[1] Having initially dropped out of secondary school to pursue another path, she finished examen artium and became interested in linguistics when learning Greek.
In 1993 she became managing director of the Text Laboratory at the University of Oslo, and the following year she completed her doctoral thesis for the dr.philos.
She held the rank of professor at the University of Oslo while managing the Text Laboratory throughout her career.
Eventually, her research was connected with the center of excellence Multilingualism in Society Across the Lifespan.
[3] She served as president of the Northern European Association for Language Technology[1] and was inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.