My name is Fredrik Olsson and I'm with the userware lab at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS). I'm also a PhD student at the Department of Swedish at Göteborg University as well as enrolled in the Graduate School of Language Technology (GSLT). Here's some info on the courses I've taken.

Before joining SICS for my master's thesis in april 1997, I was a student at the educational programme in language engineering at Uppsala university. I became a full-time member of HUMLE in february 1998, and have since then worked with the issue of reusing language resources, as well as with designing and developing an open architecture for information refinement. I defended my licentiate of philosophy thesis entitled Requirements and Design Considerations for an Open and General Architecture for Information Refinement on March 13, 2002, in Uppsala.

My personal home page lives and prospers over at smudo.org, and bear in mind, it has nothing to do with SICS!

Pictures from the January 2005 GSLT retreat are now available. Follow this link to the gallery (flash required).

As of october 25, 2004, there are some photos available from the GSLT internal conference held on october 22 - 23. Follow this link to the gallery (flash required).

Dumas (2001-2004) The DUMAS (Dynamic Universal Mobility for Adaptive Speech Interfaces) project develops multi-lingual speech-based applications, focusing on intelligent and ambient interaction management with a special emphasis on naturalness that takes into account the user's personalised needs.

Demon (2002) (Democracy On-Line) is a cooperative project in part funded by Vinnova. The DEMON system focuses on the interface between citizens and their representatives in some organisation. The main goal of the system is to offer strong support for citizens' active participation in discussions about issues of importance.

Clarity (2001-2004) Funded by the EU IST program, addresses questions in multilingual information access. SICS contribution will be in textual analysis: stylistics and gisting. Other partners in the project are University of Sheffield, Tampere University, BBC Monitoring, Alma Media, Muscat, and University of Massachusetts.

Proteinhalt i text (2001) At the intersection of bioinformatics and computational linguistics, the project "Proteinhalt i text" (protein concentration in text) develops methods for automatic identification of names of proteins. The results will be used to enhance user interaction in searching and browsing biomedical texts, as well as for further refinement of the information, e.g., by building knowledge bases of protein interactions. This requires both knowledge about the biomedical domain and linguistic knowledge

Scholnet (2000 - 2003) SCHOLNET aims at developing a digital library infrastructure to support the communication and the collaboration within networked scholarly communities. The digital library will provide traditional digital library services in addition to support for non-textual data types, hypermedia annotation, cross-language search and retrieval, and personalized information dissemination. This testbed will be used to demonstrate how an enhanced digital library can enable members of a networked scholarly community to learn from, contribute to, and collectively build upon the community's discipline-oriented digital collections.

DeEX (2001) In DeEX, the intended user is one who makes use of a mobile device for accessing information on the Internet. This implies that as much information as possible must be conveyed with as few words as possible for the user to be able to decide whether it is worthwhile to download a particular news item present in an online news feed. This project aims at exploring how to automatically identify and use key phrases extracted from items of the news feed The project participants are SICS, room33 AB and the Department of Computer and System Sciences at Stockholm University.

MagiCster (2000 - 2003) In MagiCster - Embodied Believable Agents (IST project), we intend to: design a believable conversational interface agent which makes use of gaze, gesture and body posture as well as speech in a synchronised fashion; evaluate the use of the conversational agent in laboratory conditions to determine which aspects of the embodied agent are important for what types of human-computer interactions; develop and document the agent architecture and components to enable other research and development teams to prototype and evaluate new versions of the agent interface in new domains and for novel tasks. Participants: Univ. of Edinburgh, Univ. of Rome, DFKI, SICS, Univ of Bari, AvatarMe.

FamilyLink (2000) Services and applications to support peer-to-peer communication and social awareness within families. Partner: Ericsson Research, Kista.

Kaktus (2000- ) The aim of the Kaktus project is to create a socially and emotionally rich gaming environment in which the user has to make the right decisions in order to maintain friendships and relations. Through traditional and untraditional AI techniques, Kaktus seeks to simulate emotionally and socially intelligent reactions in artificial characters.

SVENSK (1996-1999) The SVENSK Project aims at developing an integrated tool box of language processing components and resources for Swedish. Priority has been given to developing the toolbox for teaching (such as student projects) and research projects where a natural language interface is required.

Olsson, F., Karlgren, J., Hansen, P., Svensson, M., Cöster, R. & Sahlgren, M. 2006: ''Consensus and Opinions; Quality and Churn''. Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs, AAAI Spring Symposium 2006, March 27-29, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA.

