Anne Beyer

Python software developer
with a passion for languages

Experience
2019-2025
Research Associate; Uni Potsdam

My work was centered around evaluating (large) language models and took the shape of

  • researching
  • programming experiments and frameworks (see Projects)
  • writing papers (see Publications)
  • reviewing papers
  • presenting my work
  • teaching (Python Programming and Formal Languages)
  • organising and giving workshops
  • managing and supervising students
2018-2019
Research Associate; LMU Munich

I worked in the research area Representation Learning for Natural Languages within the Munich Center for Machine Learning, which led to my master thesis publication

2015-2018
Machine Translation Engineer; beo GmbH

I was responsible for all things related to Machine Tranlsation at this language service provider, specifically

  • maintenance and improvement of the in-house machine translation workflow
  • integration of MT into the existing translation workflows
  • communication with translators, project managers and the IT department
  • workshops on MT for translators and in-house staff
2013-2015
Student Assistant Machine Translation; euroscript/bmmt/beo

I gained insights into the set-up and use of MT in commercial environments

2010-2013
Student Research Assistant, BabyLab Uni Potsdam

I coordinated appointments and carried out data collection experiments with children for language acquisition studies

Teaching
Summer 2021 and 2022
Introduction to Programming with Python (in German, together with Brielen Madureira)

B.Sc, Uni Potsdam

Summer 2020
Formal Languages and Automata (in German)

B.Sc, Uni Potsdam

Winter 2018/19
Teaching Assistant for Deep Learning for NLP

M.Sc, LMU Munich

Summer 2012
Teaching Assistant for Formal Languages and Automata (in German)

B.Sc, Uni Potsdam

Education
2017-2020
MSc, Computational Linguistics; LMU Munich

Thesis: “Measuring Domain Similarity Based on Embedding Spaces” (Accepted as long paper at LREC)

2010-2015
BSc, Computational Linguistics; Uni Potsdam

Thesis: “Automatic Quality Estimation for an Industrial Machine Translation Workflow”

2008-2010
Anglistics and Spanish Philology; Uni Potsdam

Here, I soon realized that my interests are more of a general linguistic nature

Other Interests

  • I’m a language nerd. I took courses (and forgot most of it all too fast again due to a lack of time and practice) in Maori, Spanish and Czech and am living in the illusion of some day reviving that knowledge by spending more time in the respective countries.
  • I have been part of several choirs, currently it’s the Berlin based jazz choir jazzomat (always looking for male vocalists!)
  • I love good food, ideally prepared and consumed with friends (not in the cannibalistic interpretation).