Beáta Megyesi

Professor (Leave of Absence) at Department of Linguistics and Philology

Email:
Beata.Megyesi[AT-sign]lingfil.uu.se
Telephone:
+4618-471 7860
Visiting address:
Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H

Postal address:
Box 635
751 26 UPPSALA
Leave of Absence:
2023-08-01 - 2024-07-31
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I am a professor of computational linguistics and currently on leave from Uppsala University for a professorship at Stockholm University.

My main research area is natural language processing and digital philology. I conduct research on historical cryptology to develop methods to automatically crack historical ciphers. I also develop tools for the analysis of historical and modern texts in various genres to enable large, quantitative studies for humanities and social sciences.

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Keywords: digital humanities historical cryptology natural language processing

Education

  • Professor of Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, 2021
  • Associate Professor in Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, 2013
  • PhD in Speech Communication, Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, 2002
  • B.A. in Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, 2000

Appointments

Present:

  • Vice chair and member of the Linguistics review panel at the Swedish Research Council, 2021-2023
  • Member of the nominating committee of the Northern European Association for Language Technology – NEALT, 2022-2025
  • Vice-chair and member of the board of the Center for Digital Humanities, Uppsala University, 2021-2023

Past:

  • President of the Northern European Association for Language Technology –
    NEALT, 2020-2021
  • Head of Department of Linguistics and Philology, 2009-2018
  • Director of the English Park Campus, Uppsala University, 2017-2018
  • Vice-president of the Northern European Association for Language Technology –
    NEALT (2018-2019)
  • Member of the board at the Dept. of Linguistics and Philology, 2007–2009, 2010-2012, 2012-2015, 2016-2018
  • Member of the board of the faculty of languages, Uppsala University, 2008-2011, 2011-2014, 2019-2020
  • Director of studies at the Department of linguistics and philology, 2007-2009
  • Program coordinator for the Language Technology Program, Uppsala University, 2004-2007
  • Member of the board at the Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, 2003-2004

Teaching

Basic level courses

  • Languages, computers, and text processing (in Swedish)
  • Advisor for Language Technology Project, 7.5 ECTS
  • BA thesis supervision

Advanced level courses

  • Research and Development, 15 ECTS
  • Digital Philology, 5/7.5 ECTS
  • Thesis work in language technology, 30 ECTS
  • Advisor for Language Technology Project, 7.5 ECTS
  • Master thesis supervision

PhD education

Other things I like: my twins, traveling, Amnesty International, some workout like skiing, piloxing and pump, books, cello, chocolate, margaritas and cosmos, ladies of jazz, Bridges of Madison county, and of course my dearest best friends: girls, you know who you are!, and my (often empty) not-to-do list...

Things I don't like: greed, injustice, and ruling techniques

Research interests

  • Historical Cryptology
  • Digital Philology focusing on the automatic analysis of historical texts and student writings
  • PoS tagging, morphological analysis, chunking, shallow parsing for different types of languages
  • Parallel corpora and treebanks
  • Text categorization

Projects

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Beáta Megyesi
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