10th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora

 

 

INVITED SPEAKER

 

 

Philippe Langlais

 

Despite numerous studies devoted to mining parallel material from bilingual data, we have yet to see the resulting technologies wholeheartedly adopted by professional translators and terminologists alike. I argue that this state of affairs is mainly due to two factors: the emphasis published authors put on models (even though data is as important), and the conspicuous lack of concern for actual end-users.

 

Philippe Langlais is full professor within the computer science department (DIRO) at University of Montreal (UdeM) in the area of computational linguistics.