Erik Velldal is an associate professor at the Language Technology Group (LTG) within the Section for Machine Learning at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo. Velldal has more than 15 years of experience working with machine learning (ML) applied to natural language processing (NLP). He has published extensively on a wide range of topics within the field and teaches ML/NLP at both the graduate and undergraduate level. Velldal is currently manager of the RCN project Sentiment Analysis for Norwegian Text (SANT).