Markku Turunen, Esa-Pekka Sarinen, Mikko Hartikainen, Jaakko Hakulinen, Bill Black, Allan Ramsay, Adam Funk, Andrew Conroy, Paul Thompson, Paul Stairmand, Kristiina Jokinen, Jyrki Rissanen, Kari Kanto, Antti Kerminen, Björn Gambäck, Maria Cheadle, Fredrik Olsson, and Magnus Sahlgren. 2004. ``AthosMail - A Multilingual Adaptive Spoken Dialogue System for E-Mail Domain''. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Geneva, Switzerland, August. ACL. to appear in 'The Workshop on Robust and Adaptive Information Processing for Mobile Speech Interfaces'.

Fredrik Olsson. "A survey of machine learning for reference resolution in textual discourse". SICS Technical Report T2004:02.

Björn Gambäck, Maria Cheadle, Preben Hansen, Fredrik Olsson, and Magnus Sahlgren. 2003. ``A Spoken Swedish E-Mail Interface''. In Proceedings of the 14th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland. (to appear).

Kristofer Franzén, Gunnar Eriksson, Fredrik Olsson, Lars Asker, Per Lidén and Joakim Cöster. 2002. ``Protein names and how to find them''. In International Journal of Medical Informatics special issue on Natural Language Processing in Biomedical Applications.

Fredrik Olsson, Gunnar Eriksson, Kristofer Franzén, Lars Asker and Per Lidén. ``Notions of Correctness when Evaluating Protein Name Taggers''. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002), Taipei, Taiwan, 24 August - 1 September.

Fredrik Olsson. 2002. ``A requirement analysis for an open set of human language technology tasks''. In Proceedings of Workshop on Portability Issues in Human Language Technologies held in conjunction with the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), Las Palmas, Spain, June.

Fredrik Olsson. 2002. ``Requirements and Design Considerations for an Open and General Architecture for Information Refinement''. Licentiate of Philosophy Thesis, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, March. Available as as RUUL No. 35 (Reports from Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics). ISBN: 91-973737-1-0, ISSN: 0280-1337.

Kristofer Franzén, Gunnar Eriksson, Fredrik Olsson, Lars Asker and Per Lidén. ``Exploiting Syntax when Detecting Protein Names in Text''. In Proceedings of Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedical Applications. Nicosia, Cyprus. March.

Per Lidén, Lars Asker, Gunnar Eriksson, Kristofer Franzén and Fredrik Olsson.``Protein name tagging for browsing support, active database cross linking, and information retrieval''. In Proceedings of Bioinformatics 2002. Bergen, Norway. April. Poster presentation.

Gunnar Eriksson, Kristofer Franzén, Fredrik Olsson, Lars Asker and Per Lidén. ``Using Heuristics, Syntax and a Local Dynamic Dictionary for Protein Name Tagging''. In Proceedings of Human Language Technology 2002. San Diego, USA. March. Poster presentation.

Anette Hulth, Fredrik Olsson and Mark Tierney. 2001. ``Exploring Key Phrases for Browsing an Online News Feed in a Mobile Context''. In Proceedings of Management of uncertainty and imprecision in multimedia information systems a workshop held in conjunction with the Sixth European Conference on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty. Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT). France. September.

Fredrik Olsson, Preben Hansen, Kristofer Franzén and Jussi Karlgren. 2001. ``Information Access and Refinement - a Research Theme''. ERCIM News, 46, July.

Fredrik Olsson and Björn Gambäck. 2000. ``Composing a general-purpose toolbox for Swedish''. In Proceedings of Using Toolsets and Architectures to Build NLP Systems a workshop held in conjunction with The 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2000). Centre Universitaire, Luxembourg. August.

Björn Gambäck and Fredrik Olsson. 2000. ``Experiences of Language Engineering Algorithm Reuse''. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Athens, Greece, May. ELRA.

Fredrik Olsson, Björn Gambäck, and Mikael Eriksson. 1998. ``Reusing Swedish Language Processing Resources in SVENSK''. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, volume Workshop on Minimizing the Effort for Language Resource Acquisition, pp. 27-33, Granada, Spain, May. ELRA.

Fredrik Olsson. 1998. ``Tagging and Morphological Processing in the SVENSK System''. Master of Art Thesis, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, March. Available as SICS Technical Report T99-03 and as WP 2 in Working Papers in Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering, Department of Linguistics, Uppsala University.