Philipp Koehn
Machine translation researcher
Philipp Koehn is a machine translation researcher and co-inventor of phrased-based machine translation.
In 2003, while at the University of Southern California, he co-authored a paper on phrase-based statistical machine translation, along with Franz Josef Och and Daniel Marcu.
His early contributions include:
- the Moses machine translation system
- the Europarl corpus
- organising the machine translation research community, including WMT
He was a professor at the University of Edinburgh and then Johns Hopkins University and Chief Scientist at Omniscien Technologies.
In 2021, he joined Facebook AI as a Research Scientist.