Curriculum Vitae

Language & Technology Conferences:
Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics
Poznań, Poland (1995, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019)

Zygmunt VETULANI, dr. hab., full professor (profesor zwyczajny)

born 12-09-1950, Poznan, Poland

Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza (Adam Mickiewicz University), Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science,

Professional address:
ul. ul. Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 4 (former address Umultowska 87)
PL-61-614 Poznan,
tel. +48-61 8295 380, +48 601 777 296 (mob),
fax: +48-61 8295 315
e-mail: vetulani@amu.edu.pl

KEYWORDS:
computer linguistics and language engineering, artificial intelligence, parsing, language resources, electronic dictionaries, wordnet, Less-Resourced Languages, knowledge representation, computer science, mathematical logic, language technologies for public security oriented applications

POSITION:

Since 1.02.1996 professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Division of Mathematical Logic, Division of Computer Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence, head of division (since 1.04.1993 until 31.12.2020).

Since 1.01.2021 professor in the Depatrment of Artificial Intelligence, head of Research Group in Computational Linguistics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, UAM.

Full professor since 1.12.2007.

QUALIFICATIONS:
PROFESSOR (title), technical sciences (title awarded on May 17, 2006)
DR HAB. (doctor habilitatus), Adam Mickiewicz University, 1990, computer linguistics
MA, UAM, 1982, roman philology
PhD, University of Warsaw, 1977, mathematics
MSc, UAM, 1973, mathematics

LANGUAGES:
Polish (mother tongue), English, French (very good), Italian, Russian (good) and basic knowledge of German

RESEARCH & EXPERTISE:
Former activities were about the foundations of mathematics and mathematical logic (models for higher order arithmetics (PhD). Main interest over the last three decades focussed on:
- computational linguistics and particularly the work on natural language (Polish) interfaces to the knowledge based systems.
- study and design of formal grammars and an electronic dictionaries of Polish
- development of a generic prototype of a question answering system interpreting (natural) Polish questions (POLINT)
- studies of language algorithms - studies of human-human dialogues as methodological fundation for human-computer interaction
- language-based ontologies (wordnets) (Development of "PolNet-Polish WordNet")
- applications of Language Technologies in the area of Public Security
The actual work is focused on formats and language resources for Polish language engineering, formal grammars, computer modelling of language competence for robots, multiagent systems with emulated language competence. (Polish Government (KBN) project POLEX, European COPERNICUS Projects 1032 CEGLEX and 621 GRAMLEX; the project of the Polish Platform for Homeland Security (PPBW) (Polish Government Grant Nr R0002802 "Technologie przetwarzania tekstu polskiego zorientowane na potrzeby bezpieczeństwa publicznego / Text Processing Technologies for Homeland Security Purposes"), ). Wordnet (design and implementation of Polish wordnet “PolNet – the Polish WordNet” /free Available through META-SHARE/).
Developement of language technologies for Less-Resourced Languages

PUBLICATIONS:
Over 120 publications (6 books) in computer linguistics, language engineering, artificial intelligence, linguistics, mathematical logic;
also: editing of conference and post-conference proceedings (19) and unpublished reviewed research reports for EU projects(over 30)

IMPORTANT CITATIONS :
Köhler, Reinhard / Altmann, Gabriel / Piotrowski, Rajmund G. (Eds.)(2008): Quantitative Linguistik / Quantitative Linguistics. Ein internationales Handbuch / An International Handbook Series:Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) 27, De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 112 and 118.

FELLOWSHIPS, LONG RESEARCH VISITS, ...:
Post-graduate school (PhD) at the Warsaw University (foundations of mathematics) 1974-1977 (prof. A. Mostowski , prof. W. Marek)

French Government Research Scholarship, University Aix-Marseille II, Groupe Intelligence Artificielle, May-October, 1984 (prof. A.Colmerauer)

Universität Salzburg, 1986, 1 month (prof. P. Weingartner, prof. I. Bellert)

Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (Uni. Bielefeld, Germany) and Europa Stypendium (University Paris VII), Oct.1987 - June 1989 ( prof. D. Gibbon)

