Curriculum Vitae

Overview – Events – Professional Service – Invited Talks

Overview

Since May 2018: Chair of Computational Corpus Linguistics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
September 2012 – March 2018: Professor of Corpus Linguistics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
September 2011 – September 2012: Professor of English Computational Corpus Linguistics at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.
October 2005 – September 2011: Juniorprofessor for Computational Linguistics at the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany.
March 2005 – September 2005: Researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany.
30 August 2004: Dr. phil. in Computational Linguistics (grade: mit Auszeichnung bestanden), IMS, University of Stuttgart, Germany. Thesis: The Statistics of Word Cooccurrences: Word Pairs and Collocations. [PDF] Supervisor: PD Dr. Ulrich Heid.
September 1999 – February 2005: Research assistant in computational linguistics at the IMS (Institut für maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung), University of Stuttgart, Germany.
6 July 1999: Diplom in Mathematics (grade: mit Auszeichnung bestanden), University of Stuttgart, Germany. Thesis: Das Verhalten von Lösungen der vektoriellen Helmholtzgleichung in Außenräumen für kleine Frequenzen unter elektrischen Randbedingungen (no joke :-). [PDF] Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Werner.
October 1991 – March 2000: Studies in Mathematics (major), English (major), and Physics (minor), University of Stuttgart, Germany.
December 1991: Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (grade A pass).
16 May 1990: Abitur (grade: 1,0), Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium Marbach am Neckar, Germany.
13 October 1970: Born in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

Events

15. Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache (KONVENS 2019) in Erlangen, Germany, 8–11 October 2019 (with the entire CCL team)
GermEval 2019 shared task on the lemmatization of German web and social media data (EmpiriST-lemmatization 2019) in Erlangen, Germany, 8 October 2019 (with Natalie Dykes, Philipp Heinrich, Besim Kabashi and Thomas Proisl)
5th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex-V) and shared task on Corpus-Based Identification of Semantic Relations at the COLING 2016 Conference in Osaka, Japan, 12 December 2016 (with Alessandro Lenci, Enrico Santus and Michael Zock).
Shared task on Automatic Linguistic Annotation of Computer-Mediated Communication (EmpiriST 2015) (with Sabine Bartsch, Michael Beißwenger and Kay-Michael Würzner).
The 10th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2014) at the EACL Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, 26-27 April 2014 (with Valia Kordoni, Markus Egg, Agata Savary and Eric Wehrli).
Workshop on Modelling Non-Standardized Writing at the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2013), Potsdam, Germany, 13-15 March 2013 (with Michael Beißwenger, Stefanie Dipper and Bianka Trevisan).
Workshop on Semantic Theory and Empirical Evidence, 18-19 September 2009, Osnabrück, Germany (with Carla Umbach and Cornelia Ebert).
ESSLLI 2008 Workshop on Distributional Lexical Semantics: Bridging the gap between semantic theory and computational simulations, 4-9 August 2008, Hamburg, Germany (with Marco Baroni and Alessandro Lenci).
The 4th Web as Corpus Workshop: Can we beat Google? (WAC-4) at the LREC Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, 1 June 2008 (with Adam Kilgarriff and Serge Sharoff).
LREC workshop: Towards a Shared Task for Multiword Expressions (MWE 2008) at the LREC Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, 1 June 2008 (with Nicole Grégoire and Brigitte Krenn).
ACL workshop: A Broader Perspective on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2007) at the ACL Conference in Prague, Czech Republic, 28 June 2007 (with Nicole Grégoire and Su Nam Kim).
Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 2 (QITL-2) in Osnabrück, Germany, 1-2 July 2006 (with Peter Bosch, Graham Katz, Philip Reuter, Bettina Schrader and Carla Umbach).
ACL workshop on Multiword Expressions: Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties (MWE-2006) at the ACL/COLING conference in Sydney, Australia, 23 July 2006 (with Diana McCarthy, Suzanne Stevenson, Aline Villavicencio, Begona Villada Moiron). [proceedings]

