Beáta Megyesi

PhD, Professor in Computational Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University

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Professor in Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, 2021

Associate Professor in Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, 2013

PhD in Speech Communication, Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), 2002

B.A. in Computational Linguistics, Dept. of Linguistics, Stockholm University, 2000

Publications

Research interests

• Historical Cryptology
• The automatic analysis of historical texts and student writings
• PoS tagging, morphological analysis, chunking, shallow parsing for different types of languages
• Parallel corpora and treebanks

Projects

• DECRYPT: Decryption of Historical Manuscripts (PI, Swedish Research Council, 2018-2024)
• DECODE: Automatic Decoding of Historical Manuscript (PI, Swedish Research Council, 2015-2017)
• SWEGRAM: Automatic Annotation and Analysis of Swedish texts within the SWE-CLARIN project (Swedish Research Council, 2014-2018, 2019-2022)
• SweLL - L2 infrastructure: Research Infrastructure for Swedish as a second language (RJ, 2017-2019)
• The Copiale Cipher
• Multilingual Parallel Corpora
• Grammar Extraction
• Swedish Treebank
• Basic Language Resource Kit for Swedish

Events

• International Conference on Historical Cryptology: HistoCrypt 2021 Amsterdam, The Netherlands. September 20-22, 2021

Appointments

• President of the Northern Association for Language Technology (NEALT) (2020-2021)
• Member of the Linguistics review panel at the Swedish Research Council (VR) (2021)

Past:

• Head of department, Dept. of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University (2009-2018)
• Director of the English Park Campus, Uppsala University (2017-2018)
• Vice president of the Northern Association for Language Technology (NEALT) (2018-2019)
• Member of the department board, Dept. of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University (2007-2018)
• Member of the board of the faculty of languages, Uppsala University, 2008-2011, 2011-2014, 2019-2020
• Director of studies at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, 2007-2009
• Program coordinator for the Language Technology Program, Uppsala University, 2004-2007
• Member of the board at the Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, 2003-2004

Teaching

Basic level courses

• Computational grammar II, 7.5 ECTS: 2004
• Corpus linguistics, 7.5 ECTS: 2005, 2006, 2007
• Introduction to Language Technology: 2015
• Languages, computers, and text processing (in Swedish): 2016
• Techniques for large scale parsing (parts): 2009
• Advisor for Language Technology Project, 7.5 ECTS: 2011-2016
• BA thesis supervision

Advanced level courses

• Research and Development, 15 ECTS: 2021
• Digital Philology, 7.5 ECTS: 2018-2019
• Computer-based tools for research in humanities, 7.5 ECTS: 2007-2013
• Thesis work in language technology, 30 ECTS: 2005, 2006, 2007
• Advanced course in corpus linguistics, 7.5 ECTS: 2005
• Advisor for Language Technology Project, 7.5 ECTS: 2011-2016
• Master thesis supervision

PhD education

• I was co-supervisor: Eva Petterson and Mojgan Seraji
• Natural Language Processing, GSLT, 2008
• Infrastructural tools for the study of linguistic variation: PhD course at Oslo University, June 2009

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Last updated: March 10, 2020