CV for Hanne Erdman Thomsen


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Teaching:

Master of Language Administration
  • Term- and Knowledge bases (previously: Terminology and databases)
Master's programme in Language
Master’s programme in Computational Linguistics
  • Computational terminology
  • Relational databases
  • MA thesis seminar
  • Formal semantics (elective)
  • Logic and set theory
  • Parsing (later integrated into the discipline natural-language processing)
BA in Language Technology and English (previously BA in Information Technology and English)
  • Syntax and Morphology (first part of the first semester)
  • Terminology and LSP
BA in Business Language (including the specialisation in IT and Language)
  • Terminology and Corpus Linguistics
  • Terminology and LSP
  • Computers and Language (elective course, later 'language technology')


Education:

Degree Year Subject Institution Country
ph.d    1997    Computational Linguistics    CBS    Denmark   
MA    1989    Italian with informatics and computational linguistics     University of Copenhagen    Denmark   
Diploma in budiness language    1984    Italian    CBS    Denmark   
General Certificate    1978    Mathematics, social studies     Frederiksund Gymnasium    Denmark   


Language qualifications:

  • English
  • Italian
  • German
  • French


Academic positions - previous:

Position Institution Country
Associate Proffessor    Dept. of Computational Linguistics    Denmark   
Academic Assistant    Dept. of Computational Linguistics    Denmark   
Academic Assistant    Dept. of Computational Linguistics    Denmark   
Assistant Research Proffessor    Institut for Datalingvistik    Denmark   
Academic Assistant    Institut for almen og anvendt sprogvidenskab, Københavns Universitet    Denmark   
Academic Assistant    Datalogisk Institut, Københavns Universitet    Denmark   


Membership of boards, etc.:

Committee member, Lykeion association
Deputy member of the DANTERMnetwork committee
Member of the international committee for standardization ISO TC 37 / SC 1 - Principles and methods (Terminology and other language resources)


Administrative positions:

2009- Academic Director of the BA Programme in English and Organisational Communication
2008 - Coordinator of electives at Dept of International Language Studies and Computational Linguistics
2007- 2009: Member of the working group for the development af an new BA programme in English and Organisational Communication
2007 - Coordinator of teaching in the disciplines and programmes of computational linguistics
2006 - Associate Dean, Master of Language Administration
2006: Acting head of the Department of Computational Linguistics and later responsible for the Research Group for Computational Linuistics
November 2000-2006 : Union liaison for the academic staff at the Dept. of Computational Linguistics
2000-2006: Member of the executive committee at the Dept. of Computational Linguistics and deputy to the Head of Dept.
October 2001 – August 2002 acting joint union delegate at the Faculty of Modern Languages
December 1999 – January 2002: head of working group established by the BA study committee for the development of the discipline ‘Language Technology and Terminology’ in the BA programme to be initiated 9.1.2000.
1999-2004: Project management in the interdisciplinary research project OntoQuery.
January-June 1999: Member of the study committee for Computational Linguistics, CBS
March 1997 – June 1999: Member of the BA study committee (LSP), CBS
March 1997 – January 2002: Coordinator of the computational lingustic disciplines in the BA programme in professional language.
January - December 1985 – Vice-chairman of the study committee for Italian and Rumanian, University of Copenhagen, including work on a new set of regulations in connection to the implementation of a new executive order regarding the Humanities.
Marts 1980 - December1981 member of the study committee for Italian and Rumanian, University of Copenhagen


Reviewer:

TKE 2008- 8th International conference on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering
TKE 2005 - 7th International conference on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering
FQAS 2004 – Sixth International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems
FQAS 2002 – Fifth International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems
Organizer of conferenzes:
TKE 2008 - 8th International conference on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering
TKE 2005 - 7th International conference on Terminology and Knowledge Engineering
FQAS 2002 – Fifth International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems
Invited speaker:
EAFT Seminar: The Terminology Profession and the Marketplace, Paris, February 19th, 2009 -- http://www.eaft-aet.net/


PhD supervision:

Fumiko Kano Glückstad: inconsistencies of translation result occurring through direct translation between non-English languages and transitive translation using English as pivot language.
Tina Nielsen: Computer-assisted learning in language technology tools.
Lone Bo Sisseck: Automatic generation of ontologies


Assessment committees:

PhD-committees
Various appointment committees: Ph.d, external teachers