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 […]
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 […]
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 […]