Palstar bv

Postal Address	Winkelsteeg 5a 7975 PV Uffelte The Netherlands
Telephon	+31 521 351077
Fax	+31 521 351078
E-mail	palstar@xs4all.nl
Web	http://www.palstar.nl

Gert van der Steen - Gert van der Steen is an independent consultant in Document Management and Language Technology, with a focus on the introduction of SGML and XML in industry and the automatic translation of controlled natural languages.

Gert studied Mathematics and Computer Sciences and wrote a dissertation on the design of a program generator for syntactic pattern recognition and transduction. He worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Universities of Leiden (Medicine), Rotterdam (Economics) and Amsterdam (Arts). He shifted in 1988 from science to the industry where he has been involved in many SGML projects as a consultant, trainer, developer and project manager. For Cap Gemini he developed a system for the treatment of controlled natural languages.

In 1996 Gert van der Steen founded his own consultancy, Palstar bv. For Palstar he is currently developing tools for SGML/XML and Natural Language Processing, like syntactic analysis of documents for subsequent up-conversion, revision tracking (Palstar sells the program SGDIFF), transformation and querying of SGML documents and groves. In addition to this Gert van der Steen is a part-time Professor in Information Science at the University of Utrecht.