Research Fellowship: French Ministry of Research and Technology, Univ. Paris 7, Univ. Marne la Vallee, Oct. 1991-July 1992 (prof. R. Zuber, prof. M. Gross)

PECO Research Scholarschip; LIMSI/CNRS Orsay, July - Sept. 1993 (prof. G. Ligozat),

Univ. Paris VII (1 month visits: 1998, 2000; Sol),

Univ. Paris XI, June-July 2002 (Ligozat)

SHORT RESEARCH VISITS

Multiple short visits: Athens, Beijing, Brno, Berlin, Belgrad, Budapest, Grenoble, Hamburg, Izmit, Muenster, Muenich, New Delhi, Paris, Prague, Salerno, Santiago de Compostela, Salzburg, Strassbourg, Trento, Udine, Urgench, Vercelli, ...

EVALUATION:

Rewiever of Polish national research grants (KBN, MNiSZW) (several times)

Rewiever and member of evaluation panels for R&D European projects under the EU Framework Programs (several times)

MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS:
(here the "project manager" is also the "principal investigator")

1993: Exhibition Project: 'Telematics, Companies and European Universities" at Poznań International Fair 13-18.06.1993. Project in cooperation with Université Paris 7 (G. Sol), Editions "Petit f" Paris (G. Chamayou), Office Français de Télématique (M. Duval), Compulink Paris (K. Banasiak), "Bon Voyage - tourist agency" / Poznań (J. Niewiadomski), French Embassy in Poland. (co-manager).

1994 - 1997: "POLEX - Polska Leksykalna Baza Danych" /"POLEX - lexical data base for Polish"/, (Polish Government Grant: KBN8S50301007; UAM), manager

1995 - 1996: European project "CEGLEX - COPERNICUS 1032" - project manager responsible for tasks about Polish, domain: formalisms and data for language engineering, in collaboration with partners from the Czech Republic, France and Hungary

1995 - 1997: French-Polish Joint Research of the Polish Government (KBN) and the French Government : "Acces en langue naturelle aux bases de connaissances spatiales", (ref 294/96/97 and 76157), responsible for Polish tasks, 1995-1997, domain: artificial intelligence, partners UAM and University Paris XI.

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1995 - 1998: European project "GRAMLEX - COPERNICUS 621" - project manager responsible for tasks about Polish, 1995-1998, domain: data for language engineering, electronic resources, in collaboration with partners from the France, Hungary and Italy

1999 - 2001: French-Polish Joint Research Project of the Polish Government (KBN) and the French Government (POLONIUM), "Automatic generation of natural language commentary on the bases of low level data: application in computer simulated gammes", ref. 0606/R99, resp. of Polish tasks (project headed jointly by : prof. G. Ligozat /France/ and prof. dr hab. Z. Vetulani /Poland/), partners UAM and University Paris XI.

2006 - 2010 Project of the Polish Platform for Homeland Security (PPBW) (Polish Government Grant Nr R0002802 "Technologie przetwarzania tekstu polskiego zorientowane na potrzeby bezpieczeństwa publicznego" ("Text Processing Technologies for Homeland Security Purposes") (POLINT-112-SMS), project manager

Other projects:

1993: "The stand 'Telematics, Companies and Universities' at the International Poznań Fair, 13-18.06.1993" in collaboration with: Université Paris 7 (G. Sol - main partner), Editions "Petit f" Paris (G. Chamayou), Office Français de Télématique (M. Duval), Compulink Paris (K. Banasiak), Bon Voyage/Poznań (J. Niewiadomski), French Ambassy in Poland. (Polish co-ordinator of the project)

2006-2009: „Development of parametrical-linguistc methods of speech analysis for speaker recognition” („Rozwój parametryczno-lingwistycznych metod analizy mowy w celu identyfikacji osoby mówiącej”) Grant MNiSzW Nr 3T11C04030, at the Poznań Technical University) – executor.

