Grant student at Universidad Complutense in Madrid in 1987-88. Masters degree in Spanish and Computational Linguistics at University of Copenhagen in 1989. PhD in Computational Linguistics at University of Copenhagen in 1998. From 1989 to 1991 an employee at Eurotra-Dk, University of Copenhagen. 1991-1999 researher at Center for Sprogteknologi. 1998-2004 external lecturer at Copenhagen Business School teaching lexical semantics and machine translation. Senior Researcher 1999-2010 at Center for Sprogteknologi, University of Copenhagen. Since Oct. 2010 Professor in language technology at Center for Sprogteknologi, University of Copenhagen.