Salim Roukos
Salim Roukos earned his doctorate in 1980 and worked at BBN through 1989. His projects covered speech compression, speaker identification, word spotting and spoken language understanding. Roukos joined IBM in 1989. His group developed the IBM ViaVoice Telephony statistical language-understanding system in 2000, applying machine learning research to conversational telephone applications. His group developed an Arabic-English statistical translation product in 2003 and later real-time translation services. His group also worked on statistical parsing, translation and the BLEU evaluation metric.
Timeline
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1980–1989
Speech research at BBN
Salim Roukos earned his doctorate in 1980 and worked at BBN through 1989. His projects covered speech compression, speaker identification, word spotting and spoken language understanding.
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1989–2000
IBM language understanding
Roukos joined IBM in 1989. His group developed the IBM ViaVoice Telephony statistical language-understanding system in 2000, applying machine learning research to conversational telephone applications.
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2003 and later
Translation systems
His group developed an Arabic-English statistical translation product in 2003 and later real-time translation services. His group also worked on statistical parsing, translation and the BLEU evaluation metric.
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