UPPSALA UNIVERSITET
Dept. of Linguistics and Philology
Uppsala universitet

Markus Saers

My name is Markus Saers, and I am a Ph.D. student in computational linguistics. My main interests concern empirical machine translation, which means that the “rules” guiding the translation process is learnt from data rather than hand crafted. I am working at Uppsala University, but my funding is provided by the Graduate School of Language Technology (GSLT).

Teaching

Publications

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Saers, Markus, Joakim Nivre & Dekai Wu (2009) “Learning Stochastic Bracketing Inversion Transduction Grammars with a Cubic Time Biparsing Algorithm” in Proceedings of the 11th Internationa Conference on Parsing Technology (IWPT), pages 29–32, Paris, October 2009.
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Saers, Markus & Dekai Wu (2009) “Improving Phrase-Based Translation via Word Alignments from Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars” in Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Syntax and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-3), pages 28–36, Boulder, Colorado, June 2009.
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Forsbom, Eva, Ebba Gustavii, Markus Saers (2008) “A TEI Model for TIMSS and PISA Assessments” in Proceedings of the Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC'08), pages 9–10. Stockholm, November 20–21.
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Samuelsson, Yvonne, Oscar Täckström, Sumithra Velupillai, Johan Eklund, Mark Fišel & Markus Saers (2008) “Mixing and Blending Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies” in Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, pages 248–252, Manchester, August 2008.
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Hall, Johan, Jens Nilsson, Joakim Nivre, Gülşen Eryiğit, Beáta Megyesi, Mattias Nilsson & Markus Saers (2007) “Single Malt or Blended? A Study in Multilingual Parsing Optimization” in Proceedings of the CoNLL Shared Task Session of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, pages 933–939, Pague, June 2007.
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Saers, Markus (2005) “Evaluating Compound-to-compound Links in a Sub-sentence Aligned Bilingual Corpus through Example-based Element Recognition” in Proceedings of the Tenth ESSLLI Student Session, pages 267–275, Edinburgh.
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Saers, Markus (2005) Example-based Segmentation of Swedish Compounds in a Swedish–English bilingual corpus, Master’s Thesis, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University.