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Hermann Ney

154 papers · 2000–2025 · 12 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

πŸ—ΊοΈ Taxonomy Completionist (22) 🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🌍 Conference Polyglot (12) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (7) πŸŒ‰ Interdisciplinary Bridge πŸƒ Academic Marathon (25) 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (13) 🏠 Conference Loyalist (36) πŸ”¬ Deep Specialist (37) 🧬 Topic Evolution πŸ† Keyword Champion (5) 🌱 Topic Pioneer 🀝 Dynamic Duo (35) πŸ“ˆ Trend Setter πŸš€ Conference Pioneer ⚑ Prolific Year (5) πŸ”₯ Unstoppable (26) ❓ The Questioner (5) πŸ—ƒοΈ Keyword Collector (69) πŸ’Ž Century Club (154)

Conferences

ACL (36) INTERSPEECH (35) EMNLP (30) COLING (15) NAACL (11) EACL (8) IJCNLP (8) AACL (4) CVPR (3) CONLL (2) NIPS (1) WACV (1)

Top co-authors

Ralf SchlΓΌter (35) Yingbo Gao (20) Weiyue Wang (18) Christian Herold (16) Richard Zens (14) Yunsu Kim (12) Albert Zeyer (11) Jan Rosendahl (10) Shahram Khadivi (10) David Thulke (9)

Keywords

neural machine translation (28) automatic speech recognition (15) language model (14) speech recognition (11) hidden markov model (11) neural network (10) machine translation (9) transfer learning (8) recurrent neural network (7) word error rate (7) attention mechanism (7) transformer architecture (7) bidirectional lstm (6) acoustic model (5) document-level translation (5) word embedding (5) long short-term memory (5) sequence-to-sequence model (5) encoder-decoder model (4) neural language model (4)

