Jan Daciuk - Curriculum Vitae

Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications, and Informatics, Technical University of Gdańsk, Poland

• Research in the construction and use of finite-state automata for natural language processing at lexical level. The thesis presents two general purpose incremental algorithms for construction of minimal, deterministics, acyclic, finite-state automata, and a method for construction of automata for prediction of morphological categories and canonical forms of words that are not present in a lexicon
• Thesis Title: Incremental Construction of Finite-State Automata and Transducers, and Their Use in the Natural Language Processing
• Supervisor: Zygmunt Vetulani

Master of Science in Computer Hardware and Software (1986)

Faculty of Electronics, Technical University of Gdańsk, Poland

• A graduate course in computer science
• Thesis Title: A Macroassembler for Z-80 Microprocesor

Baccalaureate (1981)

II Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Konstantego Ildefonsa Gałczyńskiego w Olsztynie, Poland.

• A general course in Polish, Russian, German, history, geography, biology, mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, giving adequate education for passing university-level entry examinations

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Research in finite-state devices in natural language processing on lexical level. Results include two software packages fsa and utr available from http://www.pg.gda.pl/~jandac/fsa.html, and described in the Ph.D. thesis, a finite-state library fadd available from http://www.pg.gda.pl/~jandac/fadd.html a collection of minimization algorithms including incremental minimization available at http://www.pg.gda.pl/~jandac/minim.html, and a collection of algorithms for incremental and semi-incremental construction of finite-state automata available at http://www.pg.gda.pl/~jandac/adfa.html.
• Research in computer-aided teaching methods with focus on lecture-description languages. Includes a one-month visit at the University of Strasburg, France (1992), and a three-month visit at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany (1993).
• Teaching programming in Pascal, numerical methods, concurrent programming, data structures, operating systems, human-computer interaction, compiler construction, natural language processing, and computational linguistics.
• Supervised M.Sc. projects in natural language processing.
• Supervised practical training of foreign students.
• Administrator of a laboratory LAN of 17 computers running under Solaris.

Visiting Professor, Ecole Polytechnique de l'Universite de Tours (I was actually in Blois), France (October and November 2004)

• Research in pseudominimal automata

Postdoc, Alfa-Informatica, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands (2000-2003)

• Research in finite-state devices in natural language processing
• Member of the Pioneer research project ALPINO - Algorithms for Linguistic Processing

Programmer (scholarship holder), ISSCO, University of Geneva, Switzerland (1995-1996)

• Developed algorithms and implemented software for incremental construction of minimal, deterministic, acyclic, finite-state automata and transducers, as well as for their use in natural language processing at lexical level, including morphological analysis of both known and unknown words (i.e. present in a lexicon or not), spelling correction, restoration of diacritics, perfect hashing.
• Maintained www pages of the institute.
• Converted documentation of one of the workgroups of the Eagles project to HTML.

Military Training, Poland (1987-1988)

• Military training and programming, including databases.

Programmer, Przedsiębiorstwo Informatyki Przemysłu Budowlanego ETOB, Warsaw, Poland (1987)

• Programmed interfaces to databases

LANGUAGES

• Fluent in Polish, English and French, passive knowledge of German, basic level of Dutch.

Programming languages

• Programming experience in C, C++, Pascal, Fortran, Basic, 80x86 Assembly, PDP-11 Assembly, AWK, Elisp (Emacs Lisp), and CLIPS, basic knowledge of Prolog and Perl.

Operating Systems

• Worked under Unix, Dos, and Windows.

AWARDS

• Rector's award for achievements in didactics, Technical University of Gdańsk (1990).
• Two rector's awards for achievements in studies, Technical University of Gdańsk (1981-1986).
• Scholarship for achievements in studies, technical University of Gdańsk (1984-1986)

PUBLICATIONS

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Informatyka na Wyższych Uczelniach dla Gospodarki Narodowej (Computer Science at Universities for national Economy), Gdańsk, 1994.
• Informatyka na Wyższych Uczelniach dla Gospodarki Narodowej (Computer Science at Universities for national Economy), Gdańsk, 1996.

Member of the Association for Computational Linguistics from 1995.

Attended a Summer School Formal Grammars and Their Applications in Tartu, Estonia, 1998.

Member of the program committee of FSMNLP (Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing), CIAA (Conference on Implementation and Applications of Automata) and IIS (Intelligent Information Systems) conferences.

Reviewed papers for: Computational Linguistics, Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Theoretical Computer Science, FSMNLP, CLiN, ACL, EACL.

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

• Interests: tourism, photography, DX-ing, tennis, cycling, dancing.

REFERENCES

• Prof. Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University, Ul. Matejki 48/49, PL60-769 Poznań, Poland, e-mail vetulani@amu.edu.pl
• Prof. Margaret King, ISSCO, University of Geneva, Uni-Mail, Boulevard du Pont-d'Arve, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland, e-mail: Maghi.King@issco.unige.ch
• Prof. Susan Armstrong, ISSCO, University of Geneva, Uni-Mail, Boulevard du Pont-d'Arve, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland, e-mail: Susan.Armstrong@issco.unige.ch