Roland R. Hausser

Roland Hausser is Professor Emeritus for Theoretical and Computational Linguistics at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg and former director of its Laboratory of Computational Linguistics (CLUE), between 1989 and 2011. After obtaining his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, the author held various positions at Carnegie Mellon, Stanford University or Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Prof. Hausser has been active and made significant contributions in the fields of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics, Human-Computer Interaction, Formal Grammars and Database Semantics. His research resulted in around 40 journal papers and conference proceedings, and he is the author of the Springer books “Foundations of Computational Linguistics”, “A Computational Model of Natural Language Communication” and “Computational Linguistics and Talking Robots”.