Lukas Fischer

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I work on multimodal machine translation and text simplification for the IICT project.

Short CV

2021-2023: Machine Translation from Medieval Latin to German for the Bullinger Digital project.
2018-2020: Software Engineer with focus on NLP and Machine Translation at TextShuttle
2017-2018: M. Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh
2016-2017: Internship at Eurospider
2012-2016: B. A. in Computational Linguistics from the University of Zürich

FS 2025	Co-lecturer Start! Coaching Accessibility
HS 2024	Tutor Artificial Intelligence for Language Accessibility
FS 2024	Co-lecturer Programming Techniques in Computational Linguistics 2
HS 2023	Tutor Artificial Intelligence for Language Accessibility
FS 2023	Co-lecturer Programming Techniques in Computational Linguistics 2
HS 2022	Co-lecturer Language Technology for low-resource languages

Volk, Martin; Fischer, Dominic P; Fischer, Lukas; Scheurer, Patricia; Ströbel, Phillip (2024). LLM-based Machine Translation and Summarization for Latin. In: Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages -- LT4HALA (at LREC/COLING), Torino, 25 Mai 2024.
Ströbel, Phillip Benjamin; Fischer, Lukas; Müller, Raphael; Scheurer, Patricia; Schroffenegger, Bernard; Suter, Benjamin; Volk, Martin (2024). Multilingual Workflows in Bullinger Digital: Data Curation for Latin and Early New High German. Journal of Open Humanities Data, 10(12):12.
Volk, Martin; Fischer, Lukas; Scheurer, Patricia; Schwitter, Raphael; Ströbel, Phillip; Suter, Benjamin (2022). Nunc profana tractemus. Detecting Code-Switching in a Large Corpus of 16th Century Letters. In: Proceedings of LREC-2022, Marseille, 21 June 2022 - 26 June 2022, LREC.
Fischer, Lukas; Scheurer, Patricia; Schwitter, Raphael; Volk, Martin (2022). Machine Translation of 16th Century Letters from Latin to German. In: Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages (LT4HALA 2022), Marseille, 25 Juni 2022. LREC, 43-50.
Fischer, Lukas; Läubli, Samuel (2020). What's the Difference Between Professional Human and Machine Translation? A Blind Multi-language Study on Domain-specific MT. In: 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, Lisboa, Portugal, 3 November 2020 - 5 November 2020. European Association for Machine Translation, 215-224.