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Mike Calcagno
After having been a guest student, Calcagno returned in 1998 from Ohio State University to collaborate, for a year, on Project B8 of the SFB 340. He worked on the implementation of German grammar fragments in TRALE.
Kordula De Kuthy
Began her studies in Tübingen, earned her doctorate at Saarbrücken graduate school of cognitive sciences and then returned to Tübingen, to coordinate the implementation of German grammar fragments in TRALE during the B8 project of the SFB 340, until the end of 2000. Her earlier experience with implementing the first Tübingen grammar fragment in ConTroll in 1997 served her in her work with TRALE.
Frederik Fouvry
Came to Tübingen from the University of Essex, in 1999 and stayed until the end of the B8 project of the SFB 340, to work on the implementation of the TRALE system. In particular, he also worked on problems of linearization-based grammars.
Dale Gerdemann
As Akademischer Rat (lecturer) for computational linguistics, he co-supervised project B4 of the SFB 340 and most notably supported the development and implementation of ConTroll and TRALE.
Thilo Götz
Studied in Tübingen and worked from 1994 to 1997 on Project B4 of the SFB 340. Thilo was a main developer of the theoretical and computational foundations of the ConTroll system, which was in turn decisively influenced through the formalization of HPSG by Paul King. Thilo transferred at the end of 1997 to IBM's Watson Research Center in the USA.
John Griffith
Worked on Project B4 of the SFB 340 from its start until leaving Tübingen in 1998. Collaborated on the development of the implementation platform ConTroll.
Erhard Hinrichs
Professor in Computational Linguistics at the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft. Initiated the Tübingen HPSG projects in the SFB 340 and established in cooperation with Tsuneko Nakazawa, the analysis of argument raising of German verbal complexes in HPSG, which is widely accepted today.
Tilman N. Höhle
Instructor in the German department at the University of Tübingen. He regularly teaches courses in German Syntax. His introductory courses to HPSG (since 1992) have established the HPSG tradition in Syntax seminars in Tübingen's curriculums. His association with the relevant HPSG-projects of the SFB has had a powerful influence on the choice of topics there.
Anke Holler-Feldhaus
Studied and earned a doctorate degree in Tübingen. Worked in the Marga Reis group for a project of the former SFB 340. Worked with the syntax and semantics of wh-questions, among other areas of research.
Stephan Kepser
Studied in Tübingen, earned a doctorate degree in Munich and returned to Tübingen as collaborator on Project A2 of the SFB 441. The topic of his Masters' dissertation was a satisfaction algorithm for SRL. He also worked on the model theoretical basis of grammar formalisms, among other areas for HPSG.
Paul John King
Came in 1992 to Tübingen from Stanford. He held a variety of positions in Tübingen, until December of 1999. As he devised SRL (Speciate Re-entrant Logic), he sparked the Tübingen obsession with the formal basis of HPSG and had a lasting influence on the Tübingen research in the area.
Valia Kordoni
Came to Tübingen from the University of Essex in Colchester in 1997. She worked in Tübingen until the autumn of 2000 on the Verbmobil project. Her interest in Lexical Functional Grammar and HPSG soon led her to spirited collaboration with the HPSG group in the SFB 340.
Anna Kupsc
From 1999 to 2000, wrote her dissertation as a doctoral student of the CLaRK programme on issues of Polish syntax, in Tübingen.
Walt Detmar Meurers
Studied in Tübingen and directly went to work on the projects B4 and B8 of the SFB 340 on, among other areas, the implementation of the ConTroll system, and on various grammar fragments of German. Among his interests were various problems of German syntax, in particular verbal complexes. At the end of his time in Tübingen, he held the post of Assistent am Lehrstuhl (roughly equivalent to Assistant Professor) before moving on to Ohio State University as an Assistant Professor.
Guido Minnen
Longstanding collaborator on the B4 project of the SFB 340 (until 1998), where he worked on off-line grammar compilation techniques for efficient parsing and generation in the context of the development of the ConTroll system. Guido currently works for the Dialog Systems Group within DaimlerChrysler (guido.minnen@daimlerchrysler.com).
