CURRICULUM VITÆ

Helge Julius Jakhelln Dyvik
Department of Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Section for Linguistic Studies
University of Bergen
Sydnesplassen 7
N-5007 Bergen, Norway

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PERSONAL DATA

Born:	December 23, 1947 in Bodø, Norway
Citizenship:	Norwegian
Home Address:	Straumeveien 13, N-5073 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.

2007-	Chairman of Fagråd for normering og språkobservasjon [Expert Committee for Standardization and Language Observation] under Språkrådet [The Norwegian Language Council]
2000-2005	Member of the Programme Committee for the research programme on language technology under the Nordic Council of Ministers. Chair from 2002.
2000-2005	Member of Norsk Språkråd [The Norwegian Language Council]; member of its 'Fagnemnd' (expert committee).
1998-2000	Member of the Committee for linguistics and philology under The Norwegian Research Council
1998-	Member of Det Norske Videnskapsakademi
1996, 1998	Chairman of the faculty committee for doctoral scholarships within linguistics and philology.
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

SUPERVISED DOCTORAL THESES (COMPLETED)

2001	Torodd Kinn: Pseudopartitives in Norwegian. [As secondary supervisor]
2000	Øystein A. Vangsnes: The identification of functional architecture. [As secondary supervisor]
1998	Victoria Rosén: Topics and Empty Pronouns in Vietnamese.
1998	Kari Tenfjord: Å ha en fortid på vietnamesisk. En kasusstudie av fire vietnamesiske språkinnlæreres utvikling av grammatisk fortidsreferanse og perfektum.
1997	Marit Helene Kløve: Second Language Syllabification. Elements of a Prosodic Theory Based on the Acquisition of Norwegian by Cantonese Speakers.
1991	Torbjørn Nordgård: A GB-related Parser for Norwegian.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

2005	Co-organizer of the 10th International LFG Conference in Bergen
2005	Organizer of and lecturer at a national researcher course on "Languages and Theories in Contrast" in Bergen
2004	Lecturer at an international PhD course in Concept Analysis and Concept Based Retrieval, Copenhagen Business School (Ontoquery).
2003	Lecturer at a Nordic PhD course. Topic: Translations as a semantic knowledge source: word alignment and wordnet. Oslo, Norway.
2002	Lecturer at a Nordic PhD course in "Allmen og datamaskinell leksikografi med  korpuslingvistiske metoder" [General and computational lexicography with corpus linguistic methods], Rosendal, Norway.
2000	Lecturer at a Nordic Summer School in linguistics (NorFA), "Meaning and Cognition", Stalheim, Norway.
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 Taraldsen_s 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 runic inscriptions 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)

2005	GSLT (Graduate School of Language Technology) Internal Conference 2005, Gothenburg: "Semantic Mirrors: Deriving thesaurus information from a parallel corpus."
2005	Presentation of a new strategy for Norwegian language policy (Norsk i hundre!), Bærum: Invited viewpoints.
2005	The Second Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies, Tallinn: "Translations as a Semantic Knowledge Source."
2004	Rasmat '04 (Workshop in Recent Advances in Scandinavian Machine Translation, Uppsala): "Semantics for Translation:The Possible Contribution of the Mirrors Method."
2002	Seminar in honour of Cathrine Fabricius Hansen, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo: "The Impossible Displaying the Invisible. Translational Windows on Meaning."
2002	ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) Conference 2002, Göteborg: "Translations as semantic mirrors: From parallel corpus to Wordnet."
2002	Nordic conference on language standardisation, Kristiansand: "Offisiell og ikke-offisiell språknormering - nyttig eller skadelig motsetning?" [Official and non-official language standardisation: useful or harmful dichotomy?]
1999	MONS8, Tromsø: "Er diakron syntaks mulig?" [Is diachronic syntax possible?]
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 Videnskapsakademi [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

