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Education

1962 - 1968, University studies in German languages and Philosophy at Marburg/Lahn University
1968, State examination
1969, PhD studies and Dr. Phil. from the same university

1969 - 1975, Assistant Professor at the Department of Linguistic, Hamburg University
1973 - 1974, Member of the founding committee for Computer Science at the same university
1976 - 1986, Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Hamburg
1987 - 2007, Full Professor of Computer Science (the Computer Science Department and the Institute for German Linguistics)
1987 - 2007, Director of the “Natural Language Systems Institute”, Hamburg University; Declined appointments as full professor at the University of Munich, University of Kaiserslautern and as first director of the DFKI
1992 – 1996, Dean and Vice Dean of the Computer Science Department
Since 2002, Co-founder and member of the interdisciplinary group “Computerphilology”. (2002 -2004 Director)
Since 2012, Honorary Professor for 2Computer Science”- University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science

Main fields of interest: natural language processing, computational linguistics, machine translation, linguistics, digital humanities.
Supervisor of more than 25 bachelor- diploma- and master thesis at the University of Bucharest

1999, DBR-MAT (German-Bulgarian-Romanian Machine Aided Translation); funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, DM 400.000
2000, Verbmobil (German-English-Japanese Speech-to-Speech Translation); funded by the German Science Foundation, DM 2.800.000
2004, E-Learning Research PROLIV; funded by the Multimedia Kontor, € 10.000
2005-2008, FP6 EU Project “Language Technology for eLearning”
2010 - 2013, EU-PSP Project “ATLAS” – Applied Technology for Language Aided CMS
Since 2010 , different eLearnig Modules in the field of Linguistics and Natural Language Processing
Since 2012 , Projects dedicated to the annotation of digital editions of Dimitie Cantemir
Since 2017 , HerCoRe – Hermeneutic and Computer based Analysis of Reliability, consistency and Vagueness in historical texts (illustrated through two main historical works of Dimitire Cantemir) – project financed by the Volkswagen Foundation

1981, National Research Award „Technische Kommunikation“ by Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (National Association of German Scientific Foundations) (1981 highest German research award)
1988, Fellow of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris
1998 , Jubilee medal of the Charles University of Prague for the entire scientific œvre
.2002 Honorary Professor of the University of Iasi/Romania, -Faculty of Computer Science
2012, Honorary Professor of the University of Bucharest/Romania, -Faculty of Computer Science
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September 2005, MT-Summit X Workshop: „Semantic Web Technologies for Machine Translation“, Phuket, Thailand
September 2005, RANLP Workshop: „Modern Approaches in Translation Technologies“, Borovets, Bulgaria
March 2006, Workshop: „Ontology based Modelling in Humanities“, Hamburg
July 2006, ELSNET Summer School: „Information Fusion in Language and Speech“, Hamburg
August 2007, International Symposium for Languages for Special Purposes (LSP07), Hamburg
September 2008, European Summit in Machine Translation, Hamburg
May 2009, Machine Translation for Historical Languages, Workshop associated with the EAMT 2009 Conference, Barcelona, Spain
April-July 2015, From Analysis of Linguistic Features until Cell-Biology – Conference series organised at the University of Hamburg with the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the partnership wit the University of Bucharest
October 2015, Humanities2020 new trends in education and research- University of Bucharest
May-June 2016, From Neacsu from Campulung till Herta Müller and Mircea Cartarescu – 500 years of Romanian-Germana literature contact- exibition organised at the University of Hamburg Library
February 2017, Sustainable development of resources and tools for low resourced historical languages – Panel at the Digital Humanities in German speaking countries, Bern, Switzerland