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Professional Development

06/2009     Habilitation
Universität des Saarlandes, Philosophische Fakultät, Computerlinguistik und Phonetik
Habilitation Thesis: Theoretical Adequacy, Human Data and Classification Approaches in Modelling Word Properties, Word Relatedness and Word Classes

since 10/2006     Researcher
Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung
SFB 732 "Incremental specification in context",
Project: Modular lexicalisation of probabilistic context-free grammars

04/2004 - 09/2006     Post-Doc in Computational Linguistics
Universität des Saarlandes, Institut für Computerlinguistik und Phonetik
  • Theoretical and computational models for semantic verb classes
  • Experiments on human verb associations
  • Cluster analysis for German verbs

    04/2004 - 12/2004     Freelancer Language Technology
    Brockhaus Duden Neue Medien GmbH

    09/2003 - 03/2004     Product Manager Language Technology
    Brockhaus Duden Neue Medien GmbH
  • Product manager for professional spell checking
  • Development of a language-technological editor corpus
  • Development of a language-technological database network

    08/2000 - 07/2003     PhD in Computational Linguistics
    Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung
  • Statistical grammar models and lexicon acquisition
  • Cluster analysis for German verbs
    Thesis: Experiments on the Automatic Induction of German Semantic Verb Classes

    10/2001 - 11/2001     Collaboration with Bibliographisches Institut & F.A. Brockhaus AG
    Project: Comparison of lexical verb entries

    04/1999 - 07/2000     Researcher
    Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung
    SFB 340 "Linguistic foundations for Computational Linguistics",
    Project: Statistical grammar models and lexicon acquisition

    10/1993 - 12/1998     Diploma in Computational Linguistics
    Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung
  • Computational syntax and semantics
  • Statistical methods in Natural Language Processing
    Thesis: Automatic Semantic Classification of Verbs According to their Alternation Behaviour

    10/1996 - 09/1997     MSc-Program in Cognitive Science and Natural Language
    University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive Science
    Thesis (Studienarbeit): Resolving Bridging Descriptions in High-Dimensional Space

    08/1990 - 07/1993     Studies in Computer Science for Industrial Requirements
    Berufsakademie Emsland e.V. in cooperation with Deilmann Erdöl Erdgas GmbH
  • Project management
  • Organisation of data processing
  • Controlling
  • Economics

    08/1983 - 07/1990     Gymnasium Georgianum, Lingen (Ems)

    Computer System Experience

    • Operating systems: Unix, Windows, MS-DOS, Mac OS X
    • Programming (natural-language-oriented): Perl, Prolog, Lisp
    • Programming (database): XML, SQL, Delphi
    • Programming (general): C++, C, Modula-2
    • Presentation: LaTeX, Powerpoint

    Language Skills

    • German (natively)
    • English (fluently)
    • Spanish (well)
    • French (well)
    • Latin (well)
    • Russian (basics)
    • Dutch (basics)

    Other Qualifications

    • since 1993     B-Coach Volleyball
      (qualified for teaching professional volleyball up to the third national league)
    • since 1992     C-Coach Volleyball
      (qualified for teaching professional volleyball on lower levels)

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