Johannes Heinecke
Researcher at Orange Labs - France Telecom
Brittany, France
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Top SchoolJohannes Heinecke is a computational linguist and researcher with nearly three decades of experience bridging typological linguistics and Natural Language Processing, currently based at Orange Labs in Brittany. He combines deep academic credentials (Dr.phil in Linguistics) with practical NLP work spanning rule-based systems, deep learning, speech recognition, and ontology-language alignment for semantic applications. His expertise in tense, aspect, and morphology—plus hands-on experience with Celtic languages like Welsh—drives robust solutions for ontology-based systems and multilingual analysis. A long history of collaborative research (Verbmobil, DAWAI) and teaching complements his applied projects, revealing a researcher who translates theoretical insight into deployable language technology.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
exchange year, linguistics, Welsh, exchange year, linguistics, Welsh at Bangor UniversityM.A., linguistics, M.A., linguistics at Heidelberg UniversityLinguistics, Linguistics at The University of BonnDr.phil, Linguistics, Dr.phil, Linguistics at University of Potsdam
German, English, French, Welsh, Spanish
Github Skills (123)
conll10
python10
deep-learning10
spanish10
transformer10
nlp10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
francais10
machine-learning10
speech-recognition10
kebab-case10
jax9
transformers9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
UniversalDependencies/UD_Welsh-CCG
Apr 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:93 commits, 85 pushes, 10 comments in 3 years 8 months
Orange-OpenSource/metamorphosed
May 2023 - Feb 2025
A graphical editor for directed graphs used for Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR)
Contributions:10 PRs, 99 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 9 months
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