Johan Hall - Curriculum Vitae/Resumé

Johan Hall Address
Johan Hall
Jupitervägen 64
SE 352 64 Växjö
Sweden
Born
May 7, 1973
Trelleborg, Sweden
Employments | Educations | Research | PhD Courses | Boards&Committees | Languages | Publications | Presentations | Resources

Employments

2010 Apr. - Co-Owner/Software Developer at Arkiv Digital AD AB, Mariestad
2011 Apr. - Owner/Software Consultant at Kronohill Software AB, Växjö
2009 Feb. - 2009 Sep., 2010 Apr. - 2011 Jun. Researcher in Language Technology, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University
2009 Oct. - 2010 Apr. Software Consultant at Crepido Systems AB, Växjö
2003 Jul. - 2008 Dec. Doctoral Student, Computer Science with special interest in Language Technology, School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering (MSI), Växjö University
2001-2008 Jul. Web Administrator (10%), HH DigiArkiv AB/GH Microscan, Trelleborg
2000 Sep. - 2003 Jun. Junior (Assistant) Lecturer (vik. universitetsadjunkt), Computer Science, School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering (MSI), Växjö University
1999 Sep - 2000 Aug. Teaching assistant (laborationshandledare), Computer Science, School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering (MSI), Växjö University
1998 Aug. - 1999 Jul. Sales engineer in the area of wireless infrastructure, Transtema AB , Gothenburg

Educations

2008 Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, Växjö University
2006 Licentiate in Computer Science, Växjö University
2003 Master of Science in Computer Science, Växjö University
2001 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Växjö University
1996 Business Economics for Engineers, Växjö University
1995 Computer Engineering, Växjö University

Research Activities

2006-2008 Researcher, Inductive Dependency Parsing (IDP), Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet)
2007 Participant, CoNLL Shared Task 2007: Multi-lingual Dependency Parsing (CoNLL Shared Task 2007)
2006 Participant, CoNLL-X Shared Task: Multi-lingual Dependency Parsing (CoNLL-X Shared Task)
2006-2007 Co-organizer and reviewer of the CoNLL Shared Task 2007
2003 Local Organizer, The Second Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT2003), 14-15 November, Växjö
2003-2005 Researcher, Stochastic Dependency Grammars for Natural Language Parsing (SDG), Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet)
2002 Researcher, Swedish Treebank (ST), The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond)

Postgraduate Courses

2006 Machine Learning II, 15 ETCS, Graduate School of Language Technology (GSLT), Göteborg University
2006 Introduction to teaching and learning in higher education, 7.5 ETCS, Växjö University
2005 Theory of Languages, 7.5 ETCS, Växjö University
2005 Statistical Methods, 7.5 ETCS, Graduate School of Language Technology (GSLT), Göteborg University
2005 Machine Learning I, 7.5 ETCS, Graduate School of Language Technology (GSLT), Göteborg University
2005 Parsing Methods, 7.5 ETCS, Graduate School of Language Technology (GSLT), Göteborg University
2004 Information Management Technologies, 7.5 ETCS, Växjö University
2004 Natural Language Processing, 7.5 ETCS, Graduate School of Language Technology (GSLT), Göteborg University
2004 Treebanks, 7.5 ETCS, Stockholm University
2004 Speech Technology, 7.5 ETCS, Graduate School of Language Technology (GSLT), Göteborg University
2003 Theory and Philosophy of Science, 7.5 ETCS, Växjö University
2003 Project course in Language Technology, 7.5 ETCS, Växjö University

Boards and Committees

2004-2008 Chairman of the Board, HH DigiArkiv AB, Trelleborg
2006-2007 Member of the University Board (Doctoral student representative), Växjö (universitetsstyrelsen)
2006-2007 Member of the Board of the Faculty of Mathematics/Science/Technology (Doctoral student representative), Växjö University
2006-2007 Chairman of the Board of Doctoral Student Committee (VUD), Växjö University
2006-2007 Member of the Board of Swedish Doctoral Student Committee (SDok), Sweden
2004-2006 Chairman of the Board of Doctoral Student Committee (Doktorandföreningen vid MSI), School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, Växjö University
2004-2006 Member of the Board of Doctoral Student Committee (VUD), Växjö University
2005 Member of the Board of Research Committee (Doctoral student representative), School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, Växjö University
2004-2005 Member of the Board of Research Committee in Computer Science (Doctoral student representative), School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, Växjö University
1995-1998,
2000-2001
Member of the Board of Student Farce (Wexiö Späx), Växjö
1997-1998 Member of the Board of Students' Union, Växjö
1996-1998 Delegate of Students' Union Council, Växjö

