Robin H. Cooper#
Current Position: Professor of Computational Linguistics, Institutionen för lingvistik, Göteborgs universitet
Post-school Education:
- B.A. (hons), Modern Languages, 1969 (M.A. awarded 1974), Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Ph.D., Linguistics, 1975, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Career
- 1969–1971 Lektor for English language, University of Freiburg
- 1971–1973 Teaching Assistant, Linguistics and TEFL Program, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- 1973–1975 Research Assistant: natural language semantics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- 1974 Research Assistant: Old High German Phonology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (summer)
- 1975–1976 Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
- 1976–1977 Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- 1977–1981 Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- 1981–1987 Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- 1984–1987 Docent, Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Lund University
- 1986–1989 Lecturer, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh
- 1989–1992 Reader, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Centre for Cognitive Science and Principal Investigator, Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh
- 1992–1996 Reader, Centre for Cognitive Science and Principal Investigator, Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh
- 1995– Professor of Computational Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Gothenburg
- 2001– Director, Swedish National Graduate School of Language Technology (GSLT)
Fellowships and Honours
- 1980–1981 Mellon Fellowship in Linguistics and Philosophy, Stanford University.
- 1981–1982 Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford (with support from the Mellon Foundation and Systems Development Foundation and Systems Development Foundation).
- 1986–87 Guggenheim Fellowship, “Situation Semantics and Linguistic Theory” (resident at Edinburgh University with two visits to the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford).
- 1993– Fellow of the British Academy
- 1996– Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg
- 2006 Fil.Dr. h.c. (Uppsala)
