Lukas Fischer

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Short CV

2025: Lead Online Platform Digilinguo
2022-2025: Multimodal machine translation and text simplification for the IICT project
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 2026	Co-lecturer Start! Coaching Accessibility
HS 2025	Co-lecturer Start! Coaching Accessibility
HS 2025	Tutor Artificial Intelligence for Language Accessibility
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

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Fischer, L., Gao, Y., Lintner, A., Rios, A., & Ebling, S. (2025). SwissADT: An Audio Description Translation System for Swiss Languages 370–379. https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-industry.31/
Volk, M., Fischer, D. P., Fischer, L., Scheurer, P., & Ströbel, P. (2024). LLM-based Machine Translation and Summarization for Latin (R. Sprugnoli & M. Passarotti, Eds.).
Ströbel, P. B., Fischer, L., Müller, R., Scheurer, P., Schroffenegger, B., Suter, B., & Volk, M. (2024). Multilingual Workflows in Bullinger Digital: Data Curation for Latin and Early New High German Journal of Open Humanities Data, 10, 12. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.174
Volk, M., Fischer, L., Scheurer, P., Schwitter, R., Ströbel, P., & Suter, B. (2022, June). Nunc profana tractemus. Detecting Code-Switching in a Large Corpus of 16th Century Letters Proceedings of LREC-2022, Marseille. https://lrec2022.lrec-conf.org/en/
Fischer, L., Scheurer, P., Schwitter, R., & Volk, M. (2022). Machine Translation of 16th Century Letters from Latin to German 43–50. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2022/workshops/LT4HALA/pdf/2022.lt4hala2022-1.7.pdf
Fischer, L., & Läubli, S. (2020). What’s the Difference Between Professional Human and Machine Translation? A Blind Multi-language Study on Domain-specific MT. 215–224. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.eamt-1.23/