Linda Andersson

Linda was awarded Degree of Master of Arts with Major in General Linguistic with Specialization in Computation Linguistics on 13 May 2009. The title of her Master Thesis was A Vector Space analysis of Swedish patent claims, does decompounding help? The next step for Linda is to write a PhD dissertation at Information Retrieval Facility Society in collaboration with the Technical University of Vienna. The topic will be Linguistic Indexing and Analysis for Patent Search -A cross-linguistic study. In her dissertation she will explore an alternative way to capture the concept of a patent by investigating logic or semi logic features of expression in the patent genre. Linda began her study in Education in Innovation, Design and Engineering in 1998 at Mälardalens University/College. During the years Linda has developed an interest for different techniques used in various full-text Information Retrieval systems. The following years Linda turned her attention to General Linguistic and Computational Linguistic at Stockholm University, followed by courses Language Engineering and Computer Science at Royal Institute of Technology. During this time Linda also attended Library Science and Information Science at Uppsala University. In 1999 Linda was awarded finalist price in the Venture Cup at Mälardalens University/College for her idea of family shared electronic almanacs.


Education


since 9/2009  Information Retrieval Facility (IRF)
                      PhD student

5/2009           Master of Arts with Major in General Linguistic with
                      Specialization in Computation Linguistics, Stockholm
                      University. Thesis title: A Vector Space analysis of Swedish
                      patent claims, does decompounding help?

2004-2006     Uppsala University, Library and Information Science &
                      Information Technology

2004              The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Computer
                      Science

2001-2003     Stockholm University, Linguistics & Computational Linguistics

1998-2001     Mälardalens University College, Sweden, Information Research
                      and Business Intelligence

 

Professional Career


since 9/2009  Vienna University of Technology, Inst. of Software
                      Technology & Interactive Systems
                      Research Assistant

2007-2008     University of Växjö
                      Assistant Archivist

2007              Stockholm  University, Teaching Education Office
                      Assistant Admission Administrator

1999              Mälardalens University College
                      E-learning Software Developer

1999              National Semi Conductor and Mälardalens University
                      Research Assistant

 

 

Research Interests


Linda is interested in several field connected to text mining, from post correction of OCR-error occurring in language specific and domain specific textual environment, Generative lexicon, Language modeling, Corpus profiling to more traditional Information Retrieval.

 

Awards


Finalist in a Venture Cup held at Mälardalens University College, 1999
 

Presentations


3rd PaIR workshop  (19th CIKM), Nov 26-30 2010 Toronto, Canada
 

Publications

 

[1] L. Andersson, A Vector Space analysis of Swedish patent claims with different linguistic indices, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval (PaIR), 2010.