Jeanine Lilleng has a master in computer science from Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. Her master thesis was about georeferential digital libraries. More specific she worked on the ADEPT prototype. Currently she has two projects: Her PhD and her work at The Norwegian Register Centre (Brønnøysundregistrene).

The PhD is on multilingual information retrieval. Much of the work within this area is done with main focus either on natural language parsing or statistical methods. Her intention is to evaluate a combination of semantic and statistical methods. Since her mother tong is Norwegian, she has special interest in multilingual information retrieval methods that do not require resources that are expensive to create.

She is also working at Brønnøysundregistrene with the development of a new methodology for electronic form design, where ontologies and reuse are important ideas. They are designing a methodology based on a hybrid ontology solution and separation of information and form design.

She has previous experience with databases, artificial intelligence and information retrieval. She has also taught several Java and some basic computer science cources at NTNU. Currently, her main interests are within language semantics, information management and ontology methodologies.