PERSONAL DATA
| Born: | December 23, 1947 in Bodø, Norway |
| Citizenship: | Norwegian |
| Home Address: | Straumeveien 13, N-5042 Fjøsanger, Bergen, Norway |
EDUCATION
| 1981 | Dr. philos., Theoretical Linguistics, University of Bergen |
| 1979, 1980 | Exams in Vietnamese and Cantonese, University of Bergen |
| 1976 | Mag. art., Scandinavian Linguistics, University of Bergen |
| 1973 | Exams in Old and Middle English language and literature, University of Durham, England |
| 1972 | Cand. mag. (approx. = B.A.), University of Bergen. Subjects: phonetics, English language and literature, Scandinavian (mainly Norwegian) language and literature |
EMPLOYMENT
| 1983- | University of Bergen; (full) Professor of general linguistics. |
| 1981-1983 | University of Bergen; Researcher (universitetsstipendiat) (project: Vietnamese syntax) |
| 1976-1981 | University of Bergen; Research Assistant (project: Old Norse syntax) |
| 1976 | University of Bergen; University Lecturer (Old Norse) |
| 1974-1975 | University of Bergen; Research Assistant (Old Norse) |
FUNCTIONS, OFFICES, ETC.
| 2000- | Member of Norsk Språkråd [The Norwegian Language Council] |
| 1998- | Member of the Committee for linguistics and philology under The Norwegian Research Council |
| 1998- | Member of Det Norske Videnskapsakademi |
| 1994-97 | One of three coordinators of the doctoral education in The Humanities Faculty, University of Bergen |
| 1995- | Member of Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab |
| 1993-98 | President of the Nordic Association of Linguists |
| 1992-95 | Chairman of the Council for The Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, Bergen. |
| 1985-89 | Chairman of a committee under The Norwegian Research Council, responsible for a research programme on Information Technology and the Humanities |
| 1980 - the present | Member of various faculty committees |
OTHER ACTIVITIES
| 1997 | Organizer of and lecturer at a national researcher course on "Language Data and Linguistic Questions" in Bergen. |
| 1996-97 | Member of an invited research group in Centre for Advanced Study, The Norwegian Academy of Letters and Science, Oslo, working on corpus-based translational studies. Project: A Translational Basis for Linguistic Semantics. (One academic year.) |
| 1995 | Lecturer at the ELSNET Summer School in Edinburgh.Title of course: Processing of closely-related languages. |
| 1994 | Organizer of and lecturer at a Scandinavian researcher course on "Computational Semantics and Translation" in Bergen. |
| 1993 | Evaluation Committee Member for Helle Frisak Sem's dr. scient. dissertation Aspects of Formal Systems for the Representation of Natural Language Discourse |
| 1993 | Member of organizing committee and lecturer at a Scandinavian researcher course in Diachrony, Typology and Syntactic Theory in Melbu, Nordland, Norway |
| 1993 | 1st Opponent at Terje Spurkland's dr. philos. disputation. Thesis: En fonografematisk analyse av runematerialet fra Bryggen i Bergen (A Phono-graphemic Analysis of the Runic Material from the Bergen Wharf) |
| 1990 | Visiting Scholar (5 months) at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, California. Project: Machine Translation |
| 1989 | Member of organizing committee and lecturer at a Scandinavian researcher course in Semantics in Säröhus, Sweden |
| 1989 | 2nd Opponent at Helge Lødrup's dr. philos. disputation. Thesis: Norske hypotagmer. En LFG-beskrivelse av ikke-verbale hypotagmer (Norwegian Hypotagms. An LFG Analysis of Non-verbal Hypotagms) |
| 1987 | Member of the Organizing Committee for The Tenth Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, Bergen. |
| 1983 | Evaluation Committee Member for Knut Tarald Taraldsenís dr. philos. dissertation Parametric Variation in Phrase Structure: A Case Study. |
| 1979-1983 | Member of a research team producing a Norwegian-Vietnamese dictionary |
| c 1976-c 1983 | Responsible for the interpretation of mediæval runicinscriptions excavated on the Bergen Wharf |
AWARD
| 1987 | The Fridtjof Nansen Award for Eminent Research (awarded by Det Norske Videnskapsakademi [The Norwegian Academy of Letters and Science]) |
SOME INVITED ADDRESSES
(Norwegian titles are translated into English)
