Since 2018 |
University lecturer, Department of Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki |
Teaching |
Introduction to language technology (BA), Mathematics for linguists (BA), Linguistics in the digital age (MA), Models and algorithms in natural language processing (MA), Computational syntax (MA), Introduction to neural machine translation (MA) |
Research |
Evaluation and analysis of neural machine translation models and architectures |
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Normalization and annotation of non-standard data |
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Geostatistical analysis of dialect data |
2017 – 2018 |
Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Modern Languages/Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki |
Research |
Annotation of low-resource languages such as Rusyn and Swiss German |
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Neural machine translation |
Teaching |
Language technology for low-resource languages (BA/MA), Computational syntax (MA) |
2013 – 2017 |
Senior research and teaching assistant (maître assistant), Department of Linguistics / CUI, University of Geneva |
Research |
Automatic modernisation of Slavic historical language corpora using character-level machine translation |
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Creation and automatic normalisation of a Swiss German dialect corpus using bootstrapping and machine translation techniques |
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Conception and geostatistical analysis of online surveys on lexical and pronunciation variation in European French |
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Dialectometrical analysis of Swiss German dialect material, supervision of a Master’s thesis in linguistic geography at the University of Zurich |
Teaching |
Web programming (lecture and lab sessions, BA), Introduction to programming and algorithmics (lab sessions, BA), Natural language processing – linguistic and empirical approaches (lab sessions, MSc), Machine translation (lab sessions, MSc) |
Service |
Organisation of workshops “Discovering machine translation” for secondary school and high school students |
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Co-organizer of the weekly research seminar at the Department of Linguistics |
2015 |
Lecturer at the Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich |
Teaching |
Language technologies for scarce resource languages (lecture, BA/MA) |
2012 – 2013 |
Post-doctoral researcher in Computational Linguistics, LabEx Empirical Foundations of Linguistics, Université Paris 7 Diderot |
Research |
Lexicon induction and annotation projection for low-resource languages based on string distance measures, character-level machine translation, and distributional similarity; application to several Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages |
Education |
Participation at LXMLS 2013 (Lisbon Machine Learning School), Lisbon |
2012 – 2015 |
Lecturer in the Master program Linguistics-Informatics-Translation, University of Strasbourg |
Teaching |
Corpus alignment tools for machine translation (lecture and lab sessions, MA) |
2006 – 2012 |
Research and teaching assistant, Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva |
Research |
Preparation of doctoral thesis, involving the digitization of Swiss German dialect atlas maps and the development of a rule-based probabilistic interdialect machine translation system based on finite-state transducers and parsers |
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Dialectometrical analyses of the digitized Swiss German dialect material |
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Creation and analysis of corpora for statistical machine translation |
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Preparation of DEA thesis, involving data collection and the development of
adaptive string distance measures for Swiss German dialects |
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Participation in the Swiss National Science Foundation research projects Modèle plurilingue de traitement des langues naturelles and MulTra, both directed by Prof. E. Wehrli |
Teaching |
Introduction to programming and algorithmics (lab sessions, BA), Web Programming (lab sessions, BA), Data structures and algorithms (lab sessions, BA), Natural Language Processing (lab sessions, MA/MSc), Empirical methods and script languages (lab sessions, BA/MSc) |
Service |
External jury for high-school exams (maturité) in German, Collège de Genève |
2004 – 2005 |
Student teaching assistant, Institute of Logics, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Neuchâtel |
Teaching |
Introduction to logic for mathematics and computer science students (lab sessions, BSc) |