Alexander Waibel
Alexander Waibel (also published under the name Alex Waibel ; born May 2, 1956 in Heidelberg ) is a German computer scientist .
Life
Waibel studied electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1986 . Since 1990 he has been a professor of computer science at the University of Karlsruhe (which has since been absorbed into the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ). He is also a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science.
research
His research interests include speech recognition and machine translation . Among other things, he developed the Time Delay Neural Network , an architecture for artificial neural networks that is adapted to the temporal dependencies of language . He was one of the leaders of the Verbmobil project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research . He was also instrumental in the development of Jibbigo , a translation app for spoken language that was introduced in 2009 and taken over by Facebook in 2013 .
The Lecture Translator has been in operation at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology since 2012 . It is the first system for simultaneous translation of lectures. It recognizes and translates lectures based on the cloud in real time. The spoken text can be read by the audience with their mobile devices in the web browser as transcribed text, both in the lecture language and in the translation. The system was used on a trial basis in 2014 in the European Parliament in Strasbourg as part of the EU-Bridge research framework program coordinated by Waibel.
Awards
Alexander Waibel was awarded the Technical Communication Research Prize in 1994. In 2017 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina .
Publications
- Prosody and speech recognition , 1988, ISBN 0-273-08787-8 .
- (as editor): Readings in speech recognition , 1990, ISBN 1-55860-124-4 .
- (with Wolfgang Minker and Joseph Mariani): Stochastically-based semantic analysis , 1999, ISBN 0-7923-8571-3 .
- (as editor, with Rainer Stiefelhagen): Computers in the Human Interaction Loop , 2009, ISBN 978-1-8488-2053-1 .
Web links
- About the person ( Memento from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at the CRC 588 of KIT
- CV at the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (PDF)
- extensive list of publications on the homepage of the University of Trier
- List of publications on Google Scholar
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Drösser, you understand. Computers are conquering everyday life as simultaneous translators - and fulfilling a great promise made by artificial intelligence , Die Zeit, 10/2015; Pia Grund-Ludwig, Babelfisch for the mobile phone , Deutschlandfunk, January 16, 2010; Ed Schroeder, Military Intelligence Daily: Inside the Design of the US Army's Arabic Translation App, Jibbigo ( January 31, 2016 memento in the Internet Archive ), Ed Schroeder's Military Intelligence Report, July 12, 2013; Sylvia Beckers, Facebook takes over manufacturer of speech recognition and translation software , heise.de, August 13, 2013
- ↑ Joana Inês Marta, The automatic translator, What is the professor saying? , FAZ, April 17, 2015; Alexander Waibel, Breaking Language Barriers: Dream or Reality? , Nova Acta Leopoldina NF 122, No. 410, 2015
- ↑ Member entry of Alexander Waibel at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 16, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waibel, Alexander |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waibel, Alex |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heidelberg |