| 1998 | National conference on Norwegian language technology: "What should a language technology initiative contain?" |
| 1997 | Norsk forening for språkvitenskap [Norwegian Linguistics Society]: "Semantic Representations and the Complexity of Machine Translation". |
| 1997 | Det norske vitenskapsakademi [The Norwegian Academy of Letters and Science]: "Translation and Semantics. On Translations as a Source of Knowledge for Linguistics". |
| 1996 | Kristiansand College: "Machine Translation: Partial Approaches to the Impossible". |
| 1992 | Conference on translation, Salford University, Manchester, England: "Machine Translation by "principled rules of thumb"". |
| 1992 | Conference on standard languages and dialects, Det norske akademi for sprog og litteratur, Oslo: "Concepts of norm and system and the individuation of written languages". |
| 1989 | Workshop on the Semantics of Translation between Natural Languages, Saarbrücken, West Germany: "Machine Translation via Situation Schemata" |
| 1987 | International IBM Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark: "Automatic Sentence Synthesis". |
| 1987 | Annual Meeting of The Norwegian Research Council, Oslo, Norway: "Information Technology in the Humanities". |
| 1987 | MONS 2, Tromsø, Norway: "Computational Paradigms in Linguistics". |
| 1979 | The Fourth International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, Oslo, Norway: "Passive in Old Norwegian". |
| 1980 - the present | Various guest lectures at the universities of Oslo, Trondheim, Tromsø, Göteborg, Stockholm, Umeå and København |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| 1998 | Semantic mirrors. A translational basis for linguistic semantics. Monograph in preparation. |
| 1998 | Hva bør en språkteknologisk satsning inneholde? [What should a language technology initiative contain?]. To appear in Språknytt. |
| 1998 | On the complexity of translation. Festschrift contribution, in print. |
| 1998 | Hva er språk? [What is language?] = chapter 1 in: Torbjørn Nordgård (ed.): Innføring i språkvitenskap [Introduction to linguistics], pp. 11-23. Ad Notam Gyldendal. |
| 1998 | A translational basis for semantics. In: Stig Johansson and Signe Oksefjell (eds.): Corpora and Crosslinguistic Research: Theory, Method and Case Studies, pp. 51-86. Rodopi. |
| 1997 | Oversettelse og semantisk analyse. [Translation and semantic analysis] Senter for høyere studier. Informasjonsblad nr. 2 desember 1997: s. 4. |
| 1997 | Fra teori til data - eller omvendt? [From theory to data - or the other way around?]. Nordica Bergensia 13: 124-141. |
| 1996 | Doctoral thesis opposition: Terje Spurkland: En fonografematisk analyse av runematerialet fra Bryggen i Bergen [A phono-graphematic analysis of the runic material from Bryggen in Bergen]. Doktordisputas ved Universitetet i Oslo 20. mars 1993. Første opponent: Professor Helge Dyvik. Maal og Minne, Hefte 1, 1996, pp. 3-29. |
| 1995 | Språk, språklig kompetanse og lingvistikkens objekt [Language, linguistic competence and the object of linguistics]. In: Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen and Arnfinn Muruvik Vonen (eds.): Språklig kompetanse - hva er det, og hvordan kan det beskrives? = Oslo-studier i språkvitenskap 11. (1995) Oslo: Novus Forlag, pp. 20-41. |
| 1995 | Exploiting Structural Similarities in Machine Translation. Computers and the Humanities 28:225 - 234. |
| 1994 | Semantic Representations and Translation. SMART project working paper. |
| 1993 | Normbegreper, systembegreper og individueringen av norske skriftspråk [Concepts of norm and system and the individuation of Norwegian written standards]. In: Standardspråk og dialekt. Seminarer i Oslo 1991 og 1992. Bergen Riksmålsforening og Det Norske Akademi for Sprog og Litteratur. |
| 1992 | To forelesninger om lingvistikkens vitenskapsteori. Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Bergen: Skriftserie, serie B, nr. 41. |
| 1992 | Linguistics and Machine Translation. In: Proceedings of the Scandinavian Conference on Computational Linguistics. Bergen 28-30 November 1991. Report Series of the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities, No. 56. |