Professional Service

Referee for various journals (Computers and the Humantities, Language Resource and Evaluation, Computational Linguistics, Computer Speech and Language, Research on Language and Computation, Natural Language Engineering, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, etc.), conferences (ACL, EACL, COLING, EMNLP, LREC, EURALEX, Corpus Linguistics, etc.), and workshops (Multiword Expressions, Web as Corpus, etc.).
Reviewer for book publishers (Mouton de Gruyter, Springer, CUP) and funding organisations (DFG, BMBF, ISF, NWO)
Chair of the ACL Special Interest Group on the Web as Corpus (SIGWAC, 2012-2015)
Member of the Council of the Faculty of Philosophy and the Board of the Department Germanistik & Komparatistik (2015-)
Board member of the Interdisciplinary Centres for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences and Lexicography, Valency and Collocation (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2014-)
Member of the Challenge and Innovation Panel of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University, UK (2013-)
Member of the ACL SIGLEX Executive Board (2004-2007), the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (2011-), and the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Learner Corpus Research (2015-)
Member of the DIN Working Group 105-00-06 AA "Sprachressourcen" (language resources) and ISO TC37 SC4 (2014–)
Member of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the Cognitive Science Society, the German Linguistics Society (DGfS) and the German Society for Computational Linguistics & Language Technology (GSCL)
ERASMUS & international affairs coordinator for the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück (with Sven Walter, 2009 - 2011)
Local coordinator for the ERASMUS student exchange programme at the IMS, University of Stuttgart (March 2001 - February 2005)

