Jochen Leidner is founder and CEO of Linguit GmbH, a German
language technology company focusing on Information Extraction
and Question Answering. Recently, his company has launched the
SMS
answer retrieval system "Nuggets" across the UK.
Jochen holds an MA degree in Computational Linguistics, English
philology and computer science from Friedrich-Alexander-University
Erlangen-Nuremberg and an MPhil degree in Computer Speech, Text
and Internet Technology from the University of Cambridge. He worked
for SAP AG as a software developer before founding Linguit. He
holds awards and scholarships from ACM SIGIR, the German government,
DAAD and the Cambridge European Trust.