Hans Uszkoreit is not only Proffesor of Computational Linguistics at Saarland University, but he is also the Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) where he heads the DFKI Language Technology Lab and the Proffesor of the Computer Science Department.

Furthermore, Uszkoreit is also Permanente Member of the International Comittee of Computational Linguistics (ICCL). Member of the European Academy of Sciences, Past President of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information, Member of the Executive Board of the European Network of Language and Speech, Member of the Board of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA), and serves on several international editorial and advisory boards.

     Hans Uszkoreit studied Linguistics and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Texas at Austin. During the time he spent at Austin, he worked as a research associate in a large machine translation project at the Linguistics Research Center. From 1982 and 1986, he worked as a computer scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International in Menlo Park, Ca, and he was also affiliated with the Center for the study of Language and Information at Stanford University as a senior researcher and later as a project leader. In 1986 he spent six months in Stuttgart on an IBM Research Fellowship at the Science Division of IBM Germany. In December of that year he returned to Stuttgart to work for IBM Germany as a project leader in the project LILOG (Linguistics and Logical Methods for the Understanding of German Texts). In 1988 Hans Uszkoreit was appointed to a newly created chair of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics. In 1989 he became the head of the newly founded Language Technology Lab at DFKI. He has been a co-founder and principal investigator of the Special Collaborative Research Division (SFB 378) “Resource-Adaptive Cognitive Processes” of the DFG (German Science Foundation). He is also co-founder and prefessor of the “European Postgraduate Program Language Technology and Cognitive Systems”, a joint Ph.D. program with the University of Edinburgh.

     His current research interests are computer models of natural language understanding and production, advanced applications of language and knowledge technologies such as semantic information systems, cognitive foundations of language and knowledge, grammar formalisms and their implementation, syntax and semantics of natural language and the grammar of German.

     Among all his publications we can point out some of the latests:

- Methods and Applications for Relation Detection. In: Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, Beijing. Uszkoreit, H. (2007).

- Challenges and Solutions of Multilingual and Translingual Information Service Systems, To appear in Proceedings of HCL International 2007, 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Beijing, 2007. Uszkoreit, H., F. Xu, W. Liu (2007).

Resources:

*Hans Uszkoreit. Short Curriculum Vitae. Retrieved 11:30, April 6, 2008, from  http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~hansu/bio.html