S3E04: Alon Lavie "Three dimensions of technological development: Adaptability, Interactivity and Flexibility"

Ana Guerberof Arenas from the INCREC project interviewed Alon Lavie for this month's episode. Alon is a computer scientist and an expert on machine translation and he has been at the leading edge of AI research in language technology for more than 20 years.He is currently a Distinguished Career Professor at the Language Technologies Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, in the USA, where he co-directs CMU’s professional Master’s program in AI and Innovation (MSAII), and a Strategic Advisor for Phrase, a language technology platform company that develops computer aided translation tools (CAT).His research interests are centered on Automated Translation Quality Estimation and Evaluation, he was the lead researcher behind the METEOR and COMET metrics, and he has also worked on the development of Machine Translation adaptation techniques.