2009-2010: 2 projects POLINT-CITTA-SMS

PROJECT 1: POLINT-CITTA-SMS: CITy Tour Assistant. Software support touristical services in the City of Poznań (Stage I - studies, period: 15.09.2009 - 30.11.2009). (RoM.V/3420-290/09 Fn5065/09)

PROJECT 2: "Ontologia typu wordnet do zarządzania wiedzą w systemie obsługi ruchu turystycznego w mieście Poznań - CITTA (CITTA Ontology)" (Wordnet-type ontology for knowledge management to be used in the systems for tourism srevices in the city of Poznań – CITTA (CITTA Ontology) (period: 18.05.2010 - 30.11.2010) (RoM.III/3420-52/10 Fn2625/10)

2012-2015: Grant of the Polish Ministry of Research and Higher Education (MNiSW) "Rozbudowa zasobów cyfrowych języka polskiego w zakresie słowników walencyjnych w kierunku leksykonu-gramatyki zorientowana na potrzeby zastosowań informatycznych w humanistyce" ("Development of digital resources of Polish in the area of valency dictionaries towards the lexicon grammar oriented to computer applications in the humanities")/11H11 010080/, executor.

ORGANIZATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES:

26th Linguistic Colloquium: Language - Communication - Computer Science, September 18-21, 1991, Poznan, Poland, 200 participants (co-chaired with J. Darski)

Language and Technology'95, April 14-15, 1995, Poznan, Poland (100 participants) (in collaboration with the DGXIII), chair

Organization of the panel disscussion "Language Technology Resources for Central European Languages: European Integration Issues" at LREC2000, Athens, Greece, 31.05.-2.06.2000.

2^nd Language and Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics ( LTC 2005) April 21-23, 2005, Poznan, Poland (over 120 participants), chair

3^rd Language and Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics ( LTC 2007) October 5-7, 2007, Poznan, Poland (over 150 participants from 30 countries), chair

4^th Language and Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics ( LTC 2009) November 6-8, 2009, Poznan, Poland (over 150 participants from 38 countries), chair

5^th Language and Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics ( LTC 2009) November 25-27, 2011, Poznan, Poland (over 150 participants from 35 countries), chair

6^th Language and Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics ( LTC 2009) December 7-9, 2011, Poznan, Poland (over 150 participants from 40 countries), co-chairs: Zygmunt Vetulani and Hans Uszkoreit

(see the LTC site at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl)

Organistion of workshops at LTC’2009, LTC’2011, LTC’2013 (“Less resourced Languages” /With Khalid Choukri, Joseph Mariani and (since 2013) Claudia Soria) and LREC 2012 (“Language Resources for Homeland Security” with Edouard Geoffroi)

OTHER:

2008 - 2011: Participation in the Fostering Language Resources Network ( FLaReNet) (Grant Agreement No. ECP-2007-LANG-617001); (participant)

Participation in the excellence network META-NET (since 2011) (http://www.meta-net.eu/)

Since 4.02.2010 to 27.01.2014 Member of The Board of The Global WordNet Association (GWA) (Amsterdam, NL)

Since 2010 Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research

PhD PROMOTIONS

Jan Daciuk, 7.02.1999, Technical University Gdańsk

Jacek Marciniak, University Paris Orsay (XI) (co-tutors prof. G Ligozat i prof. Z. Vetulani) 21.06.1999 w Orsay

Tomasz Obrębski, IPI PAN, Warsaw, 10.06.2002

Maciej Lison, Poznań Technical University, 2004

Filip Graliński, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, UAM, 2007

Jedrzej Osiński, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, UAM, 2012

Justyna Walkowska , IPI PAN, Warsaw, 2012

Marek Kubis, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, UAM, Poznań, 12.06.2013

TUTORSHIP OF ERASMUS MUNDUS POST DOC FELLOWS

Gayrat Matlatipov (Uzbekistan) - 2007-2008

Habibula Madatov (Uzbekistan) - 2008-2009

RESEARCH AWARDS:

Award of the Minister of National Education – 1990

Award of the President of the Adam Mickiewicz University – 2001, 2007

WHEN NOT WORKING

enjoys practicing amateur sports (fencing, ski, windsurfing, swimming,...)

Modified: May 2, 2021.