
André Martins
VP of Artificial Intelligence Research
André Martins is the VP of AI Research at Unbabel, an invited professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, and a member of the Instituto de Telecomunicações. He received his dual-degree Ph.D. in Language Technologies in 2012 from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Lisbon. His research interests include natural language processing, machine translation, machine learning, and deep learning. He has published 30+ papers with over 1700 citations and h-index of 21 in top-tier conferences and journals (such as Computational Linguistics, JMLR, PAMI, ACL, ICML, and EMNLP), including a best paper award at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) for his work in natural language syntax. His Ph.D. dissertation has been awarded an SCS Honorable Mention at CMU. He won the Portuguese IBM Scientific Prize in 2012. André is one of the co-founders and organizers of the Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School (LxMLS).
Papers published
- 2020
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
Projects
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DeepSPIN
Deep learning is revolutionizing the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), with breakthroughs in machine translation, speech recognition, and question answering. New language interfaces (digital assistants, messenger apps, customer service bots) are emerging as the next technologies for seamless, multilingual communication among humans and machines.
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Unbabel4EU
We’re working on advancing European language engines for borderless business communication. Create Europe’s Translation Layer, specifically, by enabling seamless human-quality translation between any pairing of the 24 official languages of the EU in different content types such as Email, Chat and Listings (P2020 Co-Funded Project).
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User-Focused Marian
Improve the pre-existing neural machine translation toolkit “Marian” to address the needs of CEF eTranslation and to broaden its user base (H2020 Co-Funded Project). Terminology, on-the-fly domain adaptation, better documentation and GPU optimization are the focus areas in this Marian iteneration.