Abstract of Jussi Karlgren
Jussi Karlgren, a computational linguist by training, has worked
with aspects of usage of information sources in digital
information access experiments for the last ten years. His
interest is in gaining a closer understanding of the communication
process between author and reader through the mediation of information or
other forms of discourse -- with the understanding that it is near
impossible to improve the overly generalized but consistently
mediocre information access systems of today unless the
design of systems is based on 1) an informed analysis
of usage, context, situation and domain as well as 2) a
deeper analysis of the content of the information flow. His research
activities have encompassed the study of reading and text assessment, especially in the
cross-lingual case, and the study of textual information flow,
especially non-topical analysis of textual information.
Jussi Karlgren received a Candidate of Philosophy degree in
Computational Linguistics and Mathematics in 1988, a Licentiate of
Philosophy degree in Computer and Systems Sciences 1992, and a Doctor
of Philosophy degree in Computational Linguistics in 2000 - all at
Stockholm university. Since 2006, he is an Adjoint Professor of
Language Technology at the University of Helsinki. He has since 1990 been
employed at SICS, the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, in
various instantiations of the Language and Interaction laboratory. He
has has 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. During the
academic years 97-99 Karlgren substituted for Kimmo Koskenniemi as
professor of computational linguistics in Helsinki and has also taught
and supervised students at Stockholm University and at the Royal
Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Karlgren coordinated a EU funded
research project in the fifth Frame Program. In addition he is a
member of the board of the Joint Group for Swedish Computer
Terminology. He is spending the winter of 2007-08 as a visiting researcher
at Yahoo! Research in Barcelona.
The past years, his major research project has been to experiment with
non-topic information retrieval. The idea is to complement standard
information retrieval metrics which are based on a shallow semantic
analysis with a genre analysis and a usage or text ecology analysis.
