Dr. Udo Mai

Linguistic engineering and innovation: As part of an international remote team, I develop and maintain an industry-leading content governance software in English, French, and German. I collaborate with the AI department in developing and evaluating new ML models. I drive new software features for content governance, from the first proof of concept to the roll-out to customers. For programming rules, I mainly use the language Groovy as well as an in-house formalism (also using Git, Unix commands, etc.).

Developing (XML, Python, Java) the writing assistant software LanguageTool in English, German, French, Spanish, and Dutch. Full direction of the teams for each language: recruitment, training, coordinating, project management. Innovation: Creating new grammar and style correction features, and establishing the pipelines/workflows to implement them. Daily QA, collaboration with machine learning/AI departments in the form of providing linguistic insight. Overall software improvement/debugging.

Complete organization, from the inception of the event to the physical congress. Communication with partners and venues across the globe in their respective languages.

Planning and teaching of linguistics courses, seminars, and tutorials; editing and proofreading of scientific publications; directing theses; organization of international conferences in Potsdam; support for international guest researchers; various administrative responsibilities

Support for international students at the University of Potsdam (support and contact with home universities in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese); organizing information events; administration (databases, filing etc.)

Customer support (telephone, e-mail) in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese; supplier contacts; maintaining the online shop (Ebay)

Modality in French (Thesis written in French)

French, Italian, Spanish: Systematic linguistics, variational linguistics, applied linguistics, pragmatics, semantics, corpus linguistics

Italian, Portuguese, Chinese: Language, Literature, Linguistics