Beáta Megyesi
Professor 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
Short presentation
I am a professor of computational linguistics at the Dept. of Linguistics and Philology. 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.
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
- I was co-supervisor: Eva Petterson and Mojgan Seraji
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
- DECRYPT: Decryption of historical manuscripts (PI, Vetenskapsrådet: 2018-2024).
- DECODE: Automatic decoding of historical manuscripts (PI, Vetenskapsrådet: 2015-2017)
- SweLL - L2 infrastructure: Research Infrastructure for Swedish as a second language (RJ, 2017-2019)
- SWE-CLARIN - SWEGRAM: Automatic annotation and analysis of Swedish texts (Swedish Research Council, 2014-2018, 2019-2022)
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- Swedish treebank
- Grammar extraction
- Basic Language Resource Kit for Swedish
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