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About
Lukas Fischer is a researcher specializing in Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation, currently affiliated with the Language, Technology and Accessibility project. He holds an M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh (2017-2018) and a B.A. in Computational Linguistics from the University of Zurich (2012-2016). His recent roles include lead developer for the Digilinguo online platform since 2025 and contributions to multimodal machine translation projects like IICT and Bullinger Digital.
Research Focus:
- Machine translation for historical languages (Latin, Early New High German)
- Text simplification and accessibility technologies
- Multimodal translation systems
- Data curation for multilingual historical corpora
- Code-switching detection in early modern texts
Publications highlight his work on SwissADT (audio description translation for Swiss languages), LLM-based Latin translation, and medieval text processing. His projects span both computational linguistics and practical accessibility applications.




