Statistical Machine Translation at the University of Edinburgh
The dream of automatically translating documents from foreign languages into English (or between any two languages) is one of the oldest pursuits of artificial intelligence research. Now, armed with vast amounts of example translations and powerful computers, we can witness significant progress toward achieving that dream. Statistical analysis of bilingual parallel corpora allow for the automatic construction of machine translation systems. Already, for language pairs such as Chinese-English or Arabic-English, statistical systems are the best machine translation systems currently available.
People
- Philipp Koehn, professor
- Bonnie Webber, professor
- Kenneth Heafield, lecturer
- Adam Lopez, reader
- Alexandra Birch, postdoctoral researcher
- Ulrich Germann, postdoctoral researcher
- Barry Haddow, postdoctoral researcher
- Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt postdoctoral researcher
- Antonio Valerio Miceli Barone, postdoctoral researcher
- Rico Sennrich, postdoctoral researcher
- Philip Williams, postdoctoral researcher
- Nikolay Bogoychev, PhD student
- Christian Buck, PhD student
- Anna Currey, PhD student
- Federico Fancellu, PhD student
- Soňa Galovičová, PhD student
- Jozef Mokry, PhD student
- Maria Nadejde, PhD student
- Dominikus Wetzel, PhD student
Alumni
- Abhishek Arun (PhD), now research scientist at Bing
- Michael Auli, (PhD), now at Facebook AI Research
- Amittai Axelrod (MSc), UW Ph.D. 2014, now postdoc at University of Maryland
- Phil Blunsom (postdoc), now associate professor at Oxford University and scientist at Google Deepmind
- Chris Callison-Burch (PhD), now assistant professor at University of Pennsylvania
- Trevor Cohn (postdoc), now senior lecturer at University of Melbourne
- Loďc Dugast (PhD), now research fellow at the University of South Africa
- Nadir Durrani, now scientist at QCRI
- Yang Gao (MSc), now at Snapchat
- Liane Guillou (PhD), now post-doctoral researcher at LMU Munich
- Eva Hasler (PhD), now postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University
- Hieu Hoang (PhD, then postdoc) now contracting for Air Force Research Lab
- Matthias Huck, (postdoctoral researcher), now postdoctoral researcher at LMU
- Abby Levenberg (PhD), now research scientist at WorkFusion
- David Madl (research associate)
- David Matthews (graduate student) now at Skyscanner
- Josh Schroeder (MSc), now software engineer at Google
- Miles Osborne (Reader), now Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg
- Herve Saint-Amand (research associate), now at NCR Edinburgh
- David Talbot (PhD), now research scientist at Google
- Chara Tsoukala (research associate), now NLP Engineer at Unbabel
- Oliver Wilson (research associate), now at Optiver
Visitors
- Shuoyang Ding (PhD student, Johns Hopkins), Jun-Aug 2015
- Chara Tsoukala (PhD student, U Groningen), Feb-Aug 2013
- Youzheng Wu (NICT), Mar-Jun 2013
- Jesús González Rubio (researcher, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia), Jun-Aug 2010
- Anoop Sarkar (associate professor, Simon Fraser U.), Sep 2009-Apr 2010
- Andreas Zollmann (PhD student, CMU), Jul-Aug 2009
- Juri Ganitkevitch (Phd student, Johns Hopkins), Jul-Aug 2009
- Chris Dyer (Phd student, U. Maryland), Feb-Mar 2009
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