| 1992 | Både subjekt og objekt i genus nøytrum? En meningsutveksling mellom Kirsti Koch Christensen og Helge Dyvik. In: Kjønn og kunnskap. Senter for humanistisk kvinneforskning, Universitetet i Bergen. Skriftserien nr. 3. |
| 1991 | On Conveying Messages Out of Context. In: Transmittal of Information over Extremely Long Periods of Time. Proceedings of a conference arranged by Scandpower A/S in Oslo, 26 and 27 September 1991. |
| 1991 | Classifiers and Individuation, in Papers from the Twelfth Scandi-navian Conference of Linguistics, Linguistic Institute, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, pp. 50-65. |
| 1989 | The PONS Project: Features of a Translation System. Project report, Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Bergen. |
| 1989 | Finnes det grammatiske lover? Om inakkusativhypotesen. [Are there grammatical laws? On the Unaccusative Hypothesis.] Norsklæraren 4 1989. |
| 1988 | Sentence Synthesis from Situation Schemata. A Unification-Based Algorithm. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 11 17-32. |
| 1988 | Datalingvistikk - hjelpedisiplin eller selvstendig forskningsfelt? [Computational Linguistics - ancillary discipline or independent field of research?] Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 1/2 1988 3-21. |
| 1988 | Addenda runica latina. Recently Found Runic Inscriptions in Latin from Bryggen. The Bryggen Papers. Supplementary Series No 2 1-9. |
| 1986 | Unification-based chart parsing: some modifications and extensions of D-PATR. In: A. Hartnack and H. Ruus (eds.): Nordisk seminar om maskinoversættelse. Eurotra-DK, Copenhagen 1986. |
| 1985 | Runer fra Bryggen. [Runes from the Wharf.] In: Øye, I. (ed.): Middelalderbyen. Bryggens Museum, Bergen. |
| 1984 | (With Knut Hofland:) Parsing basert på LFG. [Parsing based on LFG.] In: Föredrag vid De nordiska datalingvistikdagarna 1983. Centrum för datorlingvistik, Uppsala University. |
| 1984 | Subject or Topic in Vietnamese? Department of Linguistic and Phonetics, University of Bergen. Publication Series no. 13. |
| 1984 | Hva er datalingvistikk? [What is Computational Linguistics?] Humanistiske Data 3 1984. |
| 1984 | "Grammatikk og empiri". Helge J.J. Dyviks doktordisputas, august 1981. Opposisjonsinnlegg fra 2. opponent, professor Thorstein Fretheim, og svar fra doktoranden. ["Grammar and Empirical Evidence". H.J.J.D.'s doctoral disputation, August 1981. Opposition from the 2nd Opponent, Professor T.F., and Answers from the Candidate.] Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 1 1984 45-80. |
| 1983 | (With many others:) Norsk-vietnamesisk ordbok. [Norwegian-Vietnamese Dictionary.] Bergen &c.: Universitetsforlaget. |
| 1983 | Categories and Functions in Vietnamese Classifier Constructions. Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Bergen. |
| 1982 | Epistemological problems in the 'Government and Binding' Programme. Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Bergen. |
| 1980 | Grammatikk og empiri. [Grammar and Empirical Evidence.] Doctoral dissertation. Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Bergen. |
| 1980 | Et runekors fra Sogn og Fjordane. 2: Innskriften. [A Runic Cross from Sogn og Fjordane. 2: The Inscription.] Maal og Minne 1-2 1980. |
| 1980 | Har gammelnorsk passiv? [Does Old Norwegian have a Passive?] In: The Nordic Languages and Moderns Linguistics. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics. University of Oslo. |
| 1980 | Om definisjonen av 'tema' i tema/rema-analysen. [On the definition of 'theme' in the theme/rheme analysis.] Egenproduksjon 8 1980 pp. 50-77. Nordisk institutt, Universitetet i Bergen. |
| 1979 | Omkring fremveksten av artiklene i norsk. Språklig markering av referensielle forutsetninger. [On the Emergence of Articles in Norwegian. Linguistic Encoding of Referential Presuppositions.] Maal og Minne 1-2 1979. |
| 1978 | Breaking in Old Norse and Related Languages: A Reassessment of the Phonetic Conditions. Arkiv för Nordisk Filologi 1978. |
| 1976 | Gammelnordisk brytning i gammelengelsk belysning. [Old Scandinavian Breaking in the light of Old English.] Unpublished Mag. Art. thesis. |
| 1973 | Forslag til forklaring av i-omlydens fravær i kortstavete synkoperte former. [A possible explanation for the absence of i-mutation in short-syllabic syncopated forms.] Maal og Minne 3-4 1973. |