Curriculum Vitae

Herbert Lange – Doctor of Philosophy – Computer Science – Gothenburg, Sweden

Contact:

• E-Mail: contact (AT) hackerbrau.se
• Homepage: https://hackerbrau.se
• Github: daherb
• LinkedIn: herbert-l-2474638a/
• Mastodon: chaos.social/@daherb

University Degrees

• PhD in computer science (March 2021)

  University of Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden)

  Thesis: “Learning Language (with) Grammars: From Teaching Latin to Learning Domain-Specific Grammars”

• Licentiate in computer science (November 2018)

  University of Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden)

  Thesis: “Computer-Assisted Language Learning with Grammars. A Case Study on Latin Learning”

• Master’s in computational linguistics (July 2014)

  Ludwig-Maximilians-University (Munich, Germany)

  Thesis: “Implementierung einer Lateingrammatik im Grammatical Framework”

University Education

• PhD studies in computer science (August 2015-Semptember 2020)

  University of Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden)

  • Supervisor: Peter Ljunglöf, Co-supervisor: Koen Claessen, Internal examinor: Aarne Ranta
  • Research erducation; research in computational linguistics; Studies and teaching in computational linguistics, linguistics and computer science

• Erasmus stay (Semptember 2010-May 2011)

  Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)

  • Study exchange to improve language skills and gather study experience abroad

• Master’s in computational linguistics (October 2008-Semptember 2014)

  Ludwig-Maximilians-University (Munich, Germany)

  • Supervisor: Hans Leiss
  • Minor subjects: Computer science and Medieval German language and literature

Work Experience

• Research Engineer (October 2023-now)

  Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden)

  System administration, Federated login and development of corpus quality test framework

• Researcher (March 2022-Semptember 2023)

  Leibniz-Institute for the German Language (Mannheim, Germany)

  Development of a long-term archiving system for linguistic research data

• Researcher (June 2021-November 2022)

  University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany)

  Development of quality assurance solutions for audio-visual corpora

• Researcher (August 2015-Semptember 2020)

  University of Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden)

  PhD studies in computer science with research focus on computational linguistics

• Software developer and system administrator (April 2015-May 2015)

  self-employed (Munich, Germany)

  Development of a monitoring solution ofr a segment of the university network at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich

• Software engineer (November 2014-January 2015)

  Glanos GmbH (Munich, Germany)

  Java backend development handling XML/JSON data and manual data annotation and analysis for Named Entity Recognition

• Student assistant (November 2011-December 2011)

  Institute for German Philology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (Munich, Germany)

  Data annotation for online publication of the ” Deutschen Verfasserlexikons der Frühen Neuzeit”

• Student assistant (February 2009-October 2014)

  IT-Zentrum der Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (Munich, Germany)

  System administration for a segment of the university network consisting of Linux/Mac/Windows servers and Windows/Mac clients

Scientific Publications

• Arianna Maciolini, Herbert Lange and Márton András Tóth (2024): “Exploring parallel corpora with STUnD: a Search Tool for Universal Dependencies”, in Humifra Conference 2023 (HiC) Handbook, Gothenburg, Sweden, Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, Forthcoming.

• Herbert Lange (2024): “Setting up a Research Data Repository Based on Invenio RDM: An Experience Report”, in Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning, Reykjavík, Iceland, Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications (6 (1) DHNB2024 Conference Proceedings), 10.5617/dhnbpub.11515, Published.

• Anna Wamprechtshammer, Elena Arestau, Jocelyn Aznar, Hanna Hedeland, Amy Isard, Ilya Khait, Herbert Lange, Nicole Majka and Felix Rau (2022): “QUEST: Guidelines and Specifications for the Assessment of Audiovisual, Annotated Language Data”, Working Papers in Corpus Linguistics and Digital Technologies: Analyses and Methodology (8), 90–175, University of Szeged, Department of Finno-Ugric Studies and Universität Hamburg, Zentrum für Sprachkorpora, Szeged, Hungary, 10.14232/wpcl.2022.8, https://hal.science/hal-04234971, Published.

• Herbert Lange (2022): “Metadata Formats for Learner Corpora: Case Study and Discussion”, in Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Linköping University Press, 108–113, https://aclanthology.org/2022.nlp4call-1.11.pdf, Published.

• Herbert Lange and Jocelyn Aznar (2022): “RefCo and its Checker: Improving Language Documentation Corpora’s Reusability Through a Semi-Automatic Review Process”, in Proceedings of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Marseille, France, European Language Resources Association, 2721–2729, https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.291, Published.

• Herbert Lange and Peter Ljunglöf (2021): “Learning Domain-Specific Grammars From a Small Number of Examples” , in Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence, Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI) (939), 105-138, Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, 10.1007/978-3-030-63787-3_4, Published.

• Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (2020); David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Herbert Lange and Lars Borin (eds.), Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköping, Sweden, Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings (175), 45 pages, 10.3384/ecp20175, Published.

• Herbert Lange (2020): “Learning Language (with) Grammars: From Teaching Latin to Learning Domain-Specific Grammars”, PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, http://hdl.handle.net/2077/65453, Published.

• Herbert Lange and Peter Ljunglöf (2020): “Learning Domain-specific Grammars from a Small Number of Examples”, in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: NLPinAI, Valetta, Malta, INSTICC. SciTePress, 422–430, 10.5220/0009371304220430, Published.

• Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (2019); David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Lars Borin, Ildikó Pilán and Herbert Lange (eds.), Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköping, Sweden, NEALT Proceedings Series (39), 99 pages, Published.

• Herbert Lange (2021): “An Open-Source Computational Latin Grammar: Overview and Evaluation”, in Proceedings of the 20th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics (ICLL 2019), Madrid, Spain, Ediciones Clásicas, 559-578, Published.

• Herbert Lange and Peter Ljunglöf (2018): “Demonstrating the MUSTE Language Learning Environment”, in Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2018) at SLTC, 7th November 2018, Stockholm, Sweden, Linköping University Electronic Press, 41–46, https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W18-7105, Published.

• Herbert Lange (2018): “Computer-Assisted Language Learning with Grammars. A Case Study on Latin Learning”, Licentiate thesis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, https://gup.ub.gu.se/file/207536, Published.

• Herbert Lange and Peter Ljunglöf (2018): “Putting Control into Language Learning”, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Controlled Natural Languages, Maynooth, Ireland, IOS Press, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (304), 61-70, 10.3233/978-1-61499-904-1-61, Published.

• Herbert Lange and Peter Ljunglöf (2018): “MULLE: A Grammar-based Latin Language Learning Tool to Supplement the Classroom Setting”, in Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (NLPTEA ’18) at ACL, Melbourne, Australia, Association for Computational Linguistics, 108-112, 10.18653/v1/W18-3715, http://aclweb.org/anthology/W18-3715, Published.

• Herbert Lange (2017): “Implementation of a Latin Grammar in Grammatical Framework”, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage (DATeCH2017), Göttingen, Germany, Association for Computing Machinery, 97-102, 10.1145/3078081.3078108, Published.

• Herbert Lange (2013): “Erstellen einer Grammatik für das Lateinische im”Grammatical Framework”“, Master’s thesis, Centrum für Informations- und Sprachverarbeitung, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, Published.

Talks and Presentations

• Herbert Lange (2025): Whisper Introduction/Tutorial, Språkbanken Text Forskarkollegium, Gothenburg, Sweden, Seminar Talk

• Herbert Lange and Arianna Masciolini (2024): STUnD - a Search Tool for (parallel) Universal Dependencies treebanks, Workshop on Applications of Universal Dependencies, Swedish Language Technology Conference 2024, Linköping, Sweden, Conference talk: https://udapp-sltc-2024.github.io/program.html

• Herbert Lange (2024): Drawing with sound – From drawing mushrooms on an oscilloscope towards driving a plotter, Updateringar - Update Computer Club Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, Talk

• Herbert Lange (2024): Knit happens, the yarn meetup , Bornhack, Gelsted, Denmark, Meetup: https://bornhack.dk/bornhack-2024/program/knit-happens-the-yarn-meetup/

• Herbert Lange (2024): The Book8088, Bornhack, Gelsted, Denmark, Lightning Talk: https://bornhack.dk/bornhack-2024/program/the-book8088/

• Herbert Lange (2024): The #ShittyCameraChallenge, Bornhack, Gelsted, Denmark, Lightning Talk: https://bornhack.dk/bornhack-2024/program/the-shittycamerachallenge/

• Herbert Lange (2024): Monads and why the even matter in Java (and many other languages), Bornhack, Gelsted, Denmark, Lightning Talk: https://bornhack.dk/bornhack-2024/program/monads-and-why-the-even-matter-in-java-and-many-other-languages/

• Herbert Lange (2024): Setting up a Research Data Repository Based on Invenio RDM: An Experience Report, Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries, 8th Conference (DHNB2024), Reykjavík, Iceland, Conference talk

• Herbert Lange (2024): Building research (data) infrastructure, Språkbanken Text Forskarkollegium, Gothenburg, Sweden, Seminar Talk

• Herbert Lange (2023): Data management and digital preservation of (research) data, Updateringar - Update Computer Club Uppsala, Online, Talk: https://wiki.dfupdate.se/projekt:updateringar

• Herbert Lange (2024): Corpus Services: En verktygslåda för att testa och förbättra kvaliteten på korpusdata, Huminfra Conference (HiC 2024), Gothenburg, Sweden, Demo

• Herbert Lange (2023): Forschungsdateninfrastruktur und Langzeitarchivierung von digitalen Forschungsdaten, IDS Gesprächsrunde, Mannheim, Germany, Seminar Talk

• Herbert Lange (2023): Forschungsdateninfrastruktur und Langzeitarchivierung, 21. Gulaschprogrammiernacht , Karlsruhe, Germany, Talk: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn21/talk/AVLRFE/

• Herbert Lange (2022): The Hith-Hikers Guide to Artificial Intelligence - BBC Basic Version, Updateringar - Update Computer Club Uppsala, Online, Talk: https://wiki.dfupdate.se/projekt:updateringar

• Herbert Lange (2022): Semi-automatic quality assurance for audiovisual corpus data, CLT Seminar. University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Seminar Talk

• Herbert Lange (2022): Demonstrating an Automatic Gloss Checker for Annotated Corpora, Language Documentation and Archiving during the Decade of Indigenous Languages Conference and training sessions, Berlin, Germany, Conference talk

• Herbert Lange and Jocelyn Aznar (2022): Training Session: Improving Corpus Quality in Language Documentation : Introduction to QUEST and the RefCo process, Language Documentation and Archiving during the Decade of Indigenous Languages Conference and training sessions, Online, Conference talk

• Herbert Lange and Jocelyn Aznar (2022): RefCo and its Checker: Improving Language Documentation Corpora’s Reusability Through a Semi-Automatic Review Process, Language Resoures and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Marseille, France, Conference talk

• Herbert Lange (2022): MULLE: A grammar-based language learning tool, Seminar on Language Technology for Education in the South African languages, Online, Seminar Talk

• Herbert Lange (2020): Type theory and meaning in linguistics, rC3 - remote Chaos Experience, Online, Talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-232856-type_theory_and_meaning_in_linguistics

• Herbert Lange (2020): A Type-Theoretic Approach to Generating Pictures and Descriptions, 8th Swedish Language Technology Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, Conference talk

• Herbert Lange (2020): Learning Domain-specific Grammars from Examples, CLASP Seminar, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Seminar Talk

• Herbert Lange (2020): Learning Domain-specific Grammars from a Small Number of Examples, Special Session NLPinAI, 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, Valetta, Malta, Conference talk

• Herbert Lange (2020): Using Dependent Types in GF, Functional Programming Winter Meeting, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, Seminar Talk

• Herbert Lange (2019): Empirical Evaluation of a Computational Latin Grammar, 20th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Conference talk

• Herbert Lange (2019): A short history of end-user programming, Update mini conference, Uppsala, Sweden, Talk

• Herbert Lange (2019): Computer-Assisted Language Learning for Latin, Latin Seminar, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Seminar Talk

• Herbert Lange (2019): Restricting Grammars to Reduce Ambiguity, Functional Programming Seminar, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, Seminar Talk

• Herbert Lange (2019): MULLE for Latin: Computer-Generated Translation Exercises for Latin, Workshop on Digital Approaches to Teaching Historical Languages, Berlin, Germany, Conference talk: https://www.projekte.hu-berlin.de/en/callidus-en/DAtTeL-workshop/digital-approaches-to-teaching-historical-languages-dattel

• Herbert Lange and Peter Ljunglöf (2018): Demonstrating the MUSTE Language Learning Environment, 7th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning at the Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC), Stockholm, Sweden, Poster

• Herbert Lange (2018): MULLE: A grammar-based Latin language learning tool to supplement the classroom setting, 5th Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications, Melbourne, Australia, Poster

• Herbert Lange (2018): Computational Linguistics vs. Natural Language Processing - A bit of a rant, Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS), Oslo, Norway, Lightning Talk: https://youtu.be/Xrb3ULik1vc?t=3127

• Herbert Lange (2018): Let’s talk about Old Computer; Or: Why old computers are cool, why we should care, and stuff I discovered, Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS), Oslo, Norway, Lightning Talk: https://youtu.be/_C5QUuU2vic?t=1386

• Herbert Lange (2017): Implementation of a Latin Grammar in Grammatical Framework, 2nd International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage, Göttingen, Germany, Conference talk

• Herbert Lange (2017): A Latin Language Learning Application, Latin Seminar, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Seminar Talk

• Herbert Lange (2017): From Word-based text editing to language learning, Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Seminar Talk

• Herbert Lange (2017): From Word-based text editing to language learning, Postgraduate Seminar in Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, Seminar Talk

• Herbert Lange (2017): MUSTE - Behind the scenes, REMU Research Seminar, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Seminar Talk

• Herbert Lange (2016): Implementation of a Latin Grammar in Grammatical Framework, 6th Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC), Umeå, Sweden, Poster

• Herbert Lange (2016): SHRDLU - Ein Programm das natürliche Sprache versteht, Vintage Computing Festival Berlin (VCFB), Berlin, Germany, Talk: https://media.ccc.de/v/vcfb2016_-52-en-medientheater-201610031530-shrdlu-_herbert_lange

• Herbert Lange (2015): Vintage Computing, Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS), Gothenburg, Sweden, Lightning Talk: https://youtu.be/8mSVMY74sOY?t=660

• Herbert Lange (2013): Grammatical Framework, Mehrvorträgewagen, muCCC Munich Hackerspace, Munich, Germany, Talk

Teaching experience

• Teaching Assistant: Introduction to concurrent programming, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg (Spring 2019)

• Teaching Assistant: Artificial Intelligence, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg (Spring 2018, Spring 2019)

• Teaching Assistant: Computational Synax, University of Gothenburg (Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020)

• Tutor: Tutorial: GF for Python programmers, Grammatical Framework Summer School, Rīga, Latvia (August 2017)

• Teaching Assistant: Functional Programming, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg (Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019)

• Teaching Assistant: Databases, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg (Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018)

• Tutor: Tutorial: Introduction to Grammatical Framework, TaCoS, German Student Conference for Computational Linguistics), Munich, Germany (May 2015)

• Tutor: Seminar: Scientific writing in LaTeX, IT-Zentrum der Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (February 2014)

• Teaching Assistant: Logic and model-theoretic Semantics, Centre for Information and Language Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Summer 2012)

• Teaching Assistant: Corpus and Unix tools, Centre for Information and Language Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Summer 2011)

Grants

• Travel grant Grammatical Framework Summer School, Gozo, Malta, Centre for Language Technology, University of Gothenburg (2015)

• Travel grant Grammatical Framework Summer School, Frauenchiemsee, Germany, Volkswagenstiftung (2013)

• Erasmus grant Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, European Union (2010)

Conference Involvement

• Co-Organizer, 9th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Gothenburg, Sweden (2020)

• Co-Organizer, 8th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Turku, Finland (2019)

• Co-Chair Logic and Computation, European Summerschool in Logic, Language and Information Student Session, Toulouse, France (2017)

Peer Review

• Resources and representations for under-resourced languages and domains (RESOURCEFUL-2025) (2025)

• 13th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (2024)

• 12th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (2023)

• 11th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (2022)

• 10th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (2021)

• 7th International Workshop on Controlled Natural Languages (2021)

• 8th Swedish Language Technology Conference post-proceedings (2021)

• 9th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (2020)

• 8th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (2019)

• 5th Workshop on Natural Language Processing Techniques for Educational Applications (2018)

Other Involvements

• Graduate Students’ Council, University of Gothenburg (2018-2020)

• PhD Council, Department for Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg (2016-2020)

• Student Council, Centre for Information and Language Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (2012-2013)

Skill

Five levels: Basic knowledge (1), Basic experience (2), Professional experience (3), Expert (4), Guru (5)

Programming language

• Agda: Basic knowledge

• Basic: Basic experience

• C/C++: Basic experience

• Coq: Basic knowledge

• Erlang: Basic knowledge

• Grammatical Framework: Expert

• Haskell: Expert

• HTML/CSS: Professional Experience

• Java: Professional Experience

• JavaScript: Professional Experience

• LISP: Basic experience

• Pascal: Basic experience

• Perl: Basic experience

• Prolog: Basic experience

• Python: Professional Experience

• Ruby: Basic knowledge

• SML: Basic experience

Operating systems

• Atari TOS: Basic knowledge

• Gentoo Linux: Expert

• BeOS/Haiku: Basic knowledge

• FreeBSD/NetBSD: Basic experience

• IRIX: Basic experience

• MacOS Classic: Basic experience

• MacOS X: Basic experience

• MS-DOS: Basic experience

• OpenVMS: Basic knowledge

• OS/2: Basic knowledge

• RISC OS: Basic knowledge

• Windows: Professional Experience

Other IT skills

• Constraint Programming: Basic experience

• Formal languages: Professional Experience

• GNU make: Basic experience

• Icinga/Nagios: Basic experience

• LaTeX: Professional Experience

• Machine Learning: Basic knowledge

• MS Office: Professional Experience

• Parser combinators: Professional Experience

• Property-based Testing: Professional Experience

• Software-defined Radio: Basic experience

• Databases: Professional Experience

• Version control systems: Professional Experience

Language

• English: Expert

• Esperanto: Basic experience

• French: Basic knowledge

• German: Expert

• Irish: Basic knowledge

• Italian: Basic knowledge

• Latin: Basic experience

• Medieval German: Basic knowledge

• Spanish: Basic knowledge

• Swedisch: Professional Experience

Computational linguistics

• Controlled Natural Languages: Expert

• Discourse Representation Theory: Basic experience

• Formal syntax: Expert

• Lexikal semantics: Basic experience

• Montague grammars: Professional Experience

• Resource grammar development: Guru

• Universal Dependencies: Basic experience

• Typ-theoretic semantics: Basic experience

Research and generic skills

• Data analysis: Professional Experience

• Experimental design in social sciences: Basic experience

• Independent work: Expert

• Problem solving: Expert

• Project management: Professional Experience

• Public presentation: Professional Experience

• Research: Expert

• Research ethics: Professional Experience

• Scientific writing: Expert

• Teaching: Professional Experience

• Team work: Professional Experience

Last update: May 2025

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