POSITION:

Since 1.02.1996 professor at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Division of Mathematical Logic, Division of Computer Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence, head of division (since 1.04.1993)

QUALIFICATIONS:
FULL PROFESSOR, 2006, technical sciences (computer science)
DR HAB. (doctor habilitatus), Adam Mickiewicz University, 1990, computer linguistics
MA, UAM, 1982, roman philology
PhD, University of Warsaw, 1977, mathematics
MSc, UAM, 1973, mathematics

LANGUAGES:
Polish (mother tongue), English, French (very good), Italian (good) and basic knowledge of German) and Russian.

RESEARCH & EXPERTISE:
Former activities were about the foundations of mathematics and mathematical logic (models for higher order arithmetics (PhD). Main interest over the last few years: the computational linguistics and particularly the work on natural language (Polish) interfaces to the knowledge systems. Study and design of a formal grammar and an electronic dictionary of Polish resulting with a prototype of a question answering system interpreting (natural) Polish questions (POLINT). Study of language algorithms. The implementation was based on an empirical study of a corpus of human-human dialogues. The actual work is focused formats and resources of linguistic data Polish language engineering, formal grammars for free order languages with discontinuity, computer modelling of language competence for robots. (KBN project POLEX, European COPERNICUS projects 1032 CEGLEX and 621 GRAMLEX). Current interrest in applications of Human Language Technologies in public security sector.

 PUBLICATIONS:
Over 73 publications (5 books) in computer linguistics, language engineering, artificial intelligence, linguistics, mathematical logic; conference proceedings (editor)

FELLOWSHIPS, LONG RESEARCH VISITS:
- French Government Research Scholarship, University Aix-Marseille II, Groupe Intelligence Artificielle, May-October, 1984 (Colmerauer)

- Universität Salzburg, 1986, 1 month (Weingartner)

- Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (Uni. Bielefeld, Germany) and Europa Stypendium (University Paris VII), Oct.1987 - June 1989 (Gibbon)

- Research Fellowship (post-doc) from the French Ministry of Research and Technology, Univ. Paris 7, Univ. Marne la Vallee, Oct. 1991-July 1992 (Zuber, Gross)

- PECO Research Scholarschip; LIMSI/CNRS Orsay, July - Sept. 1993 (Ligozat),

- several research visits (as invited professor) (at the Univ. Paris VII (1998, 2000; Sol) and Univ. Paris SUD (2002, Ligozat)),

EVALUATION

Rewiever of Polish national research grants (KBN)

Rewiever for Polish governemental bodies

Rewiever and member of evaluation panels for R&D European projects under the 4^th, 5^th and 6^th Framework Programs

MANAGEMENT OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS:
"POLEX - Polska Leksykalna Baza Danych" /"POLEX - lexical data base for Polish"/, (Polish Government Grant: KBN8S50301007,UAM, 1994-1997) - project manager

European project "CEGLEX - COPERNICUS 1032" - project manager responsible for tasks about Polish, 1995-1996, domain: formalisms and data for language engineering, in collaboration with partners from the Czech Republic, France and Hungary

French-Polish Joint Research of the Polish Government (KBN) and the French Government : "Acces en langue naturelle aux bases de connaissances spatiales", (ref 294/96/97 and 76157), responsible for Polish tasks, 1995-1997, domain: artificial intelligence, partners UAM and University Paris XI.

French-Polish Joint Research Project of the Polish Government (KBN) and the French Government : 1999 - 2001 (POLONIUM), "Automatic generation of natural language commentary on the bases of low level data: application in computer simulated gammes", ref. 0606/R99, resp. of Polish tasks (project headed jointly by : prof. G. Ligozat /France/ and prof. dr hab. Z. Vetulani /Poland/), partners UAM and University Paris XI.

European project "GRAMLEX - COPERNICUS 621" - project manager responsible for tasks about Polish, 1995-1998, domain: data for language engineering, electronic resources, in collaboration with partners from the France, Hungary and Italy

Inne projekty:

1993: Project pt. "Utworzenie stoiska 'Telematyka, Firmy i Uniwersytety Europejskie' na Międzynarodowych Targach Poznańskich w dniach 13-18.06.1993" /"Stand: 'Telematics, Companies and Universities' at the International Poznań Fair, 13-18.06.1993" in collaboration with: Université Paris 7 (G. Sol - main partner), Editions "Petit f" Paris (G. Chamayou), Office Français de Télématique (M. Duval), Compulink Paris (K. Banasiak), Bon Voyage / Poznań (J. Niewiadomski), French Ambassy in Poland. (Polish co-ordinator of the project)

ORGANIZATION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES:

26th Linguistic Colloquium: Language - Communication - Computer Science, September 18-21, 1991, Poznan, Poland, 200 participants (chaired together with J.Darski)

Language and Technology'95, April 14-15, 1995, Poznan, Poland (100 participants) (in collaboration with the DGXIII)

Organisation of a panel discussion ("Human Language Technology Resources for Central European Languages: European Integration Issues") at LREC2000, Athens, Greece, 30.05.-2.06.2000.

2nd Language and Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, April 21-24, 2005, Poznan, Poland, over 150 participants

RESEARCH AWARDS:
Award of the Minister of National Education – 1990

Award of the President of the Adam Mickiewicz University - 2001

WHEN NOT WORKING:

Enjoys practice amateur sports (ski, windsurfing, fencing,...)