Gábor Prószéky - Biography#

Gábor Prószéky has been the director general of the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics since 2017. He is full professor of the Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest). Since 2012 he has been the president of the Doctoral and Habiliatation Council of the Faculty. He was the head of the MTA-PPKE Hungarian Language Technology Research Group between 2012 and 2022.

Gábor Prószéky graduated at the ELTE University (Budapest) both in software engineering and in general & applied linguistics. He holds a PhD (1994) in computational linguistics. In 2005 he received the title of Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He habilitated in 2006 at the Faculty of IT of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University.

In 1991, with software engineer colleagues working on human language technology applications, he founded MorphoLogic, the first language industry company in Hungary. Since then, MorphoLogic’s various applications have been licensed by Microsoft, IBM, Xerox, among others. In 1999, MorphoLogic won the IST Prize of the European Commission.

Since his university years, Gábor Prószéky has been involved in more than thirty R&D projects in human language technologies (HLT), and computational and theoretical aspects of humanities. His research interest covers various aspects of computational analysis of highly inflectional languages, intelligent dictionaries, machine translation and large language models. He is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and three books on human language technologies. He has been a lecturer at various universities, dealing mostly with applications of computers in humanities.

Among others, he was a Board Member of the European Language Resources Association and the President of the Lexicographical Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2006-2012). Since 2013 he has been the president of the Association of Hungarian Applied Linguists, and between 2014 and 2022 he was the president of the Council of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund.

In 2000, Gábor Prószéky received Hungary’s highest award, the Széchenyi Prize, for his scientific activities. Among others, he also received the Kalmár Award of the John von Neumann Computer Society (1995), IT Manager of the Year (2002), Award for the Hungarian IT (2005), Special Prize to the IT Lecturer of the Year (2009) and Dennis Gabor Award (2010), Pázmány Plaquette (2013), Prima Award (2023).