Papers

Listen to the Context: Towards Faithful Large Language Models for Retrieval Augmented Generation on Climate Questions ACL 2025
Investigating the Effect of Label Topology and Training Criterion on ASR Performance and Alignment Quality INTERSPEECH 2024
On Search Strategies for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation ACL 2023
Improving Long Context Document-Level Machine Translation ACL 2023
Document-Level Language Models for Machine Translation EMNLP 2023
RASR2: The RWTH ASR Toolkit for Generic Sequence-to-sequence Speech Recognition INTERSPEECH 2023
Competitive and Resource Efficient Factored Hybrid HMM Systems are Simpler Than You Think INTERSPEECH 2023
Improving Language Model Integration for Neural Machine Translation ACL 2023
Locality-Sensitive Hashing for Long Context Neural Machine Translation ACL 2022
Automatic Learning of Subword Dependent Model Scales INTERSPEECH 2022
Is Encoder-Decoder Redundant for Neural Machine Translation? IJCNLP 2022
Self-Normalized Importance Sampling for Neural Language Modeling INTERSPEECH 2022
Efficient Training of Neural Transducer for Speech Recognition INTERSPEECH 2022
Improving the Training Recipe for a Robust Conformer-based Hybrid Model INTERSPEECH 2022
Is Encoder-Decoder Redundant for Neural Machine Translation? AACL 2022
Revisiting Checkpoint Averaging for Neural Machine Translation AACL 2022
Does Joint Training Really Help Cascaded Speech Translation? EMNLP 2022
Controllable Factuality in Document-Grounded Dialog Systems Using a Noisy Channel Model EMNLP 2022
Mask More and Mask Later: Efficient Pre-training of Masked Language Models by Disentangling the [MASK] Token EMNLP 2022
Detecting Various Types of Noise for Neural Machine Translation ACL 2022
Recurrent Attention for the Transformer EMNLP 2021
Investigation on Data Adaptation Techniques for Neural Named Entity Recognition ACL 2021
Transformer-Based Direct Hidden Markov Model for Machine Translation ACL 2021
Cascaded Span Extraction and Response Generation for Document-Grounded Dialog ACL 2021
Integrated Training for Sequence-to-Sequence Models Using Non-Autoregressive Transformer ACL 2021
Data Filtering using Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings NAACL 2021
Investigation on Data Adaptation Techniques for Neural Named Entity Recognition IJCNLP 2021
Transformer-Based Direct Hidden Markov Model for Machine Translation IJCNLP 2021
Cascaded Span Extraction and Response Generation for Document-Grounded Dialog IJCNLP 2021
Integrated Training for Sequence-to-Sequence Models Using Non-Autoregressive Transformer IJCNLP 2021
Equivalence of Segmental and Neural Transducer Modeling: A Proof of Concept INTERSPEECH 2021
Acoustic Data-Driven Subword Modeling for End-to-End Speech Recognition INTERSPEECH 2021
Investigating Methods to Improve Language Model Integration for Attention-Based Encoder-Decoder ASR Models INTERSPEECH 2021
Librispeech Transducer Model with Internal Language Model Prior Correction INTERSPEECH 2021
On Sampling-Based Training Criteria for Neural Language Modeling INTERSPEECH 2021
Forty Years of Speech and Language Processing: From Bayes Decision Rule to Deep Learning INTERSPEECH 2021
Towards a Better Evaluation of Metrics for Machine Translation EMNLP 2020
Predicting and Using Target Length in Neural Machine Translation AACL 2020
ELoPE: Fine-Grained Visual Classification with Efficient Localization, Pooling and Embedding WACV 2020
Context-Dependent Acoustic Modeling Without Explicit Phone Clustering INTERSPEECH 2020
Towards a Better Understanding of Label Smoothing in Neural Machine Translation AACL 2020
Successfully Applying the Stabilized Lottery Ticket Hypothesis to the Transformer Architecture ACL 2020
Investigation of Large-Margin Softmax in Neural Language Modeling INTERSPEECH 2020
Early Stage LM Integration Using Local and Global Log-Linear Combination INTERSPEECH 2020
A New Training Pipeline for an Improved Neural Transducer INTERSPEECH 2020
LVCSR with Transformer Language Models INTERSPEECH 2020
Robust Beam Search for Encoder-Decoder Attention Based Speech Recognition Without Length Bias INTERSPEECH 2020
Unifying Input and Output Smoothing in Neural Machine Translation COLING 2020
Neural Language Modeling for Named Entity Recognition COLING 2020
Diving Deep into Context-Aware Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2020
Multi-Agent Mutual Learning at Sentence-Level and Token-Level for Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2020
An Analysis of Local Monotonic Attention Variants INTERSPEECH 2019
