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Mikel L. Forcada Zubizarreta
Prof. Mikel L. Forcada (1963) graduated in Science in 1986 and got his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1991. Since 2002 he is full professor of Computer Languages and Systems at the Universitat d'Alacant. Prof. Forcada has been president of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) since 2015. From the turn of the millennium on, Prof. Forcada's research interests have mainly focused on the field of translation technologies. He is the author of more than 70 articles and book chapters, of which about 40 are about translation technologies. In 2004, after heading several publicly- and privately-funded projects on machine translation he started the free/open-source machine translation platform Apertium (with more than 40 language pairs) and the free/open-source software project Bitextor (which crawls Internet sites to harvest parallel corpora). He is also co-founder of Prompsit Language Engineering (2006).
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