# Pierre Isabelle

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**Pierre Isabelle** is a Canadian scientist and linguist. Isabelle was the principal scientist and group leader of the Interactive Language Technologies group at the [National Research Council Canada](/source/National_Research_Council_Canada) (NRC-CNRC). Isabelle is now retired.[1]

## Education

Isabelle holds a Ph.D. in [computational linguistics](/source/Computational_linguistics) from the [Université de Montréal](/source/Universit%C3%A9_de_Montr%C3%A9al). He started his research career in 1975 as a member of the TAUM machine translation group at the [Université de Montréal](/source/Universit%C3%A9_de_Montr%C3%A9al).

## Career

Between 1985 and 1996, he was in charge of the machine-aided translation team of CITI, a research laboratory of the Canadian Department of Industry. In 1997 he returned to the Université de Montréal as head of the RALI (*Recherche appliquée en linguistique informatique*) laboratory of the computer science department. In 1999 he joined the Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE) in [Grenoble](/source/Grenoble), [France](/source/France), where he managed the Content Analysis area until he joined the NRC in 2005.

Isabelle is known for his position on "bi-textuality" or [bitexts](/source/Bitext), and is widely quoted for saying that existing [translations](/source/Translation) contain more solutions to more translation problems than any other available resource.[2][3]

In 2006, Isabelle became president of the Centre de recherche de technologies langagières (CRTL) in [Gatineau](/source/Gatineau), which developed language technologies in partnership with Canadian institutions and industry.[4]

In 2012, he published an article in *The Society of Translators of Quebec,* titled "La traduction machine: règles, statistiques et apprentissage machine" which discussed automatic translations like Google Translate and [Language Weaver](/source/Language_Weaver) and [machine learning](/source/Machine_learning).[5]

## Publications

- [https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/eng/view/accepted/?id=95820308-d465-47bb-9587-2c3cde094ef1](https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/eng/view/accepted/?id=95820308-d465-47bb-9587-2c3cde094ef1)
- [https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/fra/voir/td/?id=c56f83ba-76e7-4660-8a6f-89f069ee2c44](https://nrc-publications.canada.ca/fra/voir/td/?id=c56f83ba-76e7-4660-8a6f-89f069ee2c44)
- [https://publications-cnrc.canada.ca/fra/voir/objet/?id=eb20ab93-0310-442a-ac5f-867bc2b64745](https://publications-cnrc.canada.ca/fra/voir/objet/?id=eb20ab93-0310-442a-ac5f-867bc2b64745)

## References

1. ["Google Scholar"](https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=ewCQUIkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao). *scholar.google.ca*. Retrieved 2025-09-16.

1. ["Entry | Machine translation"](https://www.aieti.eu/enti/machine_translation_ENG/entry.html). *aieti.eu*. Retrieved 15 September 2025.

1. Isabelle, Pierre (1992). ["La bi-textualité: vers une nouvelle génération d'aides à la traduction et la terminologie"](https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/meta/1992-v37-n4-meta338/003228ar/abstract/) (in French). *Meta: Journal des traducteurs / Meta: Translators' Journal*. **37** (4): 721–737. [doi:10.7202/003228ar](https://doi.org/10.7202/003228ar). [ISSN 0026-0452](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0026-0452)

1. Hébert, Claudine (2008-05-17). ["La recherche au service de la langue"](https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/5010815). *[Les Affaires](/source/Les_Affaires)*. p. 72. Retrieved 2025-09-16.

1. Isabelle, Pierre (2012). ["La traduction machine: règles, statistiques et apprentissage machine"](https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2404725). *Société des traducteurs du Québec*. '***(117): 15–17. – via [Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec](/source/Biblioth%C3%A8que_et_Archives_nationales_du_Qu%C3%A9bec)***

## External links

- [www.chin.gc.ca](https://web.archive.org/web/20040622113131/http://www.chin.gc.ca/English/Digital_Content/Machine_Translation/introduction.html), CHIN, 2003

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