Philipp Koehn, a professor of computer science, has been named a 2024 Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics. One of nine Fellows selected this year, Koehn was recognized for his significant contributions to statistical and neural machine translation, machine translation evaluation, and for leadership in open-source software and datasets.
Since 1962, the ACL has been the main international scientific and professional society for scholars working on computational problems involving human language. Its Fellows program, established in 2011, recognizes members whose contributions have been extraordinary in terms of scientific and technical excellence, service to the association and the community, and/or educational or outreach activities with broader impact.
Koehn is recognized worldwide for his leading research in and applications for developing and understanding data-driven methods to solve long-standing, real-world challenges of machine translation and machine learning. His area of renowned expertise—machine translation, or translating text from one human language to another via computer—is vital to addressing the ever-expanding need for natural language processing and machine learning.