Frederik Fouvry

I studied Classical Philology and Computational Linguistics at the K.U. Leuven (Belgium). From March 1995 until September 1996, I was working in the Computational Linguistics and Machine Translation Group (CL/MT Group) at the University of Essex (U.K.). Then I started a PhD-project, which was finished in 2003. In the meantime, I worked at the Eberhard-Karls-Universtaet in Tübingen and a several years at Saarland University in Saarbrücken. Now I have left the university.

Current and recent research:

• Around August 2003, I joined the EU project DeepThought. Hybrid Deep and Shallow Methods for Knowledge-intensive Information Extraction (IST-2001-37836), which finished mid October 2004. Also, I did some work on the TiGer project.
• In January 2001, I started work at the Computational Linguistics department (in the Uszkoreit research group) at the Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany). I worked on the SFB 378 (Ressourcenadaptive kognitive Prozesse), subproject MI1 (formerly B4) (PERFORManzmodellierung für deklarative Grammatikmodelle) until September 2005.
• From December 1999 to December 2000, I worked at the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft in the Eberhard-Karls-Universität in Tübingen (Germany). For the SfB 340, subproject B8 (Ein HPSG-Syntaxfragment für das Deutsche: Sprachtheoretische Grundlagen und computerlinguistische Implementierung and Domain Specific Processing of Constraint-Based Grammars), I maintained and extended the grammar development environment Trale.
• My PhD thesis (April 2003) is on robustness in Natural Language Processing and linguistic theories: Robust processing for constraint-based grammar formalisms.
• I co-authored a report for the PenPal project (British Telecom) and I worked on parts of the English grammar and lexicon for MELISSA.
• LSGRAM aimed at developing large scale grammars (Large Scale GRAMmar project). We use ALEP as development platform and HPSG as a linguistic formalism. There are grammars developed for English (CL/MT Group, University of Essex, Colchester), German (IAI, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken and IMS, Universität Stuttgart) and Spanish (Fundació Bosch i Gimpera, Universitat de Barcelona, and IULA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, both in Barcelona). During this project I was heavily involved in the further development of TagIt, a text preprocessor.
• Test Suites for Natural Language Processing (TSNLP).
  This is interesting for anyone who wants to test an NLP system. Do not write your own test data: it has been done for you ! (Though only for English, German and French ...) The official TSNLP Home Page is maintained by DFKI, (Saarbrücken, Germany).
• My thesis for computational linguistics (June 1995): A Dutch HPSG grammar in ALE.

Papers

I have a list of published papers, of presentations and talks, and of released software.

Teaching

• Lexicon Acquisition for HPSG Grammars (winter semester '04)
• Practical Grammar Engineering using HPSG (summer semester '04)
• Lisp II (summer semester '03)
• Practical Grammar Engineering using HPSG (summer semester '02)

For the curious among you: here are my book marks. I also have a list of things that I find useful to know as a computer user.

If you get one of the (relatively) rare chances to hear the choir Vokalensemble D'Accord, do not hesitate and go to the concert. You will get an evening of surprise, joy, bewilderment and humour.

Former places of study and employment: Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft (Tübingen); Computational Linguistics and Machine Translation Group (Colchester); Centre for Computational Linguistics (Leuven), Klein Seminarie Roeselare (secundary school).

I used to live in Hooglede (w; town hall; Wikipedia).