Invited Talks

Talk series on Wie intelligent ist ChatGPT? (in German) at VHS Erlangen, Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, RC Nürnberg-Fürth, ECHO-Kontaktstudium, Unitag, Let's Talk, Tag der Forschung, KI-PARK (Erlangen/Nürnberg, 10/2023-10/2024) [slides (PDF), screencast (YouTube)]
Keynote talk on Statistical significance in literary authorship attribution at the 1st Roundtable on Practices and Standards in Forensic Authorship Analysis (Manchester, UK, May 2019) [livestream, slides (PDF), handout (PDF)]
Sinclair Lecture 2018 on The Hermeneutic Cyborg at the University of Birmingham (UK, June 2018) [video, slides (PDF)]
Plenary talk on Distributional Semantics in Corpus Linguistics: Towards a Hermeneutic Cyborg [slides (PDF)] and pre-conference tutorial on Multivariate analysis with R [SIGIL Unit #7] at the 4th Asia-Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (Takamatsu, Japan, September 2018)
Plenary talk on Measures of Productivity and Lexical Diversity and invited symposium talk Collocational patterns beyond word pairs at the Annual Meeting of the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies (JACES, Tokyo, Japan, October 2018)
Talk on Modelling Free Associations with Co-Occurrence Data in the symposium From computational modelling to behavior via multimodal corpus data: integrative approaches to the study of semantic representation and processing, International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS 2017; Vienna, Austria, March 2017; with Gabriella Lapesa) [slides (PDF)]
Talk on Naïve Discriminative Learning: From Rescorla-Wagner to Machine Learning in Natural Language Processing at the Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany (June 2017)
Talk series on Evaluating the corpus-based identification of lexical collocations
- latest slides (PDF)
- Centre for Translation Studies, University of Leeds, UK (June 2016)
- FU Berlin, Germany (February 2016)
- Laboratoire CLLE-ERSS, Université de Toulouse 2 (September 2015)
Plenary talk on Multivariate Ansätze zur Modellierung von Sprachvariation in the workshop Digitale Forschungsmethoden in der Romanistik, Forum Junge Romanistik (Würzburg, Germany, March 2016)
Statistical consultant for resarch project OPTACH, EURAC Research (Bolzano, Italy, December 2015)
Workshop tutorial on Introduction to statistics for corpus linguistics, Symposium on Methods and Linguistic Theories (Bamberg, Germany, November 2015)
Talk on A multivariate approach to linguistic variation and distribution at the workshop on Data mining and its use and usability for linguistic analysis (Saarbrücken, Germany, March 2015) and in the GECCo colloquium (Saarbrücken, Germany, September 2015)
Talk on An NLP Approach to the Evaluation of Web Corpora at QLVL, KU Leuven (Belgium, February 2015) [slides (PDF), handout (PDF)]
Talk on Current approaches to linguistic querying and quantitative analysis of large corpora at e-cosmos Workshop Computational Perspectives on Multimodal Data (Aachen, Germany, November 2014) [handout (PDF)]
Tutorial Statistics for Linguists at DGKL 7 Conference (Erlangen, Germany, September 2014)
Evening lecture on A multivariate approach to linguistic variation and distribution at the 26th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2014, Tübingen, Germany, August 2014) [slides (PDF), video 1 (p. 21), video 2 (p. 29), video 3 (p. 39), video 4 (p. 40)]
Talk on An NLP Approach to the Evaluation of Web Corpora in the workshop AG 11: Web Data as a Challenge for Theoretical Linguistics and Corpus Design at the DGfS 2014 Conference (Marburg, Germany, February 2014) [handout (PDF)]
Talk series on Rethinking corpus frequencies: Understanding and managing non-randomness in corpus data
- latest slides (PDF)
- Summer school Documentary Linguistics and Variationist Sociolinguistics, University of Bamberg, Germany (July 2014)
- Workshop The relative frequencies of nouns, pronouns, and verbs in discourse at the 10th Biennial Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Leipzig, Germany (August 2013)
- Linguistics Department, University of Zurich, Switzerland (March 2012)
- Interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Lexicography, Valency and Collocation, University of Erlangen, Germany (December 2010)
- Computational Linguistics Group, LORIA INRIA Nancy, France (June 2010)
- Workshop Ontologien und Wortnetze in Lexikographie und Textwissenschaft, LexicoLux & University of Trier, Luxembourg (December 2009)
- Conference on Diversity in Language Corpora, University of Basel, Switzerland (April 2009)
- Linguistics Department, University of Konstanz, Germany (January 2009)
- Linguistics Department, Lancaster University, UK (December 2008)
- Linguistics Department, University of Potsdam, Germany (May 2008)
Participation in Dagstuhl Seminar 13462, Computational Models of Language Meaning in Context (Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany, November 2013)
Tutorial "Statistik für Linguisten", DGfS 2012 Conference (Frankfurt, Germany, March 2012) and DGfS 2013 Conference (Potsdam, Germany, March 2013); with Amir Zeldes [material]
Talk on Historische Korpora und distributionelle Semantik at Varianz und Vielfalt interdisziplinär: Wörter und Strukturen (Darmstadt, Germany, November 2012; with Cristina Sánchez Marco)
Talk on The Role of Dimensionality Reduction in Distributional Semantics as special contributor at Leuven Statistics Days 2012 (Leuven, Belgium, June 2012) [handout (PDF)]
Talk on Web N-Grams as a Resource for Corpus Linguistics at the Computational Linguistics Group, University of Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland, March 2012)
Talks on Making Sense of Distributional Semantic Models at the University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2010) and the Tandem Workshop on Optimality in Language and Geometric Approaches to Cognitions (Berlin, December 2010)
Talks on Association & Word Meaning at the University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria, January 2010) and the University of Potsdam (Potsdam, Germany, March 2010)
Tutorial "Korpuslinguistik mit Online-Ressource - eine interaktive Einführung für Linguisten", DGfS 2010 Conference (Berlin, Germany, February 2010), LIPP (LMU München, Germany, January 2011) and DGfS 2011 Conference (Göttingen, Germany, February 2011); with Stefanie Dipper and Heike Zinsmeister [material]
Talk Inside Word Skteches at Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW, Berlin, Germany, January 2010)
Talk Inside the IMS Corpus Workbench at the Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada (IULA), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain, September 2008)
Talk on The Significance of Corpus Frequencies at the Colloquium of the Chair of Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany, January 2008)
Invitation to Expert Meeting on the Dutch Web as Corpus (Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie & Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag, The Netherlands April 2007)
ERASMUS visiting lecturer at CIMeC, University of Trento (Rovereto/Trento, Italy, March 2007)
Participation in Dagstuhl Seminar 06491, Digital Historical Corpora - Architecture, Annotation, and Retrieval (Schloß Dagstuhl, Germany, December 2006)
Presentation Towards better association measures for collocation extraction at the Collocations and Idioms 2006 Conference, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Berlin, Germany, November 2006)
Talk on Statistical Association and Natural Language in the Computational Linguistics Colloquium, Saarland University (Saarbrücken, Germany, May 2006)
Talk on The Web as Corpus at the Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden, November 2005)
Course on Statistical Methods for Corpus Linguistics at the European Academy (Eurac, Bolzano, Italy, September 2005)
Talk on Indexing and Interfaces for the Web as Corpus at the Workshop on the Web as Corpus (Corpus Linguistics 2005 Conference, Birmingham, UK, July 2005)
Teacher at TWC seminar on The Case for a Corpus (Tuscan Word Centre, Siena, Italy, June 2005)
Talk on How Random is a Corpus? - The Library Metaphor at the Workshop on The Scope and Limits of Corpus Linguistics (FU Berlin, Germany, June 2005)
Talk on Using the Web as a Corpus: Procedures, Pitfalls, and my Pet Peeve at the LingLit Special Event 2005: Corpus applications in literary studies, linguistics and information technology (TU Darmstadt, Germany, February 2005)
Talk on Sketch of a WWW Interface for Very Large Corpora and Lexical Databases at the Symposium on the Web as Corpus (SITLeC, University of Bologna, Italy, January 2005)
Talk on Intuitive Association Measures (HU Berlin, Germany, December 2004)
Talk on Design Patterns for Richly Annotated Corpora at the Antragskonferenz DDD (HU Berlin, Germany, December 2003)
Consultant on tools for text corpora (GLiCom, UPF Barcelona, Spain, October 2001)
Consultant for the research project Computational Processing of Portuguese (SINTEF, Oslo, Norway, March 2001)
EURALEX tutorial on Tools for Corpus Lexicography with Arne Fitschen and Ulrich Heid (Stuttgart, Germany, August 2000)