Hayden Craig Metsky
NEW JERSEY
Hayden Craig Metsky, 17, of Milburn, submitted a computer science project to
the Intel Science Talent Search that he hopes will help people, who speak
different languages, communicate more easily. Hayden created software aimed at
increasing the accuracy of automated computer translation, called "machine
translation." Specifically, he sought to improve the ordering of words in the
translated text. By studying English machine translation from Urdu (the official
language of Pakistan that he does not speak), Hayden noticed that when entire
phrases were translated, they maintained proper word order. However, when
subphrases were translated, the words were not always placed correctly. To
address the problem, his translation software combined existing phrase pairs to
improve translation quality. At Millburn High School, Hayden plays the cello,
French horn, trumpet and piano, and in his spare time enjoys photography and
independent software development. He was a member of the physics bowl team that
placed first in the nation, and he hopes to continue his studies in computer
science and math at MIT or Harvard. Hayden is the son of Richard Metsky and Joy
Siegel-Metsky.
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