Fabienne Braune Contact Fabienne Braune Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS) Universität Stuttgart Azenbergstrasse 12 D-70174 Stuttgart Phone: +49 (0)711 685 81408 E-Mail: Fabienne.Braune AT ims.uni-stuttgart.de

Education PhD candidate at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, 10/2009-present Advisors : Alexander M. Fraser and Andreas Maletti Master of Science in Computer Science, University of Fribourg, Switzerland 2009. Grade : 5.75/6.0

Masters Thesis: Analyzing and Improving Unsupervised Sentence Alignment Supervisor : Alexander M. Fraser. Grade : 6.0/6.0 Coursework includes : Discrete Optimization, Machine Learning, Formal Languages, Information Theory, Computability and Complexity, Applied Mathematical Modeling, Simulation and Metaheuristics. Presentations on : Linguistic Bayesian Networks in Forensic Statistics, Interactive Proof Systems, Argumentation Theories. Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, University of Fribourg, Switzerland 2008. Grade : 5.5/6.0

Bachelor Thesis: Propositional Probabilistic Argumentation Systems and Defeasible Reasoning Supervisor : Prof. Dr. Juerg Kohlas. Not Graded Concentration : Articial Intelligence Master of Arts in French Linguistics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland 2006. Grade: Magna Cum Laude

Masters Thesis: Les Accidents de Communication signalés par l'Interlocuteur Supervisor : Prof. Dr. Alain Berrendonner. Grade : Summa Cum Laude Concentration : Syntactic and Semantic Analysis of Paraphrase, Questions and Reformulation Mechanisms.

Employment PhD Student and Research Assistant at the Statistical NLP Group, University of Stuttgart, in :

Models of Morphosyntax for Statistical Machine Translation, DFG project, 2009-present Designed a rule extraction procedure and modied a hiero decoder in order to deal with long-distance reordering (up to 50 words) in hierarchical SMT. Investigating probabilistic models to appropriately train the extracted rule base. Advised by Alexander M. Fraser.

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Tree Transducers in Machine Translation, Emmy Noether Project, 2011-present Study of tree-based formalisms for SMT. Designed a composition algorithm for Extended Top-down Tree Transducers. Implementing a training procedure and decoder using a class of tree transducers which allows to deal with source or target side discontinuities. Advised by Andreas Maletti. Undergraduate Research Assistant, Department of Linguistics, University of Fribourg, in : Syntactic Analysis of Reformulation Clauses, FNS Project, 2003-2005 Studied the syntactic structure of Reformulation Mechanisms in Conversation.

Other Activities Co-President of the University Student Council, University of Fribourg, 2000-2002 Writing of a Theater Play entitled Les Voiles du Gingembre, University of Fribourg, 1998-1999

Award from the University Association AGEF to nance the Representations

Publications Fabienne Braune, Alexander Fraser (2012). Long Distance Reordering During Search for Hierarchical Phrase-based SMT. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), to appear. Aurélie Lagoutte, Fabienne Braune, Daniel Quernheim, Andreas Maletti (2012). Composing Extended Top-down Tree Transducers, In Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), to appear. Fabienne Braune, Alexander Fraser (2010). Improved Unsupervised Sentence Alignment for Parallel and Asymmetrical Bilingual Corpora. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), pages 81-89, Beijing, China, August.

Honors, Awards, & Fellowships Full scholarship from the Hasler Foundation (Bern, Switzerland) for 3 years education in Computer Science.

General Skills Programming in C++, Perl, Java, Shell Scripting Deep knowledge of the Moses Open Source Toolkit : Adaptation of the syntax-based open source Moses Statistical Machine Translation Toolkit to implement current research Native Speaker of : French, Swiss German, Fluent in German, English, Procient in Spanish

Software Projects Author of the open source sentence aligner Gargantua (available at sourceforge)