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![[A photo of Jochen Leidner]](Jochen Leidner.png)
Enquiries for advice in the area on speech and language technology, information retrieval and search engines, including short-term consulting opportunities, are welcome.
Information extraction, especially toponym resolution, fine-grained named entity tagging, multilinguality, and event extraction Large-scale text analytics for decision support Mobile information access (mobile search engines, natural language search for mobile devices) Information access/information retrieval, especially open-domain question answering (English, German, cross-/multi-lingual) Scalable generic software architectures for NLP and the Linguistic Grid Methodological foundations of linguistics, computational linguistics and language engineering
Mobile Search in Natural Language (Principal Investigator), funded by the Scottish Enterprise A Toponym Resolver for Event-Based Question Answering The QED Open-Domain Question Answering System Reading comprehension and the annotated CBC4Kids corpus
WordNet SQL database WordNet SQL 2.0.0 [Linux, static binary, 20 MB]
click here for a list of my recent publications
Miles Osborne, Karen Needham (Karen Spärck-Jones) and myself in the NIST cantina Richard Stallman and myself in the vegetarian restaurant behind my Edinburgh flat
Reviewer for the journal IEEE Intelligent Systems (since 2008) Reviewer for the KRAQ Workshop held at COLING 2008 Reviewer for the SIGIR 2008 Conference Reviewer for Information Processing & Management (IP&M) Reviewer for the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (C. ACM 2007) Reviewer for ACL 2007 Reviewer for the ESSLLI 2007 student session Reviewer for the SIGIR 2006 Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval Reviewer for the journal ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) Reviewer for the CIKM 2005 Workshop on Geographic Information Retrieval Reviewer for the International Journal of Geographical Information Science Reviewer for ACM TALIP Special Issue on Spatial & Temporal Information Processing (CfP) Reviewer for ACM Computing Reviews Founder
and CEO of Linguit GmbH (since 2000)
Software
developer at SAP AG's HQ, Walldorf, Germany
(1998-2000) Founding
editor of the CLUE Technical Reports (1998-2001) Member
of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Member
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) Member
of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Associate
Member of the British Computer Society (BCS) Member of Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) Graduate Member of Peterhouse, Cambridge Member of the Cambridge Computer Lab Ring Member
of Amnesty International (ai)
Member
of Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz (BUND), a German society for environmental
protection Member
of the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (German Red
Cross) [movie sound in German only] Supporter of Medécins Sans Frontières (MSF) 2006-2007 Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellowship 2005 Socrates Scholarship, International Graduate College (IGK) Edinburgh-Saarbrücken (DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 715: Sprachtechnologie und kognitive Systeme) 2004 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval: Doctoral Consortium Award `For Outstanding Technical Contribution' 2004 ACM Travel grant, SIGIR 2004, Sheffield, UK 2003 Bursary for the Connectionist Summer School, Oxford University 2002-2005 PhD Scholarship, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) 2002 Research Bursary, Peterhouse, Cambridge 2001 Cambridge European Trust Bursary 2001 EPSRC Studentship, University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering 2001 Second-round winner in the North-Bavarian Business Plan Contest (BPWN'01) 1997 FoLLI studentship for ESLLII'97, Aix-en-Provence 1995-1996 DAAD one-year scholarship (German academic exchange service) for UCREL Lancaster 1994 Stipend for the Sarentino valley (Italy) summer academy in computer science, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Reading Travel Certified
paramedic (DRK RS in accordance with RettAssG) Baroque Organ music
Monty
Python comedy Table-tennis
The My favourite algorithm: ILCOR
My handshake distances: Queen Elisabeth II (2); Alan M. Turing (1); Pope Benedict XVI (1).
NEC Citeseer Citation Database
Computation & Language Online Paper
Archive The ACL Anthology Some
NLP People (Homepage collection)Obtain some answers to your questions Be kind and support Romanian children online (contact me if you want to know more about this project) A hacker's first love ;-) My Geek Code is here In the Nerd Test I scored 850 points (182.02%) here, and I'm 47.0% 'nerd pure', 66.9% hacker pure This link is an Anti-Spam trapping mechanism based on automatic recursive hyperlink generation TERQAS documentation (Temporal grounding for
NLQA) The ARDA AQUAINT Programme Edinburgh Question
Answering Reading Group page by Johan Bos Edinburgh Information
Extraction group Debugging
Java Code (for the AIPJ students in my tutorial) Witten
et al.'s 'Using Language Models for Generic Entity Extraction'
(presentation given in the IE discussion group) Harabagiu et al.'s FALCON System (presentation given in the NLQA reading group) Contact: Lifetime e-mail address: 
