Jan W. Amtrup
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Books

Jan W. Amtrup (1999)
Incremental Speech Translation.
Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. Number 1735 in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.1999
[Abstract]

PhD Thesis

Jan W. Amtrup (1998)
Maschinelles Dolmetschen mit Mehr-Ebenen-Charts.
Phd thesis. Universität Hamburg. 1998.
[Abstract] [PDF, 200+ix pages]

Book contributions

Jan W. Amtrup (2009)
Aspekte der Computerlinguistik.
In K.-U. Carstensen, C. Ebert, C. Endriss, S Jekat, R Klabunde and H. Langer (eds.), Computerlinguistik und Sprachtechnologie: Eine Einfuehrung. 3. Auflage. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2009.

Jan W. Amtrup (2003)
Speech Recognition and Understanding.
In Ali Farghaly (ed.), A Handbook for Language Engineers. Chapter 9, pp. 367-418. CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA, 2003.

Jan W. Amtrup (2001)
Aspekte der Computerlinguistik.
In K.-U. Carstensen, C. Ebert, C. Endriss, S Jekat, R Klabunde and H. Langer (eds.), Computerlinguistik und Sprachtechnologie: Eine Einfuehrung. pp. 10-23. Spektrum, Heidelberg, 2001.

Jan W. Amtrup (1999)
Maschinelles Dolmetschen mit Mehr-Ebenen Charts.
In Ausgezeichnete Informatik-Dissertationen. pp. 9-18. Teubner, Stuttgart, Leipzig, 1999.
[Abstract] [PDF, 10 pages]

Jan W. Amtrup (1997)
Perspectives for Incremental MT with Charts.
In Christa Hauenschild and Susanne Heizmann (eds.), Machine Translation and Translation Theory. Perspectives of Co-operation. Text, Translation, Computational Processing (TTCP), number 1.Mouton de Gruyter, 1997.
[Abstract] [PDF, 12 pages]

Journal Articles

Jan W. Amtrup (2003)
"Morphology in Machine Translation Systems: Efficient Integration of Finite State Transducers and Feature Structure Descriptions."
Machine Translation 18(3), pp. 217-238. 2003.
[Abstract]

Hans H. Weber, Jan W. Amtrup and Jörg Spilker (1997)
"Innovative Systemarchitekturen zur Inkrementellen Interaktiven Verarbeitung."
Künstliche Intelligenz 11(4):26-30. December 1997

Conference Articles

Jan W. Amtrup (2003)
"Feature Structures as Weights in Finite State Morphology."
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing. Budapest, Hungary. April 2003
[Abstract] [PDF, 6 pages]

Daniel J. Walker, David E. Clements, Maki Darwin and Jan W. Amtrup (2001)
"Sentence Boundary Detection: A Comparison of Paradigms For Improving MT Quality."
In Proceedings MT Summit VIII. Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 2001
[Abstract] [PDF, 4 pages]

Jan W. Amtrup (2000)
"Hypergraph Unification-Based Parsing for Incremental Speech Processing."
In Proc. Sixth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies. Trento, Italy. February 2000
[PDF, 2 pages]

Remi Zajac and Jan W. Amtrup (2000)
"Modular Unification-Based Parsers."
In Proc. Sixth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies. Trento, Italy. February 2000
[Abstract] [PDF, 11 pages]

Jan W. Amtrup, Karine Megerdoomian and Remi Zajac (2000)
"Rapid Development of Translation Tools: Application to Persian and Turkish."
In Proc. of the 18th COLING. Saarbruecken, Germany. 2000
[Abstract]

Jan W. Amtrup, Karine Megerdoomian and Remi Zajac (1999)
"Rapid Development of Translation Tools "
In Proceedings of the Machine Translaton Summit VII. Singapore. September 1999
[Abstract] [PDF, 5 pages]

Remi Zajac, Malek Boualem and Jan W. Amtrup (1999)
"Specification and Implementation of Input Methods Using Finite-State Transducers."
In Fourteenth International Unicode Conference. Boston, MA. March 1999

Jan W. Amtrup (1998)
"Incremental Speech Translation: A Layered Chart Approach."
In 28. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik. Magdeburg. September 1998
[Abstract] [PDF, 10 pages]

Jan W. Amtrup and Volker Weber (1998)
"Time Mapping with Hypergraphs."
In Proc. of the 17th COLING. Montreal, Canada. 1998
[Abstract] [PDF, 7 pages]

Jan W. Amtrup, Henrik Heine and Uwe Jost (1997)
"What's in a Word Graph --- Evaluation and Enhancement of Word Lattices."
In Proc. of Eurospeech 1997. Rhodes, Greece. September 1997
[Abstract] [PDF, 4 pages]

