Mikel Forcada
Executive Board Member at Prompsit Language Engineering
Greater Murcia Metropolitan Area Spain
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Top SchoolMikel Forcada is a veteran researcher and leader in machine translation and translation technologies with 19 years of professional experience and a long academic career culminating as Full Professor at Universitat d'Alacant. He co-founded Prompsit Language Engineering and serves as its Chief Research Officer, translating academic advances into commercial and open-source tools. A long-time volunteer leader in the European Association for Machine Translation—having served as President and now as an Executive Board Member—he shapes research agendas and community standards across Europe. He teaches future translators to exploit translation technologies effectively while leading research groups that push machine translation forward. An outspoken advocate for free and open-source software and open formats, he blends scholarly rigor with practical engineering and policy influence. Based in the Murcia area of Spain, he brings rare continuity across academia, industry and professional associations, often bridging theory and real-world deployment.
19 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, PhD at Universitat d'Alacant
Catalan, Basque, Spanish, English, Portuguese, Irish, French
Github Skills (97)
tmx10
encoding10
tokenizer10
text-encoding10
apertium10
warc10
xml10
statistical-machine-translation9
nlp9
crawler9
neural-machine-translation9
translation9
french9
catalan9
localization8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mlforcada/website
Oct 2017 - Dec 2022
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
mlforcada/simpleqe
Jan 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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