Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, Marine works on machine translation and natural language processing. She is known for her research connecting cross-lingual semantics with machine translation and has been recognized with a NSF Career Award in 2018, a Google Research award in 2016, and Amazon Faculty Awards in 2016 and […]
One of the founders of Prompsit Language Engineering, a company that specializes in machine translation and other language technologies, where he currently helds the position of Chief Research Officer. He is a professor, researcher in the field of machine translation and translation technologiesand and technology advisor. Mikel is the current president of the European Association […]
Applied Scientist at AWS AI Services working on Amazon Translate. Before that, she worked at Grammarly where she focused on the developed of machine learning and deep learning applications that improve written communication. Maria’s interests are in languages and machine translation. She graduated with a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, as part of ILCC’s […]
Professor of language technology at the Department of Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki and Visiting Professor at Uppala University. His main research interest are cross-lingual NLP and machine translation.
Research scientist at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research, Paris. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Paris 6 in 1996. Prior to joining Meta AI in 2015, he was a professor of computer science at the University of Le Mans where he led a large group on statistical machine translation. In 2013, Holger […]
Director at Amazon, Daniel is recognized as a leading authority in natural language processing and successful entrepreneur. He has co-authored an MIT Press book, more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and 30 USPTO patents. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics for significant contributions to discourse parsing, summarization and machine translation and for […]
Sharon O’Brien has over 20 years of experience in translation studies and is a lecturer in translation technology and localization, among others. Her research interests include AI, translation as a form of human-computer interaction (HCI), and crisis communication.
Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, Kenneth is an expert of fast and high-quality machine translation and makes fast natural language processing. He wrote the KenLM toolkit for language modeling.
Professor of Computer Science of Carnegie Mellon University and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. A widely recognized expert in the fields of spoken language translation systems, AI, and multimodal interfaces. He has founded or co-founded more than 10 startups, some being acquired by companies such as Facebook and Zoom.
Head of Natural Language Processing at Aveni and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. His main area of research is statistical machine translation, i.e. the automatic translation of text using probabilistic models.
Head of the machine translation unit at Zoom with a PhD Computer Science. He led the MT team at Fondazione Bruno Kessler for various years, focusing his research activities on various aspects of sequence-to-sequence modelling applied to machine translation, speech translation and automatic post-editing. Marco is the co-organizer of the Conference of Machine Translation. He […]
Since May 2015, Tsujii has been the director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Center at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan. Tsujii is also the Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA).
Founder and Chief Scientist at conteX.ai, PHD in Computer science & Professor at Imperial College London. She has published more than 200 papers in the most prestigious conferences and journals in Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence. Her research focuses on various aspects of data-driven approaches to language processing, with a particular interest […]
Principal Scientist at BBN Technolgies for more than 50 years, his goal is to improve the state of the art in many areas of human language processing.
Chief Scientist of Speech and Language Computing at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, he has a Ph.D. of Computer Science. He has been a professor and group director of Natural Language Processing and Machine Trnslation Group at Dublin City University.
Full professor of computer science at RWTH Aachen University. He developed AppTek’s MT technology. His main research interests lie in the area of statistical classification, machine learning, speech recognition, machine translation and handwriting recognition. His work has resulted in more than 700 conference and journal papers. He contributed to a large number of European and […]
An associate professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining Penn, he was a research faculty member at the Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins University for 6 years. Sloan Research Fellow, he received faculty research awards from Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook. His research interests include […]
Dr. Li has worked on speech and language technology in academia and industry since 1988. His research interests include automatic speech recognition, natural language processing and information retrieval. He is now a Presidential Chair Professor and Associate Dean (Research) at the School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), and also o […]
Research Scientist at Meta AI, he was the ex-Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. His focus is on deep neural networks and their application to speech recognition and translation.
