Prof. dr. Dan Tufiş
About
scientific titles,
education,
research stages,
experience,
affiliations,
research,
teaching,
evaluation activities,
editorial boards,
organizatoric activities,
languages,
acknowledgements
Scientific titles
Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy, Professor, Ph. D., Senior Scientist grade I.
Education
Research stages
- 1998 - 1999 (two months): natural language processing using finite state technologies, at XEROX Research Center Europe, Grenoble, France
- April 1998: Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton, UK
- 1996 - 1998 (three months each year, with a NATO reseach grant): natural language generation, at LIMSI/CNRS, Orsay, France
- 1994 (one month): parallel processing of natural language, at University of Surrey, UK
- 1994 (one month): syntactic models based on unification, at Dalle Molle Institute for Semantic and Cognitive Studies (ISSCO), Geneva, Switzerland
- 1994 (one month): AI generic algorithms, at Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), Lugano, Switzerland
- 1993 (six months): immersive learning of foreign languages, at George Mason University, Fairfax, USA
- 1988: lexical acquisition, at AI International Laboratory, Bratislava, Slovakia
Work experience
- since 1997 Corresponding Member of the Romanian Academy
- since 2001 President of the Romanian Academy Commission on Language Technology for Romanian Language
- since 2002 Director of the Romanian Academy Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Bucharest, Romania
- since 2003 Professor with the Faculty of Computer Science, University Al. I. Cuza Iasi, Romania
- 2000 - 2003 Associated Professor with the Faculty of Computer Science, University Al. I. Cuza Iasi, Romania; co-founder of the Master in Computational Linguistics
- 1998 - 2002 Senior Research Fellow (grade I) and Director of the Romanian Academy Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Bucharest, Romania
- 1994 - 1998 Senior Research Fellow (grade I) and Vice-Director of the Romanian Academy Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Bucharest, Romania
- 1990 - 2000 Head of the Computational Linguistics Laboratory and Senior Research Fellow (grade I) at ICI, Bucharest, Romania
- 1982 - 1990 Project Manager &, Research Scientist at ICI, Bucharest, Romania
- 1979 - 1982 Programmer at the National Institute for Research and Development in Informatics (ICI) Bucharest, Romania
Affiliations and memberships
- Romanian Academy, corresponding member, since 1997
- EACL - European Association for Computational Linguistics, since 1985 (member of the Steering Committee)
- GLDV - Gesellschaft fuer Linguistische DatenVerarbeitung (Society for Computational Lingistics and Language Technology), since 1986
- DECUS Romania - Digital Equipment Computer Users Society, since 1992 (since 2002: HP-Interex-EMEA)
- ESI - Commission of UNESCO experts in Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics and Functional Programming, since 1994
- SIGNLL - Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning of the ACL - Association for Computational Linguistics, since 1995
- TELRI - Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards, since 1996
- EAGLES - Trans European Language Resource and Infrastructure Association, since 1997
- ELSNET - European Network of Excellence in Human Language Technologies, since 1997
- FPSC - Forum for Information Society (Forumul pentru Societatea Cunoaşterii), since 1997
- EAMT - European Association for Machine Translation, since 1998
- SIGLEX - Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the ACL, since 2000
- ACH - Association for Computers and Humanities, since 2001
- CILR - Romanian Academy Commission for Romanian Language Processing (Comisia Academiei Române pentru Informatizarea Limbii Române), since 2001 (founding member & president)
Research
More information about research interests, international & national projects, membership in Program Committees is available on a separate page.
Teaching activities
More information about research teaching activities, invited conferences & tutorials, PhD students, and membership in PhD awarding committees is available on a separate page.
