Harald Trost

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I am ...

 ... born and living in Vienna, married, and I have two children.

... Associate Professor at the Section for Artifical Intelligence of the Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics, and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Austria.


Education

1978     

 diploma in computer science from the Vienna University of Technology

1983     

 doctorate with a thesis on terminological knowledge representation from the Vienna University of Technology

1991     

 "Habilitation" in the field of Artificial Intelligence with a thesis on computational morphology at the University of Vienna.

Professional
Career

1978 - 1989

 research assistant at the Department of Medical Cybernetics and Artifical Intelligence

since 1984     

 head of the Language Technology group at the ÖFAI

1989 - 1991

 senior researcher in the DISCO project at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Saarbrücken, Germany.

since 1991     

 Associate Professor at the Department of Medical Cybernetics and Artifical Intelligence of the University of Vienna.

2004 - 2009

 the Department of Medical Cybernetics and Artifical Intelligence formed part of the Center for Brain Research of the Medical University of Vienna (MUW).

since 2010     

 at the Section for Artificial Intelligence of the Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems of the Medical University of Vienna (MUW).
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Professional
Activities

1981 - 1988

 Editor of the ÖGAI-Journal.

1982 - 1984

 Representative of ÖGAI in the European Coordinating Committee on Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI).

since 1987     

 Member of the editorial board of the international journal Applied Artificial Intelligence, published by Taylor & Francis.

1992 - 1999

 Austrian representative in the WP 6 - Language Engineering (formerly LRE) of the Telematics programme of the European Union.

1994 - 1997

 President of the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence (ÖGAI).

since 1996     

 Member of the editorial board of the electronic journal WEB-SLS European Student Journal of Language and Speech.

since 2007     

 Deputy curriculum director for the master study program "Medical Informatics" of the MUW.

since 2007     

 Coordinator for block 7 "Science and Medicine" in the medical curriculum at the MUW.
Back I have been program committee member in many international conferences--most recently for EACL'95, ACL/EACL'97, where I also acted as workshop chair--and KONVENS'2004. I have organized a number of workshops and conferences. The latest one was KONVENS'94 in Vienna.

I have been and am reviewer for scientific journals and conferences. I have also been involved in the evalution process of the EU's IST programme, both in the ranking of proposals and the reviewing of on-going or finished projects.

Projects

 I am supervising--and contributing to--a number of projects. Some current projects are:
       INSPIRATION This project forms part of the Knet COAST. As automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems so far do not exhaust the potential of automatic text processing and semantic technology, the INSPIRATION project aims at modelling and supporting document creation processes aided by speech recognition. By using semantic technology, the speech recognition system is being expanded to move from producing only a word-by-word transcription of the dictation toward an automatic transformation, from the verbal to the written and formatted level. Adding intelligent natural language understanding components to the speech recognition system lays a foundation for successfully using ASR technology in document creation and data-mining tasks.
       MAGNIFICENT Little is known in hard facts about why readers of online newspapers prefer some articles over others. Content accounts for about 40% of a story's satisfaction rating. Factors that determine the remaining 60% can be as diverse as readability concerns, writing style, the type of a story, visual complexity, proper use of photographs, or, even less concretely, the appeal of a story. The goal of MAGNIFICENT - funded by the FIT-IT Semantic Systems program - is to gain deep insight into both the relevant parameters of stories and the adaptive training of user profiles along these parameters. Ultimately, we want to improve a user's reading experience through personalized presentation of articles, taking into account personal reading behavior and use of the medium. From a broader perspective, our approach emphasizes a more comprehensive view of semantics. The meaning of a text goes far beyond its basic propositional content. It comprises a rich mix of diverse factors, including rhetorical structure, style, standpoint, and many other aspects writers routinely convey to their readers.
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Research
Interests


Originally, my research interest in natural language stems from work in Artificial Intelligence, namely in dialog systems. Over the years I have been working in several areas of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics. Areas of current interest to me are:
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  • Computational Morphology
  • Ontology Engineering
  • natural language based multi-modal man-machine interfaces.

Publications

 Since the late seventies I have written, coauthored and edited more than 100 publications. A list of these publications and (if available) links to online versions can be found here, people writing LaTeX and wanting to cite me can get this list formatted as bibitems.
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Teaching


I have been teaching courses on a number of topics in Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. The courses I currently give, form part of the Medical Informatics curriculum at the Medical University of Vienna and/or the Informatics Curricula at the University of Vienna.

I am also involved in the Medical Curriculum at my home university. Most importantly, I am coordinating block 7 "Science and Medicine".

I act as deputy curriculum director responsible for the master study "Medical Informatics" which includes coordinating the MUW's activities in the "Middle European Master Programme in Cognitive Sciences" and in the medical informatics module of the computer science bachelor program at the University of Vienna.

Back In addition, I am supervising student projects and masters' and doctoral theses in my capacity as associate professor at the Institute of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence of the Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna.

I have also taught courses for more advanced audiences on various international events:

  • KIFS-91 (9. Frühjahrsschule Künstliche Intelligenz)
  • Herbstschule Kognitionswissenschaft; Saarbrücken, 1992
  • KIFS-92 (10. Frühjahrsschule Künstliche Intelligenz)
  • ELSNET Summer School on Prosody; London, 1993.
  • Summer School on Contemporary Topics in Computational Linguistics; Batak Lake, Bulgaria, 1997.

Coordinates

 Address:
Harald Trost
Dept. of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence
of the Center for Brain Research
Medical University of Vienna
Freyung 6
A-1010 Vienna, Austria
Phone:
+43/1/4277 63121
Fax:
+43/1/4277 9631
Email: Harald dot Trost at meduniwien dot ac dot at

Offenlegung

 Offenlegung nach Par.25 Mediengesetz:
Medieninhaber / für den Inhalt dieser Seite verantwortlich: Harald Trost, Wien
last modified: 14-07-2009