Dafydd Gibbon

Dafydd Gibbon specialises in applications of computational linguistics in language description and documentation and in the human language technologies, particularly in relation to the languages of West Africa. He studied languages and linguistics at King’s College, London and the universities of Erlangen and Göttingen, and has held positions at Göttingen University, the University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, and Bielefeld University, guest professorships at the University of Uyo, Nigeria and  the Université de Cocody, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.  From 2006-2014 he was Convenor of the International Coordinating Committee for Speech Databases and Evaluation, and has co-edited three handbooks on resources for technical communication. Recently he was awarded the distinction of “Officier de l’Ordre de Mérite Ivoirien” by the President of Ivory Coast for his life’s work in promoting description, documentation and technological application of the languages of West Africa.

Further information: http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/gibbon