Jussi Karlgren - Background

I received my B A in Computational Linguistics and Mathematics in 1988, a Licentiate of Philosophy in Computer and Systems Sciences 1992, and a Ph D in Computational Linguistics in 2000 - all at Stockholm university. In 2006 I was appointed Docent (adjunct professor) of Language Technology at the University of Helsinki.

I have since 1990 been employed at SICS, the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, in various instantiations of the Language and Interaction laboratory. I have previously worked at SISU, the Swedish Institute for System Development, been a visiting student at Columbia University, a programming assistant at Xerox PARC, and an assistant research scientist in the PROTEUS project at New York University. Most recently, I spent the winter of 2007-08 as a visiting researcher at Yahoo! Research in Barcelona.

During the academic years 97-99 I served as professor of computational linguistics at Helsinki University; I have also taught classes at Stockholm University and at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and supervised students for candidate, master's and doctoral dissertations at several universities and colleges.

I frequently serve as a member of the Program Committee for the SIGIR conference, and have organized and (co-)chaired a number of recent workshops on broadening the scope of information retrieval.