Hans Uszkoreit is a German

Germans

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 computational linguist

Computational linguistics

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Hans Uszkoreit studied Linguistics

Linguistics

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 and Computer Science

Computer science

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 at the Technical University of Berlin

Technical University of Berlin

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 and the University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

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. While he was studying in Austin, he also worked as a research associate in a large machine translation

Machine translation

Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.On a basic...

 project at the Linguistics Research Center. Furthermore, after he received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Texas, he worked as a computer scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Center and, what is more, he was affiliated with the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University

Stanford University

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Nowadays, he is teaching as a professor of Computational Linguistics

Computational linguistics

Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective....

 at Saarland University

Saarland University

Saarland University is a university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland, and Homburg. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in 8 faculties that cover all major fields of science...

. Moreover, he serves as a Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) where he heads the DFKI Language Technology Lab.

Life

Hans Uszkoreit was born in Rostock

Rostock

Rostock -Early history:In the 11th century Polabian Slavs founded a settlement at the Warnow river called Roztoc ; the name Rostock is derived from that designation. The Danish king Valdemar I set the town aflame in 1161.Afterwards the place was settled by German traders...

, East Germany on January 23, 1950. At present, he has his residence in Saarbrücken

Saarbrücken

Saarbrücken is the capital of the state of Saarland in Germany. The city is situated at the heart of a metropolitan area that borders on the west on Dillingen and to the north-east on Neunkirchen, where most of the people of the Saarland live....

 and Berlin

Berlin

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. He studied Linguistics and Computer Science at Technical University of Berlin and in the University of Texas, Austin. Uszkoreit covered the field in Computational Linguistics

Computational linguistics

Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective....

, Informatics

Informatics (academic field)

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, Information Science

Information science

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. He has worked for the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Saarland University

Saarland University

Saarland University is a university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland, and Homburg. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in 8 faculties that cover all major fields of science...

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Work

Hans Uszkoreit, by the year 1988, was given a position at the University of Saarland, to work in the field of Computational Linguistics. He created the Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics. In 1989 he was elected head of the Language Technology Lab at DFKI. Uszkoreit has also co-found and has work as main enquirer of the Special Collaborative Research Division (SFB 378) “Resource-Adaptive Cognitive Processes” and as the Euopean Postgraduate Program Language Technology and Cognitive Systems’s co-founder and professor too. He is a member of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics

International Committee on Computational Linguistics

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 and of the European Academy of Sciences

European Academy of Sciences

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 and the Past President of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information

Association for Logic, Language and Information

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, and a fellow of the Board of Directors of the European Network of Language and Speech, but also of the European Language Resources Association.

Uszkoreit regularly acts as external scholar and these are four lectures he has given in 2007:

• Panel moderation: "The Prospects of MT Today" MT Summit, 14 September Copenhagen, 2007
• "Emerging Mechanisms for Personal and Collective Decision Making", International Conference "Digitalized Globe 2017" of the Allianz AG, Munich, 11 September 2007.
• Keynote lecture: "Methods and Applications for Relation Detection" Third IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, Beijing, 31 September 2007.
• "Events, Opinions, Connections - Identifying Complex Relations in Large Volumes of Text", empolis exchange conference, Berlin, 23 November 2007.

Books and special issues of journals

• Uszkoreit, H. (1987): Word Order and Constituent Structure in German, CSLI Lecture Notes 8, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, 1987, Stanford, California.
• Uszkoreit, H. (1995) (Ed.) Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in Cambridge/Mass., Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco.
• Cole R.A., J. Mariani, H. Uszkoreit, A. Zaenen, V. Zue (Eds.) (1997) Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology, Cambridge University Press and Giardini.
• Uszkoreit, H., Th. Brants & B. Krenn (1999) (Eds.) Linguistically Interpreted Corpora, Proceedings of the Workshop LINC 99 at the Ninth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Bergen, 1999.
• Oepen, S., D. Flickinger, J. Tsujii, and H. Uszkoreit. (2002). Collaborative Language Engineering. A Case Study in Efficient Grammar-based Processing. CSLI Publications, Stanford.

