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Barry Haddow is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) within the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh. With over 15 years of research experience, he coordinates major international projects in machine translation and natural language processing, including HPLT (Horizon Europe) and Utter (Horizon Europe). His work spans both theoretical and applied aspects of language technology with significant impact on multilingual systems.
Haddow's research focuses on machine translation, particularly addressing challenges in low-resource languages, multilingual models, and speech translation. His recent work demonstrates a strong shift toward leveraging large language models for translation tasks while investigating their limitations in cross-lingual settings. He has made significant contributions to understanding how to adapt general language models for specialized translation scenarios and evaluating their performance across diverse language pairs.
Analysis of Haddow's recent publications (2023-2025) reveals a clear research trajectory focusing on the intersection of large language models and machine translation. His work examines how to effectively adapt LLMs for translation tasks, investigates evaluation methodologies for multilingual systems, and develops techniques for improving translation quality across diverse language families. A notable trend is his focus on practical applications of these technologies in real-world settings, including financial language processing and speech translation systems.
Haddow has coordinated multiple major European research projects including HPLT (2022-2025), Utter (2022-2025), GOURMET (2019-2022), ELITR (2019-2022), and HIML (2015-2018), securing substantial research funding from Horizon Europe and other sources. His work has established him as a leading figure in the machine translation community, regularly contributing to major shared tasks like WMT (Conference on Machine Translation).
As a core member of the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation at Edinburgh, Haddow collaborates closely with the Language Technology Group. His research directly contributes to the institute's mission of advancing computational approaches to human language processing, with particular emphasis on developing technologies that can operate effectively across the world's diverse languages.
