Curriculum Vitae
Higher education
1991-1993 | Ph.D., Stanford University, Linguistics (The Structure of Complex Predicates in Urdu, Supervisor: Peter Sells) |
1988-1991 | M.A., Stanford University, Linguistics |
1984-1987 | B.A., Wellesley College, Double Major, Language Studies and Computer Science |
Employment
2003-current | Professor for General and Computational Linguistics Department of Linguistics, Universität Konstanz |
2002-2003 | Lecturer Computational Linguistics Centre for Computational Linguistics, UMIST. |
1997-2002 | Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Research Scientist) Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaft (Dept. of Linguistics), Universität Konstanz. → Project: Complex Predicates: synchronic and diachronic perspectives on the lexicon. → Umbrella project: SFB 471 - Variation and Change in the Lexicon. Research on the Syntax/Semantics and Syntax/Phonology interface with special consideration of diachronic developments with respect to Urdu/Hindi and Bengali. |
1995-1997 | Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Research Scientist) IMS (Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung/Natural Language Processing Institute), Universität Stuttgart. → Project: ParGram Developed a large-scale grammar for German within the XLE (Xerox Linguistic Environment) parsing/generation platform. |
1993-1995 | Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Research Scientist) Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Abteilung Computerlinguistik, (Dept. of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics Section), Universität Tübingen. Designed and implemented a Reichenbachian approach for an analysis of tense and subsequent target language realization (German → English) in cooperation with a larger tense/aspect group within the machine translation project Verbmobil. |
1987-1988 | Full-Time Intern Computer Science Department, Wellesley College. Assistant to the Systemadministrator; Supervision of a Terminalroom with about 20 Terminals for a VAX/VMS Unix-Machine and several PCs and Apple Computers; Teaching Assistant for the Computer Science Department; Software Development. |