Josef van Genabith
Josef van Genabith (* 1959 in Rheinberg ) is a German linguist and professor at Saarland University . There he heads the research area Multilingual Technologies.
Life
Josef van Genabith comes from a family of craftsmen in the Lower Rhine region . His mother was a teacher .
In 1978 van Genabith passed the Abitur at the Amplonius-Gymnasium Rheinberg and then did his basic military service . He studied English and electrical engineering at RWTH Aachen University and completed his studies in 1988 with the first state examination for higher education at vocational schools ( secondary levels I and II).
First he worked in Ireland . From 2001 to 2008 he taught in Dublin as Director of the National Center for Language Technology (NCLT), from 2007 to 2013 as Founding Director of the Center for Next Generation Localization (CNGL) and also as Deputy Director (2013–2014).
In 2014 he took over the chair for translation-oriented language technologies at the University of Saarland and is also Scientific Director of the Research Department Multilingual Technologies at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).
Web links
- Profile of Josef van Genabith on the website of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
Individual evidence
- ↑ Translation-oriented language technology, professor. Saarland University, accessed on October 6, 2019 .
- ↑ German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence: Prof. Dr. Josef van Genabith. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Genabith, Josef van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German computer linguist and university lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rheinberg |