Work
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(Very) Short CV
- 9/2008 - current Researcher at the DFKI Projektbüro Berlin, Germany
- 9/2003 - 9/2008 PhD in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- 4/2002 - 7/2002 Institute for Computational Linguistics, Beijing University, China
- 9/2001 - 2/2002 Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
- 9/1999 - 8/2003 Master of science in linguistics (computational linguistics), University of the Saarland, Germany
Research
Fields of Interest
- intelligent user interfaces:
spoken dialog systems, user modelling, multimodality, mobile applications - theoretical linguistics:
semantics, syntax-semantics interface, pragmatics, discourse & dialog, corpora, word order - computational linguistics:
Tree-Adjoining Grammar, metagrammar, statistical approaches to corpora, natural language generation
Former and Current Projects
- Voice2Social
- SpeechEval -- DFKI Projektbüro Berlin
- Metagrammar -- IRCS, University of Pennsylvania
- SmartKom
-- DFKI, Saarbrücken; research assistant
- VerbMobil -- DFKI Saarbrücken; research assistant
- NameMapping
- Multilingual Information Extraction -- Shanghai Jiaotong University
Teaching & Supervision
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Thesis Supervision
- Paul Lehmann: Matching Points of Interest in Social Data
Bachelor thesis, FH Brandenburg, in progress. - Jana Götze: Prototyping a User Simulation for a Spoken Dialog System
Diplomarbeit (Master's thesis), Uni Potsdam, September 2010.
- Kira Eberle: Extraktion von Ressourcen aus dem Korpus des Sprachdialogsystems
Let's Go!
Bachelor thesis, Uni Potsdam, May 2010. - Katarina Birghan: Inbetriebnahme, Konfigurierung und Evaluation des
Vorverarbeitungsmoduls zur Segmentierung von Dialogakten mittels Pausenerkennung
Bachelor thesis, FH Brandenburg, May 2009.
Teaching
- Spring 2007: Introduction to Syntax (LING 250, Penn); teaching assistant
- Fall 2006: Introduction to Formal Linguistics (LING 106, Penn); teaching assistant
- Spring 2005-2007: Elementary German II (Penn, instructor: Ed Dixon); oral exam training
- Spring 2003: Elementary German (ICL, Beijing University); lecturer
Service & Memberships
Service
- Program committee, Tag+9, 2008
- Reviewer, Sinn und Bedeutung, 2008
- Reviewer, Penn Linguistics Colloquium, 2006-present
- Organizer of the weekly XTAG group meeting, 2006-2008
- Editor, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, 2003-2008
- Co-Chair, GET-UP, 2005-2006
- Penn Linguistics Club Social Chair (with Michael Friesner), 2004-2005
- Penn Linguistics representative at the Graduate Students Association Council, 2003-2005
- Co-Chair, Organizing Commmittee, 29th Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC 29), University of Pennsylvania, 2005
- Member, Organizing Committee, 28th Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC 28), University of Pennsylvania, 2004
- Chair, Organizing Committee, 29. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS), University of the Saarland, Germany, 2001