User:Borgatya/Gábor Prószéky

Gábor Prószéky (born 25 March 1954) is a Hungarian linguist, university (full) professor at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, former CEO of MprphoLogic and director of Research Institute for Linguistics. His research focuses on computational linguistics, language technology and foundational problems of machine translation, applied linguistics and morphology. He works both in Hungary and around the world, and has published in English and Hungarian.

Biography and career
He was born on 25 March 1954 in Budapest, Hungary. He took B.Sc. degree in software engineering in 1979, MSc degree in mMthematics in 1981 and M.A. degree in General and Applied Linguistics in 1982 at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.

From 1991 until 2017 he was the CEO of MprphoLogic, the Hungarian language technology company.

In 1995 he completed his PhD degree and he was awarded Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) degree in Linguistics in 2004.

In 2006 he habilitated and then he received the title of university (full) professor.

In 2006 he was appointed vice dean of the Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics, Pázmány Péter Catholic University for Research and Innovation where he has served until 2016.

From 2012 until 2017 he acted as the director of the Hungarian Language Technology Research Group, which was the joint research group between Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) and Pázmány Péter Catholic University.

From 2017 he manages the Research Institute for Linguistics as its director.

He is a notable and respected scientist both in Hungary and around the world and developed significant research and professional relationships.

His working papers were issued in both national and international prestigious professional research scientific journals.

His main fields of interest are in the computational linguistics and language technology with special respect to the foundational problems of machine translation, applied linguistics and morphology.

Editorial board memberships

 * 1999− Fordítástudomány (Translation Studies) − member of the editorial board
 * 2000− Across Languages and Cultures − member of the advisory board
 * 2001− Magyar Orvosi Nyelv (Hungarian Medical Language) − member of the ed. board
 * 2004− Lexikográfiai Füzetek (Lexicographic Booklets) − member of the editorial board
 * 2012− Alkalmazott Nyelvtudomány (Applied Linguistics) – member of the editorial board
 * 2013− Jedlik Laboratories Research Reports – member of the editorial board

Carrier-related public activities

 * 1982− Association for Computational Linguistics
 * 1991−1996 Committee on Applied Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
 * 1994− European Network of Language and Speech, Industrial Task Group
 * 1997− Association of IT Companies (IVSZ)
 * 1997− Working Committee on Applied Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
 * 1998− European Association for Machine Translation
 * 1998− Association of Hungarian Applied Linguists − board member
 * 1999−2000 Association of IT Companies (IVSZ)− vice-president & president of SMEs
 * 2000−2008 Committee on Informatics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
 * 2000− Committee on Lexicography, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
 * 2002− Committee on Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
 * 2005−2012 Committee on Lexicography, Hungarian Academy of Sciences – president
 * 2006−2012 European Language Resource Association (board member until 2012)
 * 2014− Committee on Hungarian Medical Language
 * 2015− Committee on Hungaran Language, Hungarian Academy of Sceinces - president

Awards and honours

 * 2000 Széchenyi Prize
 * 1995 Kalmár Award of the John von Neumann Computer Society
 * 2002 IT Manager of the Year
 * 2005 Brassai Award
 * 2005 Award for the Hungarian IT
 * 2009 IT Lecturer of the Year
 * 2010 International Dennis Gabor Award

Books
===Papers ===
 * Prószéky Gábor: Számítógépes nyelvészet (Computational linguistics), SZAK Kiadó Kft., Budapest, 2015.
 * Siklósi Borbála, Novák Attila, Prószéky, Gábor 2016: Context-aware correction of spelling errors in Hungarian medical documents, COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE 35: (jan 2016) pp. 219-233.
 * G Orosz, A Novák, G Prószéky 2014: Lessons Learned from Tagging Clinical Hungarian, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS AND APPLICATIONS 5: (1) pp. 159-176.
 * Gábor Prószéky 2006: Translating While Parsing, In: Mickael Suominen, Antti Arppe, Anu Airola, Orvokki Heinämäki, Matti Miestamo, Urho Määttä, Jussi Niemi, Kari K Pitkänen, Kaius Sinnemäki (eds): A Man of Measure (Festschrift in Honour of Fred Karlsson on his 60th Birthday). Turku: The Linguistic Association of Finland, 2006. pp. 449-459. (Special Supplement to SKY Journal of Linguistics)Vol. 19
 * Gábor Prószéky, Attila Novák 2005: Computational Morphologies for Small Uralic Languages, In: Arppe Antti, Lauri Carlson, Krister Linden, Jussi Piitulainen, Mickael Suominen, Martti Vainio, Hanna Westerlund, Anssi Yli-Jyrä (eds): Inquiries into Word, Constraints and Contexts.(Festschrift in the Honour of Kimmo Koskenniemi on his 60th Birthday). Stanford (CA): CSLI Publications, 2005. pp. 150-157.