Erhard Hinrichs

Prof. Dr. Erhard Hinrichs is professor of Computational Linguistics and director of the Computational Linguistics research group at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He obtained a PhD, Linguistics from The Ohio State University. His previous positions include Research Fellow, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Research Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Department, Bolt Beranek and Newman Laboratories, Cambridge. He has also held positions as a Visiting Professor in Computer Science at the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken, NTT Laboratories, Yokosuka, Japan, The Ohio State University, and the European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano. His research interests include the computational modelling of language comprehension (particularly of syntax and semantics) and of language variation, using symbolic and statistical approaches.