NLP on Sascha Brawer

Proper Name Transcription/Transliteration with ICU Transforms

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This was a talk rather than a published paper — slides and a recording of the presentation, no separate written paper. Presented at IUC 34 in Santa Clara.

Conversion of Input Text Strings

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Patented technology for converting place names and similar geographic strings between writing systems — part of the same line of work as the ICU transforms talk.

Patti

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Given on a 1999 tour of several research labs. The full write-up is my diploma thesis, Patti.

An Architecture for Content Analysis of Documents and its Use in Information and Knowledge Management Tasks

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

From the natural-language research program at Apple’s Advanced Technology Group in Cupertino.

Dynamic Presentation of Document Content for Rapid On-Line Skimming

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

From the SeeFacts document-skimming project at Apple’s Advanced Technology Group in Cupertino.

Patti

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

My diploma thesis at Saarland University, supervised by Hans Uszkoreit and Manfred Pinkal. It describes work I did during an internship at Apple’s Advanced Technology Group in Cupertino.

A talk on the core ideas followed in 1999.

Programming Techniques in Computational Linguistics

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

University of Zurich, Department of Informatics, Computational Linguistics — winter semester 1997/98 through summer semester 1999.

I designed this course from scratch. Prolog wouldn’t necessarily have been my first choice for it — I’m a systems programmer at heart — but the department insisted I teach exactly this language. It looks fairly odd from today’s vantage point, but back in the 1990s, Prolog, together with Lisp, was the language of choice in artificial intelligence.

Montague’s Semantic Model in “English as a Formal Language”

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Written up from a talk I gave on 18 January 1995 in Werner Saurer’s Montague Grammar seminar at Saarland University. Slides.

Treating German with a Provably Context-Free Grammar

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A condensed English version of the German original, Mechanismen einer kontextfreien Grammatik für das Deutsche, which first appeared in the student track of the 18th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-94). This version was presented at the 5th Conference of Computational Linguistics Students (TaCoS) in Saarbrücken.

The work describes the grammar and parser of the SVOX text-to-speech system, developed by the Speech Processing Group at ETH Zürich, where I spent three months in 1993 reworking both.

Computational Lexicology

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A German-language write-up of a talk from B. Zimmermann’s introductory Lexikon seminar at Saarland University.