CURRICULUM VITAE Prof. Dr. Walther v.Hahn
TITLE: Prof. Dr.
LAST NAME: von Hahn
FIRST NAME: Walther
DATE OF BIRTH: 26.04.1942
NATIONALITY: German
ORGANISATION: Informatics Department, University of Hamburg
FORMAL EDUCATION: Dr. phil. (Linguistics) Univ. of Marburg 1969
PRESENT POSITION: Professor of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, Germany,
Honorary Professor of University of Iasi, Romania
WORKING CAREER:
- 1993 - 95 Dean of Computer Science Department
- 1988 - Professor of Computer Science University of Hamburg
- 1988 - Director of Natural Language Systems Group
- 1976 - 87 Professor of Linguistics Univ. of Hamburg
- 1971 - 76 Senior Advisor Univ. of Hamburg
- 1969 - 71 Research Assistant Univ. of Hamburg
- 1969 - 71 Research Assistant Univ. of Hamburg, Germany
- 1968 - 69 Research Assistant Univ. of Marburg, Germany
- Consultant and Reviewer of public funding institutions in Germany, Austria, Japan, Sweden.
- Project Reviewer of CEC
SELECTED PROJECT EXPERIENCE:
- PROLIV (Animation in e-Learning, Univ. of Hamburg)*
- I*Teach (Innovative Teacher and e-Learning, EU)*
- LT4eL (Language Techniologies for e-Learning, EU)*
- Verbmobil (Speech-to-Speech Machine Translation, National German Project)
- DBMAT/DBR-MAT (German-Bulgarian-Romanian Machine Translation, Volkswagen Foundation)
- VESUV (DFG, German Science Foundation)
- ASL (Architectures for Speech and Language, National German Project)
- LOKI (Logic Oriented Interface, EU)
* = ongoing projects in 2006
AREAS OF EXPERIENCE: Natural Language Technology, Discourse, Machine Translation,
Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics
LANGUAGES: German, English, (French)