Viggo Kann

I teach the courses Algorithms, Data Structures and Complexity and Programme Integrating Course in Computer Science Engineering.

I am co-author of the book Complexity and Approximation that was published in November 1999 by Springer Verlag, ISBN 3-540-65431-3. My research interest is currently within natural language processing and computer science education.

Some links

• My recent publications.
• Former research projects: Approximation algorithms, Algorithms for Swedish language tools, Grammar checking for Swedish, CrossCheck - a grammar checker for second language writers of Swedish, Infomat - Swedish information retrieval with language technology and matrix computations, Nordic net dictionary funded by the Nordic council of ministers, IMAIL-Intelligent e-mail answering service for eGovernment, People's English-Swedish Dictionary.
• Internships - sorry, we don't take any internships.
• A PhD course in text clustering, autumn 2008.
• A PhD course in spelling and grammar checking tools, autumn 2005.
• My graduated PhD students: Magnus Rosell (2009), Jonas Sjöbergh (2006), Johnny Bigert (2005), Gunnar Andersson (2000), Lars Engebretsen (2000).
• My PhD student: Emma Enström,
• Program committees: RANDOM'97 in Bologna 11-12 July 1997, ICALP'01 on Crete in July 2001, GoTAL'08 in Gothenburg in August 2008, SLTC'08 in Stockholm in November 2008, NoDaLiDa'09 in Odense in May 2009.
• I was responsible for the application to HSV Centre of Excellence in Higher Education Award 2009 that we won!
• A list of NP-complete optimization problems and their approximability, composed by Viggo Kann and Pierluigi Crescenzi.
• Who's who in sciences academia?
• My children Amanda and Povel.
• People's English-Swedish Dictionary.

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