Curriculum Vitae
Education and work
| 2025–2026 | 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. |
| 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 (recent, selected)]
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.
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, 2025. 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)
- Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)
- Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (JLCL)
- Semantic Web Journal (by IOS Press)
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))
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)
- De Gruyter (Berlin, Basel, Munich, Beijing, Warsaw, Vienna)
- Springer (Heidelberg, Berlin, New York, etc.)
- IOS Press (Amsterdam, Washington, Tokyo, Berlin, Beijing)