Prof. Dr. Gerhard Heyer

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Heyer has studied at Cambridge University and the University of the Ruhr at Bochum, where he received his Ph.D. in 1983. He has then been responsible for research and development of language and multi-media products within the Olivetti Group, including ESPRIT projects Translator´s Workbench, Translator´s Workbench II, and MultiLex. Prof. Heyer presently holds the chair on Automatic Language Processing at the computer science department of the University of Leipzig. He also is co-founder and share holder of text:tech GmbH, Leipzig, a company specializing in the content-oriented processing of very large amounts of texts. Prof. Heyer has broad experience and expertise in the theoretical foundations, state-of-the art research and development of automatic content driven text processing, in particular with respect to meta-tag structuring, ontologies, and search engines. He will advise the project management on management and technological issues during all phases of the project. His main focus will be on issues of ontologies, specification, and evaluation. In cooperation with the University of Leipzig he will make available to the consortium one of the largest multi-lingual data bases of domain specific terms that has been set up at his department during the last years.

 
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Univerity of Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Heyer
Postfach 920 04009
Leipzig
Germany

Phone: +49 (0341) 9732230
Email: heyer@informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Internet:http://wortschatz.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/asv/mitarbeiter/heyer/index.html