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# Curriculum Vitae
## Oliver Streiter 

**Contact** 

- Associate Professor at the National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Western Languages and Literature 
- 700, Kaohsiung University Rd., Nanzih District, Kaohsiung 811 
- ostreiter@nuk.edu.tw, oliverstreiter@gmail.com 
- http://thakbong.dyndns.tv/search/olivter 
- Orcid ID 0000-0002-5408-5287 

**Academic Employment**


- 2013 – now Associate Professor Department of Western Languages and Literature at the National Univ. of Kaohsiung (NUK)
- 2004 – 2013 Assistant Professor Department of Western Languages and Literature at NUK
- 2019 – now Director Research Center for Asia-Pacific Languages and Cultures, NUK 
- 2015 – now Assoc. Researcher French Center for Research on Contemporary China, Taipei 
- 2001 – 04 Senior Researcher European Academy of Bolzano, Inst. for Applied Linguistics, Italy 
- 2000 – 01 Postdoc Inst. of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei 1999 Postdoc Inst. of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 1999 Visiting Researcher Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 
- 1991 – 98 Part-time lecturer Universities of Metz, France and Nancy, France 
- 1991 – 98 Researcher Inst. for Applied Information Sciences at the Univ. of Saarland 1988 Trainee School for hearing impaired children, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 

**Education** 

- 1997 Ph.D Translation Sciences, Machine Translation, Computational Linguistics at the University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
- 1988 – -90 M.A. University Paris VII, France: Computational Linguistics
- 1987 – -89 M.A. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris: A psycholinguistic longitudinal study of Dutch and French toddlers

**Major Publications**

- 2021 Streiter, O., Zhan, H. Y.-Q., and Goudin, Y. ”Penghu settlements as materialization of a socio-cognitive grammar: Integrating environmental conditions with cultural practices.” In Sustainable Digital Heritage: Proceedings of the - - 2021 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium Annual Conf. and Joint Meetings (PNC), pages 26–40. IEEE, Taipei, Taiwan. DOI: 10.23919/PNC53575.2021.9672262. 
- 2018 Streiter, O. ”Telling stories through R: Geo-temporal mappings of epigraphic practices on Penghu.” In Chen, S.-H., editor, Big Data in Computational Social Science and Humanities, Computational Social Sciences, pages 45–93. Springer. ISBN-13: 978-3319954646. 
- 2018 Wang Yufeng, Wang Xingan, Wang Yuting, Li Chengan, Du Wenwei, Qiu Yanzhou, Chen Hongyin, Huang Yujin, O Lihua, Zhan Yaqing, Liu Yiting, 覆鼎金物語：高 雄市墓葬史初探. Chuliu Publisher, Kaohsiung. ISBN-13: 9789860572520. 
- 2016 Streiter, O. and Morris, J. M. ”Between documentation and sample: Creating a digital cultural heritage archive of gravesites, tombs and tombstones.” In Virtual System & Multimedia (VSMM), 2016 22nd Intl. Conf., pages 1–9, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. DOI: 10.1109/VSMM.2016.7863185. 
- 2016 Streiter, O., Lin, L.-L. S., Chen, N.-Y., Morris, J. X., Zhan, Y.-Ch. ” 論澎湖 西嶼新發現之「皇明洪門楊氏」墓.” Monumenta Taiwanica, 14:49–74. DOI: 10.6242/twnica.14.3. 
- 2014 Streiter, O. and Goudin, Y. ”Extracting family genealogies from Taiwan’s tomb stones for a study of historical changes in tombstone inscriptions.” Intl. Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 81:49–83. DOI: 10.3366/ijhac.2014.0099 
- 2013 Streiter, O. and Goudin, Y. ”The tanghao on Taiwan’s tombstones. The recuperation of tactics for a national space.” Archivi Orientalni, 81(3):459–494. ISSN: 0044 8699. 
- 2013 Streiter, O. and Goudin, Y. ”Tackling the question of tanghao on Taiwan’s tombstones in the framework of digital anthropology.” Intl. Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 7:120–143. DOI: 10.3366/ijhac.2013.0065. 
- 2011 Goudin, Y., Streiter, O., Huang, C., and Lin, A. ”Digital Anthropology and the Renewal of Waishengren Studies: From Digitized Tombs to Identity Claims.” African and Asian Studies, 152:21–45. DOI: 10.4312/as.2011.-15.2.21-45. 
- 2006 Streiter, O., Scannell, K. P., & Stuflesser, M. ”Implementing NLP projects for noncentral languages: Instructions for funding bodies, strategies for developers.” Machine translation, 20(4):267–289. DOI: 10.1007/s10590-007-9026-x. 
- 2005 Streiter, O., Knapp, J., Voltmer, L., & Zielinski, D. ”Browsers for autonomous and contextualized language learning: tools and theories.” In ITRE 2005 - 3rd Intl. Conf. on Information Technology: Research and Education, pages 343–347, Hsinchu, Taiwan. DOI: 10.1109/ITRE.2005.1503138. 
- 2003 Streiter, O. ”Abductive explanation-based learning improves parsing accuracy and efficiency.” In Proceedings of the Second SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Lan guage Processing, pages 104–111, Sapporo, Japan. DOI: 10.3115/1119250.1119265. 
- 2000 Carl, M., Pease, C., Iomdin, L. L., & Streiter, O. ”Towards a dynamic linkage of example-based and rule-based machine translation.” Machine Translation, 15(3):223– 257. DOI: 10.1023/A:1011663225529. 
- 1996 Streiter, O. Linguistic Modeling for Multilingual Machine Translation. Shaker, Aachen, Germany. ISBN: ISBN 978-3-8265-1928-4. 

