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SDL Researchers Nominated for Prestigious European Inventor Award and Recognized for
Creating a New Market
Maidenhead, U.K.
May 7 2013
SDL’s Daniel Marcu, Kevin Knight and William Wong recognized as pioneers in machine translation by European
Patent Office
SDL (LSE: SDL) today announced that three leading researchers from SDL have been nominated for the European
Inventor Award 2013 for their contributions to technological, social and economic progress. The award is
presented by the European Patent Office (EPO) to outstanding inventors in five categories. SDL Researchers Daniel
Marcu, Kevin Knight and William Wong have been selected as finalists, alongside co-inventor Philipp Koehn, in the
‘Research’ category. Building on a statistical approach to machine translation, the team invented an advanced
method of automated computer translation which improves translation quality and increases the speed of
translation output. The team invented the “phrase-based joint probability model for statistical machine
translation” while working together at the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute.
“This revolutionary approach makes some of the most obscure languages in the world understandable to anyone
with Internet access,” said Benoît Battistelli, President of the EPO. “Today most of the big names in Internet
translation, including Google and Microsoft, have integrated this model into general-purpose translation services
such as Google Translate and Bing.”
“It is an honor to be a finalist for the European Inventor Award,” said Daniel Marcu, Chief Science Officer at SDL.
“We have just scratched the surface of what is possible and SDL is one of the few organizations in the world that
has both the level of expertise as well as the high level of corporate commitment to R&D needed to deliver this
kind ongoing innovation, so we’re excited to continue our work at SDL Research.”
The SDL researchers nominated for this award are part of a world class team of scientists at SDL Research that
enjoy widespread acknowledgement from the academic community, with hundreds of peer reviewed publications
and conference papers between them and nearly 100 patents granted or filed. Based in innovation centers in the
US and the UK, the team is focused on ongoing advances in natural language processing, statistical prediction and
machine learning to enable companies with new ways to use machine translation to solve “Big Language” business
challenges and deliver a truly global customer experience.
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technology and services help brands to predict what their customers want and engage with them across multiple
languages, cultures, channels and devices.
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out of the top 50 brands work with SDL. For more information, visit www.sdl.com.
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