Josef van Genabith

Josef van Genabith is a Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and holds the Chair for Translation-Oriented Language Technology at Saarland University. His work focuses on multilingual technologies, machine translation, and natural language processing.

• Director of Multilingual Technologies at DFKI (2014–present)
• Full Professor at Saarland University (2014–present)
• Advisory roles: LINDAT-CLARIN (2010–present), CTYI (2012), NSF Hindi-Urdu Treebank Project (2009)

Research Interests include:

• Development of integrative language processing systems for cross-lingual applications
• Deep learning for end-to-end language technology (DEEPLEE project)
• Quality translation frameworks (QT21 project)
• EU Council Presidency Translator (EUC PT) initiatives
• Sign language data acquisition via vision-language models

His recent projects address challenges in machine translation evaluation, educational technology enhancements, and multilingual data curation.