Patrick Simianer [△⬜◯]

About

• ▵ I'm trying to blog a bit, see here.
• ▵ I take pictures with film [used to] (film database) and digital cameras whenever I find the time, and have a growing photo book addictioncollection.
• ▵ Weather at my parents' house [currently offline]: Set-up using an Oregon Scientific WMRS200 weather station plugged into a Raspberry Pi, and wfrog for data recording and visualization.
• ▵ MR images I've made with my wife of some fruit and vegetables (for training purposes).
• ▵ Draughts (BE)/Checkers (AE) playing robotic arm [currently offline, thanks GDPR]: LYDIA!
• ▵ Non-scientific reviews of various chocolate breads. 😉

• □ bin
  
  My ~/bin folder.
• □ dotfiles
  
  My dotfiles.
• □ linux-minimal-x61s
  
  Build a Kernel just for IBM/Lenovo's X61s.
• □ minimal-initramfs
  
  Minimal initramfs with support for encrypted home partition; Works with Gentoo Linux.
• □ regexvis
  
  Visualization of regular expressions in JavaScript (slides).
• □ serializer_benchmark
  
  Benchmarking twelve JSON and three MessagePack C++ implementations for parsing speed. Data (checksum).
• □ sinatra-fileupload-with-tokens
  
  Simple fileupload with Sinatra.
• □ snap_to_grid
  
  Simple snap-to-grid implementation for Raphaël.
• □ snippets
  
  Various snippets for personal use.
• □ templates
  
  My collection of templates.
• □ weather_logger
  
  Bare bones weather logger. (WIP)

Code (and sometimes data) for my research:

• ▢ bold_reranking
  
  Reranker for moses that does bold updates only. Used for the 2014 MT Journal paper and 2013 MTSUMMIT paper.
• ▢ dtrain (discriminative training)
  
  Simple tuning technique implemented for cdec. Much of the code was originally written at the machine translation marathon 2011 at fbk in Trento, Italy. My development fork can be found here which iswas regularly merged into the original repo. Example data (checksum). Original slides by Stefan Riezler.
• ▢ lfpe
  
  Interface for exploring learning from post-editing. Usable in conjunction with a graphical derivation editor for outputs of hierarchical phrase-based machine translation outputs. Used for two user studies for statistical- and neural machine translation.
• ▢ nlp_scripts
  
  An assortment of mostly NLP related scripts for the shell.
• ▢ odenwald
  
  Not quite finished SCFG machine translation toolkit in Ruby and C++. The name is borrowed from the German forest Odenwald.
• ▢ perceptron.rb
  
  An implementation of the Perceptron algorithm in Ruby.
• □ r01
  
  Implementation of the one-shot- and zero-shot recall metrics proposed in the NAACL'19 paper.
• ▢ rebol
  
  Code for grounded learning for SMT. Used for the ACL 2014 paper.
• ▢ zipf
  
  My little NLP library for ruby. Gem here. Name borrowed from George Kingsley Zipf.

Papers (or patents) I contributed to, with accompanying materials, sorted by recency in descending order. My h-index is 7. There are other profiles of me at Semantic Scholar, the ACL Anthology, and dblp.

