Research interests
Alignments, combinatorics, string transductions, machine learning, quantitative linguistics, mathematics in general (set theory, logic, graph theory, topology, number theory, measure theory, formal languages, computability theory, and applications: statistics, numerics, probability theory, optimization).
Publications
Eger, S., Sequence A180091 in The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (2011), published electronically at http://eis.org. [PDF]
Eger, S. (2011, forthcoming). The combinatorics of grapheme-to-phoneme conversion: Better alignment techniques for better translations.
Eger, S. (2011, forthcoming). The combinatorics of string alignments: Reconsidering the problem. In: Journal of Quantitative Linguistics.
[PDF], preprint
Eger, S. (2011, forthcoming). Investigating lexical competition. An empirical case study of the German Spelling Reform of 1996/2004/2006.In: Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics.
[PDF], preprint
Eger, S. and Sejane, I. (2010). An Ensemble of Classifiers Methodology for Stemming in Inflectional Languages: Using the Example of Latvian.
In: Human Language Technologies. The Baltic Perspective. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference Baltic HLT 2010, pp. 217-224.
[PDF]
Eger, S. and Sejane, I. (2010). Computing semantic similarity from bilingual dictionaries. In:
Statistical Analysis of Textual Data. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on
statistical analysis of textual data (JADT 2010), pp. 1217-1225. [PDF]
Eger, Steffen (2008). Regular Languages, Tree Width, and Courcelle's Theorem. An Introduction, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, Germany.[AMAZON]
Eger, Steffen (2008). Computer Simulation of Language Evolution. A Neural Network Based Approach, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken, Germany.[AMAZON]