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Sonja Nießen

Sonja Nießen has 2 papers in our library, in 2000–2004, most of them on Machine translation, Morphology, Evaluation & benchmarks; often with Hermann Ney, Franz Josef Och, Gregor Leusch.

2 papers in our library · 2000–2004

OpenAlex · h-index 9 · 18 works · 807 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 124 citations in our library · ⭐ Paper Star rank #2799

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 Affiliations

🎓RWTH Aachen UniversityAachen · Germany1998–2004 · 8 papers

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 Topics

 Machine translation (2) Morphology (1) Evaluation & benchmarks (1)

 Works by year

2000s

20041 paper20001 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. An Evaluation Tool for Machine Translation: Fast Evaluation for MT Research (2000 · 366 citations)
    The paper addresses a practical bottleneck in MT research: system variants are run again and again on the same test set, and the outputs need quality judgements that are cheap, fast and consistent.
  2. Statistical Machine Translation with Scarce Resources Using Morpho-syntactic Information (2004 · 197 citations)
    Most statistical MT systems built on the IBM models treat each inflected word form as an unrelated token. This wastes bilingual data, especially when the source language is highly inflected, as German is. Nießen and Ney study how morphological and syntactic knowledge can make up for small parallel corpora.

 Co-authors here

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 124 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); 16 citing papers with a page here →.

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