• 
  Apparatus and Method for an Adaptive Neural Machine Translation System
  Wuebker, Simianer, Green
  ○ patent patent@Google
• 
  The Impact of Text Presentation on Translator Performance
  Läubli, Simianer, Wuebker, Kovacs, Sennrich, and Green.
  ○ paper paper@arXiv press
• 
  Measuring Immediate Adaptation Performance for Neural Machine Translation
  Simianer, Wuebker, and DeNero.
  In Proceedings of the 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2019).
  ○ paper talk video bib code
• 
  Preference Learning for Machine Translation
  Simianer
  Dissertation.
  ○ pdf pdf/a bib DOI URN
• 
  Compact Personalized Models for Neural Machine Translation
  Wuebker, Simianer, and DeNero.
  In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018).
  ○ paper bib
• 
  A User-Study on Online Adaptation of Neural Machine Translation to Human Post-Edits
  Karimova, Simianer, and Riezler.
  In Machine Translation, Volume 32, November 2018.
  ○ paper paper@Springer journal preprint bib code
• 
  A Post-editing Interface for Immediate Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation
  Simianer, Karimova, and Riezler.
  In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (System Demonstrations) [COLING 2016], Osaka, Japan.
  ○ paper bib poster talk@IMT 2016 code
• 
  The Heidelberg University English-German translation system for IWSLT 2015
  Jehl, Simianer, Hitschler, and Riezler.
  In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2015), Da Nang, Vietnam.
  ○ paper bib poster
• 
  Offline Extraction of Overlapping Phrases for Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation
  Karimova, Simianer, and Riezler.
  In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2014), Lake Tahoe, United States.
  ○ paper bib
• 
  Online Adaptation to Post-edits for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation
  Bertoldi, Simianer, Cettolo, Wäschle, Federico, and Riezler.
  In Machine Translation, Volume 28, December 2014.
  ○ paper paper@Springer bib
• 
  Response-based Learning for Grounded Machine Translation
  Riezler, Simianer, and Lawrence.
  In Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2014), Baltimore, United States.
  ○ paper bib slides
• 
  The Heidelberg University Machine Translation Systems for IWSLT2013
  Simianer, Jehl, and Riezler.
  In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2013), Heidelberg, Germany.
  ○ paper bib poster
• 
  Multi-Task Learning for Improved Discriminative Training in SMT
  Simianer and Riezler.
  In Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT), Sofia, Bulgaria.
  ○ paper bib slides extended slides code
• 
  Generative and Discriminative Methods for Online Adaptation in SMT
  Wäschle, Simianer, Bertoldi, Riezler, and Federico.
  In Proceedings of the Machine Translation Summit XIV (MTSUMMIT), Nice, France.
  ○ paper bib slides code
• 
  The HDU Discriminative SMT System for Constrained Data PatentMT at NTCIR10
  Simianer, Stupperich, Jehl, Wäschle, Sokolov, and Riezler.
  In Proceedings of the 10th NTCIR Workshop Meeting on Evaluation of Information Access Technologies: Information Retrieval, Question Answering and Cross-Lingual Information Access, PatentMT, Tokyo, Japan.
  ○ paper bib slides poster
• 
  Joint Feature Selection in Distributed Stochastic Learning for Large-Scale Discriminative Training in SMT
  Simianer, Riezler, and Dyer.
  In Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Jeju, Korea.
  ○ paper bib slides code
• 
  Multi-Task Minimum Error Rate Training for SMT
  
  Simianer, Wäschle, and Riezler.
  In The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, Number 96, October 2011.
  
  ○ paper bib slides code
• 
  Tuning SMT on the Training Set
  
  Simianer.
  Master's Thesis.
• 
  Entwicklung einer webbasierten Suchmaschine und Evaluation der Bedeutung von Parametermodifikationen im Vektorraummodell
  
  Simianer.
  Bachelor's Thesis.

Peer Reviewing

I have served as reviewer for the following conferences and workshops.

1. The Joint Conference of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, ACL-IJCNLP 2021.
2. 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2021.
3. 2021 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, NAACL-HLT 2021.
4. 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-21.
5. 5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020.
6. 1st Workshop on Post-Editing in Modern-Day Translation, PEMDT 2020 @AMTA.
7. 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, AACL-IJCNLP 2020.
8. 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2020.
9. European Science Foundation, 2020.
10. 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2020.
11. 2020 European Association for Machine Translation Best Thesis Award.
12. 58th Annual Meeting of the of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2020.
13. The Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-20.
14. 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019.
15. 4th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2019
16. European Science Foundation, 2019.
17. 2019 European Association for Machine Translation Best Thesis Award.
18. Machine Translation Summit XVII, MTSUMMIT 2019.
19. 57th Annual Meeting of the of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2019.
20. 17th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, NAACL 2019.
21. 3rd Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2018.
22. 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2018.
23. 16th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the ACL, NAACL 2018.
24. 2nd Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2017.
25. 8th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2017.
26. 20th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2017.
27. The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL 2017.
28. 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2017.
29. 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2016.
30. The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL 2016.
31. 1st Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2016.
32. 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2016.
33. 10th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT 2015.
34. 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2015.
35. 13th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2015.
36. 1st Workshop on Interactive and Adaptive Machine Translation, IAMT 2014.
37. 9th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, WMT 2014.
38. 11th International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2013.