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Séamus Lankford is a Computer Science lecturer at Munster Technological University (MTU), where he supervises undergraduate projects in machine learning and coordinates student placements for software development programmes. His teaching is complemented by a strong research focus in neural machine translation, particularly for low-resource languages, with an emphasis on the Irish language.
As an active researcher and member of the ADAPT Centre, Séamus has contributed to the field of Machine Translation (MT), AutoML, and Natural Language Processing (NLP). His research includes techniques for leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multilingual LLMs (MLLMs) to improve MT performance during crisis situations, ensuring accurate and rapid communication across multiple languages. He has written a text book on MT with Dr Joss Moorkens and Prof Andy Way. ‘Automating Translation’ explains the origins of MT, its training data, how neural MT and LLMs work, how to measure their quality, how translators interact with contemporary systems for automating translation, and how readers can build their own MT system or fine-tuned LLM. He publishes on topics related to MT and has a strong interest in AI-driven solutions.
Séamus holds a PhD in Computer Science from Dublin City University (DCU), an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from MTU, an MBA from University College Cork (UCC), and a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from UCC. Prior to joining MTU, he worked as an engineer with the ESB and the European Space Agency, and as a software developer Motorola.