RWTH ASR Systems for LibriSpeech: Hybrid vs Attention INTERSPEECH 2019
Rescoring Keyword Search Confidence Estimates with Graph-Based Re-Ranking Using Acoustic Word Embeddings INTERSPEECH 2019
EED: Extended Edit Distance Measure for Machine Translation ACL 2019
The RWTH Aachen University Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2019 ACL 2019
Generalizing Back-Translation in Neural Machine Translation ACL 2019
Learning Bilingual Sentence Embeddings via Autoencoding and Computing Similarities with a Multilayer Perceptron ACL 2019
uniblock: Scoring and Filtering Corpus with Unicode Block Information IJCNLP 2019
Pivot-based Transfer Learning for Neural Machine Translation between Non-English Languages IJCNLP 2019
Effective Cross-lingual Transfer of Neural Machine Translation Models without Shared Vocabularies ACL 2019
When and Why is Document-level Context Useful in Neural Machine Translation? EMNLP 2019
uniblock: Scoring and Filtering Corpus with Unicode Block Information EMNLP 2019
Pivot-based Transfer Learning for Neural Machine Translation between Non-English Languages EMNLP 2019
Language Modeling with Deep Transformers INTERSPEECH 2019
Analysis of Deep Clustering as Preprocessing for Automatic Speech Recognition of Sparsely Overlapping Speech INTERSPEECH 2019
Comparison of Lattice-Free and Lattice-Based Sequence Discriminative Training Criteria for LVCSR INTERSPEECH 2019
Cumulative Adaptation for BLSTM Acoustic Models INTERSPEECH 2019
Improving Neural Language Models with Weight Norm Initialization and Regularization EMNLP 2018
The RWTH Aachen University Filtering System for the WMT 2018 Parallel Corpus Filtering Task EMNLP 2018
On The Alignment Problem In Multi-Head Attention-Based Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2018
Improving Unsupervised Word-by-Word Translation with Language Model and Denoising Autoencoder EMNLP 2018
Towards Two-Dimensional Sequence to Sequence Model in Neural Machine Translation EMNLP 2018
RETURNN as a Generic Flexible Neural Toolkit with Application to Translation and Speech Recognition ACL 2018
Investigation on LSTM Recurrent N-gram Language Models for Speech Recognition INTERSPEECH 2018
The RWTH Aachen University English-German and German-English Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018 EMNLP 2018
The RWTH Aachen University Supervised Machine Translation Systems for WMT 2018 EMNLP 2018
Comparison of BLSTM-Layer-Specific Affine Transformations for Speaker Adaptation INTERSPEECH 2018
Segmental Encoder-Decoder Models for Large Vocabulary Automatic Speech Recognition INTERSPEECH 2018
Investigation on Estimation of Sentence Probability by Combining Forward, Backward and Bi-directional LSTM-RNNs INTERSPEECH 2018
Neural Sign Language Translation CVPR 2018
Improved Training of End-to-end Attention Models for Speech Recognition INTERSPEECH 2018
Neural Hidden Markov Model for Machine Translation ACL 2018
Sisyphus, a Workflow Manager Designed for Machine Translation and Automatic Speech Recognition EMNLP 2018
CTC in the Context of Generalized Full-Sum HMM Training INTERSPEECH 2017
Re-Sign: Re-Aligned End-To-End Sequence Modelling With Deep Recurrent CNN-HMMs CVPR 2017
Unsupervised Training for Large Vocabulary Translation Using Sparse Lexicon and Word Classes EACL 2017
Hybrid Neural Network Alignment and Lexicon Model in Direct HMM for Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2017
Parallel Neural Network Features for Improved Tandem Acoustic Modeling INTERSPEECH 2017
Deep Hand: How to Train a CNN on 1 Million Hand Images When Your Data Is Continuous and Weakly Labelled CVPR 2016
Exponentially Decaying Bag-of-Words Input Features for Feed-Forward Neural Network in Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2016
Towards Online-Recognition with Deep Bidirectional LSTM Acoustic Models INTERSPEECH 2016
LSTM, GRU, Highway and a Bit of Attention: An Empirical Overview for Language Modeling in Speech Recognition INTERSPEECH 2016
A Comparison of Update Strategies for Large-Scale Maximum Expected BLEU Training NAACL 2015
UNRAVELβ€”A Decipherment Toolkit ACL 2015
UNRAVELβ€”A Decipherment Toolkit IJCNLP 2015
A Comparison between Count and Neural Network Models Based on Joint Translation and Reordering Sequences EMNLP 2015
Jane: Open Source Machine Translation System Combination EACL 2014
EM Decipherment for Large Vocabularies ACL 2014
Simple and Effective Approach for Consistent Training of Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation Models EACL 2014