**Published Data Sets**

- thakbong - the data - May 2016.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17026/dans-zvy-rtju. Description: ThakBong is a digital archive of gravesites in Taiwan, China and places where Chinese settlers have moved to, e.g. Hong Kong, Hawaii, the US Mainland, France and Italy. Transcriptions and annotations of 61.000 documented tombs
- thakbong - the media - August 2016.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17026/dans-zmh-2jjs. Description: 236.000 photos of 61.000 tombs, associated with  thakbong - the data
- The ROC census on Taiwan and Penghu in 1956. http://dx.doi.org/10.17026/dans-zrs-3jxk. Description: One quarter of the 9.311.312 personal census cards of 1956
- Penghu House Geo-references: This dataset contains a very limited set of spatial references for about 1.100 houses of the Penghu Archipelago.
- Penghu Five Generals: A system of little shrines that protect a settlement. Prototypically, there should be five generals, but some villages on Penghu might have up to 10 generals of different shapes and unconventional locations.
- Penghu Gardens: A very coarse-grained description of Penghu garden (caizhai), containing currently as most useful information the geo-reference of the gardens and their orientation.
- Penghu Earthgod Shrines: A documentation of the Earthgod shrines on the Penghu Archipelago.
- The Japanese Column as Penghu Tombstone Style: This set documents Japanese-style column-shaped tombstones on the Penghu Archipelago during and after the Japanese colonization.
- Penghu s on Climate Change and Cultural Landscapes Tombstones: A documentation of tombstones in Penghu, including the column-shaped tombstones.
- Penghu Little Shrines This data set documents the little shrines, known as keng-a or sio keng-a. These keng-a are said to be yin, thus of a negative energy. Usually they are erected in relation to cases of unfortunate death.

**Research Projects**

- 2022 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology & Rethinking Resilience Theory: Cultural Perspectives on Climate Change and Cultural Landscapes (academic community reading group)
- 2019 Kaohsiung History Museum & The Analysis of Tombs and Tombstone inscriptions in the Fudingjin Cemetery Kaohsiung
2018 Kaohsiung City Government &  Researching the Kaohsiung City Fudingjin Graveyard: History, Culture and Society
- 2017 – 20 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology & Project 106-2420-H-390-002-MY3 Arches: Tombstone Inscriptions and Tombs in Taiwan. A study of digital cultural assets of burial practices in the monsoon Asian context. GIS maps and network analysis of tombstone inscriptions, tombstone carvers, aesthetic symbolic themes, beliefs, and migration
- 2015 – 17 Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology & Project 104-2420-H-390-003-MY2: Geo-temporal analyses of Ming, Qing, Japanese and Early Republican tombs on Taiwan, Penghu, Jinmen and Mazu
- 2010 – 11 Taiwan e-Learning \\& Digital Archives Program & Digitizing Taiwanese Tombstones for Archiving, Teaching, and Research.


