Curriculum Vitae
Education and work
| 2025–2027 | Interim Professor for Computational Linguistics at the University of Tübingen, Germany. |
| since 2020 | Part of the teaching staff of European Master in Lexicography – EMLex in the advanced module Computational Lexicography. (International Elite Program). |
| 2004–2024 | Various contracts / part time as Researcher and Lecturer at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Albanology. |
| 2003–2025 | Researcher at the Chair for Corpus and Computational Linguistics, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany. |
| 2026 | Visiting lecturer at the Université de Lorraine – Nancy (UdL), Nancy, France, Computational Lexicography (EMLex). |
| 2025 | Visiting lecturer at the Universidade do Minho – Braga (UMinho), Braga, Portugal, Computational Lexicography (EMLex). |
| 2024 | Visiting lecturer at the Universität Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany, Computational Lexicography (EMLex). |
| 2023 | Visiting lecturer at the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary (KRE), Budapest, Hungary, Computational Lexicography (EMLex). |
| 2022 | Visiting lecturer at the Universidade do Minho – Braga (UMinho), Braga, Portugal, Computational Lexicography (EMLex). |
| 2020 | Visiting lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela (UCS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Computational Lexicography (EMLex). |
| 2018–2021 | Co-working on the DFG-Projekt “Digitales philologisch-etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altalbanischen (15.-18. Jh.)” at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Albanology. |
| 2018–2020 | Researcher at the Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen, Germany, Natural Language Processing. |
| 2011–2014 | Doktor der Ingenieurwissenschaften, (Dr.-Ing.), in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence / Digital Humanities, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Thesis: Automatische Verarbeitung der Morphologie des Albanischen (i.e. Automatic Processing of the Morphology of Albanian). |
| 2009–2011 | Visiting lecturer at the University of Tirana, Albania, Computational Linguistics. |
| 2007-2011 | Project Natural Language Production, Computational Linguistics, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. |
| 2004–2006 | European Masters of Language and Speech, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, The International Speech Association, & The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. |
| 1996…2003 | Magister Artium, (M.A.), in Computational Linguistics (Linguistische Informatik), German Linguistics and Computer Science, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. |
✷ Events (selected, recent)
Workshop “Multi-word expressions and phraseology: corpus-based and computer-processed”, organised by Lian Chen (Laboratoire LLL, University of Orléans & CRLAO–CNRS–INALCO, France) and Besim Kabashi (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany) @EURALEX 2026 – The XXII EURALEX International Congress: “Lexicography in the Age of AI”. September 29.– October 3. 2026, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
ASIALEX 2026 – The 19th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX 2026), “Lexicography: Multidisciplinary Approaches and Collaborations”. September 9–11, 2026. National Agency for Language Development and Cultivation, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
NeoTerm 2026 - International Workshop on Terminological Neologism Management, September 3, 2026, University of Bergen, Norway.
Nordterm 50 Years and EAFT 30 Years – Anniversary Seminar, September 4, 2026. University of Bergen, Norway.
CMC2026 – The 13th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora. August 27–28 2026, Oulu, Finland.
New Perspectives in Computational Lexicology and Lexicography (NPCL² 2026) From Data to Dictionarie, July 17–18, 2026, Wuhan, China. ★ Invited Speech: Non-standard Data in Lexicography: In the Past, and Today, in the Generative AI Era.
The 12th EAFT Terminology Summit 2025 – The 12th European Association for Terminology (EAFT) Summit 2025. “Terminology Planning in Europe”. November 27–29, 2025. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
Semantic Annotation, Dictionaries and AI 2025 – “Semantic Annotation, Dictionaries and AI”. October 9–10, 2025. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
ASIALEX 2025 – The 18th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX 2025), “Traditionality and creativity in the era of AI”. September 11–13, 2025. Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
CMC-12 2025 – The 12th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora. September 4–5, 2025. University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
Invited Lecture, IDS 2025. Vortrag im Rahmen des Linguistischen Forschungskolloquiums / Lecture at the Linguistic Research Colloquium. June, 5, 2025. Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS). Mannheim, Germany.
Humanités numériques 5.0. Humanités numériques 5.0: Lexicografía Digital (HumNum 5.0), Seminario Internacional. October 22-24, 2024. Universidad de la Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.
EURALEX 2024 – The XXI EURALEX International Congress: “Lexicography and Semantics”. Institut za hrvatski jezik. October 8-12, 2024. Dubrovnik Cavtat, Croatia.
ASIALEX 2024. The 17th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography. September 13, 2024. Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan.
CMC-11 2024. The 11th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora. September 4–7. Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France.
LREC-COLING 2024. The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation. May 20-25, 2024. Torino, Italy.
LDK 2023 – The 4th Biennial Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge. [W3c community day @ LDK2023]. University of Vienna, Austria, September 12–15, 2023.
ASIALEX 2023 – The 16th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX 2023), “Lexicography, Artificial Intelligence, and Dictionary Users”. Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, June 22–24, 2023.
Invited Lecture ★ Academy of Sciences 2023 (Lectio Magistralis). June, 5, 2023. Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Albania, Tirana, Albania.
EURALEX 2022 – The XX EURALEX International Congress: “Dictionaries and Society”. Department of Lexical Studies, Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim, Germany, 12–16 July 2022.
The 5th shared task for “Translation Inference Across Dictionaries” (TIAD 2022) / “Linking Bilingual and Multilingual Lexicographic Resources”, as Track 2 of GlobaLex 2022 Workshop: Linked Lexicography @ LREC 2020 in Marseílle, France, on June 20, 2022.
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Reviewing activity (selected)
Journals
- Language Resources and Evaluation [LREV]
- Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (JLCL)
- Natural Language Engineering / Natural Language Processing (Cambridge University Press)
- Semantic Web Journal (by IOS Press)
- Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)
- The International Journal of Lexicography, EURALEX, the European Association for Lexicography, Oxford Academic.
- Lexicography, Journal of ASIALEX.
- The Journal of Digital Terminology and Lexicography (JDTL)
Congresses
- EURALEX (The European Association for Lexicography)
- GLOBALEX (The Associations of Lexicography in Africa (AfriLex), Asia (AsiaLex), Australasia (AustraLex), Europe (EuraLex) and North America (DSNA))
- ASIALEX (The Asian Association for Lexicography)
Conferences
- ACL (The Association for Computational Linguistics)
- AACL (The Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics)
- EACL (The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics)
- EMNLP (The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing)
- HLT (The Conference on Human Language Technologies)
- IJCNLP (The International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing)
- KONVENS (“Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache”)
- LREC (International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation)
- LDK (The Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge)
- NAACL (North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics)
- *SEM (Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics)
Workshops and shared tasks
- SemEval (International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation)
- SFCM (Workshop on Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology)
- TIAD (The shared task for “Translation Inference Across Dictionaries”)
- WASSA (Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis)
Publishers
- ACL (The Association for Computational Linguistics)
- ACM (The Association for Computing Machinery)
- CUP (Cambridge University Press)
- De Gruyter (Berlin, Basel, Munich, Beijing, Warsaw, Vienna)
- Springer (Heidelberg, Berlin, New York, etc.)
- IOS Press (Amsterdam, Washington, Tokyo, Berlin, Beijing)