Christian Federmann — Program Manager II, Microsoft

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Microsoft Canada Development Centre
840 Cambie Street
Suite 300, Vancouver

I am a Program Manager II at Microsoft Research working with the Microsoft Translator team.

I have studied computer science and computational linguistics at Saarland University and submitted my diploma thesis in July 2007.

From August 2007—April 2013, I was a researcher at the Language Technology Lab at DFKI. My research mostly focused on machine translation and evaluation of machine-translated text, as well as building clever information extraction tools. From May 2013—October 2013, I was a research associate at the Computational Linguistics Group at Saarland University.

My PhD project under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit is titled «Hybrid Machine Translation using Binary Classification Models trained on Joint, Binarised Feature Vectors» and was defended on December 16, 2013.

Teaching

In summer 2013, I co-taught the M.Sc. Language Technology II course together with Martin Kay and Magdalena Wolska.

PhD Defense

Date: December 16, 2013 — 12:15p
Location: Saarbrücken, Germany
Building C7 4 — Conference room

40 Publications

See my publications/citations on Google Scholar. A list of all publications is available for download in BibTex format. You can view a table with all publications by clicking here.

CV

My Curriculum Vitae is available as PDF or DOC on request. You can also connect on LinkedIn.

Contact Details

chrife [at] microsoft [dot] com
+1-604-693-7089 — +1-604-682-0282
office hour upon agreement

