Curriculum Vitae
University Education
Since Nov. 2004 |
PhD studies in Linguistics (Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Thesis topic: "Relative clause extraposition
in German" supervised by Tibor Kiss
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Sept. 2003 - June 2004 |
MA studies in Linguistics at Stanford University, California, USA
Master of Arts in Linguistics
Thesis topic: “Possessive constructions in modern Low Saxon” supervised by Joan Bresnan, Tom Wasow, and Dan Jurafsky |
Sept. 2000 - Nov. 2004 |
MA studies in Linguistics (Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft), Germanic Linguistics, and Scandinavian Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany |
Career
Since August 2012 |
Research assistant at the University of Cologne in the project “Audiovisuelles Data Mining am Beispiel der Ereignissegmentierung in multimodalen Sprachdaten” led by Nikolaus Himmelmann |
Since July 2012 |
Postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig in the DoBeS
project “The relative frequencies of nouns, pronouns,
and verbs cross-linguistically” led by Frank Seifart |
May 2009 - March 2012 |
Research assistant to Tibor Kiss at the Department of Linguistics of Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Teaching of two courses per semester, work in a corpus-linguistic research project investigating so-called “determinerless PPs”) |
April 2007 - April 2009 |
Research assistant to Tibor Kiss and substitute lecturer at the Department of Linguistics of Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Teaching of three courses per semester) |
Jan. - March 2007 |
Visiting researcher at the Department of Linguistics
at Stanford University, California, USA |
Aug. 2004 - Dec. 2006 |
Student/research assistant to Nikolaus Himmelmann at the Department of Linguistics of Ruhr-Universität Bochum – Typology and Research on Universals (Technical support of language documentation projects) |
Jan. 2002 - Aug. 2003 |
Student assistant to Nikolaus Himmelmann at the Department of Linguistics of Ruhr-Universität Bochum – Typology and Research on Universals (Work with fieldwork data and technical support of language documentation projects) |
Aug. 2001 - Aug. 2003 |
Student assistant to Tibor Kiss at the Department of Linguistics of Ruhr-Universität Bochum – Computational Linguistics (Development of the automatic sentence boundary detection system “Punkt”) |
2001 - 2002 |
Student assistant to Jörg Meier at the Department of German Philology of Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Computational assistance with the creation of a bibliography of international research on chancellery language) |
Membership in professional organizations
German Linguistic Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft) (DGfS),
including the Section for Computational Linguistics
Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
Society for Endangered Languages (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen e.V.) (GBS)
(member of the advisory board)
Institute for the Low Saxon Language (Institut für niederdeutsche Sprache) (INS)
Miscellaneous
Since 2009 |
Member of the working group “Bochum Corpus of the Spoken Language in the Ruhr Area” (Bochumer Korpus der gesprochenen Sprache im Ruhrgebiet) (KgSR) at the Department of German Philology of Ruhr-Universität Bochum (http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/kgsr/) |
Courses taught at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Winter 2011/2012 |
Introductory course Elementare computerlinguistische Programmiertechniken (“Elementary computational linguistic programming techniques”) (Python)
Lecture Symbolische und statistische Verfahren (“Symbolic and statistical approaches to computational linguistics”) |
Summer 2011 |
Lecture Computerlinguistische Programmierung (“Programming for computational linguistics”) (Python) |
Winter 2010/2011 |
Seminar Experimentelle Syntax (“Experimental syntax”) Lecture Symbolische und statistische Verfahren (“Symbolic and statistical approaches to computational linguistics”) |
Summer 2010 |
Lecture Computerlinguistische Programmierung (“Programming for computational linguistics”) (Python) |
Winter 2009/2010 |
Seminar Empirische Dialektologie: Ruhrdeutsch (“Empirical dialectology: Ruhr German”)
Lecture Symbolische und statistische Verfahren (“Symbolic and
statistical approaches to computational linguistics”) |
Summer 2009 |
Lecture Computerlinguistische Programmierung (“Programming for computational linguistics”) (Python) |
Winter 2008/2009 |
Seminar Syntax: Nichtlokale Abhängigkeiten (“Syntax: Nonlocal dependencies”)
Lecture Symbolische und statistische Verfahren (“Symbolic and statistical approaches to computational linguistics”) |
Summer 2008 |
Lecture Computerlinguistische Programmierung (“Programming for computational linguistics”) (Perl)
Introductory course Syntax (HPSG)
Seminar Typologie 1 (“Typology 1”) |
Winter 2007/2008 |
Seminar Relativsatzextraposition (“Relative clause extraposition”)
Introductory course Strukturen einer Einzelsprache (“Structures of a language”) (Mandarin)
Lecture Symbolische und statistische Verfahren (“Symbolic and statistical approaches to computational linguistics”) |
Summer 2007 |
Lecture Computerlinguistische Programmierung (“Programming for computational linguistics”) (Perl)
Introductory course Syntax (HPSG)
Seminar Grundlagen syntaktischer Alternationen (“Foundations of syntactic alternations”) |
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