Journal articles and chapters in books

• Kirkpatrick, C. and H. Uszkoreit (1982), "On the Category of English Predicative Constructions" In: TEXAS LINGUISTICS FORUM 21, 1982
• Uszkoreit, H. (1986): "Linear Precedence in Discontinous Constituents." In: Syntax and Semantics 20, Academic Press, 1986
• Bouma, G., E. König and H. Uszkoreit (1988). A flexible graph-unification formalism and its application to naturallanguage processing, IBM Journal of Research and Development, 32, 170-184
• Uszkoreit, H. (1990): La grammaire d'unification catégorielle. In P. Miller und T. Torris (Hrsg.), Formalismes syntaxiques pour le traitement automatique du langage naturel, (S. 183-205). Paris: Hermes. (revised translation of.:Uszkoreit, Hans "Categorial Unification Grammars" In: Proceedings of COLING 1986, August 1986, Bonn.)
• Uszkoreit, H. and Annie Zaenen (1997): Grammar Formalisms. In: R. A. Cole et al. (Eds..), Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology, Cambridge University Press and Giardini

Contributions in proceedings of refereed conferences

• Karttunen, L., R. Root, R. and H. Uszkoreit, (1981) Morphological Analysis of Finnish by Computer. Proceedings of the 71st Annual Meeting of the SASS. Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Uszkoreit, H. (1986): "Categorial Unification Grammars" In: Proceedings of COLING 1986, August 1986, Bonn
• Uszkoreit, H. (1991): “Strategies for Adding Control Information to Declarative Grammars.” In: Proceedings of the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, June 1991, Berkeley, California
• Uszkoreit, H. (2002) New Chances for Deep Linguistic Processing, In: Proceedings of COLING 2002, Taipei
• Xu, F., H. Uszkoreit and H. Li (2006) Automatic Event and Relation Detection with Seeds of Varying Complexity, In: Proceedings of the AAAI 2006 Workshop Event Extraction and Synthesis, Boston, July, 2006
• Xu, F., H. Uszkoreit and H. Li (2007) A Seed-Driven Bottom-up Machine Learning Framework for Extracting Relations of Various Complexity, In: Proceedings of Annual Meeting-Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007), Prague, 2007

Articles in encyclopedic works

• Uszkoreit, H. (1990): 16 Einträge für den Bereich der Unifikationsgrammatiken, In: H. Bußmann (Hrsg.) Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft. Stuttgart: Kröner. [in der englischen Übersetzung als H. Bußmann, Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics, Routledge, London and New York, 1996]
• Uszkoreit, H. (1996): Hauptartikel Grammatikmodelle, sowie mehrere Lang-und Kurzartikel zum Themenbereich Grammatiktheorie. In G. Strube (Ed.) Wörterbuch der Kognitionswissenschaft. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart, 1996

Awards

• 1977-78 Fulbright Grant for studies at the University of Texas
• 1978-79 Fulbright Grant for studies at the University of Texas
• 1986 IBM Research Fellowship at IBM Germany in Stuttgart
• 2002 Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences

See also

• Linguistics
  Linguistics
  Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
  
  
• Computational Linguistics
  Computational linguistics
  Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective....
  
  
• Technical University of Berlin
  Technical University of Berlin
  The Technische Universität Berlin is a research university located in Berlin, Germany. Translating the name into English is discouraged by the university, however paraphrasing as Berlin Institute of Technology is recommended by the university if necessary .The TU Berlin was founded...
  
  
• University of Texas at Austin
  University of Texas at Austin
  The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...
  
  
• Saarland University
  Saarland University
  Saarland University is a university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland, and Homburg. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in 8 faculties that cover all major fields of science...
  
  
• DFKI

Further reading

• German research Center for Artificial Intelligence. Language Technology Lab.Retrieved: 18 May 2009. From: http://dfki.de/lt/lt-general.php
• Saarland University. Computer science. Retrieved 18, May 2009 from: http://frweb.cs.uni-sb.de/
• Hans Uszkoreit. Personal page. Retrieved 18, May 2009 from: http://hans.uszkoreit.net/
• Hans Uszkoreit. Retrieved 18, May 2009 from: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~hansu/

External links

• Videolectures.net. Getting at the semantics of texts by Hans Uszkoreit. Retrieved 18, May 2009 from: http://videolectures.net/estc08_uszkoreit_gst/
• Videolectures.net. Potential and limitations of minimally supervised botstrapping by Hans Uszkoreit. Retrieved 18, May 2009 from: http://videolectures.net/solomon_uszkoreit_pal/