2005	(With Victoria Rosén, Koenraad De Smedt and Paul Meurer:) TREPIL: Developing Methods and Tools for Multilevel Treebank Construction. Proceedings of TLT'05: Universitat de Barcelona 2005. ISBN 84-475-2992-4. s. 161-172
2005	(With Stephan Oepen, Dan Flickinger, Jan Tore Lønning, Paul Meurer and Victoria Rosén:) Holistic Regression Testing for High-Quality MT. Some Methodological and Technological Reflections. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, Budapest, Hungary.
2005	(With Dan Flickinger, Jan Tore Lønning, Stephan Oepen and Francis Bond:) SEM-I Rational MT. Enriching Deep Grammars with a Semantic Interface for Scalable Machine Translation. Proceedings of the 10th Machine Translation Summit, Phuket, Thailand, pp. 165-172.
2005	Translations as a semantic knowledge source. Proceedings of the Second Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies, Tallinn, Estonia.
2004	(With Mary Dalrymple and Tracy Holloway King:) Copular Complements: Closed or Open? In M. Butt and T.H. King: Proceedings of the LFG04 Conference. CSLI Publications, http://csli-publications.stanford.edu
2004	(With Stephan Oepen, Jan Tore Lønning, Erik Velldal, Dorothee Beermann, John Carroll, Dan Flickinger, Lars Hellan, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Paul Meurer, Torbjørn Nordgård and Victoria Rosén:) Som å kapp-ete med trollet? Towards MRS-based Norwegian English Machine Translation, in: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation, Baltimore, MD, 2004.
2004	(With Jan Tore Lønning, Stephan Oepen, Dorothee Beermann, Lars Hellan, John Carroll, Dan Flickinger, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Paul Meurer, Torbjørn Nordgård, Victoria Rosén and Erik Velldal:) LOGON. A Norwegian MT effort, in: Proceedings of the Workshop in Recent Advances in Scandinavian Machine Translation, Uppsala, Sweden, 2004.
2004	Translations as semantic mirrors: from parallel corpus to wordnet. Language and Computers, 1 April 2004, vol. 49, iss. 1, pp. 311-326(16) Rodopi.
2003	ParGram: Developing Parallel Grammars. Feature article, Elsnews 12.2, pp. 12-14
2002	Språk og teknologi - et kulturmøte. [Language and technology - a meeting of cultures.] In Forskningsformidling gjennom 75 år. Selskapet til Vitenskapenes Fremme 1927-2002. Bergens Museums skrifter nr. 13, pp. 113-119.
2002	(With Miriam Butt, Tracy Holloway King, Hiroshi Masuichi and Christian Rohrer:) The Parallel Grammar Project. Proceedings of The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Coling 2002, Taipei.
2002	Offisiell og ikke-offisiell språknormering - nyttig eller skadelig motsetning? [Official and non-official language standardisation - useful or harmful dichotomy?] To appear in the proceeding of the conference Krefter og motkrefter i språknormeringa, Kristiansand.
2002	Ord fanget i nett. [Words caught in a net.] Språknytt 1/2002 pp. 15-18.
2001	Språkspalten: 26 weekly columns in the newspaper Bergens Tidende on various linguistic topics.
2000	Er diakron syntaks mulig? [Is diachronic syntax possible?] Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift 2-2000 pp. 183-202.
2000	Nødvendige noder i norsk. Grunntrekk i en leksikalsk-funksjonell beskrivelse av norsk syntaks. [Necessary nodes in Norwegian. Basic features of a lexical-functional description of Norwegian syntax.] I: Ø. Andersen, K. Fløttum og T. Kinn (red.): Menneske, språk og fellesskap. Festskrift til Kirsti Koch Christensen på 60-årsdagen 1. desember 2000, Novus forlag, s. 25-45.
1999	The Universality of F-structure: Discovery or Stipulation? The Case of Modals. Proceedings of the LFG99 Conference. CSLI Publications.
1999	Grammatiske grunnbegreper. Om kapittel 1 i Norsk referansegrammatikk,[Basic grammatical concepts. On chapter 1 of Norsk referansegrammatikk]. Nordica Bergensia 21 pp. 9-24.
1999	Semantic mirrors. A translational basis for linguistic semantics. Monograph in preparation.
1999	Ord for fremtiden. [Words for the future.] Kronikk, Bergens Tidende, 30 January.
1999	On the complexity of translation. In: Hilde Hasselgård and Signe Oksefjell (eds.): Out of Corpora. Studies in Honour of Stig Johansson. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 215-230.
1998	Translations as semantic mirrors. In Proceedings of Workshop W13: Multilinguality in the lexicon II, pp. 24.44, Brighton, UK. The 13th biennial European Conference on Artyificial Intelligence ECAI 98
1998	Hva bør en språkteknologisk satsning inneholde? [What should a language technology initiative contain?]. Språknytt 4-98, pp. 14-18.
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 Scandi-navian 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.
1977	[Anmeldelse av/review of] Eskil Hanssen, Else Mundal, Kåre Skadberg: Norrøn grammatikk. Maal og Minne, 124-146.
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.

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