Hi.

I'm a second year CS PhD student at the Johns Hopkins University CLSP (Center for Language and Speech Processing), working with Prof. Jason Eisner.

Machine learning and natural language are fascinating.

Recent blog entries

• NLP/CL Twitter Megathread (2017-04-08)
• Language diversity in ACL 2004 - 2016 (2016-12-22)
• Describing discontinuous constituents with LCFRS (2016-10-21)

CV (the gist of it)

Ph.D. Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA (09/2017 - ongoing)

• advised by Prof. Jason Eisner at the CLSP (Center for Language and Speech Processing)

M.Sc. Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany (finished 07/2017)

• thesis: “Soft matching of terminals for syntactic parsing” (supervised by Prof. Heiko Vogler)

Summer Internship, USC Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, CA (summer of 2016)

• machine translation / DARPA LORELEI under Prof. Kevin Knight and Prof. Daniel Marcu
• translating out-of-vocabulary words with unprocessed human-readable dictionaries

B.Sc. Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany (finished 08/2015)

• thesis: “Extracting and Binarizing probabilistic linear context-free rewriting systems”