SSiW


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I apply data-intensive, statistical methods to linguistic questions, with a focus on the syntax-semantics interface and lexical-semantic phenomena. As a main challenge of my work I consider the linguistic and cognitive plausibility of the approaches with respect to the tasks.

The topics of my research include grammar development, corpus-based lexical acquisition, and the application to lexicography; the automatic induction of semantic classifications, the compositionality of German multi-word expressions, the evaluation of corpus-based semantic knowledge, and cognitive feedback (mainly with respect to associations) to semantic relations.

Since October 2011, I work as PI on Distributional Approaches to Semantic Relatedness, funded by a DFG Heisenberg Fellowship plus Research Grant. The project is described here.

Also in October 2011, I took over the SFB project on Lexical-Semantic Factors in Event Interpretation as PI, formerly headed by Sebastian Padó. The project is described here.

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