Heiki-Jaan Kaalep

b. 1962, PhD in general linguistics (Univ. of Tartu); titled “Creating and using Estonian language resources in language technology development” in 1999. Senior researcher in language technology, University of Tartu, Estonia

Fields of interest: corpus linguistics, morphology

Recent administrative responsibilities:

• 2012 - ... Associate editor of NEJLT
• 2012 - ... Member of the editorial board of Journal of Language Modelling
• 2012 - 2013 Member of the programme committee of NODALIDA 2013
• 2012 - 2012 Member of the programme committee of the conference HLT - the Baltic Perspective
• 2006 - 2010 Member of the steering committee of the programme "Language technology for Estonian (2006-2010)"

NEALT is doing a good job in organising NODALIDA and NEJLT, and I do not see a need for a radical change.