Prof. Dr. Martin Volk
Address:
Institute for Computational Linguistics
University of Zurich
Binzmühlestrasse 14
CH-8050 Zürich
Email: 
volkATcl.uzh.ch
Tel.:+41 44 635 4317
Room: 2.A.14
Research
Current Research Projects
- Parallel Treebanks
- Information Extraction and Ontologies
- Machine Translation of Film Subtitles (in cooperation with a large subtitling company)
- Digitizing and annotating heritage data: Text+Berg digital.
Past Research Projects
Long-term Research Interests
- Grammar and parser engineering
- Data-driven methods for NLP (corpora and treebanks)
- Multilingual text analysis
- Cross-language information retrieval
Teaching
Recent Teaching
- Corpus Linguistics and Ontologies
- Language Technology for Ontologies
- Machine Translation and Parallel Corpora
- Mathematical Linguistics
- Methods and Applications, an Introduction to Computational Linguistics
- Treebanks: Formats, Tools and Usages
Past Teaching
- Lexicon structure and morphology analysis (in German)
- Formal grammars and syntax analysis (in German)
- Introduction to Computer Science (for translators) (in German)
- Terminology Databases and Terminology Extraction (for translators) (in German)
- Corpus Linguistics for Computational Linguistics (overview in German, slides in English)
Hobbies
- Running
- Ice-skating on frozen lakes (e.g. with Norrvikens Friluftsfrämjandet)
- Kayaking in the Stockholm Archipelago
- Hiking and biking
- Listening to Classical Music
- Enjoying a good glass of wine (mostly) from Weingut Volk
- Digitizing old books (e.g. Lesebuch für die Kath. Volksschulen der Rheinprovinz from 1917)