Torbjörn Lager's Curriculum Vitae

Studies

1981 – 1985: Studies in English, Philosophy, and Psychology.

1986 – 1990: M.A. in Computational Linguistics, at "Datalingvistlinjen", University of Göteborg.

December 16th, 1995: Doctoral dissertation "A Logical Approach to Computational Corpus Linguistics", publicly defended in Stora Hörsalen, Humanisten, University of Göteborg. Opponent: Martin Kay. Thesis committee: Lars Ahrenberg, Christian Bennett, Robin Cooper.

Employment

June 1988 – June 1990: Parttime (50%) working in HSFR Project STTS (Situationsteoretisk textsemantik).

November 90 – May 93: Fulltime working in EU-funded ESPRIT Project PLUS (Pragmatic-Based Natural Language Understanding).

January 1991 – February 1996: Doctoral Student (doktorandtjänst), Department of Linguistics in Göteborg. Thesis work. Teaching.

March 1996 – _: Researcher, TREE Language Engineering Project/Telematics Project LE 1182 (EU-funded).

October 1997 – September 2001: Assistant Professor ("Forskarassistent") at the Department of Linguistics, Uppsala University.

October 2001 – December 2001: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University.

January 2002 – December 2002: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, Göteborg University. (On temporary leave for the year of 2002.)

January 2002 – December 2002: Human Language Technologist at Reuters Limited in London.

December 2002 – _: Professor of General and Computational Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics, Göteborg University.

January 2003 – _: Director for the Educational Programme in Computational Linguistics, Göteborg University.

Director, Linguistic Instruments (A Campus Company at the Department of Linguistics. University of Göteborg). This company does no longer exist.

Academic Services

Organizer of Constraint Grammar Learning Workshop, Uppsala 1999.

Reviewer for Coling 2000, ACL 2003

Opponent at defense of licentiate theses:

• Nikolaj Lindberg, Data driven methods in natural language processing – Two applications. Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 13 June, 2000.

Member of thesis committee at defense of doctoral theses:

• Martin Eineborg, Inductive Logic Programming for Part-of-Speech Tagging. Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV). Kista. Stockholm. 24 May, 2002.
• Beáta Megyesi, Data-Driven Syntactic Analysis. Centre for Speech Technology, Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. 30 November, 2002.
• Ylva Hård af Segerstad, Use and Adaptation of Written Language to Computer-Mediated Communication. Dept. of Linguistics, Göteborg University, 21 December, 2002.
• Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, En studie över påverkande faktorer i ordklasstaggning. Baserad på taggning av svensk text med Epos. Department of Swedish Language, Göteborg University, 18 January, 2003.
• Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi, Automatic Detection of Grammar Errors in Primary School Children´s Texts. A Finite State Approach. Dept. of Linguistics, Göteborg University, 7 June, 2003.