Franz Josef Och

Franz Josef Och ( born November 2, 1971 in Ebermannstadt ) is a German computer scientist who conducts research in the U.S. and works.

Life

After his schooling in Pretzfeld, Ebermannstadt and Erlangen Och studied computer science in Erlangen (FAU ) to graduate (1998). Subsequently, he was a research assistant at the Department of computer science VI of the RWTH Aachen, where he in 2002 Hermann Ney with a thesis on statistics -based machine translation of natural languages ​​to Dr. -Ing. doctorate. From 2002 to 2004 he worked as a scientist at the Information Science Institute of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, before he joined the Department of Machine Translation for the company as head of Google. His main work and research are statistical machine translation, machine processing of natural language and machine-learning methods.

Writings (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.
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