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Khalil Sima'an |
Khalil Sima'an
Professor, Faculty of Exact Sciences (FNWI) and the Deputy Programme Leader Language and Computation, ILLC, UvA.
Degrees
Professor, Faculty of Exact Sciences (FNWI) and the Deputy Programme Leader Language and Computation, ILLC, UvA.
Degrees
- 1987 Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Technion, Haifa.
- 1992 M.Sc. in Computer Science, UvA, Amsterdam
(Supervisor: Paul Klint, UvA).
- 1999 Ph.D.
in Computational Linguistics, Utrecht University,
Utrecht (Promotores: Jan Landsbergen and Remko
Scha).
Overview
work history
| 1987-89
|
Haifa
Orthodox Arab College |
Teacher of Maths and CS subjects. |
| 1987-88
|
Arabic Language Educational Software Initiative | Co-founder
(together with Johny
Srouji, Apple). |
| 1989 | [ ---- Moved to Amsterdam -----] | [---
Followed Dutch language courses ---] |
| 1990-92 | University of Amsterdam | Teaching Assistant in Dept of Informatics |
| 1993
|
Delft University of Technology | Research Assistant (Temporal Logics and Process Algebras as specification languages for real-time systems). |
| 1994-96
|
UiL-OTS Utrecht University | Researcher/programmer (European Project CLASK -- Combining Linguistics with Statistical Knowledge). |
| 1997 | UiL-OTS Utrecht
University |
Researcher/programmer
(NWO programme for Language and Speech
Technology OVIS) |
| 1998 | UiL-OTS Utrecht University | NWO personal grant: Wrote and defended a Ph.D. Thesis Learning Efficient Disambiguation |
| 1999-2000 | ILK,
Tilburg University |
Postdoc researcher (Probabilistic Memory-Based Model of Language Processing) |
| 2001- 02 | University of Amsterdam | Royal Academy (KNAW) Fellow |
| 2003-2010 | University of Amsterdam | Assistant Professor at ILLC |
| 2006-2011 | University of Amsterdam | VIDI laureate NWO Exact Sciences. |
| 2006-2014 | University
of Amsterdam |
Associate Professor |
| 2011-Now | University of Amsterdam | Deputy Leader of the Section Language and Computation. |
| 2013-Now | University of Amsterdam | VICI laureate NWO Exact Sciences. |
| 2014-Now |
University of Amsterdam | Full professor;
Chair of Computational Linguistics |
Prizes, Awards and Grants (ongoing
projects in boldface)
- 2014-17 QT21 H2020 Cracking the language
barrier (Euro 300k)
- 2013-18
Vici Laureate NWO. Machine Translators:
Teaching Computers to Translate Using their
own Words (Euro 1.5 million)
- 2012-16
Marie Curie ITN project EXPERT (Euro 420k)
- 2012-17 STW (Technology
Foundation) project DatAptor (Euro 750k)
- 2012-17 Free Competition of NWO
Exact Sciences Board (Statistical Translation
of Novel Constructions, Euro 230k)
- 2010-15 Free
Competition
of
NWO
Exact Sciences Board, project proposal: Machine
Translation When Exact Pattern Match Fails
(Euro 220k)
- 2007 Best paper award, BNAIC 2007 (together with M. Mylonakis)
- 2006-2010
Vidi laureate of NWO Exact Sciences
Board: Priors for the Estimation of
Stochastic Grammars from Incomplete Natural
Language Data (Euro 760k)
- 2004-07 Free
Competition
of
NWO
Exact
Sciences Board, project proposal: Learning
Stochastic Tree Grammars from Treebanks (Euro
220k)
- 2002-03 Fellow of
the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and
Sciences (KNAW).
- 2000 Outstanding dissertation award European Foundation for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) for Learning Efficient Disambiguation (ILLC dissertation series 1999-02).
- 2000 Best paper award, BNAIC 2000
Area Chair, Advisory Boards, Editorial Boards (ongoing is listed before completed service)
- 2015-Now Advisory Board Member TRAMOOC
European Project.
- 2014-Now Member of the Standing Elite
Reviewing pool for Transactions of
the ACL (TACL)
- 2013-Now Co-opted member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT)
- 2011-Now Member of the Editorial Board of
Machine Translation journal
- 2011-Now Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Natural Language Engineering (JNLE).
- 2011-Now Advisory Board Member for John Benjamins Publishers' book series on Natural Language Processing
- 2011-Now Member of the Editorial Board of the CLIN Journal http://www.clinjournal.org/
- 2014 Tutorial Co-chair EMNLP
2015
- 2014-15 Guest editor for Journal of Language Modelling.
- 2013 Programme Chair for IWPT
2013 (International Conference on Parsing
Technologies).
- 2013 Programme Chair (Research Track) for MT Summit XIV
- 2010 ACL 2010 Area Co-chair for the "Syntax, parsing, grammar induction, grammar engineering".