Frédéric Blain

Lecturer in Translation Technology

University of Wolverhampton, UK

I am a lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton and a member of the Research Group on Computational Linguistics (RGCL), affiliated to the Research Institute of Information and Language Processing (RIILP).

Before becoming an academic, I was a research associate in Machine Translation in Prof. Lucia Specia's group at the University of Sheffield. I worked on discriminative training algorithms for Statistical Machine Translation and continuous adaptation from post-editing workflow within the scope of the EU H2020 QT21 project. I then turned to Quality Estimation for Machine Translation, a topic I have been working on since, in close collaboration with Lucia Specia. Together, we successfully secured several research grants (an Amazon Research Award grant, an EAMT grant and Bergamot, an EU H2020 project), leading to many publications and DeepQuest, the first open-source toolkit for quality estimation for neural-based Machine Translation.

I hold a PhD in Computer Science from Le Mans Université (France), which I defended in 2013. As a PhD student, I worked on post-editing, continuous adaptation as well as domain and project adaptations for Machine Translation under the supervision of Holger Schwenk (Facebook) and Jean Senellart (Systran). I pursued my PhD work as a postdoctoral researcher at LIUM, the Computer Science Laboratory of Le Mans Université, by joining the EU FP7 MateCAT project. I also have experience in industry having held a research engineer position at Systran during my PhD.

More details can be found in my CV and list of publications.

Latest updates

Wed 01 July 2020 New position at the University of Wolverhampton!

Fri 22 May 2020 Unsupervised Quality Estimation for Neural Machine Translation

Mon 20 April 2020 Quality In, Quality Out: Learning from Actual Mistakes

Sat 04 April 2020 Multimodal Quality Estimation

Thu 04 October 2018 Findings of the WMT 2018 Shared Task on Quality Estimation

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