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Eckhard Bick

Eckhard Bick is a computational linguist who builds parsers and language-technology systems. He earned a cand.med. degree at Bonn and a cand.mag. in Nordic languages, literature and Portuguese at Aarhus, then completed a linguistics doctorate for the PALAVRAS parser. He began leading VISL at the University of Southern Denmark in 1996 and co-founded GrammarSoft with John Dienhart by 2000; his research included the Floresta treebank, Dan2eng machine translation, and machine-learning grammar tuning. His work from 2025 to 2026 included the EspEraro error corpus, the CorpusEye manual, and studies of hate speech and Kiezdeutsch. As of October 2026, he is Associate Professor Emeritus in SDU's Department of Culture and Language.

Born
1958

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Timeline

  1. 1984–1993

    Medicine and language degrees

    A computational linguist, he earns a cand.med. degree from the University of Bonn in 1984, then a cand.mag. degree in Nordic languages/literature and Portuguese from Aarhus University in 1993.

  2. 1996–2000

    VISL and GrammarSoft

    In 1996, he becomes head of the VISL project at the University of Southern Denmark. By 2000, he co-founds GrammarSoft with John Dienhart, a language-technology company for grammatical annotation of running text and related applications.

  3. 2000

    The PALAVRAS parser

    In 2000, he earns a dr.phil. in Linguistics at Aarhus University for his thesis on PALAVRAS, a parser he develops for automatic grammatical analysis of Portuguese in a Constraint Grammar framework.

  4. 2002

    The Floresta treebank

    In 2002, he coauthors a paper on Floresta Sintá(c)tica, a public Portuguese treebank built from PALAVRAS output.

  5. 2007–2012

    Dan2eng and C-ORAL-BRASIL

    In 2007, he presents Dan2eng, a wide-coverage, rule-governed Danish-English machine-translation system whose analysis and polysemy resolution rely on Constraint Grammar dependency trees. In 2012, he coauthors work that uses an adapted PALAVRAS parser to annotate the C-ORAL-BRASIL speech corpus.

  6. 2014

    Machine-learning grammar tuning

    In 2014, he publishes a method paper that uses machine learning to optimize and port linguist-written Constraint Grammars to another language.

  7. 2025–2026

    EspEraro, CorpusEye and hate-speech research

    In 2025, he publishes “An Annotated Error Corpus for Esperanto,” a multi-genre corpus that draws on learner, news and internet data. In March 2026, he publishes CorpusEye, a graphical interface for linguistically annotated corpora that searches morphology, syntax and semantics. His 2026 publications also include a coauthored study of Danish and German perceptions of hate speech and a paper on humour and stereotypes about immigrants and Germans in Kiezdeutsch.

  8. As of October 2026

    Associate Professor Emeritus at SDU

    As of October 2026, he is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Culture and Language at the University of Southern Denmark.

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Sources and credits

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  1. Lingvohelpilo lingvohelpilo.visl.dk. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. VISL - Parsing Nordic Languages edu.visl.dk. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. GrammarSoft ApS – Language Technology at your fingertips grammarsoft.com. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. Publicações sobre o processamento computacional do português: Publicações em revistas linguateca.pt. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. Floresta Sintá(c)tica: English page linguateca.pt. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. Floresta Sintá(c)tica: A treebank for Portuguese - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  7. Dan2eng: wide-coverage Danish-English machine translation - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  8. Eckhard Bick - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  9. CorpusEye: Manual and Use Case Scenarios - University of Southern Denmark portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk. Checked 19 October 2026.
  10. Danish and German Folk Perceptions of Hate Speech: Popular Usage and Popular Reasoning - University of Southern Denmark portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk. Checked 19 October 2026.
  11. Humour or hatespeech: auto- and hetero-stereotypes linked to the concepts of Alman and Kana(c)ke in Kiezdeutsch - University of Southern Denmark portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk. Checked 19 October 2026.
  12. Eckhard Bick - University of Southern Denmark portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk. Checked 19 October 2026.