Ulf Hermjakob
Senior Research Scientist
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University of Southern California (USC)
Information Sciences Institute (ISI)
Artificial Intelligence Division (AI)
Natural Language Research Group (NLG)
Address: USC/ISI · 4676 Admiralty Way #908 · Marina del Rey, CA 90292 · USA
Email: [email protected]
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Teaching at USC
- Spring 2022, DSCI510: Principles of Programming for Data Science
- Spring 2023, DSCI510: Principles of Programming for Data Science
(Syllabus,
Blackboard,
Piazza)
- Lecture: Wednesdays 5:00pm-7:20pm in KDC 235
- Lab: Fridays 5:00pm-6:50pm in GFS 118
Current research
- Machine translation, with current focus on low-resource languages
- Foreign languages, grammar, morphology
- Universal romanization tool uroman
(demo,
paper,
poster,
ACL 2018 Best Demo Paper Award)
- 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
(paper,
poster)
Previous research
- Abstract Meaning Representation
(AMR,
Editor)
- Computer-based foreign language learning (Tactical Language Training,
news story)
- Question answering
- Parsing
Some tools:
Universal romanizer uroman (on GitHub);
Character-level text analysis and cleaning tool wildebeest (on GitHub, PyPI);
Universal tokenizer utoken (on GitHub, PyPI)
Education: Ph.D. in computer science, The University of Texas at Austin (UT)
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