CV
| 04.2016– | Professor for Linguistics of German: Syntax at the Institute for German Language and Linguistics of the Humboldt University Berlin |
| 09.2014 | elected member of the Academia Europaea, Section Linguistic Studies |
| 04.2008– 04.2016 | Vice speaker of the Interdisciplinary Center European Languages (Interdisziplinären Zentrums Europäische Sprachen) |
| 08.2007– 04.2016 | Professor for German Grammar at the Institute for German and Dutch Philology at the Free University of Berlin |
| 10.2006– 07.2007 | Juniorprofessor for Theoretical Linguistics/Computational Linguistics
at the FB 10 (Linguistics)
of the University Bremen
Adaption of the last text book grammar to Minimal Recursion Semantics. Development of a grammar of Maltese. Adaption of the German, Chinese, and Maltese grammars to a uniform format. The three grammars now use the same core. |
| 09.01.2006 | Positive evaluation as Juniorprofessor |
| 10.2005– 09.2006 | Acting Chair for Theoretical Computational Linguistics at the Institut for Linguistics of the University Potsdam |
| 04.2003– 09.2005 | Juniorprofessor for Theoretical Linguistics/Computational Linguistics
at the FB 10 (Linguistics)
of the University Bremen
Development of the grammar B-Ger-Gram, which is a combination of the VerbMobil Grammar and the Babel Grammar. Work with and development of the TRALE System. Research on syntax and information structure of German. |
| 03.2003– 03.2003 | Work in the project Whiteboard at the Language Technology Lab at the DFKI in Saarbrücken |
| 18.06.2001 | Habilitation for Computational Linguistics at the Philosophischen Fakultät der Universität des Saarlandes for the Habilitationsschrift Complex Predicates: Verbal Complexes, Resultative Constructions, and Particle Verbs in German |
| 04.2001– 02.2003 | Acting Chair for Applied Linguistics/Computational Linguistics at the Institute for German Linguistics of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. |
| 05.2000– 03.2001 |
continued development of the HPSG grammar for German for industrial applications at the
company Interprice in Berlin and for use
in the DFKI project
Whiteboard, head of grammar development for English and Spanish at the company Interprice in Berlin and teaching at the chair for Computational Linguistics of the Humboldt-University Berlin |
| 01.1997– 05.2000 | Work as grammar developer at the Language Technology Lab at the DFKI in Saarbrücken in the project Verbmobil and teaching at the department for computational linguistics of the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken |
| 23.09.1997 | Defense of the Dissertation Spezifikation und Verarbeitung deutscher Syntax in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar at the Technische Fakultät der Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, with the predicate "sehr gut" (very good) |
| 01.1994– 12.1996 | Research and teaching at the Institute for German Language and Linguistics
at the Chair for Computational Linguistics of the Humboldt-University Berlin. I developed an HPSG fragment of German and implemented a Prolog system for the processing of this grammar. The linguistic theory of the Babel-System is documented in Deutsche Syntax deklarativ and in Complex Predicates. There is a Web-Interface (Java Version!). |
| 09.1989– 12.1993 | Study Computer Science/Computational Linguistics/Lingustics at the Humboldt-University Berlin and at the University of Edinburgh. Degree in Computer Science. |