Margaret King
Also known as Maghi King, Margaret Daniel King
Margaret King is a computational linguist known for her work evaluating machine translation. She studied Greats at Oxford, lectured in computation at Manchester, joined Geneva's ISSCO in 1974, and directed the institute from 1978 until her retirement in 2006. She presented the EAGLES evaluation design in 1998, co-authored the FEMTI framework for machine-translation assessment, and led the organizing committee for COLING 2004. She became an ECCAI Fellow in 1999. As of October 2026, she is an honorary professor at the University of Geneva's Faculty of Translation and Interpreting.
- Now at
- University of Geneva
- Works
- 68
- Citations
- 753
- h-index
- 11
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.
Timeline
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1974
From Oxford to ISSCO
After studying Greats at Oxford, she works as a programmer and lecturer at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology before joining ISSCO in 1974.
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1978–2006
Directing ISSCO
She becomes ISSCO director in 1978 and remains in the role until her retirement in 2006. In 1979, the institute participates in a European Community project on computer-assisted translation. King recalls teaching students to use computers to analyze natural languages and places the start of ISSCO's collaboration with ETI in 1979.
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1998
Presenting the EAGLES framework
At KONVENS 1998, she presents ‘Evaluation Design: the EAGLES Framework.’
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1999
An ECCAI fellowship
She becomes an ECCAI Fellow in 1999, and the EurAI fellows roster lists her with the University of Geneva.
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2003
Building FEMTI
In 2003, she co-authors FEMTI with Andrei Popescu-Belis and Eduard Hovy. The web framework links user needs to machine-translation system characteristics and evaluation metrics.
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2004
Organizing COLING 2004
She heads the organizing committee for COLING 2004 in Geneva, the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics.
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As of October 2026
Honorary professor at Geneva
She is an honorary professor in the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Geneva as of October 2026.
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