Jan W. Amtrup (1997)
"ICE: A Communication Environment for Natural Language Processing."
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA97). Las Vegas, NV. July 1997
[Abstract] [PDF, 9 pages]

Jan W. Amtrup (1997)
"Layered Charts for Speech Translation."
In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, TMI '97. Santa Fe, NM. July 1997
[Abstract] [PDF, 8 pages]

Walther v. Hahn and Jan W. Amtrup (1996)
"Speech-to-Speech Translation: The Project Verbmobil."
In Proceedings of SPECOM 96. pp. 51-56. St. Petersburg. October 1996
[Abstract] [PDF, 6 pages]

Alexandra Klein, Susanne J. Jekat and Jan W. Amtrup (1996)
"Inkrementelle und erwartungsgesteuerte Verarbeitung beim Maschinellen Dolmetschen."
In Proceedings der zweiten Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft. pp. 68-70. Hamburg. March 1996
[PDF, 4 pages]

Jan W. Amtrup and Jörg Benra (1996)
"Communication in Large Distributed AI Systems for Natural Language Processing."
In Proc. of the 16th COLING. pp. 35-40. Center for Sprogteknologi. Copenhagen, Denmark. August 1996
[Abstract] [PDF, 6 pages]

Jan W. Amtrup (1995)
"Parallel Parsing: Different Distribution Schemata for Charts."
In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT95). pp. 12-13. Charles University, Prague. September 1995
[PDF, 2 pages]

Jan W. Amtrup and Susanne J. Jekat (1995)
"Segmentation of Spoken Language for NLP."
In KI95-Activities: Workshops, Posters, Demos. pp. 298-299. Bielefeld. September 1995
[PDF, 2 pages]

Jan W. Amtrup (1995)
"Chart-based Incremental Transfer in Machine Translation."
In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, TMI '95. pp. 188-195. Leuven, Belgium. July 1995
[Abstract] [PDF, 8 pages]

Jan W. Amtrup (1994)
"Using Charts for Transfer in MT."
In KI-94. p. 391. Saarbrücken. September 1994
[PDF, 1 pages]

Jan W. Amtrup, Andreas Hauenstein, Claudius Pyka, Volker Weber and Stefan Wermter (1994)
"An Outline of the Verbmobil Project with Focus on the Work at the University of Hamburg."
In P. McKevitt (ed.), Proceedings of the AAAI-94 Workshop on Integration of Natural Language and Speech Processing. Seattle, WA. 1994

Technical Reports

Jan W. Amtrup, Hamid Mansouri Rad, Karine Megerdoomian and Remi Zajac (2000)
"Persian-English Machine Translation: An Overview of the Shiraz Project."
Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science MCCS-00-319. Computing Research Laboratory. New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.
[Abstract] [PDF, 42 pages]

Wolfgang Menzel and Jan W. Amtrup (1998)
"Werkzeuge, Modelle und Problemloesungen."
Mitteilung 280. University of Hamburg. Hamburg, Germany.
[Abstract] [PDF, 18 pages]

Jan W. Amtrup, Henrik Heine and Uwe Jost (1996)
"What's in a Word Graph --- Evaluation and Enhancement of Word Lattices."
Verbmobil Report 186. Univ. of Hamburg. Hamburg.
[Abstract] [PDF, 53 pages]

Jan W. Amtrup (1994)
"Transfer and Architecture: Views from Chart Parsing."
Verbmobil Report 8. Univ. of Hamburg.
[Abstract] [PDF, 35 pages]

Jan W. Amtrup (1992)
"Parallele Strukturanalyse Natürlicher Sprache mit Transputern."
ASL-TR 44-92/UHH. Univ. of Hamburg.
[Abstract] [PDF, 105 pages]

Unpublished Papers and Manuals

Jan W. Amtrup (1995)
"ICE--Intarc Communication Environment: User's Guide and Reference Manual. Version 1.4."
Verbmobil Technical Document 14. Univ. of Hamburg.
[Abstract] [PDF, 69 pages]

Jan W. Amtrup (1994)
"ICE--Intarc Communication Environment: Design und Spezifikation."
Verbmobil Memo 48. Univ. of Hamburg.
[Abstract] [PDF, 32 pages]

Marko Auerswald and Jan W. Amtrup (1994)
"Kommunikationsarchitektur für den Demonstrator."
Verbmobil Technical Document 15. DFKI Kaiserslautern, Univ. of Hamburg.

Jan W. Amtrup (1990)
"POP: Ein Paralleler, Objekt-Orientierter Chart-Parser."
Unveröff. Studienarbeit . Univ. of Hamburg.