Kaarel Kaljurand
Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolKaarel Kaljurand is a Senior Research Scientist with 15 years of experience in natural language processing and computational linguistics, currently working at Microsoft after a long research stint at Nuance Communications. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Tartu and has a strong track record building grammar-based speech recognition, multilingual semantic systems, and controlled-language interfaces (notably work on MOLTO and Attempto projects). Kaarel blends academic rigor with product-focused R&D, having moved prototypes into production for speech and translation technologies. Based in Vienna, he brings deep expertise in formal grammars and ontology-driven text mining, and is known for integrating Grammatical Frameworks with practical applications such as Android voice typing.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of Tartu
Estonian, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (108)
parser10
agda10
text-to-speech10
websocket10
audio-capture10
multiple-languages10
swi-prolog10
owl10
javascript10
gstreamer10
in-progress10
nlp10
readable10
pocketsphinx10
translation10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Kaljurand/dictate.js
Jan 2014 - Mar 2020
A small Javascript library for browser-based real-time speech recognition, which uses Recorderjs for audio capture, and a WebSocket connection to the Kaldi GStreamer server for speech recognition.
Contributions:40 commits, 5 PRs, 24 pushes in 6 years 2 months
audio-capturegstreamerjavascriptkaldirecorderjs
Kaljurand/PhrasebookEst
Nov 2011 - Nov 2015
Contributions:51 commits, 2 pushes in 4 years
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