Jan Hajič is a full professor of Computational Linguistics and a deputy director of the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He also holds a director position of a Language Technology Infrastructure LINDAT/CLARIN in the Czech Republic, which is part of the EU Clarin network. His work experience […]
Senior Principal Researcher and managing the Deep and Reinforcement Learning group at Microsoft Research Asia. He is a senior member of ACM and IEEE, and an Adjunct Professor (PhD advisor) in the University of Science and Technology of China. His team helped Microsoft achieve human parity in Chinese-English machine translation in 2018, won the first […]
Dorr was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics for 2008. She has been a Sloan Research Fellow and National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow. She was elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2013 for “significant contributions to natural language understanding and representation, and development of the […]
Creator of MarianNMT. Principle Research Scientist for Microsoft Translator since 2018. His main research interests are neural machine translation, automatic post-editing and grammatical error correction. Before joining Microsoft, he was an Assistant Professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, and a visiting researcher in the MT group at the University of Edinburgh. He […]
President of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, past president of the International Association of Machine Translation. Co-founder and former manager of Microsoft Translator. BYU Computer Science professor.
Research Scientist Manager at Meta AI, deeply involved in large multilingual MT models. Before joining Facebook, he obtained his PhD in Information Technology and Communcation and worked for several years as Machine Translation Specialist and Research Scientist at Qatar Computing Research Institute.
Professor of Translation at the University of Ottawa, Canadian linguist Lynne Bowker has earned distinction as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her most recent project is the Machine Translation Literacy Project, which aims to raise awareness of the ‘conscious’ use of Machine Translation, in order to maximize its effectiveness.
Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon AI, he leads a research project on automatic dubbing and oversees the science work behind the Amazon Translate service. He is a visiting researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler and a lecturer at University of Trento. His research expertise focuses on automatic dubbing, machine translation, speech translation, language modeling, information retrieval, […]
Research scientist at Meta AI Research in New York. Angela did her PhD on text generation at LORIA in Nancy, France, advised by Chloe Braud, Antoine Bordes, and Claire Gardent. Currently, Angela focuses on improving low-resource machine translation quality for hundreds of languages.
Sr. Analytics Scientist at Ford Motor Company. He is responsible for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Analytics for Global Data and the development and implementation of Machine Translation for vehicle assembly at Ford. He holds a PHD and worked as an adjunct professor at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield where he taught classes in AI, […]
Jaap van der Meer is a translation industry visionary and pioneer whose conferences and publications inspired both newcomers and veterans. In the late 1980s his first company, INK, published the first terminology lookup and translation memory (TM) software. In 2005 he founded TAUS, an innovative think tank that collects members of the largest IT companies […]
Officially listed as one of the top NLP engineers in the world, Alexandra heads Aveni Labs and is also a senior research fellow at the department of informatics of the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. She developed a worldwide adopted method in Neural Machine Translation, which is currently standard practice in the field.
Co-founder of DeepL, one of the top machine translation engines, where he focused on improving and expanding AI technology. He held a postdoctoral position at Google’s research department in New York, and is a former Google Research Scientist. He is now Professor for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Cologne.
Associate professor at Charles University. He has mostly worked in the field of machine translation (MT) since 2006, which encompasses practically everything from computational linguistics to software engineering and artificial intelligence. He created the hybrid system Chimera, which surpassed all rival systems in English-to-Czech translation from 2013 to 2015.
Assistant professor at the Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on machine translation and speech translation and neural network models. He has served as the area chair for machine translation at ACL 2016/2017 and COLING 2016. His publications have won awards such as best papers at EMNLP 2016, EACL 2017, and […]
Full Professor at Dublin City University and Deputy Director of the ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology. He has been selected as the winner of the Award of Honor from International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT). He was the Director of Machine Translation at Lingo24, as well as the President of the International Association for […]
Chief Scientist at Omniscien Technologies, Research Scientist at Facebook, and Professor at Johns Hopkins University. He is a leader in the field of statistical machine translation research with over 100 publications. Under his leadership, the open source Moses system has become the standard toolkit for machine translation in research and commercial deployment. Koehn led international […]
Principal Research Manager at Microsoft. He is working with the Microsoft Translator team. His main research interests are human evaluation for machine translation, and other quality metrics for MT. He was part of the original Skype Translator team and have contributed to the Microsoft Translator apps, and Presentation Translator.
Senior Research Scientist at Google, Kishore leads the Coauthor team whose objective is cross-lingual cross-modal access to dynamically organized information. Prior to joining Google, he led machine learning at Yahoo! Research and machine translation at IBM Research. He is a coauthor of the BLEU metric for automatic evaluation of machine translation quality.