**Conferences and Workshops Organized**

- 2021 DRGPA Fifth Intl. Conf. on Documenting and Research ing Gravesites in Pacific Asia, Kaohsiung. https://sites.google.com/view/drgpa2021, https://www.dropbox.com/s/5iw48184d0ycppb/drgpa2021Ebook.pdf 
- 2019 DRGPA Fourth Intl. Conf. on Documenting and Researching Gravesites in Pacific Asia, Taipei. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0qhgklcanepjraq/DRGPA2019small.pdf 
- 2017 DRGT Third Intl. Workshop on Documenting and Researching Gravesites in Taiwan, Taipei. https://www.dropbox.com/s/4kqxte11cxudu6z/drgt2017Proceedings.pdf 
- 2015 DRGT Second Intl. Conf. on Documenting and Researching Gravesites in Taiwan, Taipei. https://www.dropbox.com/s/img1s81hky5t8qy/DRGT2015proceedings41M.pdf 
- 2011 DRGT Documenting and Researching Gravesites in Taiwan, Taipei. https://www.dropbox.com/s/aeraofr9kpc2q0s/2011drgt.pdf
- 2004 Third SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing, Barcelona. https://aclanthology.org/W04-110
- 2004 LREC Workshop LREC 2004 First Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages. https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec-ws/workshops.html 
- 2003 TALN Workshop Automatic Processing of Minority Languages Batz-sur-Mer, France. https://cs.slu.edu/~scannell/pub/TALN.pdf 


**Reviewing Activities** 

- 2021 Project reviewer for the DFG CUORE project on cultural resilience to wind on the Penghu archipelago, University Hamburg 
- 2014 – 22 Reviewer for ”Digital Humanities 
- 2010 Reviewer for the Journal ”Monumenta Taiwanica” 
- 2009 Programme Committee of ”Information Retrieval and Information Extraction for Less Resourced Languages, IE-IR-LRL”, SEPLN 2009 Pre-conference workshop, Organized by the SALTMIL Special Interest Group of ISCA 
- 2008 Reviewer for the ”Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering”, edited by Professor Benjamin Wah 
- 2008 Scientific Committee of ”Collaboration: Interoperability Between People in the Creation of Language Resources for Less-Resourced Languages”, LREC 2008 Pre conference Workshop, Marrakech, Morocco 
- 2007 Reviewer for ”The 11th Conf. on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation (TMI-07) 2007”, Skóvde, Sweden; ”ACL 2007”, Prague 
- 2006 Special Reviewer for ”Language Resources and Evaluation”, Chu-Ren Huang, Nancy Ide and Nicoletta Calzolari (eds.), Springer, 2006; 
- 2006 ”Special Issue on Example-Based Machine Translation, MT Journal”, Carl and Way (eds.), Kluwer, 2006
- 2006 Scientific Committee of ”Multilingualism across Europe: Findings, Needs, Best Practices”, Bolzano, Italy, August 24-26, 2006 
- 2005 Program Committee of ”PIA, Workshop on New Technologies for Personalized Information Access”, Edinburgh, UK; ”Lesser Used Languages & Computer Linguistics”, Bolzano, Italy, Oct 27-28, 2005; ”Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation”, Phuket, Thailand, September 12-16, 2005 
- 2004 Program Committee Member of the SALTMIL SIG (Speech and Language Technology for Minority Languages) Workshop on ”First steps for Language Documentation of Minority Languages”, Lisbon, Portugal 
- 2004 Reviewer for the ”ACL Student Workshop”, Sapporo, Japan, 2004 2003 – 11 Reviewer for the Hong Kong Research Grant Council 
- 2003 Reviewer for ”Recent Advances in Example-based Machine Translation”, Carl and Way (eds.), Kluwer 2003 
