My research interests are formal and natural languages and their analysis, also in combination with other modalities such as images and video, for the automatic analysis of media content.
You can find my office in the MIT building, 4th floor, room MIT.C.444.
I am the head of the Department of Computing Science, and a member of the research group Foundations of Language Processing. My research interests are formal and natural languages and their analysis, also in combination with other modalities such as images and video. One of the current aims is to combine finite-state techniques such as automata and grammars with continuous vector representations. Several of my projects in this area are AI projects targeting multimodal media analysis. In particular, I am interested in ways to create structural representations based on graphs. Examples are automata and grammars that process semantic representations of sentences such as Abstract Meaning Representations, and how those can be made use of for media analysis.
Previously, I have been active in the field of grammatical picture generation. Information about a book on this subject that I have written (in the Springer EATCS series Texts in Theoretical Computer Science) is available here.
You may also be interested to have a look at the system TREEBAG.
I currently supervise several PhD students and have been the supervisor of three PhD students who have been awarded the degree of doctor:
Johanna Björklund (then Johanna Högberg)
Christina Igasto (then Christina Olsén)
Martin Berglund
Arezoo Hatefi
On a more personal note, in my sparetime I keep and breed Dendrobates (also somewhat misleadingly called dart frogs) and I try to develop my photographic skills. Feel free to visit my pages on Dendrobates (in Swedish) and about my photographs.