Curriculum Vitae

Research

Current Research Projects

• Parallel Treebanks 
• Information Extraction and Ontologies
• Machine Translation of Film Subtitles (in cooperation with a large subtitling company)
• Digitizing and annotating heritage data: Text+Berg digital.

Past Research Projects

Long-term Research Interests

• Grammar and parser engineering
• Data-driven methods for NLP (corpora and treebanks)
• Multilingual text analysis
• Cross-language information retrieval

Publications

Teaching

Recent Teaching

• Corpus Linguistics and Ontologies
• Language Technology for Ontologies
• Machine Translation and Parallel Corpora
• Mathematical Linguistics
• Methods and Applications, an Introduction to Computational Linguistics
• Treebanks: Formats, Tools and Usages

Past Teaching

• Lexicon structure and morphology analysis (in German)
• Formal grammars and syntax analysis (in German)
• Introduction to Computer Science (for translators) (in German)
• Terminology Databases and Terminology Extraction (for translators) (in German)
• Corpus Linguistics for Computational Linguistics (overview in German, slides in English)

Hobbies

• Running
• Ice-skating on frozen lakes (e.g. with Norrvikens Friluftsfrämjandet)
• Kayaking in the Stockholm Archipelago
• Hiking and biking
• Listening to Classical Music
• Enjoying a good glass of wine (mostly) from Weingut Volk
• Digitizing old books (e.g. Lesebuch für die Kath. Volksschulen der Rheinprovinz  from 1917)