Uszkoreit is Professor of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University. He serves also as Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intellingence (DFKI) where he heads the DFKI Language Technology Lab. At the same time, by cooptation he is Professor of the Computer Science Department.
He studied Linguistics and Computer Science at The Technical University of Berlin and the University of Texas at Austin. During his time in Austin he also worked as a research associate in a large machine translation projects at the Linguistics Research Center. In 1984 he received his Ph.D in linguistics from The University of Texas. From 1982 until 1986, he worked as a computer scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International in Menlo Park, Ca. During this time he was also afilliated with the Center of the Study of Language and Information at Standford University as a senior researcher and later as a project leader. in 1986 he spent six months in Stuttgart to work for IBM Germany as a project leader in the project LILOG. During this time he also taught at the University of Stuttgart.
in 1988 he was appointed to a newly created chair of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University and started the Deparment of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics. in 1989 he became the head of the newly founded Language Technology Lab. at DFKI. He has been a co-founder and principal investigator of the Special Collaborative Research Division “Resource-Adaptive Cognitive Processes” of the DFG. He is co-founder and professor of the of the “European Posgraduate Program Language Technology and Cognitive Systems”, a joint Ph.D. program with the University of Edinburgh.
Some of his publications:
- Uszkoreit, H. (2007) Methods and Applications for Relation Detection. In: Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, Beijing, 2007.
- Uszkoreit, H., V. Kordoni, V. Kubon, M. Rosner and S. Kirchmeier-Andersen. (2005). ‘Language Technology from a European Perspective’. In Chris Brew and Dragomir R. Radev (eds.), Proceedings of the Second ACL Workshop on Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching NLP and CL, pp. 43 – 48, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, June 2005, Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Uszkoreit, H. & B. Joerg (2003 A Virtual Information Center for Language Technology: Ontology, Datastructure, Realization, In: Nordic Language Technology Yearbook, Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Copenhagen.
Sources:
- HANS USZKOREIT Short Curriculum Vitae from http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~hansu/bio.html
