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Primož Jakopin (born June 30, 1949 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian computer scientist, most known for his work in the field of language technology.
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In 1972 he completed a degree in technical mathematics (Numerično računanje singularnih integralov / Numerical Computation of Singular Integrals) at the University of Ljubljana, in 1981 he obtained his master's degree in information sciences with the thesis Entropija imena i prezimena u Sloveniji / On entropy of first names and last names in Slovenia at the University of Zagreb and in 1999 he got his Ph.D. with the thesis Zgornja meja entropije pri leposlovnih besedilih v slovenskem jeziku / Upper Bound of Entropy in Slovenian Literary Texts, also at the University of Ljubljana.
He was a senior lecturer at the Department of Comparative and General Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. His subjects of instruction are language technologies with stress on Lemmatisation. From 2001 to 2012 he was the Head of the Corpus Laboratory at the Fran Ramovš Institute of Slovene Language (within the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts). He participated in a number of European projects on language resources.
His major pieces of software were: IBIS (Digital DEC 10, 1981), INES (Sinclair ZX Spectrum, 1985), STEVE (ATARI ST, 1987-1992), EVA for DOS, 1992- and Windows 9X/2000/XP, 1996-2005), NEVA - Windows server search engine, 1999-2005. From 1992 to 1994 he supervised the transfer of the Standard Slovenian Dictionary (SSKJ) from printed to electronic version (EVA OCR, DOS version). In 1997 he wrote the first part-of-speech tagger for Slovene texts. In 1999 he started an Internet text corpus, with a concordance service and linked wordform and reversed wordform frequency dictionaries. It is now available as Nova beseda (New word).
His father was the Slovene linguist Franc Jakopin, his mother was the poet and translator Gitica Jakopin, his brother Japec Jakopin is a yacht concept designer and his brother Jernej Jakopin is a naval architect.