Dr. Serge Sharoff

(the official Russian spelling is Sergei Sharov)

Curriculum Vitae

Address

Centre for Translation Studies
School of Modern Languages and Cultures
University of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 9JT
Tel. +44(0)113 343 7287
Fax. +44(0)113 343 3287
e-mail: s.sharoffleeds.ac.uk

Current position

Since 03/2003: Research Fellow/Lecturer, University of Leeds

Former positions

11/2000 - 10/2002: Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bielefeld
09/1990 - 10/2000: research assistant - senior research fellow at RRIAI, the Russian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
Fall 1997 - 1998: Lecturer at the Faculty of Philology of the Moscow Lomonosov State University.

Education

May, 1997: The PhD in computer science received at the Moscow Lomonosov State University (the thesis title is "An instrumental tool for development of linguistic processors").
1985 - 1990: studied at the Urals Gorky State University; graduated in mathematics.

Research interests

Computational linguistics (text understanding and generation), corpus linguistics (mono- and multilingual corpora, concordancing and statistical tools), theoretical linguistics (systemic-functional grammar, lexical semantics), artificial intelligence (knowledge representation), cognitive science (models of meaning, Husserl's phenomenology).

Participation in research projects

1997-1998, AGILE - multilingual generation of user manuals (the project is within the scope of the INCO-COPERNICUS programme of the EU, http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/projects/agile).
1994-1995, TECHDOC-R - An application of systemic-functional grammar to Russian for multilingual generation of technical manuals (the joint project with FAW, Ulm, Germany).
1993-1997, AURA - Automated Understanding in Restricted Areas.
1991-1994, SNOOP - System with Networks and Object-Oriented Production rules (a formal modeling tool for computational linguistics).
1990, 1996-1998, InterBASE - A system for natural language interface to databases.
1990-1991 - A computational morphology of the Russian language.

Research awards

Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. 2001-2002.
Research Support Scheme of the Open Society Foundation. 1999-2000.
Central European University. 1999. Visiting Fellowship.
INCO-COPERNICUS Program of the European Community. 1997. Research Grant for AGILE 1998-2000.
International Science Foundation. 1995. Research Grant (participation in a project).

Teaching experience

Semester course "Introduction into functional linguistics and its computational implementation", Faculty of Philology, Moscow.
Semester course "Introduction into models for representing linguistic knowledge", Faculty of Philology, Moscow (a course was prepared, but not actually taught due to financial problems).

Language experience

Russian (native), English (fluent), German (fluent).