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Antonios Anastasopoulos, Loïc Barrault, Luisa Bentivogli, Marcely Zanon Boito, Ondřej Bojar, Roldano Cattoni, Anna Currey, Georgiana Dinu, Kevin Duh, Maha Elbayad, Clara Emmanuel, Yannick Estève, Marcello Federico, Christian Federmann, Souhir Gahbiche, Hongyu Gong, Roman Grundkiewicz, Barry Haddow, Benjamin Hsu, Dávid Javorský, Vĕra Kloudová, Surafel Lakew, Xutai Ma, Prashant Mathur, Paul McNamee, Kenton Murray, Maria Nǎdejde, Satoshi Nakamura, Matteo Negri, Jan Niehues, Xing Niu, John Ortega, Juan Pino, Elizabeth Salesky, Jiatong Shi, Matthias Sperber, Sebastian Stüker, Katsuhito Sudoh, Marco Turchi, Yogesh Virkar, Alexander Waibel, Changhan Wang, Shinji Watanabe (2022). Findings of the IWSLT 2022 Evaluation Campaign. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT).

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Orion Weller, Matthias Sperber, Telmo Pires, Hendra Setiawan, Christian Gollan, Dominic Telaar, Matthias Paulik (2022). End-to-End Speech Translation for Code Switched Speech. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistic (ACL).

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Hendra Setiawan, Matthias Sperber (2021). Parallelizing Autoregressive Neural Machine Translation via Modeling Half Sequences. West Coast NLP Summit (WeCNLP).

Orion Weller, Matthias Sperber, Christian Gollan, Joris Kluivers (2021). Streaming Models for Joint Speech Recognition and Translation. European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistic (EACL).

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Orion Weller, Matthias Sperber, Christian Gollan, Joris Kluivers (2020). Streaming Models for Joint Speech Recognition and Translation. Third Annual WeCNLP Summit (2020).

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Matthias Sperber, Hendra Setiawan, Christian Gollan, Udhyakumar Nallasamy, Matthias Paulik (2020). Consistent Transcription and Translation of Speech. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL).

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Hendra Setiawan, Matthias Sperber, Udhay Nallasamy, Matthias Paulik (2020). Variational Neural Machine Translation with Normalizing Flows. Association for Computational Linguistic (ACL).

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Matthias Sperber, Matthias Paulik (2020). Speech Translation and the End-to-End Promise: Taking Stock of Where We Are. Association for Computational Linguistic (ACL).

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Matthias Sperber, Graham Neubig, Ngoc-Quan Pham, Alex Waibel (2019). Self-Attentional Models for Lattice Inputs. Association for Computational Linguistic (ACL).

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Zhong Zhou, Matthias Sperber, Alex Waibel (2019). Paraphrases as Foreign Languages in Multilingual Neural Machine Translation. Association for Computational Linguistic (ACL).

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Elizabeth Salesky, Matthias Sperber, Alan W Black (2019). Exploring Phoneme-Level Speech Representations for End-to-End Speech Translation. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

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Elizabeth Salesky, Matthias Sperber, Alex Waibel (2019). Fluent Translations from Disfluent Speech in End-to-End Speech Translation. North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL).

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Matthias Sperber, Graham Neubig, Jan Niehues, Alex Waibel (2019). Attention-Passing Models for Robust and Data-Efficient End-to-End Speech Translation. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL).

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Matthias Sperber (2019). End-to-End Neural Speech Translation. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

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Matthias Sperber, Ngoc Quan Pham, Thai Son Nguyen, Jan Niehues, Markus Müller, Thanh-Le Ha, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel (2018). KIT's IWSLT 2018 SLT Translation System. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT).

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Thomas Zenkel, Matthias Sperber, Jan Niehues, Markus Müller, Ngoc-quan Pham, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel (2018). Open Source Toolkit for Speech to Text Translation. The Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics.

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Matthias Sperber, Jan Niehues, Graham Neubig, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel (2018). Self-Attentional Acoustic Models. Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (InterSpeech).

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Jan Niehues, Ngoc-Quan Pham, Thanh-Le Ha, Matthias Sperber, Alex Waibel (2018). Low-Latency Neural Speech Translation. Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (InterSpeech).

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Graham Neubig, Matthias Sperber, Xinyi Wang, Matthieu Felix, Austin Matthews, Sarguna Padmanabhan, Ye Qi, Devendra Singh Sachan, Philip Arthur, Pierre Godard, John Hewitt, Rachid Riad, Liming Wang (2018). XNMT: The eXtensible Neural Machine Translation Toolkit. Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) Open Source Software Showcase.

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Matthias Sperber, Jan Niehues, Alex Waibel (2017). Toward Robust Neural Machine Translation for Noisy Input Sequences. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT).

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Ngoc-quan Pham, Matthias Sperber, Elizabeth Salesky, Thanh-le Ha, Jan Niehues, Alex Waibel (2017). KIT's Multilingual Neural Machine Translation Systems for IWSLT 2017. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT).

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Matthias Sperber, Graham Neubig, Jan Niehues, Satoshi Nakamura, Alex Waibel (2017). Transcribing Against Time. Speech Communication.

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Matthias Sperber, Graham Neubig, Jan Niehues, Alex Waibel (2017). Neural Lattice-to-Sequence Models for Uncertain Inputs. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).