Languages

Native Swedish
Near fluent English

Publications

Journal Articles, Book Chapters and Refereed Conference Papers
2010
Bosco, C., Montemagni, S., Mazzei, A., Lombardo, V., Dell'Orletta, F., Lenci, A., Lesmo, L., Attardi, G., Simi, M., Lavelli, A., Hall, J., Nilsson, J. and Nivre, J. (2010) Comparing the Influence of Different Treebank Annotations on Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC).
2009
Hall, J., Nilsson, J. and Nivre, J. (2009) Single Malt or Blended? A Study in Multilingual Parser Optimization. In Bunt, H., Merlo, P. and Nivre, J. (eds.) New Trends in Parsing Technology. Springer.
Nilsson, J., Löwe W., Hall, J. and Nivre, J. (2009) Natural Language Parsing for Fact Extraction from Source Code. In Proceedings of 17th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 223-227.
Nilsson, J., Löwe W., Hall, J. and Nivre, J. (2009) Parsing Formal Languages using Natural Language Parsing Techniques. In Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT), Paris, France, pp. 49-60.
Nivre, J., Kuhlmann M. and Hall, J. (2009) An Improved Oracle for Dependency Parsing with Online Reordering. In Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT), Paris, France, pp. 73-76.
Lavelli, A., Hall, J., Nilsson, J. and Nivre, J. (2009) MaltParser at the EVALITA 2009 Dependency Parsing Task. In Proceedings of EVALITA 2009.
2008
Hall, J. and Nivre, J. (2008) A Dependency-Driven Parser for German Dependency and Constituency Representations. In Proceedings of the ACL-08: HLT Workshop on Parsing German (PaGe-08), Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 2008, pp. 47-54.
Hall, J. and Nivre, J. (2008) Parsing Discontinuous Phrase Structure with Grammatical Functions. In Ranta, A. and Nordström, B. (eds.) In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (GoTAL 2008), LNAI 5221, Springer-Verlag, August 25-27, 2008, Gothenburg, Sweden, pp. 169-180.
2007
Nivre, J., Hall, J., Nilsson, J., Chanev, A., Eryigit, G., Kübler, S., Marinov, S., Marsi, E. (2007) MaltParser: A Language-Independent System for Data-Driven Dependency Parsing. Natural Language Engineering, June 2007 13(2), pp. 95-135. [OPUS/DIVA]
Hall, J., Nivre, J., Nilsson, J. (2007) A Hybrid Constituency-Dependency Parser for Swedish. In Proceedings of the 16th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA), May 25-26, 2007, Tartu, Estonia, pp. 284-287. [OPUS/DIVA]
Nilsson, J., Nivre, J., Hall, J. (2007) Generalizing Tree Transformations for Inductive Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2007), June 25-27, 2007, Prauge, Czech Republic, pp. 968-975. [OPUS/DIVA]
Hall, J., Nilsson, J., Nivre, J., Eryigit, G., Megyesi, B., Nilsson, M., Saers, M. (2007) Single Malt or Blended? A Study in Multilingual Parser Optimization. In Proceedings of the CoNLL Shared Task Session of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, June 28-30, 2007, Prauge, Czech Republic, pp. 933-939. [OPUS/DIVA]
Nivre, J., Hall, J., Kübler, S., McDonald, R., Nilsson, J., Riedel, S., Yuret, D. (2007) The CoNLL 2007 Shared Task on Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of the CoNLL Shared Task Session of EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, June 28-30, 2007, Prauge, Czech Republic, pp. 915-932. [OPUS/DIVA]
2006
Nivre, J., Nilsson, J. and Hall, J. (2006) Talbanken05: A Swedish Treebank with Phrase Structure and Dependency Annotation. In Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2006), May 24-26, 2006, Genoa, Italy, pp. 1392-1395. [OPUS/DIVA]
Nivre, J., Hall, J. and Nilsson, J. (2006) MaltParser: A Data-Driven Parser-Generator for Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2006), May 24-26, 2006, Genoa, Italy, pp. 2216-2219. [OPUS/DIVA]
Nivre, J., Hall, J., Nilsson, J., Eryigit, G. and Marinov, S. (2006) Labeled Pseudo-Projective Dependency Parsing with Support Vector Machines. In Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-X)., June 8-9, 2006, New York City, US, pp. 221-225. [OPUS/DIVA]
Nilsson, J., Nivre, J. and Hall, J. (2006) Graph Transformations in Data-Driven Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL 2006), July 17-21, 2006, Sydney, Australia, pp. 257-264. [OPUS/DIVA]
Hall, J., Nivre, J. and Nilsson, J. (2006) Discriminative Classifiers for Deterministic Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL 2006), July 17-21, 2006, Sydney, Australia, pp. 316-323. [OPUS/DIVA]
2005
Nilsson J., Hall, J. and Nivre, J. (2005) MAMBA Meets TIGER: Reconstructing a Swedish Treebank from Antiquity. In Proceedings of NODALIDA 2005 Special Session on Treebanks for Spoken and Discourse, Copenhagen Studies in Language 32, May 19, 2005, Joensuu, Finland, pp. 119-132.
Hall, J. and Nivre, J. (2005) A generic architecture for data-driven dependency parsing. In Proceedings of the 15th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA), May 20-21, 2005, Joensuu, Finland, pp. 47-56.
Nivre, J. and Hall, J.. (2005) MaltParser: A Language-Independent System for Data-Driven Dependency Parsing. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT2005), 9-10 December 2005, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 137-148.
2004
Nivre, J., Hall, J. and Nilsson, J. (2004) Memory-Based Dependency Parsing. In Ng, H. T. and Riloff, E. (eds.) In Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), May 6-7, 2004, Boston, Massachusetts, pp. 49-56.
 
