Kaarel Kaljurand
Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolKaarel Kaljurand is a Senior Research Scientist with 15 years of experience in natural language processing and computational linguistics, currently working at Microsoft after a long research stint at Nuance Communications. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Tartu and has a strong track record building grammar-based speech recognition, multilingual semantic systems, and controlled-language interfaces (notably work on MOLTO and Attempto projects). Kaarel blends academic rigor with product-focused R&D, having moved prototypes into production for speech and translation technologies. Based in Vienna, he brings deep expertise in formal grammars and ontology-driven text mining, and is known for integrating Grammatical Frameworks with practical applications such as Android voice typing.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of Tartu
Estonian, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (122)
parser10
handwriting-recognition10
speech10
audio-capture10
multiple-languages10
swi-prolog10
owl10
gstreamer10
audio10
nlp10
readable10
translation10
recorderjs10
android-library10
android-app10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Kaljurand/Diktofon
May 2011 - Mar 2019
An Android app, a dictaphone with Estonian speech-to-text
Contributions:2 releases, 80 commits, 6 PRs in 7 years 11 months
speech-to-textandroidandroid-appestonianspeech
Kaljurand/Inimesed
May 2012 - Jan 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 2 pushes, 2 issues in 4 years 8 months
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