Prof. Dr. Erhard Hinrichs

(Ehemaliger Mitarbeiter)

Function

Senior Researcher in the Department of Digital Linguistics/Research Infrastructures

Scholarships, Awards and Administrative Functions

since 2019
Member of the Advisory Board of the KULTSAM Project funded by the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
since 2019
Member of the International Advisory Board of the CLARIN-DARIAH Bulgarian Infrastructure Project (ClaDa-BG)
since 2017
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Centro interdisciplinare di richerche per la Computerizzazioni dei segni dell’espressione at the University Cattolica Milano
since 2016
Honorary Life-long member of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
2012–2015
Member of the International Advisory Board of the CLARIN-NL Project
since 2008
National Coordinator of CLARIN-D and Member of the National Coordinators’ Forum of CLARIN-ERIC
2008–2016
Member of the Executive Board of the European Research Infrastructure Consortium “Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure” (CLARIN-ERIC)
since 2005
Honorary Life-long member of the Foundation for Logic, Language and Information (FOLLI)
1999–2000
Speaker of the Collaborative Research Center “Theoretical Foundations of Computational Linguistics” (SFB 340), University of Stuttgart/University of Tübingen
1997–1998
President of the Foundation for Logic, Language and Information
1995–1997
President of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
1992–1995
Speaker of the DFG-Graduiertenkolleg “Integriertes Linguistik-Studium”

Professional Experience/Education

2019-2024
Senior Researcher in the Department of Digital Linguistics/Research Infrastructures, Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Mannheim, Germany
1991-
Full Professor and Chair of General and Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Tübingen, Germany
2004–2010
Associate Dean of Research of the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Tübingen
2004
Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, Sweden
1999
Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Illinois, USA
1997–2016
Distinguished Consulting Professor for Computational Linguistics, The Ohio State University, Department of Linguistics, USA
1993–1994
Senior Fellow in the Visiting Professor Program of NTT Laboratories, NTT Information Science Laboratory, Yokosuka, Japan
1989–1990
Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, Saarland University, Germany
1987–1990
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Illinois, USA
1987–1990
Research Fellow in Cognitive Science, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, USA
1985–1987
Research Scientist in Artificial Intelligence, Bolt Beranek and Newman Laboratories, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
1985
Ph.D. Linguistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus
1985
M.A. Linguistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus
1981
Staatsexamen, English and Protestant Theology, University of Tübingen

Selected Research Grants

2010–2022
Principal Investigator of Research Grant “Corpus-based Semantic Composition Models for Phrases” and of Research Grant “INF: Heterogenous Primary Research Data of the SFB 833”. Project awards by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the Collaborative Research Center “The Construction of Meaning”. (Sonderforschungsbereich 833)
2019–2021
Principal Investigator of Research Grant CLARIAH-DE. Project award by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
2019–2021
Principal Investigator of Research Grant “Social Sciences and Humanities Open Cloud” (SSHOC). Project award by the European Commission under the Horizon2020 Program
2018–2020
Principal Investigator of Research Grant “Modelling of Lexical-semantic Relations for Collocations”. Project award by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
2015–2017
Principal Investigator of Research Grant “CLARIN PLUS – Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure”. Project award by the European Commission under the Horizon2020 Program
2011–2020
Project Coordinator and Head of the German Section of the CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Federation: CLARIN-D: A Web and Centres-based Research Infrastructure for the Social Sciences and Humanities. Project award by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
2008–2012
Principal Investigator of Research Grant “CLARIN – Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure”. Award by the European Commission
2008–2010
Principal Investigator of Research Grant “Language Technology for Lifelong Learning” (LTfLL). Award by the European Commission2006–2010 Project Coordinator and Principal Investigator of Collaborative Research Grant “BulDialects – Measuring linguistic unity and diversity in Europe”. In cooperation with the Alfa-Informatica at the Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen, The Netherlands and the Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria. Project award by the Volkswagen Stiftung
2005–2007
Principal Investigator of Research Grant “Language Technology for eLearning” (LT4eL). Award by the European Commission
2001–2003
Project Coordinator and Principal Investigator of Collaborative Research Grant “Medien-intensive Lehre in der Computerlinguistik-Ausbildung” (MiLCA). Project award by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
1999–2008
Principal Investigator of Research Grant “Repräsentation und Erschließung linguistischer Daten” and of Research Grant “Linguistische Datenstrukturen: sprachübergreifende Annotationen und Datenklassen”. Project awards by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the Collaborative Research Center “Linguistic Data Structures”. (Sonderforschungsbereich 441: Linguistische Datenstrukturen)
1992–2000
Principal Investigator of Research Grant “Development of an HPSG Syntaxfragment for German, of Research Grant Constraints on Grammar for Efficient Generation”, and of Resarch Grant “From Constraints to Rules: Efficient Compilation of HPSG Grammars”. Project awards by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the Collaborative Research Center “Linguistic Foundations of Computational Linguistics” (Sonderforschungsbereich 340: Linguistische Grundlagen für die Computerlinguistik)
1992–2001
Scientific Director (1992–1995) and Principal Investigator (1992–2001) of the Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Graduiertenkolleg) “Integriertes Linguistik-Studium” awarded to the University of Tübingen by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)