No.	Title
40	Findings of the 2013 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation Ondřej Bojar, Christian Buck, Chris Callison-Burch, Christian Federmann, Barry Haddow, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, Matt Post, Radu Soricut, Lucia Specia Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, August 2013
39	A Feedback-enabled Machine Learning Approach for Multi-Engine Machine Translation Christian Federmann Proceedings of the AAAI 2013 Spring Symposium on Lifelong Machine Learning, Stanford, CA, USA, March 2013
38	Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Optimise the Division of Labour in Hybrid MT Editors: Josef Genabith, Toni Badia, Christian Federmann, Maite Melero, Marta Costa-jussà, Tsuyoshi Okita Mumbai, India, December 2012 URL http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W12-57.pdf
37	Results from the ML4HMT-12 Shared Task on Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Optimise the Division of Labour in Hybrid Machine Translation Christian Federmann, Tsuyoshi Okita, Maite Melero, Marta Costa-Jussà, Toni Badia, Josef Genabith Proceedings of the Second Shared Task on Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Optimise the Division of Labour in Hybrid Machine Translation (ML4HMT-12), Mumbai, India, December 2012 URL http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W12-5709.pdf
36	System Combination Using Joint, Binarised Feature Vectors Christian Federmann Proceedings of the Second Shared Task on Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Optimise the Division of Labour in Hybrid Machine Translation (ML4HMT-12), Mumbai, India, December 2012 URL http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W12-5708.pdf
35	Experiments with Term Translation Mihael Arcan, Christian Federmann, Paul Buitelaar Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Mumbai, India, December 2012 URL http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/C12-1005.pdf
34	Hybrid Machine Translation Using Joint, Binarised Feature Vectors Christian Federmann Proceedings of the Tenth Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA 2012), San Diego, USA, October 2012 URL http://amta2012.amtaweb.org/AMTA2012Files/papers/126.pdf
33	A Machine-Learning Framework for Hybrid Machine Translation Christian Federmann Proceedings of the 35th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2012), Saarbrücken, Germany, September 2012 URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33347-7_4
32	Appraise: An Open-Source Toolkit for Manual Evaluation of Machine Translation Output Christian Federmann Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2012 URL http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml/98/art-federmann.pdf
31	Using Domain-specific and Collaborative Resources for Term Translation Mihael Arcan, Christian Federmann, Paul Buitelaar Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation, Jeju, Republic of Korea, July 2012 URL http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W12-4210.pdf
30	Machine Learning for Hybrid Machine Translation Sabine Hunsicker, Chen Yu, Christian Federmann Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Montréal, Canada, June 2012 URL http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W12-3138.pdf
29	Multilingual Terminology Acquisition for Ontology-based Information Extraction Christian Federmann, Dagmar Gromann, Thierry Declerck, Sabine Hunsicker, Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Gerhard Budin Proceedings of the 10th Terminology and Knowledge Engineering Conference (TKE 2012), Madrid, Spain, June 2012 URL http://oeg-lia3.dia.fi.upm.es/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=e36fac00-35ba-436a-af1c-06a896fbefef&groupId=10157
28	The ML4HMT Workshop on Optimising the Division of Labour in Hybrid Machine Translation Christian Federmann, Eleftherios Avramidis, Marta Costa-Jussà, Josef Genabith, Maite Melero, Pavel Pecina Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012 URL http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/996_Paper.pdf
27	META-SHARE v2: An Open Network of Repositories for Language Resources including Data and Tools Christian Federmann, Ioanna Giannopoulou, Christian Girardi, Olivier Hamon, Dimitris Mavroeidis, Salvatore Minutoli, Marc Schröder Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012 URL http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/816_Paper.pdf
26	Involving Language Professionals in the Evaluation of Machine Translation Eleftherios Avramidis, Aljoscha Burchardt, Christian Federmann, Maja Popović, Cindy Tscherwinka, David Vilar Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012 URL http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/294_Paper.pdf
25	A Richly Annotated, Multilingual Parallel Corpus for Hybrid Machine Translation Eleftherios Avramidis, Marta Costa-Jussà, Christian Federmann, Josef Genabith, Maite Melero, Pavel Pecina Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), Istanbul, Turkey, May 2012 URL http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/444_Paper.pdf
24	Can Machine Learning Algorithms Improve Phrase Selection in Hybrid Machine Translation? Christian Federmann Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Joint Workshop on Exploiting Synergies between Information Retrieval and Machine Translation (ESIRMT) and Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation (HyTra) (ESIRMT-HyTra-12), located at 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Avignon, France, April 2012 URL http://www.dfki.de/web/forschung/publikationen/renameFileForDownload?filename=eacl12_cfedermann.pdf&file_id=uploads_1537
23	Towards Optimal Choice Selection for Improved Hybrid Machine Translation Christian Federmann, Maite Melero, Pavel Pecina, Josef Genabith Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, April 2012 URL http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml/97/art-federmann-et-al.pdf
22	Results from the ML4HMT Shared Task on Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Optimise the Division of Labour in Hybrid Machine Translation Christian Federmann Proceedings of the International Workshop on Using Linguistic Information for Hybrid Machine Translation (LIHMT 2011) and of the Shared Task on Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Optimise the Division of Labour in Hybrid Machine Translation (ML4HMT-11), Barcelona, Spain, November 2011 URL http://www.dfki.de/web/forschung/publikationen/renameFileForDownload?filename=ML4HMT-federmann.pdf&file_id=uploads_1356
