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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