Anna Błaziak

Former News Labs Software Engineer
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Biography

Anna is a former software engineer in News Labs. She was a part of the GoURMET project team, working to develop machine translation technologies for under-resourced language pairs.

Projects and blog posts

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Basic English Explanations (BeX)

A text editor that calculates the readability of a piece of written content.
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Digital Paper Edit

Experimental tool that allows producers to create 'rough cuts' of audio and video programmes, working from an automatically generated transcript.
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GoURMET - Global Under-Resourced MEdia Translation

Creating machine translation models for under-served and under-resourced languages
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Live Page Translation

Aggregating multilingual live page content through automatic translations.
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Modus

Semi-automatically creating new story modes
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Frank - Building a lingua franca through machine translation

Translating BBC articles from 40+ languages into English for better visibility and discovery.

Meet the Team

Alicia Grandjean

Senior Software Engineer

Ben Nuttall

Senior Software Engineer

Clare Spencer

Senior Research and Development Producer

Dave Bevan

Senior Systems Engineer

Jack McPoland

Software Engineer

Julie McManus

Senior Software Engineer

Lee Fuller

Software Engineering Manager

Manjiri Carey

News Editor

Marie Rasmussen

UX Designer

Miranda Marcus

Executive Product Manager

Philip Hatcher-Moore

Journalist

Sarah Rainbow

Senior Software Engineer

Sevi Sariisik Tokalac

Senior Research and Development Producer

Tom Francis-Winnington

Senior Software Engineer

Elsewhere on News Labs

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A translation quality assessment by journalists for journalists

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News for All: Delivering value in journalism

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Salco 2023: Making news hyperlocal

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