Simon Zwarts PhD Student Information and Communication Sciences Macquarie University 2109 Australia (my resume)

I'm a full time PhD student in the Department of Computing in the Division of Information and Communication Sciences at Macquarie University.

I'm interested in how and if machines are capable of handling natural languages like we humans do. Therefore I'm a student in the Centre for Language Technology. Because, unfortunately, I cannot study everything in this area I limited my self to the art of machine translation for the moment. It's amazing and interesting how bad current machine translations are. If you're bilingual and not familiar with machine translations just visit an online machine translator on the internet and try to translate a random text, for example you could try Systran. As can been seen there is still a lot of room for research and improvements.
If you're interested in my project, you can find more information by clicking on PhD Research.

If for some reason you want to know more about me, if you want to know why I am involved in Science, or if you want to see some nice pictures of Australia and Sydney I've taken when I'm not studying, the you should check out the More About Me section.