Machine Translation at the LTI Very active research

Machine Translation at the LTI • Very active research area at LTI for many years (since 1985!) • Multiple faculty members working on MT: Alon Lavie, Stephan Vogel, Lori Levin, Jaime Carbonell, Noah Smith, Ralf Brown, Bob Frederking, Florian Metze • Broad range of research on all aspects of MT: Statistical and Rulebased approaches, Text and Speech Translation, MT Evaluation, MT system combination, MT for low-resource and endangered languages, and more… • Diverse sources of funding: DARPA, NSF, other government agencies, Industry • Computer-Assisted Translation is a topic of recent interest – MT embedded as a technology tool within the human translation process – Alon Lavie interested in establishing research connections

Safaba Translation Solutions • Technology spin-off start-up company from CMU/LTI • Co-founded by Alon Lavie and Bob Olszewski • Mission: Develop and deliver advanced translation automation software solutions for the commercial translation business sector • Target Clients: Language Services Providers (LSPs) and their enterprise clients • Major Service: – Software-as-a-Service customized MT Technology: Develop specialized highly-scalable software for delivering high-quality clientcustomized Machine Translation (MT) as a remote service – Integration into Human Translation Workflows: Customized-MT is integrated with Translation Memory and embedded into standard human translation automation tools to improve translator productivity and consistency • Details: http: //www. safaba. com • Contact: Alon Lavie <alavie@safaba. com>