SSiW

Research Areas

 My research explores the application of statistical methods to lexical-semantic phenomena, with a focus on the linguistic and cognitive plausibility of the computational approaches. Research topics include:

Research Group (aka as SemRel Team)

See here for more details on my SemRel group.



Projects and Grants
starting soon Principal Investigator, DFG Research Grant SCHU 2580/7-1
Project: MeTRapher: Learning to Translate Metaphors
since 07/2022 Principal Investigator, DFG Research Grant SCHU 2580/5-1
Project: Computational Models of the Emergence and Diachronic Change of Multi-Word Expression Meanings
since 03/2022 Principal Investigator, DFG Research Grant SCHU 2580/4-1
Project: Multimodal Dimensions and Computational Applications of Abstractness
10/2015-06/2018 Principal Investigator, DFG SFB 732/D11 (taken over from Lonneke van der Plas)
Collaborative Research Centre 732 "Incremental Specification in Context"
Project: A Crosslingual Approach to the Analysis of Compound Nouns
07/2014-06/2018 Principal Investigator, DFG SFB 732/D12
Collaborative Research Centre 732 "Incremental Specification in Context"
Project: Sense Discrimination and Regular Meaning Shifts of German Particle Verbs
07/2014-06/2018 Co-Director of the Integrated Research Training Group, DFG SFB 732/MGK
Collaborative Research Centre 732 "Incremental Specification in Context"
11/2011-02/2017 Principal Investigator, DFG Research Grant SCHU 2580/2
Project: Distributional Approaches to Semantic Relatedness
10/2011-06/2014 Principal Investigator, DFG SFB 732/D6 (taken over from Sebastian Padó)
Collaborative Research Centre 732 "Incremental Specification in Context"
Project: Lexical-Semantic Factors in Event Interpretation
10/2011-12/2016 DFG Heisenberg Fellowship SCHU 2580/1
08/2000-07/2003     DFG Doctoral Scholarship
Graduate School 609 "Linguistic Representations and their Interpretation"


Milestones

Collaborations (current and past)