Biography:Maghi King

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Short description: Computational linguist

Margaret (Maghi) Daniel King is a retired British computational linguist known for her work on evaluating the quality of machine translation. She is an honorary professor in the Department of Translation Technology of the University of Geneva in Switzerland,[1] and the former director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Semantic and Cognitive Studies at the University of Geneva.[2]

Education and career

King read classics and great works at the University of Oxford, worked as a computer programmer, and became a lecturer in the Department of Computation at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. She moved to the Dalle Molle Institute for Semantic and Cognitive Studies (ISSCO) in 1974.[2] In 1976, ISSCO became part of the University of Geneva,[3] and she continued there, becoming its director in 1978. She remained director until her retirement in 2007.[2]

Recognition

King is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence[4] (formerly ECCAI), elected in 1999.[5]

References

  1. "Department of Translation Technology: Members", Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (University of Geneva), https://www.unige.ch/fti/en/faculte/departements/dtim/membrestim/, retrieved 2024-01-13 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Maghi King", Staff (Multilingual Information Processing Department, University of Geneva), https://www.issco.unige.ch/en/staff/king/, retrieved 2024-01-13 
  3. Réalisations, Fondation Dalle Molle, https://dallemolle.ch/realisations/, retrieved 2024-01-13 
  4. EurAI Fellows, European Association for Artificial Intelligence, https://www.eurai.org/award/fellows, retrieved 2024-01-13 
  5. ECCAI Fellows 1999, European Association for Artificial Intelligence, https://eccai.org/Fellows1999.html, retrieved 2024-01-13