At A Glance

I am a PhD student and member of the academic staff in the group of Prof. Heiko Vogler at Technische Universität Dresden (and I have been since mid-April 2008). My research focuses on algorithms and formal models for syntax-based statistical machine translation. One particular concern of mine is Vanda, our machine translation system, which is currently under development. Also I am interested in machine learning techniques.

How to Reach Me

E-Mail

first name.last name@tu-dresden.de (replace umlaut u by ue)

Office

INF 3002; please make an appointment, preferably Tuesday (8:00–16:00) or Thursday (8:00–11:30)

Social Networks

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Further information can be found in the panel on the right-hand side. Feedback is always appreciated.

Recent Publications and Talks

Slides are available for those conference and workshop publications which I presented myself. Details omitted here can be found in the bib data.

• MB, Andreas Maletti, and H. Vogler, 2012. Unidirectional Derivation Semantics for Synchronous Tree-Adjoining Grammars. 16th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (DLT 2012).
• MB and Anja Fischer, 2012. Deciding the Twins Property for Weighted Tree Automata over Extremal Semifields. ATANLP 2012 (acceptance rate: 4/6)
  missing downloads will be made available in due time
  paper (pdf) • slides (pdf) • bibtex entry • ACL link
• MB, 2011. Produktkonstruktionen für das Maschinelle Übersetzen. (Product constructions for machine translation.) Talk (in German) given at Universität Potsdam on December 19, 2011.
  abstract (in German) • slides
• MB, Mark-Jan Nederhof, and Heiko Vogler, 2011. Tree Parsing with Synchronous Tree-Adjoining Grammars. IWPT 2011 (acceptance rate: 28/58)
  paper (pdf) • slides: part one, part two • bibtex entry • ACL link
• MB, 2011. Statistical Machine Translation with Weighted Grammars. Talk given at IMS Stuttgart on June 15, 2011; revised version given in Dresden on September 12, 2011.
  abstract • original slides (pdf) • revised slides (pdf) • references (pdf) • IMS Stuttgart
• MB, Daniel Geisler, Torsten Stüber, and Heiko Vogler, 2010. n-Best Parsing Revisited. ATANLP 2010 (acceptance rate: 6/11)
  paper (pdf) • slides (pdf) • bibtex entry • ACL link
• MB, Jonathan May, and Heiko Vogler, 2009. Determinization of Weighted Tree Automata using Factorizations. FSMNLP 2009 (pre-proceedings and talk; acceptance rate: 20/21), extended version appeared in Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics, 15 (2010) 3/4.
  workshop paper (pdf) • slides (pdf) • extended manuscript (pdf) • bibtex entry
• MB and Torsten Stüber, 2009. Monadic Datalog Tree Transducers. LATA 2009 (acceptance rate: 58/121)
  bibtex entry
• MB, 2008. Unranked Attributed Tree Transducers. Diploma thesis defense talk.
  slides (pdf)

Bibliography

Everyone who's interested shall have a look at my bibliography.

Teaching

I am/was a course assistant in the following courses.

• Natural-Language Processing (seminar), Winter 2011
• Natural-Language Processing (seminar), Summer 2011
• Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache – Sprachmodelle (tutorials accompanying the lecture, held in German; translation: Natural Language Processing – Language Models), Winter 2010
• Tree Automata (tutorials accompanying the lecture), Summer 2010
• Machine Translation and Tree Automata (seminar), Summer 2010
• Machine Translation and Tree Automata (lab course), Summer 2010
• Natural Language Processing (seminar), Winter 2009
• Praktikum Programmierung (lab course, held in German), Winter 2009
• Machine Translation of Natural Languages II (tutorials accompanying the lecture), Summer 2009
• Praktikum Programmierung II (lecture accompanying the lab course, held in German), Summer 2009
• Machine Translation of Natural Languages I (tutorials accompanying the lecture), Winter 2008
• Syntax-directed Semantics (tutorials accompanying the lecture), Summer 2008

I am supervising/I supervised the following theses (titles somewhat adapted).

• Comparison and Implementation of SMT Evaluation Methods. Lena Morgenroth, diploma thesis, August 2011.
• Implementation of Forward/Backward Application of Weighted Extended Tree Transformations to Recognizable Tree Series. Hans-Jakob Holtz, diploma thesis, July 2011.
• Efficient Implementation of Parsing for Weighted Tree Automata in Haskell. Toni Dietze, diploma thesis, October 2010.
• Efficient Implementation of A* n-Best Parsing in Haskell. Waheed Ghumman, master thesis, September 2010.
• Backward Application of Extended Top-down Tree Transducers. Ralf Müller, diploma thesis, May 2010.
• Height-restricted Tree Substitution Grammars. Hans-Jakob Holtz, minor thesis, April 2010.