| 2014 - 2018 |
Senior Professor for Computational Linguistics at Saarland University
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| 2014 - 2018 |
Co-founder and Principal Investigator of the CRC 1102 "Information Density and Linguistic Encoding" (Collaborative Research Center of DFG, German Science Foundation)
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| 2013 - 2015 |
Member of the jury for the Johannes Zilkens PhD Award of the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen
Volkes)
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| since 2013 |
Member of the Academy of Science and Literature Mainz
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| 2010 - 2012 |
Coordinator of ALLEGRO, collaborative project in the INTERREG IV program of the EU
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| 2009 - 2013 |
Member of the University Council of Saarland University
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| 2007 - 2018 |
Principal Investigator and Deputy Coordinator of the Excellence Cluster "Multimodal Computing and Interaction"
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| 2004-2006 |
Coordinator of TALK ("Tools for ambient linguistic knowledge"), EU FP6 project
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| 2001-2006 |
Member of the Senate Committee of the German Science Foundation for SFBs
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| 2001 |
Founding speaker of the European Post-Graduate College "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems" (Saarbrücken and Edinburgh)
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| 2000 |
Leibniz Prize of the German Science Foundation
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| 1999 |
Initiator and co-founder of the CLT Sprachtechnologie company in Saarbrücken
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| 1996-2007 |
Co-founder and Principal Investigator of the SFB 378 "Ressource-adaptive cognitive processes" (Collaborative Research Center of the German Science Foundation)
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| 1996-1998 |
Head of Department of Fachbereich 8 (Languages and Literature) and
Senator of Saarland University
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| 1993 |
Co-founder and Professor of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program (Graduiertenkolleg) in Cognitive Science(Saarbrücken)
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| 1992 |
Co-founder of the Diplom (M.Sc.) Program in Computational Linguistics at Saarland University
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| 1990 - 2014 |
Chair for Computational Linguistics at Saarland University
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| 1989 |
Visiting Researcher at IBM Germany
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| 1987-1990 |
Associate Professor for Computer Science at the University of Hamburg
(Division of Knowledge and Natural Language Processing)
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| 1987-1990 |
Co-founder and Chairman of the Section "Computational Linguistics" of
the German Linguistics Society (DGfS)
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| 1985-1987 |
Heisenberg Fellow of the German Science Foundation (DFG);
Research in Stanford, CA, and Stuttgart
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| 1985 |
Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Department of
Linguistics
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| 1984 |
Habilitation in Linguistics at the University of Düsseldorf
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| 1975-1985 |
Research Associate and Assistant Professor in Stuttgart and Düsseldorf
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| 1976 |
Ph.D. at Linguistics Department of the University of Stuttgart,
Dissertation "Kontext und Bedeutung" (Context and Meaning)
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| 1968-1975 |
Study of Linguistics, German, Philosophy, and Computer Science in
Bochum and Stuttgart; Fellow of the "German National Merit Foundation" (Studienstiftung des deutschen
Volkes)
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