Improved Decipherment of Homophonic Ciphers EMNLP 2014
Translation Modeling with Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks EMNLP 2014
Beam Search for Solving Substitution Ciphers ACL 2013
Improving Statistical Machine Translation with Word Class Models EMNLP 2013
Phrase Training Based Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation NAACL 2013
Advancements in Reordering Models for Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2013
Decipherment Complexity in 1:1 Substitution Ciphers ACL 2013
Insertion and Deletion Models for Statistical Machine Translation NAACL 2012
Deciphering Foreign Language by Combining Language Models and Context Vectors ACL 2012
Fast and Scalable Decoding with Language Model Look-Ahead for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2012
Jane 2: Open Source Phrase-based and Hierarchical Statistical Machine Translation COLING 2012
Forced Derivations for Hierarchical Machine Translation COLING 2012
Semantic Cohesion Model for Phrase-Based SMT COLING 2012
A Convergence Analysis of Log-Linear Training NIPS 2011
A Hybrid Morphologically Decomposed Factored Language Models for Arabic LVCSR NAACL 2010
Training Phrase Translation Models with Leaving-One-Out ACL 2010
Extending Statistical Machine Translation with Discriminative and Trigger-Based Lexicon Models EMNLP 2009
Comparison of Extended Lexicon Models in Search and Rescoring for SMT NAACL 2009
Complexity of Finding the BLEU-optimal Hypothesis in a Confusion Network EMNLP 2008
Bayesian Semi-Supervised Chinese Word Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation COLING 2008
Triplet Lexicon Models for Statistical Machine Translation EMNLP 2008
Analysis and System Combination of Phrase- and N-Gram-Based Statistical Machine Translation Systems NAACL 2007
A Systematic Comparison of Training Criteria for Statistical Machine Translation EMNLP 2007
A Systematic Comparison of Training Criteria for Statistical Machine Translation CONLL 2007
Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding for BLEU ACL 2007
Efficient Phrase-Table Representation for Machine Translation with Applications to Online MT and Speech Translation NAACL 2007
Are Very Large N-Best Lists Useful for SMT? NAACL 2007
iROVER: Improving System Combination with Classification NAACL 2007
Computing Consensus Translation for Multiple Machine Translation Systems Using Enhanced Hypothesis Alignment EACL 2006
Integration of Speech to Computer-Assisted Translation Using Finite-State Automata ACL 2006
CDER: Efficient MT Evaluation Using Block Movements EACL 2006
Integration of Speech to Computer-Assisted Translation Using Finite-State Automata COLING 2006
Word-Level Confidence Estimation for Machine Translation using Phrase-Based Translation Models EMNLP 2005
FSA: An Efficient and Flexible C++ Toolkit for Finite State Automata Using On-Demand Computation ACL 2004
Reordering Constraints for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation COLING 2004
Symmetric Word Alignments for Statistical Machine Translation COLING 2004
Improving Word Alignment Quality using Morpho-syntactic Information COLING 2004
Improved Word Alignment Using a Symmetric Lexicon Model COLING 2004
Improvements in Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation NAACL 2004
Error Measures and Bayes Decision Rules Revisited with Applications to POS Tagging EMNLP 2004
Efficient Search for Interactive Statistical Machine Translation EACL 2003
Using POS Information for SMT into Morphologically Rich Languages EACL 2003
A Comparative Study on Reordering Constraints in Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2003
Maximum Entropy Models for Named Entity Recognition CONLL 2003
Comparison of Alignment Templates and Maximum Entropy Models for NLP EACL 2003
Improving Alignment Quality in Statistical Machine Translation Using Context-dependent Maximum Entropy Models COLING 2002
Generation of Word Graphs in Statistical Machine Translation EMNLP 2002
Discriminative Training and Maximum Entropy Models for Statistical Machine Translation ACL 2002
Refined Lexicon Models for Statistical Machine Translation using a Maximum Entropy Approach ACL 2001
Improved Statistical Alignment Models ACL 2000
Translation with Cascaded Finite State Transducers ACL 2000
A Comparison of Alignment Models for Statistical Machine Translation COLING 2000
Improving SMT quality with morpho-syntactic analysis COLING 2000
Word Re-ordering and DP-based Search in Statistical Machine Translation COLING 2000