Franz Josef Och
Franz Josef Och (born November 2, 1971 in Ebermannstadt ) is a German computer scientist who researches and works in the USA .
Life
After completing school in Pretzfeld , Ebermannstadt and Erlangen , Och studied computer science in Erlangen (FAU) up to his diploma (1998). He then worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Computer Science VI at RWTH Aachen University , where he received his PhD in 2002 with Hermann Ney with a thesis on statistics- based machine translation of natural languages. PhD .
From 2002 to 2004 he worked as a scientist at the Information Science Institute of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles before moving to Google as head of the Machine Translation department .
His main areas of work and research are statistical machine translation, machine processing of natural language and machine learning methods.
Fonts (selection)
- Franz Josef Och, Hermann Ney: The Alignment Template Approach to Statistical Machine Translation. In: Computational Linguistics. Vol. 30, No. 4 2004, pp. 417-449.
Web links
- Interview Franz J. Och in conversation with Richard Gutjahr (June 18, 2010)
- Franz J. Ochs Publications Machine Translation Department at Google _Research
- Franz Josef Och talks about Google Translate , David Sarno, Los Angeles Times , March 11, 2010
- Hindi in four weeks Marco Evers, Der Spiegel No. 38 from September 15, 2003
- PDF file (600 kB) of the dissertation (2003) by Franz J. Och
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz. J. Och: Statistical Machine Translation: From Single-Word Models to Alignment Templates. Dissertation RWTH Aachen 2002.
- ^ Thomas Schulz: Google's Quest to End the Language Barrier. In: Der Spiegel. September 13, 2013, accessed on May 16, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oh, Franz Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2nd 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ebermannstadt , Germany |