Koenraad De Smedt

Name:	Koenraad De Smedt
Position:	Professor
Institution:	University of Bergen
Department:	Department of Linguistic, Literary and Esthetic Studies
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Research group:	LaMoRe
Visiting address:	Sydnesplassen 7, Bergen, Norway
Office:	HF:343
Phone:	+47 55582052 (office) +47 95836558 (mobile)
Email:	Email
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Main scholarly interest:

My research interests are in computational linguistics and language technology. The following foci can be distinguished.

I am interested in computational models of language behavior. I carried out my Ph.D. research on language generation and I have written a book on Computational Psycholinguistics, together with Ton Dijkstra.

Text and information technologies, including multilingual technologies, are another focus. I worked on automatic proofreading for in the cooperative SCARRIE project, and also on text summarization and information retrieval.

Language resources are essential materials for basic and applied research. I represent UiB as partner and Norway as national contact person in CLARIN, a pan-European project for a Common Language Resources and Technologies Infrastructure, and I have recently coordinated TREPIL, a pilot project developing innovative methods and tools for treebanking.

Learning and researcher training for computational linguistics are another area of interest. I have coordinated the ACO*HUM Erasmus/Socrates thematic network project. I have been coordinator of BATMULT and MULTILINGUA, two Marie Curie research training sites funded by the EU.

I have been responsible for the Norwegian Documentation Centre for Language Technology and I have co-organized several major international scientific events in Bergen, including The Future of the Humanities in the Digital Age, EACL'99, LFG'05, and the TLT'07 and ULA workshops.

Besides being professor of computational linguistics at the University of Bergen, I am also a member of the research group for language technology at Unifob AKSIS.