Elliott Macklovitch is a

Canadian Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''C ...

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

specializing in

machine translation Machine translation is use of computational techniques to translate text or speech from one language to another, including the contextual, idiomatic and pragmatic nuances of both languages. Early approaches were mostly rule-based or statisti ...

. From 1999 to 2009, Macklovitch was the Coordinator of the RALI Laboratory (Recherche Appliquée en Linguistique Informatique) at the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (; UdeM; ) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on M ...

. He served as President of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) from 2000 to 2004. Since 2010, he has worked as an independent consultant in machine translation for clients in the private and public sectors. He is the father of Canadian DJ

A-Trak Alain Macklovitch (born March 30, 1982), known professionally as A-Trak, is a Canadian DJ, record producer, and record executive. He came to prominence in the late 2000s as an international club DJ and remix artist, known for incorporating highl ...

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Linguists from Canada Academic staff of the Université de Montréal {{Canada-scientist-stub