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Jan Niehues

82 papers · 2014–2026 · 7 conferences · across top CS/AI conferences

Achievements

🧭 Keyword Pioneer 🗺️ Taxonomy Completionist (15) 🐣 Hot Topic Early Bird 🐝 Cross-Pollinator (5) 🏃 Academic Marathon (11) 🌈 Renaissance Researcher (5) 🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge 🌍 Conference Polyglot (7) 🏠 Conference Loyalist (29) 🌟 Keyword Trendsetter Combo (5) 🤝 Dynamic Duo (28) 🧬 Topic Evolution 👥 Mega-Team (62) 🌱 Topic Pioneer 🔬 Deep Specialist (36) 🏆 Keyword Champion (3) 🗃️ Keyword Collector (270) ⚡ Prolific Year (16) ❓ The Questioner (6) 💎 Century Club (80) 📈 Trend Setter 🚀 Conference Pioneer 🔥 Unstoppable (10)

Conferences

ACL (29) EMNLP (17) INTERSPEECH (12) EACL (10) COLING (6) NAACL (5) IJCNLP (3)

Top co-authors

Danni Liu (28) Alexander Waibel (22) Alex Waibel (21) Sebastian Stüker (18) Ngoc-Quan Pham (15) Matthias Sperber (14) Sai Koneru (12) Elizabeth Salesky (11) Marco Turchi (10) Ondřej Bojar (10)

Keywords

speech translation (29) machine translation (21) automatic speech recognition (15) low-resource language (13) neural machine translation (13) speech recognition (10) multilingual translation (9) simultaneous translation (8) zero-shot learning (6) large language model (6) end-to-end model (5) spoken language translation (5) transformer architecture (5) zero-shot translation (5) representation learning (4) data augmentation (4) domain adaptation (4) model ensemble (4) multilingual nlp (4) quality estimation (4)

