Institut für Computerlinguistik

Michael Hess is professor of Computational Linguistics and head of the Institute of Computational Linguistics.

Visiting hours
Research interest
Curriculum Vitae

Visiting hours

Visiting hours: Thursday 14:00 - 15:00 (by appointment only; please contact Andrea Sgueglia)

Research interest

My interest are mainly

• computational semantics (with Answer Extraction as its main application)

• logic programming in its applications to the problems of Computational Linguistics, and 

• web-based methods of teaching (primarily but not exclusively) Computational Linguistics.

Curriculum Vitae

1949 Born in Zurich, Switzerland

1968-1976 Studies at the University of Zurich (Russian linguistics
and literature, history) and at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (Artificial Intelligence)

Fall 1975 - Spring 1976 Exchange student at the University of
Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR

1976 Ph.D. (University of Zurich)

1977 - 1979 Research Assistant in a project of the Swiss
National Science Foundation on the automatic summarization of texts

1980 - 1982 Grant for Advanced Young Researchers of the Swiss
National Science Foundation

1980 - 1981 Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Computational
Linguistics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and
Technology, Great Britain

1982 - 1982 Visiting Scholar in the Deptartment of Computer
Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Texas

1983 Associate Research Scientist in  the same department

1984 - 1987 Research Assistant for Computational Linguistics in
the Department of General Linguistics, University of Zurich

1987 - 1990 Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer
Sciences, University of Zurich

1990 - 1992 Chargé de recherche at the Institut pour les études
sémantiques et cognitives (ISSCO), University of Geneva,
Switzerland.

1991 ``Habilitation'' in Computational Linguistics (University
of Zurich)

1992-1994 Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics and Artificial
Intelligence at the University of Koblenz, Germany

since 1994 Professor of Computational Linguistics at the
University of Zurich, Switzerland

since 2001 Head of the new Institute of Computational
Linguistics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland

2004 Full Professor