Dissertations
Hall, J. (2008) Transition-Based Natural Language Parsing with Dependency and Constituency Representations. Acta Wexionensia, No 152/2008, Computer Science, Växjö University (PhD Thesis) [OPUS/DIVA]
Hall, J. (2006) MaltParser - An Architecture for Inductive Labeled Dependency Parsing. MSI report 06050. Växjö University: School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering. (Licentiate Thesis) [OPUS/DIVA]
Hall, J. (2003) A Probabilistic Part-of Speech Tagger with Suffix Probabilities. MSI report 03015. Växjö University: School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering. (Master Thesis)
Hall, J. (2001) Applikationstjänst (2001) MSI report 01007. Växjö University: School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering. (Bachelor Thesis)
 
Technical Reports
Nilsson, J., Löwe, W., Hall, J. and Nivre, J. (2009) Using MaltParser for Fact Extraction from Programs.. MSI report 09010. Växjö University: School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering.
Hall, J. and Nilsson, J. (2006) CoNLL-X Shared Task: Multi-lingual Dependency Parsing. MSI report 06060. Växjö University: School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering. [OPUS/DIVA]
Hall, J. and Nilsson, J. (2005) Converting Dependency Treebanks to MALT-XML. MSI report 05001. Växjö University: School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering. [OPUS/DIVA]
Nilsson, J. and Hall, J. (2005) Reconstruction of the Swedish Treebank Talbanken. MSI report 05067. Växjö University: School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering. [OPUS/DIVA]

Presentations, Talks, Posters and Visits

2008 Oral presentation at ACL08 workshop PaGe08, "A Dependency-Driven Parser for German Dependency and Constituency Representations", June 20, 2008, Columbus, Ohio, USA
2008 Oral presentation at GoTAL-08, "Parsing Discontinuous Phrase Structure with Grammatical Functions", August 25-27, 2008, Gothenburg, Sweden
2007 Invited talk and visit at University of Pennsylvania, "MaltParser - A System for Multilingual Data-Driven Dependency Parsing", May 1-10, 2007, Philadelphia, US
2007 Poster presentation at NODALIDA 2007, "A Hybrid Constituency-Dependency Parser for Swedish", May 25-26, 2007, Tartu, Estonia
2007 Oral presentation at EMNLP-CoNLL 2007, "Single Malt or Blended? A Study in Multilingual Parser Optimization", June 28-30, 2007, Prag, Czech Republic
2006 Oral presentation of Licentiate Thesis, "MaltParser - An Architecture for Inductive Labeled Dependency Parsing", 19 May 2006, Växjö, Sweden
2006 Poster presentation at LREC2006, "Talbanken05: A Swedish Treebank with Phrase Structure and Dependency Annotation", May 24-26, 2006, Genoa, Italy
2006 Poster presentation at LREC2006, "MaltParser: A Data-Driven Parser-Generator for Dependency Parsing", May 24-26, 2006, Genoa, Italy
2006 Poster presentation at COLING-ACL 2006, "Discriminative Classifiers for Deterministic Dependency Parsing", July 17-21, 2006, Sydney, Australia
2005 Poster presentation at NODALIDA 2005, "A generic architecture for data-driven dependency parsing", May 20-21, 2005, Joensuu, Finland
2005 Oral presentation at TLT2005, "MaltParser: A Language-Independent System for Data-Driven Dependency Parsing", 9-10 December 2005, Barcelona, Spain

Resources

Software Data-driven dependency parser MaltParser, developed together with Joakim Nivre and Jens Nilsson
Treebank Swedish Treebank Talbanken05, developed together with Joakim Nivre and Jens Nilsson
Software Part-of-speech tagger MaltTagger