Papers

BOOM: Beyond Only One Modality KIT’s Multimodal Multilingual Lecture Companion EACL 2026
Early-Exit and Instant Confidence Translation Quality Estimation EACL 2026
Can a Large Language Model Keep My Secrets? A Study on LLM-Controlled Agents ACL 2025
Contrastive Learning for Task-Independent SpeechLLM-Pretraining ACL 2025
Knockout LLM Assessment: Using Large Language Models for Evaluations through Iterative Pairwise Comparisons ACL 2025
NUTSHELL: A Dataset for Abstract Generation from Scientific Talks ACL 2025
Quality-Aware Decoding: Unifying Quality Estimation and Decoding ACL 2025
KIT’s Low-resource Speech Translation Systems for IWSLT2025: System Enhancement with Synthetic Data and Model Regularization ACL 2025
COMET-poly: Machine Translation Metric Grounded in Other Candidates EMNLP 2025
Summarizing Speech: A Comprehensive Survey EMNLP 2025
Conditions for Catastrophic Forgetting in Multilingual Translation EMNLP 2025
Findings of the IWSLT 2025 Evaluation Campaign ACL 2025
KIT’s Offline Speech Translation and Instruction Following Submission for IWSLT 2025 ACL 2025
How do Multimodal Foundation Models Encode Text and Speech? An Analysis of Cross-Lingual and Cross-Modal Representations NAACL 2025
Are Generative Models Underconfident? Better Quality Estimation with Boosted Model Probability EMNLP 2025
Do Slides Help? Multi-modal Context for Automatic Transcription of Conference Talks EMNLP 2025
Enhance Contextual Learning in ASR for Endangered Low-resource Languages NAACL 2025
Middle-Layer Representation Alignment for Cross-Lingual Transfer in Fine-Tuned LLMs ACL 2025
How Transferable are Attribute Controllers on Pretrained Multilingual Translation Models? EACL 2024
SciEx: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Scientific Exams with Human Expert Grading and Automatic Grading EMNLP 2024
Language-Independent Representations Improve Zero-Shot Summarization NAACL 2024
Contextual Refinement of Translations: Large Language Models for Sentence and Document-Level Post-Editing NAACL 2024
FINDINGS OF THE IWSLT 2024 EVALUATION CAMPAIGN ACL 2024
Blending LLMs into Cascaded Speech Translation: KIT’s Offline Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2024 ACL 2024
The KIT Speech Translation Systems for IWSLT 2024 Dialectal and Low-resource Track ACL 2024
Recent Highlights in Multilingual and Multimodal Speech Translation ACL 2024
Charles Locock, Lowcock or Lockhart? Offline Speech Translation: Test Suite for Named Entities ACL 2024
Evaluating the IWSLT2023 Speech Translation Tasks: Human Annotations, Automatic Metrics, and Segmentation COLING 2024
Speech Recognition Corpus of the Khinalug Language for Documenting Endangered Languages COLING 2024
The First Parallel Corpus and Neural Machine Translation Model of Western Armenian and English COLING 2024
Plug, Play, and Fuse: Zero-Shot Joint Decoding via Word-Level Re-ranking across Diverse Vocabularies EMNLP 2024
Evaluating and Training Long-Context Large Language Models for Question Answering on Scientific Papers EMNLP 2024
Optimizing Rare Word Accuracy in Direct Speech Translation with a Retrieval-and-Demonstration Approach EMNLP 2024
Benchmarking Diffusion Models for Machine Translation EACL 2024
Analyzing Challenges in Neural Machine Translation for Software Localization EACL 2023
Towards Efficient Simultaneous Speech Translation: CUNI-KIT System for Simultaneous Track at IWSLT 2023 ACL 2023
KIT’s Multilingual Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2023 ACL 2023
Evaluating Multilingual Speech Translation under Realistic Conditions with Resegmentation and Terminology ACL 2023
FINDINGS OF THE IWSLT 2023 EVALUATION CAMPAIGN ACL 2023
Towards continually learning new languages INTERSPEECH 2023
End-to-End Evaluation for Low-Latency Simultaneous Speech Translation EMNLP 2023
Train Global, Tailor Local: Minimalist Multilingual Translation into Endangered Languages EACL 2023
CUNI-KIT System for Simultaneous Speech Translation Task at IWSLT 2022 ACL 2022
Findings of the IWSLT 2022 Evaluation Campaign ACL 2022
Effective combination of pretrained models - KIT@IWSLT2022 ACL 2022
Learning an Artificial Language for Knowledge-Sharing in Multilingual Translation EMNLP 2022
Adaptive multilingual speech recognition with pretrained models INTERSPEECH 2022
Tutorial: End-to-End Speech Translation EACL 2021
Improving Zero-Shot Translation by Disentangling Positional Information ACL 2021
Maastricht University’s Large-Scale Multilingual Machine Translation System for WMT 2021 EMNLP 2021
Improving Zero-Shot Translation by Disentangling Positional Information IJCNLP 2021
FINDINGS OF THE IWSLT 2021 EVALUATION CAMPAIGN ACL 2021
Maastricht University’s Multilingual Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2021 IJCNLP 2021
Maastricht University’s Multilingual Speech Translation System for IWSLT 2021 ACL 2021
Continuous Learning in Neural Machine Translation using Bilingual Dictionaries EACL 2021
Unsupervised Machine Translation On Dravidian Languages EACL 2021
FINDINGS OF THE IWSLT 2021 EVALUATION CAMPAIGN IJCNLP 2021
Low-Latency Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Recognition and Translation by Partial Hypothesis Selection INTERSPEECH 2020
Relative Positional Encoding for Speech Recognition and Direct Translation INTERSPEECH 2020
FINDINGS OF THE IWSLT 2020 EVALUATION CAMPAIGN ACL 2020
Adapting End-to-End Speech Recognition for Readable Subtitles ACL 2020
Improving Zero-shot Translation with Language-Independent Constraints ACL 2019
Survey Talk: A Survey on Speech Translation INTERSPEECH 2019
Very Deep Self-Attention Networks for End-to-End Speech Recognition INTERSPEECH 2019
Incremental processing of noisy user utterances in the spoken language understanding task EMNLP 2019
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Systems for the News Translation Task in WMT 2018 EMNLP 2018
The IWSLT 2018 Evaluation Campaign EMNLP 2018
KIT Lecture Translator: Multilingual Speech Translation with One-Shot Learning COLING 2018
Robust and Scalable Differentiable Neural Computer for Question Answering ACL 2018
Low-Latency Neural Speech Translation INTERSPEECH 2018
Term Extraction via Neural Sequence Labeling a Comparative Evaluation of Strategies Using Recurrent Neural Networks INTERSPEECH 2018
Self-Attentional Acoustic Models INTERSPEECH 2018
Towards one-shot learning for rare-word translation with external experts ACL 2018
KIT’s IWSLT 2018 SLT Translation System EMNLP 2018
Comparison of Decoding Strategies for CTC Acoustic Models INTERSPEECH 2017
NMT-Based Segmentation and Punctuation Insertion for Real-Time Spoken Language Translation INTERSPEECH 2017
Neural Lattice-to-Sequence Models for Uncertain Inputs EMNLP 2017
Pre-Translation for Neural Machine Translation COLING 2016
Lightly Supervised Quality Estimation COLING 2016
Lecture Translator - Speech translation framework for simultaneous lecture translation NAACL 2016
Dynamic Transcription for Low-Latency Speech Translation INTERSPEECH 2016
Tight Integration of Speech Disfluency Removal into SMT EACL 2014