Lecturers of the Summer School
A more complete preliminary list of lecturers and supervisors in Programme Synopsis
Aarne Ranta started in
1997-99 to develop GF (Grammatical Framework) as a tool for
multilingual translation and authoring at Xerox Research Centre Europe.
GF combines the semantic model of type theory with functional
programming techniques into a system that helps to deal with the
complexities of natural languages efficiently and to capture
cross-linguistic generalizations. In 1999, he became Associate Professor
of Computer Science at the University of Gothenburg, and in 2005, full
Professor. In 2010-2013, he is the coordinator of the European Union
research project MOLTO (Multilingual On-Line Translation), which
develops techniques for high-quality translation among 15 languages.
MOLTO tools are based on GF but the project also develops hybrid models
combining grammars with statistical machine translation. Ranta has a
long teaching experience in logic, language technology, compiler
construction, and functional programming. A native speaker of Finnish,
Ranta speaks six languages and reads another six ones.
Cristina España Post-doc
researcher at LSI-UPC, holds a Ph.D in Cosmology. She is a specialist
on Statistical Machine Translation, specifically on the usage of Machine
Learning techniques to enrich pure phrase-based SMT systems. She is
currently working on the SMT modules in the hybrid MOLTO system and
leads the case study on patents.
Jordi Saludes
Dr. Jordi Saludes received his Ph.D. degree in Science (Mathematics)
from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 1991. He is
associated professor of one of the departments of Applied Mathematics in
UPC, lecturing in the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeries Industrial i
Aeronàutica de Terrassa and the Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística.
He has been working in Computer Vision for industrial problems in the
Centre de Visió per Computador (CVC, CIRIT-CIDEM-UAB) and medical image
analysis. He is currently interested in formalization and representation
of mathematical content in GF. |