical Language Training)
Question answering
Parsing
Awards
ACL 2018 Best Demo Paper Award for: Out-of-the-box Universal Romanization Tool uroman
Appointments
Instructor at USC