Richárd Farkas is an associate professor at the Department of Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence, University of Szeged. He obtained his PhD degree in 2010, then he spent two postdoc years in Hinrich Schütze’s group at IMS Stuttgart. He has worked on various Machine Learning-based Natural Language Processing problems.
He is well-recognised in the international NLP community because of winning biomedical shared tasks, organising the prestigious CoNNL-2010 challenge and his research on syntactic parsing for morphologically-rich languages. He is an active member of the Hungarian NLP community, he released several open source resources for Hungarian language processing (including magyarlanc) and he delivered, with his students, several industrial NLP applications for Hungarian organisations.