Jacob Bremerman

PhD Student

University of Southern California

Biography

I am a 2nd year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Southern California. I work with Xiang Ren and Jonathan May. My research interests are primarily in natural language processing and extend to artificial intelligence and lingustics. I am interested particularly in multi-/cross-linguality and second-language acquisition. Recently, I have been working on projects in machine translation robustness and dialgue grounding in text games.

Education

PhD in Computer Science, 2025
University of Southern California
MS in Computer Science, 2021
University of Maryland, College Park
BS in Physics, 2017
University of Maryland, College Park
BA in Spanish, 2017
University of Maryland, College Park

Publications

FINDINGS OF THE IWSLT 2021 EVALUATION CAMPAIGN

The evaluation campaign of the International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2021) featured this year four shared …

Antonios Anastasopoulos, Ondřej Bojar, Jacob Bremerman, Roldano Cattoni, Maha Elbayad, Marcello Federico, Xutai Ma, Satoshi Nakamura, Matteo Negri, Jan Niehues, Juan Pino, Elizabeth Salesky, Sebastian Stüker, Katsuhito Sudoh, Marco Turchi, Alexander Waibel, Changhan Wang, Matthew Wiesner

The Multilingual TEDx Corpus for Speech Recognition and Translation

We present the Multilingual TEDx corpus, built to support speech recognition (ASR) and speech translation (ST) research across many …

Elizabeth Salesky, Matthew Wiesner, Jacob Bremerman, Roldano Cattoni, Matteo Negri, Marco Turchi, Douglas W Oard, Matt Post

On the Evaluation of Machine Translation n-best Lists

The standard machine translation evaluation framework measures the single-best output of machine translation systems. There are, …

Jacob Bremerman, Huda Khayrallah, Douglas W Oard, Matt Post

Two Test Collections for Retrieval Using Named Entity Markup

Studying the effects of semantic analysis on retrieval effectiveness can be difficult using standard test collections because both …

Jacob Bremerman, Dawn Lawrie, James Mayfield, Douglas W Oard

The JHU Submission to the 2020 Duolingo Shared Task on Simulatneous Translation and Paraphrase for Language Education

This paper presents the Johns Hopkins University submission to the 2020 Duolingo Shared Task on Simultaneous Translation and Paraphrase …

Huda Khayrallah, Jacob Bremerman, Arya D. McCarthy, Kenton Murray, Winston Wu, Matt Post

Piezoelectric Sensing and Energy Harvesting in Touchscreens

Team Piezo investigated the increasing demands on smartphone batteries by developing a touchscreen prototype that integrates …

Jacob Bremerman, Steven Bronocco, Brenden Caffey, Terri Kent, Emily Reed, Eric Lee, Rounak Mukhopadhyay, Anand Patel, Chris Rother, Adam Stambouli, Erin Verni, Torrance Wang

Experience

Research Assistant

University of Southern California, INK lab, [CUTE LAB NAME] lab

Sep 2021 – Present Los Angeles, California

Graduate student researcher at the University of Southern California. Works with Xiang Ren (INK) and Jonathan May ([CUTE LAB NAME]) on research projects in machine translation robustness, language model grounding.

Research Intern

Universidade da Coruña

Jun 2021 – Sep 2021 La Coruña, Spain

Short graduate student internship working with David Vilares on Machine Translation and Parsing.

Research Assistant

University of Maryland, CLIP lab

Aug 2019 – May 2021 College Park, Maryland

Graduate student researcher at the University of Maryland CLIP lab, funded by Human Language Technology Center of Excellence at Johns Hopkins University. Worked with Douglas W Oard and Matt Post on research projects in machine/speech translation, information retrieval.

Visiting Research Scholar

Human Language Technology Center of Excellence

May 2019 – Aug 2019 Baltimore, Maryland

Research intern at HLTCOE at JHU. Worked with James Mayfield and Dawn Lawrie on research project in named-entity recognition and information retrieval.

Program Coordinator

University of Maryland Honors College

Oct 2017 – Apr 2019 College Park, Maryland

Administrative staff for cybersecurity and entrepreneurship honors programs at UMD. Supported students and program operations in various facets, such as managing $5M scholarship budget, advising students, event planning, curriculum development, program evaluation, etc.