Paola Monachesi
Spent almost two years as a post doctorate at the Department of Linguistics, from January 1996 to September 1997. Along with her participation in the numerous discussions about the foundations of HPSG, she was also responsible for the analysis of clitics, especially in romance languages, such as Romanian and Italian, becoming an intensively discussed topic.
Gerald Penn
Began work on the projects of the SFB 340 in 1996 and continued until summer 1999. In particular, he worked on the implementation of ConTroll, ALE and TRALE and on the mathematical foundations, on which these systems are based. He also did work on theoretical questions of the analysis of Serbo-Croatian in a new version of linearization grammars as well as on the logical foundations of HPSG. He now holds the post of Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Toronto.
Gergana Popova
Came to Tübingen in 1998 as a doctoral student of the CLaRK programme and worked in the CLaRK programme. She stayed until the ending of CLaRK, in autumn 2000. She then went on to the University of Essex.
Adam Przepiórkowski
Earned his doctorate degree at Tübingen's graduate college of "Integrated Linguistic Studies" and sparked interest here, primarily in the analysis of Slavic Languages, particularly of Polish, in the context of HPSG.
Sabine Reinhard
In addition to her work in the Verbmobil project, she nurtured a relationship to the HPSG-group. She developed an extensive morphological theory in her dissertation, which she formulated in HPSG.
Frank Richter
Studied in Tübingen and after studying in Tübingen went directly to work for the B8 project of the SFB 340, on the logical foundations of HPSG and on German grammar fragments. Since 2000, has held the post of Assistent am Lehrstuhl (roughly equivalent to Assistant Professor) in computational linguistics and has participated in several HPSG projects at the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft.
Stefan Riezler
Earned his doctorate degree at Tübingen's graduate college, "Integrated Linguistic Studies" in probabilistic methods in Constraint Logic Programming. During his time in Tübingen, there was a lively exchange with the group interested in the logical foundations of HPSG.
Manfred Sailer
Studied in Tübingen and after studying in Tübingen went directly to work for the project B8 of the SFB 340 as a researcher. Was a lecturer from 1997 to 1999. Since 1999, he has done research work on projects of the SFB 441 on HPSG-centered topics. Participated in the grammar development in ConTroll and recently has been working on the integration of semantic representation languages and on the analysis of distributional idiosyncrasies in HPSG. He is now at the University of Göttingen.
Kiril Simov
Works at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and first visited our Linguistics department in the early 1990s. Wrote a few papers, in collaboration with Paul King, about the logical foundations of HPSG and is a regular guest in Tübingen, as a participant in shared projects.
Markus Steinbach
Briefly collaborated on the project B8 of the SFB 340 in 1998, when he worked on German grammar fragments, focusing on parentheticals, then transferred to the University of Mainz, where he became Akademischer Rat in 2002.
Beata Trawinski
Joined the project B8 of the SFB 340 and worked on the implementation of German grammar fragments in TRALE and on the analysis of German nominal phrases. From autumn 2001 through summer 2003, she worked on the MiLCA-project A4, Grammar Formalisms and Parsing. Since August 2003 she has been on the project A5 of SFB 441.
Jesse Tseng
Came in 1999 from the University of Edinburgh to the B8 project of the SFB 340, where he worked on the implementation of German syntax fragments in TRALE and meanwhile concluded his dissertation on the analysis of prepositions. After the end of that project, he transferred to Paris.
Nathan Vaillette
Came to Tübingen twice, and stayed a year each time. He first came as an exchange student from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and came once again while doing his graduate studies at Ohio State University in Columbus. During his first stay, he worked with Paul King on problems of formal foundations of HPSG. During his second stay in 2000 and 2001, he took an interest in relative clause phenomena and resumptive pronouns in Hebrew and Irish, in the context of HPSG.
Heike Winhart
Was a colleague during the first phase of the B8 project of the SFB 340, where she was responsible for the development of an analysis of nominal phrases in the German syntax fragment.
Shuly Wintner
Was a post-doctoral fellow from 1997 to 1998, after a previous visit to Tübingen in 1994. Among other things, he worked during this time on an analysis of definite articles and nominal phrases in Hebrew. He is now a lecturer with the Computer Science Department at the University of Haifa.
Last modified: 7.10.2004