Scholar
Alon Lavie
Google Scholar ID: iZEl7j4AAAAJ
Distinguished Career Professor, Carnegie Mellon University; AI Strategic Advisor, Phrase
Citations & Impact
Citations
14,957
H-index
27
i10-index
51
Publications
20
Co-authors
64
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Directed the ten-year development (2004-2014) of the METEOR automated MT evaluation metric. While at Unbabel, he directed the development of a new neural MT evaluation metric named COMET and a complementary tool for MT quality analysis called MT-Telescope. In August 2021, he received the 2021 Makoto Nagao IAMT Award of Honour at the 18th biennial Machine Translation Summit conference for his contributions to the field of Machine Translation.
Research Experience
- Currently, the Associate Director of the MS in AI and Innovation (MSAII) professional Master's program at LTI. Most recently, he was the VP of AI Research at Phrase, leading and managing the AI research team in Pittsburgh, Prague, and Edinburgh, and providing strategic leadership on AI R&D and product development company-wide. Prior to joining Phrase in August 2023, he was the VP of Language Technologies at Unbabel, with responsibilities for AI R&D company-wide, focusing on the development of Translation Quality Technologies. From June 2015 to March 2019, he led and managed the Amazon Machine Translation R&D group in Pittsburgh.
Background
- Distinguished Career Professor at the Language Technologies Institute (LTI) at Carnegie Mellon University. His primary research interests and activities focus on Machine Translation (MT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly NLP technologies applied to language translation and multilingual processing problems.
Miscellany
- Served as President of the International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT) (2013-2015). Previously, he served two terms as president of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) (2008-2012) and was General Chair of the AMTA 2010 and 2012 conferences and the 2015 MT Summit conference. He is also a member of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), where he was president of SIGParse - ACL's special interest group on parsing (2008-2013).
