Jan Engh

Cand. mag. (sociology, French language and literature, Scandinavian languages and literatures) University of Oslo 1972

Lic.philos. (Scandinavian linguistics) University of Oslo 1976

Eight years as a researcher at the University of Oslo

• assistent (Norwegian institute of lexicography)
• research officer (Department for Norwegian language and literature)
• principal scientific officer (Arts faculty)

Scientific activities within the areas of

• semantics
• pragmatics
• sociolinguistics
• diachronic syntax
• lexicography

Nine years as a research scientist at IBM Norway - as the leader of the research group for linguistics and linguistic systems (title: "advisory computational linguist")

• natural language processing and computational linguistics
  • lexicon
  • morphology
  • syntax
  • lexicography
  • automatic translation
• terminology
• normative linguistics (selective review of technical translations)

Partially documented in the form of articles and books, although a major part of the documentation remains IBM internal

Stayed in Portugal 1992-1994

Advisor (freelance) Språkrådet (The Norwegian language council)

Academic librarian - fagreferent/førstebibliotekar - (Library for the Humanities and Social Sciences) 1994- in charge of the areas

• Scandinavian languages and literatures
• Natural language processing/computational linguistics etc.
• theoretical and applied linguistics

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