21	DFKI System Combination using Syntactic Information at ML4HMT-2011 Christian Federmann, Yu Chen, Sabine Hunsicker, Rui Wang Proceedings of the International Workshop on Using Linguistic Information for Hybrid Machine Translation (LIHMT 2011) and of the Shared Task on Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Optimise the Division of Labour in Hybrid Machine Translation (ML4HMT-11), Barcelona, Spain, November 2011 URL http://www.dfki.de/web/forschung/publikationen/renameFileForDownload?filename=ML4HMT-federmann-et-al.pdf&file_id=uploads_1355
20	Hybrid Machine Translation for German in taraXÜ: Can translation costs be decreased without degrading quality? Aljoscha Burchardt, Christian Federmann, Hans Uszkoreit Hamburg Working Paper in Multilingualism. Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL-11), Hamburg, Germany, September 2011 URL http://www.dfki.de/web/forschung/publikationen/renameFileForDownload?filename=GSCL-2011-Federmann.pdf&file_id=uploads_1139
19	MT Server Land Translation Services Christian Federmann Hamburg Working Paper in Multilingualism. Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL-11), Hamburg, Germany, September 2011 URL http://www.dfki.de/web/forschung/publikationen/renameFileForDownload?filename=GSCL-2011-Federmann.pdf&file_id=uploads_1141
18	Improving an Existing RBMT System by Stochastic Analysis Christian Federmann, Sabine Hunsicker Hamburg Working Paper in Multilingualism. Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL-11), Hamburg, Germany, September 2011 URL http://www.dfki.de/web/forschung/publikationen/renameFileForDownload?filename=GSCL-2011-Federmann-Hunsicker.pdf&file_id=uploads_1140
17	Stochastic Parse Tree Selection for an Existing RBMT System Christian Federmann, Sabine Hunsicker Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2011 URL http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W11-2141.pdf
16	From Statistical Term Extraction to Hybrid Machine Translation Petra Wolf, Ulrike Bernardi, Christian Federmann, Sabine Hunsicker Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation. Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT-11), May 30-31, Leuven, Belgium, Leuven, Belgium, May 2011 URL http://www.mt-archive.info/EAMT-2011-Wolf.pdf
15	How can we measure Machine Translation Quality? Christian Federmann Proceedings of the Tralogy Conference. Translation Careers and Technologies: Convergence Points for the Future (Tralogy-11), Paris, France, March 2011 URL http://lodel.irevues.inist.fr/tralogy/index.php?id=76
14	MT Server Land: An Open-Source MT Architecture Christian Federmann, Andreas Eisele Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2010 URL http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/pbml/94/art-federmann-eisele-serverland.pdf
13	Further Experiments with Shallow Hybrid MT Systems Christian Federmann, Andreas Eisele, Yu Chen, Sabine Hunsicker, Jia Xu, Hans Uszkoreit Proceedings of the Joint Fifth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation and MetricsMATR, Uppsala, Sweden, July 2010 URL http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W10-1708.pdf
12	Appraise: An Open-Source Toolkit for Manual Phrase-Based Evaluation of Translations Christian Federmann Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), Valletta, Malta, May 2010 URL http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2010/pdf/197_Paper.pdf
11	Extraction, Merging, and Monitoring of Company Data from Heterogeneous Sources Christian Federmann, Thierry Declerck Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), Valletta, Malta, May 2010 URL http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2010/pdf/842_Paper.pdf
10	Towards an Effective Toolkit for Translators Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, James Hodson Proceedings of Translating and the Computer 31 (TATC-31), London, United Kingdom, November 2008 URL http://www.mt-archive.info/Aslib-2009-Eisele.pdf
9	Translation Combination using Factored Word Substitution Christian Federmann, Silke Theison, Andreas Eisele, Hans Uszkoreit, Yu Chen, Michael Jellinghaus, Sabine Hunsicker Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, March 2009 URL http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W09/W09-0411.pdf
8	Combining Multi-Engine Translations with Moses Yu Chen, Michael Jellinghaus, Andreas Eisele, Yi Zhang, Sabine Hunsicker, Silke Theison, Christian Federmann, Hans Uszkoreit Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Athens, Greece, March 2009 URL http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W09/W09-0405.pdf
7	Hybrid Architectures for Multi-Engine Machine Translation Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hans Uszkoreit, Hervé Saint-Amand, Martin Kay, Michael Jellinghaus, Sabine Hunsicker, Teresa Herrmann, Yu Chen Proceedings of Translating and the Computer 30 (TATC-30), London, United Kingdom, November 2008 URL http://www.mt-archive.info/Aslib-2008-Eisele.pdf
6	Extracting and Querying Relations in Scientific Papers Ulrich Schäfer, Hans Uszkoreit, Christian Federmann, Torsten Marek, Yajing Zhang Proceedings of the 31st Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-2008), Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 2008 URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85845-4_16
5	Hybrid Machine Translation Architectures within and beyond the EuroMatrix project Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hans Uszkoreit, Hervé Saint-Amand, Martin Kay, Michael Jellinghaus, Sabine Hunsicker, Teresa Herrmann, Yu Chen Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, Hamburg, Germany, September 2008 URL http://www.mt-archive.info/EAMT-2008-Eisele.pdf
4	Using Moses to Integrate Multiple Rule-Based Machine Translation Engines into a Hybrid System Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Hervé Saint-Amand, Michael Jellinghaus, Teresa Herrmann, Yu Chen Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Columbus, Ohio, June 2008 URL http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W08/W08-0328.pdf
3	Extracting and Querying Relations in Scientific Papers on Language Technology Ulrich Schäfer, Hans Uszkoreit, Christian Federmann, Torsten Marek, Yajing Zhang Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakesh, Morocco, May 2008 URL http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/773_paper.pdf
2	Very Large Language Models for Machine Translation Christian Federmann Diploma Thesis, Saarbrücken, Germany, July 2007 URL http://www.cfedermann.de/pdf/diploma-thesis.pdf
1	Multi-Engine Machine Translation with an Open-Source SMT Decoder Yu Chen, Andreas Eisele, Christian Federmann, Eva Hasler, Michael Jellinghaus, Silke Theison Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2007 URL http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W07/W07-0726.pdf

Christian Federmann Program Manager II, Microsoft

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Teaching

PhD Defense

40 Publications

CV

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