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SCS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
4:00 PM - Wean Hall 7500
3:45 PM Distinguished Donuts - Outside the Hall

Salim Roukos
Manager, Natural Language Technologies Department IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Translingual Information Processing Searching unstructured information in the form of (largely) text with
increasing image, audio and video content is fast becoming a daily
activity for many people. Increasingly, the content is becoming
multilingual (e.g. one such trend is that non-english speakers became the
majority of online users in the summer of 2001 and continue to increase
their share). To help assist users with accessing answers to their
information needs regardless of the original language of the relevant
content, we at IBM Research have a number of projects to handle
multilingual content ranging from machine translation, information
extraction, to topic detection and tracking. In this talk, we will present
an overview of our work on statistical machine translation and demonstrate
a cross-lingual search engine to search Arabic content using English
queries. We will also briefly discuss an automated metric, called Bleu,
for the evaluation of translation systems.Speaker Bio: Salim Roukos is the Manager of Natural Language Technologies Department at
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. The research groups in his department
focus on various areas of statistical modeling for Natural Language
Processing covering language modeling, parsing, natural language
understanding for conversational systems, information extraction, and
machine translation.
Dr. Roukos received his B.E. from the American University of Beirut, in
1976, his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Florida, in 1978 and
1980, respectively. He joined Bolt Beranek and Newman from 1980 through
1989, where he was a Senior Scientist in charge of projects in speech
compression, time scale modification, speaker identification, word
spotting, and spoken language understanding. He was an Adjunct Professor at Boston University in 1988 before joining IBM in 1989.
Dr. Roukos has served as Chair of the IEEE Digital Signal Processing
Committee in 1988. He also has chaired and served on various committees
sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency on speech recognition
and language understanding technologies. He is currrently Porgram co-chair
of the HLT/NAACL 2004 conference to be held on May 2-7, 2004, Boston, MA.
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