Short CV Gerhard Budin Gerhard Budin holds a PhD in linguistics ...

Short CV
Gerhard Budin
Gerhard Budin holds a PhD in linguistics and Master’s degree in translation studies. He has
also studied economics and philosophy.
Gerhard Budin is full professor for terminology studies and translation technologies at the
Centre of Translation Studies (CTS) at the University of Vienna (since 1 st of January, 2005).
He is director of the Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology (ICLTT) at the
Austrian Academy of Sciences (since 1 st of April, 2010) and a member (kM) of the Austrian
Academy of Sciences. He is Chair holder of the UNESCO Chair for Multilingual,
Transcultural Communication in the Digital Age.
From 2004 to 2006 and since 2008 he has been the deputy director/vice-dean
(Stellvertretender Zentrumsleiter) of the CTS, between 2006 and 2008 he was the
director/dean (Zentrumsleiter) of this unit, which is one of the 18 scientific units of the
University of Vienna (15 Faculties and 3 Centres). The CTS has about 2800 students and
about 150 staff members including external teachers.
Research interests and research activities:
His research interests are language technologies, corpus linguistics, and knowledge
engineering, E-Learning technologies and collaborative work systems, distributed digital
research environments, terminology studies, ontology engineering, cognitive systems, crosscultural
knowledge communication and knowledge organization, philosophy of science, and
information science. His relevant research priority at the CTS is called “Translation –
Cognition – Technologies” that is also part of the trans-disciplinary Research Platform
“Cognitive Science” at the University of Vienna. For the last 25 years Gerhard Budin has
been active in national, European, and international research projects in the areas mentioned
above (see separate list for projects since 2005).
Other activities
Gerhard Budin is vice-president of the International Institute for Terminology Research and
Chair of a technical sub-committee in the International Standards Organization (ISO) focusing
on terminology and language resources (ISO/TC 37/SC 2 2001-2009, SC 1 2009-present),
managing pre-normative research. He is member of scientific advisory boards at various
research organisations and of editorial boards of several scientific journals. For many years he
has been active as evaluator of research proposals as well as of ongoing research projects for
the European Commission (DG INFSO) in the fields of language engineering, multimedia
semantics, ontology engineering, as well as for DFG, NSF, and other comparable national
research funding agencies (Canada, The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany,
Croatia, France, Hong Kong, etc.).

Publications
See separate list in chronological order and sorted by types of publications
Teaching activities
Gerhard Budin has been supervising Master theses (about 400) and doctoral dissertations (15
completed, 15 ongoing) since January 1997 (Habilitation). The topics of teaching include
terminology studies, terminology management, corpus linguistics, multilingualism,
specialized communication, language technologies, machine translation, localisation,
technical writing, information science, philosophy of science, etc.
Address:
Center for Translation Studies
University of Vienna
Gymnasiumstraße 50
1190 Vienna, Austria
Tel: 43 1 4277 58020
Fax: 43 1 4277 9580
e-mail: gerhard.budin@univie.ac.at
Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Sonnenfelsgasse 19/8
1010 Vienna, Austria
Tel: 43 1 51581 2200
e-mail: gerhard.budin@oeaw.ac.at