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<p>Professor Alexander Fraser is Chair for Data Analytics &amp; Statistics at the Technical University of Munich</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 13:45, 4 November 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Alexander Fraser <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">leads the machine translation group </del>at the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS), </del>University of Munich <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(LMU Muenchen). Before that, he led the statistical machine translation group at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at the University of Stuttgart</del>. He is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">PI of a German Research Foundation project which is on modeling morphosyntactic phenomena </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">statistical </del>approaches to machine translation, and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was deputy PI </del>in <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the EU FP 7 project</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">TTC - Terminology Extraction, Translation Tools and Comparable Corpora. Previously </del>he <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">worked </del>with <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hinrich Schuetze on syntactic parsing</del>. His <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">main research interests are in </del>machine learning<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-based and hybrid approaches to machine translation, information retrieval </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">syntactic parsing</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Professor </ins>Alexander Fraser <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is Chair for Data Analytics &amp; Statistics </ins>at the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Technical </ins>University of Munich. He is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">well known for his work </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">machine learning </ins>approaches to machine translation<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, language modeling</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">multilingual natural language processing. He focuses on addressing data sparsity and integrating linguistic and world knowledge </ins>in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">AI systems. Additionally</ins>, he <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">collaborates </ins>with <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">language communities to develop technology for their languages</ins>. His <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">contributions to natural language processing and </ins>machine learning <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">emphasize both theoretical advancements </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">practical applications</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Alex obtained a PhD </del>in 2007 <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from the Department of Computer Science </del>at <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </del>University of Southern California. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The topic </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his dissertation </del>was <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"Improved Word Alignments for Statistical Machine Translation" and his advisor was Daniel Marcu </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </del>Information <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sciences Institute</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Eduard Hovy</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gareth James</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Kevin Knight </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Paul Rosenbloom were also on his committee</del>. He <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">obtained a M.Sc. in Computer Science from </del>the University of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Southern California in 2002</del>, and a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">B.A. in Computer </del>Science and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Economics, with </del>a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">concentration in Linguistics, from the University </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Massachusetts, Boston, in 1995. In addition to his academic work, Alex has worked at Language Weaver and at BBN Technologies, where he developed </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">first commercially available statistical machine translation system and worked on Arabic monolingual </del>and <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cross-language information retrieval</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Prof. Fraser acquired his doctoral degree </ins>in 2007 at University of Southern California <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in computer science</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">From 2007 to 2013 he was at the University </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Stuttgart. From 2013 to 2024 he </ins>was <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">at LMU Munich, from 2017 as the Professor </ins>of Information <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and Language Processing</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">He received the ERC Starting Grant in 2014</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an ERC Proof of Concept Grant in 2022</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the ERC Advanced Grant in 2024</ins>. He <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is Chair for Data Analytics &amp; Statistics at </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Technical </ins>University of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Munich since 2024</ins>, and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is also a PI of the Munich Center for Machine Learning, </ins>a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Core Member of the Munich Data </ins>Science <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Institute </ins>and a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Fellow </ins>of the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">European Laboratory for Learning </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Intelligent Systems</ins>.</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key aclwiki_db:diff:1.41:old-11663:rev-14068:php=table --> </table>

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<p>Creating user page for new user.</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Alexander Fraser leads the machine translation group at the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS), University of Munich (LMU Muenchen). Before that, he led the statistical machine translation group at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at the University of Stuttgart. He is PI of a German Research Foundation project which is on modeling morphosyntactic phenomena in statistical approaches to machine translation, and was deputy PI in the EU FP 7 project, TTC - Terminology Extraction, Translation Tools and Comparable Corpora. Previously he worked with Hinrich Schuetze on syntactic parsing. His main research interests are in machine learning-based and hybrid approaches to machine translation, information retrieval and syntactic parsing.<br /> <br /> Alex obtained a PhD in 2007 from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. The topic of his dissertation was &quot;Improved Word Alignments for Statistical Machine Translation&quot; and his advisor was Daniel Marcu of the Information Sciences Institute. Eduard Hovy, Gareth James, Kevin Knight and Paul Rosenbloom were also on his committee. He obtained a M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 2002, and a B.A. in Computer Science and Economics, with a concentration in Linguistics, from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, in 1995. In addition to his academic work, Alex has worked at Language Weaver and at BBN Technologies, where he developed the first commercially available statistical machine translation system and worked on Arabic monolingual and cross-language information retrieval.</div>

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