World Intellectual Property Organization

Bruno Pouliquen is a senior software engineer specialized in patent machine translation working at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva since 2009.

He was awarded a PhD in computer science (Faculty of Rennes, France, 2002) and specialized later in multilingual text mining (Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy, 2001-2009). Currently he works on statistical machine translation, focusing on building automatic machine translation tools that are used in production for many languages.

He has published more than 50 scientific papers in the computational linguistic domain.

Bruno’s position at WIPO includes exploring Statistical Machine translation applied to the Patent domain and providing access to multilingual patent information through the PATENTSCOPE search engine.