My name is Steffen Eger and I'm a former CMU SCS/LTI student.
My interests are very broad but academically I'm most attracted to
mathematics (particularly, discrete mathematics; combinatorics, number theory; and probability theory), computer science and language (in NLP, my interests are language networks and string alignments/transduction).
Regarding languages, I speak German, English, French, a tiny bit of Spanish, even less Navajo, and can read some Latin ...
NB: I am no longer affiliated with CMU and this page will expire very soon. Please visit me at my private homepage.
Selected Publications
Eger, S. (2013): Sequence alignment with arbitrary steps and further generalizations, with applications to alignments in linguistics. In press.
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S. Eger, Restricted weighted integer compositions and extended binomial coefficients. Journal of Integer Sequences 16 (2013), #13.1.3.
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Eger, S. (2012): S-Restricted Monotone Alignments: Algorithm, Search Space, and Applications. COLING 2012: 781-798
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Eger, S. (2012): Lexical semantic typologies from bilingual corpora - A framework. Proceedings of *SEM 2012 (First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics)
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Steffen Eger (2012): The Combinatorics of String Alignments:
Reconsidering the Problem, Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 19:1, 32-53. [pdf]
Ineta Sejane and Steffen Eger. Semantic typologies by means of network analysis of bilingual dictionaries. Proceedings of the workshop on comparing approaches to measuring linguistic differences, Gothenburg, Oct. 2011 [pdf, preprint]
Eger, S., and Sejane, I. (2010): Computing semantic similarity from bilingual dictionaries. JADT 2010: 10th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data, 9-11 June 2010, Rome, Italy; pp.1217-1225 [pdf]
Accepted Papers
Eger, S. (2012): A contribution to the theory of word length distribution. [Preprint]
Eger, S. (2012): An agent-based sorting model for city size and wealth distributions.
Submitted
Eger, S. (2012): Stirling's approximation for central polynomial coefficients. Preprint available at arxiv.org
Eger, S. (2012): Asymptotic normality of integer compositions inside a rectangle. Preprint available at arxiv.org
Working papers
How opposition affects learning in social networks
Endogenous weight formation in
DeGroot learning models for social networks
Older publications
Steffen Eger, Ineta Sejane (2010): An Ensemble of Classifiers Methodology for Stemming in Inflectional Languages: Using the Example of Latvian. Baltic HLT 2010: 217-224.
Steffen Eger: Investigating lexical competition - An Empirical Case Study of the German Spelling Reform of 1996/2004/2006. JLCL 25(1): 3-21 (2010).
Eger, Steffen (2008). Regular Languages, Tree Width, and Courcelle's Theorem. An Introduction, VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Saarbrucken, Germany.
Eger, Steffen (2008). Computer Simulation of Language Evolution. A Neural Network Based Approach, VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Saarbrucken, Germany.