Evaluation activities
- IST, including FET (EC), since 2004
- IINCO-Copernicus, ESPRIT (EC), since 1996
- CNCSIS, CEEX (Romanian national fundings), since 2006
Member of editorial boards
- International Journal on Language Resources and Evaluation, Springer, USA, ISSN: 1574-020X (since 2002)
- Journal on Computers and Humanities, Kluwer Academic Publishers, USA, ISSN 0010-4817 (since 1996)
- European Student Journal on Language and Speech, EACL, ESCA, ELSNET (since 1996)
- Book Series Text, Speech and Language Technology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, USA, ISSN: 1386-291X (since 1995)
- International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, John Benjamin Publishers, UK, ISSN: 1384-6655 (since 1995)
- Proceedings of the Romanian Academy, Series A, Romanian Academy, ISSN: 1454-9069 (since 1999)
- Romanian Journal on Information Science and Technology (ROMJIST), Romanian Academy, ISSN: 1453-8245 (since 1997)
- Studies in Information and Control Journal (SIC), ICI, Romania, ISSN: 1220-1766 (since 1992)
- International Journal of Computers, Communications & Control (IJCCC), Agora University Editing House - CCC Publications, ISSN 1841 - 9836 (since 2006)
- Noesis. Travaux du Comite Roumain d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences, Romanian Academy, ISBN 973-27-0065-3
Organizatoric activities
- November 19-21, 2008: ConsILR-2008 - Atelier internaţional Resurse Lingvistice Româneşti şi Instrumente pentru Prelucrarea Limbii Române, Faculty of Computer Science, Iaşi, Romania
- May 15-17, 2008: Exploratory Workshop on NL-Computation: From Natural Language to Soft Computing: New Paradigms in Artificial Intelligence, Agora University, Felix Spa, Romania
- December 14-15, 2007: ConsILR-2007 - Atelier internaţional Resurse Lingvistice Româneşti şi Instrumente pentru Prelucrarea Limbii Române, Faculty of Computer Science, Iaşi, Romania
- September 10, 2007: Tehnologiile lingvistice, prioritate a prezentului şi necesitate a viitorului: contribuţii, direcţii de acţiune şi proiecte româneşti, Academia Română, Bucureşti
- July 23 - August 3, 2007: EUROLAN 2007 - 8th Summer School onNLP & HLT: Semantics, Opinion and Sentiment in Text, Faculty of Computer Science, Iasi, Romania
- November 3, 2006: ConsILR 2006 - Atelier internaţional Resurse Lingvistice Româneşti şi Instrumente pentru Prelucrarea Limbii Române, Faculty of Computer Science, Iasi, Romania
- October 26-28, 2006: General project meeting - Collocations en contexte, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
- November 3, 2005: ConsILR 2005 - Atelier internaţional Resurse Lingvistice Româneşti şi Instrumente pentru Prelucrarea Limbii Române, Faculty of Computer Science, Iasi, Romania
- October 13, 2005: OL-KWM 2005 - International Symposium on Organizational Learning and Knowledge Work Management, Bucharest, Romania
- July 25 - August 6, 2005: EUROLAN 2005 - 7th Summer School on NLP & HLT: The Multilingual Web: Resources, Technologies, and Prospects, Cluj Napoca, Romania
- July 26-28, 2005: RFN 2005 - Workshop and Kick-off Meeting on Romance FrameNet at the 7th EUROLAN Summer School on NLP & HLT, Cluj Napoca, Romania
- May 13-14, 2005: SpeD 2005 - 3rd International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialog, Cluj Napoca, Romania
- September 23-24, 2004: ROCHI 2004 - Prima Conferinţă Naţională de Interacţiune Om-Calculator, Bucureşti, Romania
- August 28, 2004: MLRI 2004 - Workshop on Multilingual Linguistic Resources at COLING 2004, Geneva, Switzerland
- July 25-26, 2004: SENSEVAL 3 - ACL-SIGLEX Evaluation exercises for Word Sense Disambiguation & ACL Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text, Barcelona, Spain
- April 4, 2004: Academician Mihai Drăgănescu - The 75th Anniversary, Romanian Academy, Bucharest
- August 10-12, 2003: BalkaNet general project meeting, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
- July 28 - August 8, 2003: EUROLAN 2003 - 6th Summer School on NLP & HLT: The Semantic Web and Language Technology: Its Potential and Practicalities, Bucharest, Romania
- August 2, 2003: FF-Poirot bilateral project meeting, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
- July 30 - August 11, 2001: EUROLAN 2001 5th Summer School on NLP & HLT: Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources, Iasi, Romania
- May 9-11, 2001: International Workshop on Computer-Assisted Language l, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
- July 19-31, 1999: EUROLAN 1999 - 4th Summer School on NLP & HLT: Lexical Semantics and Multilinguality, Iasi, Romania
- July 13-26, 1997: EUROLAN 1997 - 3rd Summer School on NLP & HLT: Corpus Linguistics, Tusnad, Romania
- July 15, 1997: 2nd Awareness EC Seminar on Language Technology, Tusnad, Romania
- January 28-30, 1996: 1st Awareness EC Seminar on Language Technology, Bucharest, Romania
- July 18-28, 1995: EUROLAN 1995 - 2nd Summer School on NLP & HLT: Language and Perception: Representations and Processes, Iasi, Romania
- August 1-5, 1994: PAIL International Summer School: Computer-Aided Instruction in Artificial Intelligence, Bucharest, Romania
- July 19-29, 1993: EUROLAN 1993 - 1st Summer School on NLP & HLT: Natural Language Processing and Logic Programming, Iasi, Romania
Languages
- English (W, R, S - fluent)
- French, Russian (W, R, S - some)
Acknowledgements
- 1989: Traian Vuia prize of the Romanian Academy (for the publication AI Researches on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. The IURES System)
- 1994: Tudor Tănăsescu prize of the Romanian Academy (for the publication Développement d'outils et de donées linguistique pour le traîtement du langage naturel)
- 2002: Who's Who in Romania, Pegasus
- 2003: International Who's Who in Translation & Terminology, Unione Latine, second edition
- 2005: Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, second edition, Elsevier
- 2006: Who's Who in the World, Marquis