| RefNo | EC/2020/51 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Young, Stephen John: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 14 April 2020 |
| Description | Certificate endorsing election of Stephen Young as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Includes personal details of the elected Fellow, citaion giving the reasons for election, and names of proposers. Signed by the Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
| Citation | Speech and language processing has made remarkable progress over the last few decades by moving to completely data-driven statistical models. Steve Young has pioneered this approach, first in speech recognition and then more broadly in conversational agents. The speech recognisers he developed with colleagues dominated the international evaluations run by the US for over a decade and his casting of conversation as a reinforcement learning problem has laid the foundation for modern approaches to spoken dialogue optimisation. His research results underpin many commercial products and the three companies he has founded have been acquired respectively by Microsoft, Google and Apple. |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Computer printout |
| PhysicalDescription | A4 papers |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
| AccessConditions | Election certificates are subject to 50 year closure period from date of election. Details of proposers are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |