Robin Cooper#
| Membership Number: | 2637 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ling.gu.se/~cooper |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 Director, Swedish National Graduate School of Language Technology (GSLT)
- 1995 Professor of Computational Linguistics, University of Gothenburg
- 1989-1996 Reader, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh
- 1989-1996 Principal Investigator, Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh
- 1989-1992 Reader, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh
- 1986-1989 Lecturer, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh
- 1986-1989 Lecturer, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh
- 1984-1987 Docent, Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Lund University
- 1981-1987 Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- 1977-1981 Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- 1976-1977 Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- 1975-1976 Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
- 1969-1971 Lektor for English language, University of Freiburg
- 1975 PhD Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Fields of Scholarship
- Theoretical linguistics
- Computational linguistics
- Semantics, dialogue
Honours and Awards
- 1980-1981 Mellon Fellowship in Linguistics and Philosophy, Stanford University
- 1981-1982 Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
- 1986-1987 Guggenheim Fellowship, Stanford and Edinburgh
- 1993 Fellow of the British Academy
- 1996 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg
- 2006 Fil.Dr h.c. (Uppsala)
- 2009 Member of Academia Europaea
