Regular biography
Alexandra Birch-Mayne holds the Personal Chair of Multilingual Natural Language Processing at The University of Edinburgh's Department of Computer Science. Her work focuses on multilingual natural language processing, though specific research details are not provided. She is affiliated with the university and can be contacted via email at a.birch@ed.ac.uk or through her profile page at https://www.ed.ac.uk/Alexandra_Birch-Mayne.html.
Scholar-generated biography
Alexandra Birch is a researcher at the University of Edinburgh with expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, and Machine Learning. Her work focuses on advancing neural machine translation systems, with an emphasis on improving translation quality through techniques such as subword units, monolingual data integration, and side constraints for politeness control. She has contributed to open-source tools like Moses and Marian, and her research addresses challenges in low-resource translation, hallucinations in multilingual models, and the integration of context in neural architectures. Her publications reflect a commitment to enhancing the robustness and adaptability of machine translation systems across diverse linguistic and domain contexts.