Frédéric Blain
Assistant Professor at Tilburg University
Netherlands
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Top SchoolFrédéric Blain is an Assistant Professor and researcher in machine translation with over a decade of experience spanning academia and industry, currently based at Tilburg University and formerly a Research Associate in the Sheffield NLP group. His work focuses on discriminative training, quality estimation, and continuous adaptation from post-editing workflows, funded by EU projects (QT21), Amazon AARA, and EAMT grants. He brings practical product experience from Systran and research leadership from a postdoc at Le Mans, grounded in a PhD on "Evolutive Translation Models" supervised by Holger Schwenk and Jean Senellart. Notably, he couples deep theoretical insight with hands-on systems work—having contributed to MateCAT-related efforts—making him adept at bridging research advances with real-world translation tools.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Research Degree, Master of Research Degree at Université du Maine-Le Mans-LavalDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at École Doctorale - Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et Mathématiques
French, English, Dutch
Github Skills (27)
deep-learning6
pipeline6
machine-learning6
pytorch6
neural-network4
discord-bot3
linguistics3
discord3
translation2
nlp2
servant2
python1
lda1
ldc1
twitch1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sheffieldnlp/qe-eval-scripts
May 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
sheffieldnlp/deepQuest
May 2018 - Sep 2020
Framework for neural-based Quality Estimation
Contributions:32 commits, 1 PR, 38 pushes in 2 years 4 months
pytorchdeep-learningneural-networksmachine-learningestimation
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