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Thomas Zenkel, Ramon Sanabria, Florian Metze, Jan Niehues, Matthias Sperber, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel (2017). Comparison of Decoding Strategies for CTC Acoustic Models. Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (InterSpeech).

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Matthias Sperber, Graham Neubig, Jan Niehues, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel (2016). Lightly Supervised Quality Estimation. International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING).

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Thai Son Nguyen, Markus Müller, Matthias Sperber, Thomas Zenkel, Kevin Kilgour, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel (2016). The 2016 KIT IWSLT Speech-to-Text Systems for English and German. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT).

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Micha Wetzel, Matthias Sperber, Alex Waibel (2016). Audio Segmentation for Robust Real-Time Speech Recognition Based on Neural Networks. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT).

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Eunah Cho, Jan Niehues, Thanh-Le Ha, Matthias Sperber, Mohammed Mediani, Alex Waibel (2016). Adaptation and Combination of NMT Systems: The KIT Translation Systems for IWSLT 2016. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT).

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Jan Niehues, Thai Son Nguyen, Eunah Cho, Thanh-Le Ha, Kevin Kilgour, Markus Müller, Matthias Sperber, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel (2016). Dynamic Transcription for Low-latency Speech Translation. Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (InterSpeech).

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Thanh-Le Ha, Eunah Cho, Jan Niehues, Mohammed Mediani, Matthias Sperber, Alexandre Allauzen, Alexander Waibel (2016). The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Systems for the News Translation Task in WMT 2016. Conference on Machine Translation (WMT).

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Markus Müller, Thai Son Nguyen, Jan Niehues, Eunah Cho, Bastian Krüger, Thanh-Le Ha, Kevin Kilgour, Matthias Sperber, Mohammed Mediani, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel (2016). Lecture Translator - Speech translation framework for simultaneous lecture translation. North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL).

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Matthias Sperber, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura, Alex Waibel (2016). Optimizing Computer-Assisted Transcription Quality with Iterative User Interfaces. Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC).

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Markus Müller, Thai-Son Nguyen, Matthias Sperber, Kevin Kilgour, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel (2015). The 2015 KIT IWSLT Speech-to-Text Systems for English and German. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT).

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Matthias Sperber, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura, Alex Waibel (2014). SESLA Transcriber: A Speech Transcription Tool That Adapts To Your Skill And Time Budget. Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT).

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Matthias Sperber, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura, Alex Waibel (2014). On-the-Fly User Modeling for Cost-Sensitive Correction of Speech Transcripts. Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT).

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Kevin Kilgour, Michael Heck, Müller Markus, Matthias Sperber, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel (2014). The 2014 KIT IWSLT Speech-to-Text Systems for English , German and Italian. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT).

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Matthias Sperber, Mirjam Simantzik, Graham Neubig, Satoshi Nakamura, Alex Waibel (2014). Segmentation for Efficient Supervised Language Annotation with an Explicit Cost-Utility Tradeoff. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL).

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Kevin Kilgour, Christian Mohr, Michael Heck, Quoc Bao Nguyen, Evgeniy Shin, Igor Tseyzer, Jonas Gehring, Markus Müller, Matthias Sperber, Sebastian Stüker, Alex Waibel (2013). The 2013 KIT IWSLT Speech-to-Text Systems for German and English. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT).

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Matthias Sperber, Graham Neubig, Christian Fügen, Satoshi Nakamura, Alex Waibel (2013). Efficient Speech Transcription Through Respeaking. Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (InterSpeech).

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Michael Heck, Keigo Kubo, Matthias Sperber, Sakriani Sakti, Sebastian Stüker, Christian Saam, Kevin Kilgour, Christian Mohr, Graham Neubig, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, Alex Waibel (2012). The KIT-NAIST (Contrastive) English ASR Systems for the IWSLT Evaluation. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT).

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Christian Saam, Christian Mohr, Kevin Kilgour, Michael Heck, Matthias Sperber, Keigo Kubo, Sebastian Stüker, Sakriani Sakti, Graham Neubig, Tomoki Toda, Satoshi Nakamura, Alex Waibel (2012). The 2012 KIT and KIT-NAIST English ASR Systems for the IWSLT Evaluation. International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT).

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Matthias Sperber (2012). Efficient Transcription Through Respeaking. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Markus E Nebel, Sebastian Wild, Michael Holzhauser, Lars Hüttenberger, Raphael Reitzig, Matthias Sperber, Thorsten Stoeck (2011). JAGUC--a software package for environmental diversity analyses.. Journal of bioinformatics and computational biology.

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Matthias Sperber, Martin Klinkigt, Benjamin Adrian, Koichi Kise, Masakazu Iwamura, Andreas Dengel (2010). Handwriting Reconstruction For a Camera Pen Using Random Dot Patterns. International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR).

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Matthias Sperber (2010). A Camera Pen Using LLAH and Randomized Dot Patterns. Technical University of Kaiserslautern.

Matthias Sperber, Martin Klinkigt, Koichi Kise, Masakazu Iwamura, Benjamin Adrian, Andreas Dengel (2010). Position Detection For a Camera Pen Using LLAH and Dot Patterns. PRMU 03/2010.

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