Philipp Koehn
Also known as Philipp koehn
Philipp Koehn researches machine translation and develops resources and software for translation research with collaborators. His research includes a parallel corpus of European Parliament proceedings with entries dated 2001, 2003 and 2007. The corpus provides multilingual text resources for translation research. Koehn’s Pharaoh, dated 2003 and 2004, is a beam-search decoder for phrase-based statistical translation. Moses later replaced Pharaoh.
- Now at
- Johns Hopkins University
- Works
- 424
- Citations
- 35,987
- h-index
- 66
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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2001–2007
European Parliament corpus
His research includes a parallel corpus of European Parliament proceedings with entries dated 2001, 2003 and 2007. The corpus provides multilingual text resources for translation research.
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2003–2004
Pharaoh decoder
Pharaoh, a beam-search decoder for phrase-based statistical translation, is dated 2003 and 2004. Moses later replaced Pharaoh.
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2015
Machine translation recognition
Koehn received the International Association for Machine Translation Award of Honor in 2015. His work spans statistical and neural machine translation.
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2024
Research recognition
ACL elected Philipp Koehn as a Fellow in 2024.
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As of October 2026
Open translation infrastructure
His work includes Moses, an open-source statistical machine translation system, translation surveys and computer-aided translation resources.
Sources and credits
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