Publications

Note: The electronic versions of the publications linked on this page are the last versions I had the copyright for. Where a publisher copyedited or typeset the papers, the electronic copies linked here are NOT identical to the officially published version, which should be used for any quotes, references to page numbers, etc.

  

  

• Ana Díaz-Negrillo, Detmar Meurers, Salvador Valera, and Holger Wunsch: "Towards interlanguage POS annotation for effective learner corpora in SLA and FLT ''. Ms. Universidad de Jaén/Universität Tübingen. 2009.

    

  

Journal articles

  

• Detmar Meurers: "On the Automatic Analysis of Learner Language. Introduction to the Special Issue''. CALICO Journal. 26 (3). 2009.

    

• Luiz Amaral and Detmar Meurers: "Little Things With Big Effects: On the Identification and Interpretation of Tokens for Error Diagnosis in ICALL''. CALICO Journal. 26 (3). 2009.

    

Peer reviewed chapters in edited books

  

• Detmar Meurers and Stefan Müller: "Corpora and Syntax''. Chapter 42 in Lüdeling, A. and Kytö, M. Corpus Linguistics. Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK), Volume 2. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 2008.

  

Journal articles

  

• Luiz Amaral and Detmar Meurers: "From Recording Linguistic Competence to Supporting Inferences about Language Acquisition in Context: Extending the Conceptualization of Student Models for Computer-Assisted Language Learning''. Computer Assisted Language Learning. 21 (5). 2008.

    

• Adriane Boyd, Markus Dickinson and Detmar Meurers: "On Detecting Errors in Dependency Treebanks''. Research on Language and Computation. 6(2). 113-137. 2008.

    

Peer reviewed conference proceedings

  

• Stacey Bailey and Detmar Meurers: "Diagnosing Meaning Errors in Short Answers to Reading Comprehension Questions''. In Proceedings of the Third ACL Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications. Association for Computational Linguistics. 107-115. 2008.

    

• Adriane Boyd and Detmar Meurers: ``Revisiting the Impact of Different Annotation Schemes on PCFG Parsing: A Grammatical Dependency Evaluation''. In Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Parsing German. Association for Computational Linguistics. 24-32. 2008.

  

Journal articles

  

• Detmar Meurers. ``Advancing Linguistics Between the Extremes: Some thoughts on Geoffrey Sampson's Grammar without Grammaticality'' Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 3(1), 2007.

    

Peer reviewed conference proceedings

  

• Adriane Boyd, Markus Dickinson, and Detmar Meurers: ``Increasing the recall of corpus annotation error detection''. Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2007). Bergan, Norway.

    

• Adriane Boyd, Markus Dickinson, and Detmar Meurers: ``On representing dependency relations -- Insights from converting the German TiGerDB''. Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2007). Bergan, Norway.

    

• John Pate and Detmar Meurers: ``Refining Syntactic Categories Using Local Contexts -- Experiments in Unlexicalized PCFG Parsing.'' Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2007). Bergan, Norway.

    

• Luiz Amaral and Detmar Meurers. ``Conceptualizing Student Models for Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning''. Cristina Conati and Kathleen F. McCoy (Eds.): User Modeling 2007: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Wien, New York, Berlin: Springer.

    

Peer reviewed chapters in edited books

  

• Robert D. Levine & Detmar Meurers. ``Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar: Linguistic Approach, Formal Foundations, and Computational Realization''. Keith Brown (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition. Oxford: Elsevier.

    

• Robert D. Levine & Detmar Meurers. ``Declarative Models of Syntax''. Keith Brown (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition. Oxford: Elsevier.

    

Peer reviewed conference proceedings

  

• Stefan Müller and Detmar Meurers. ``Corpus Evidence for Syntactic Structures and Requirements for Annotations of Tree Banks''. Proceedings of the Int. Conference on Linguistic Evidence, Universität Tübingen, 2006.

    

Journal articles

  

• Detmar Meurers: ``On the use of electronic corpora for theoretical linguistics. Case studies from the syntax of German''. Lingua Volume 115 (11).

    

Peer reviewed conference proceedings

  

• Markus Dickinson & Detmar Meurers: ``Prune Diseased Branches to Get Healthy Trees! How to Find Erroneous Local Trees in a Treebank and Why It Matters''. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2005). Barcelona, Spain.

    

• Markus Dickinson & Detmar Meurers: ``Detecting Errors in Discontinuous Structural Annotation''. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-05). Ann Arbor, Michigan.

    

• Chris Brew, Markus Dickinson & Detmar Meurers: ``Language and Computers: Creating an Introduction for a General Undergraduate Audience''. Proceedings of the Workshop on Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching Natural Language Processing And Computational Linguistics, held at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-05). Ann Arbor, Michigan.

    

• Markus Dickinson & Detmar Meurers: ``Detecting Annotation Errors in Spoken Language Corpora''. Proceedings of the Special session on treebanks for spoken language and discourse at the 15th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA-05). Joensuu, Finland.

    

Journal articles

  

• Erhard Hinrichs, Detmar Meurers & Shuly Wintner (Eds.). ``Linguistic Theory and Grammar Implementation''. Special issue of Research on Language and Computation, Volume 2 (2). Dordrecht: Kluwer.

    

Peer reviewed conference proceedings

  

• Mike Daniels & Detmar Meurers: "GIDLP: A Grammar Format for Linearization-Based HPSG''. Proceedings of the Eleventh Int. Conference on HPSG. Stanford: CSLI Publications. pp. 93-111.

    

• Mike Daniels & Detmar Meurers: ``A grammar formalism and parser for linearization-based HPSG''. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2004). Geneva.

    

Peer reviewed conference proceedings

  

• Markus Dickinson & Detmar Meurers: ``Detecting Inconsistencies in Treebanks''. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2003). Växjö, Sweden.

    

• Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: ``The secret life of focus exponents, and what it tells us about fronted verbal projections''. In Proceedings of the Tenth Int. Conference on HPSG. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

    

• Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: ``Dealing with Optional Complements in HPSG-Based Grammar Implementations''. In Proceedings of the Tenth Int. Conference on HPSG. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

    

• Markus Dickinson & Detmar Meurers: ``Detecting Errors in Part-of-Speech Annotation''. Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-03). Budapest, Hungary.

    

• Detmar Meurers, Kordula De Kuthy & Vanessa Metcalf: ``Modularity of grammatical constraints in HPSG-based grammar implementations''. Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2003 Workshop ``Ideas and strategies for multilingual grammar Engineering''. Vienna, Austria.

    

Peer reviewed conference proceedings

  

• Mike Daniels & Detmar Meurers: ``Improving the Efficiency of Parsing with Discontinuous Constituents''. In Shuly Wintner (ed.): Proceedings of NLULP'02: The 7th International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming. pp. 49-68.

    

• W. Detmar Meurers, Gerald Penn & Frank Richter: ``A Web-Based Instructional Platform for Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms and Parsing'' In Dragomir Radev and Chris Brew (eds): Proceedings of the Workshop ``Effective Tools and Methodologies for Teaching NLP and CL'' held at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 7.-12. July 2002. pp. 18-25

    

• Frank Richter, Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Beata Trawinski & Detmar Meurers: ``Interactive Graphical Software for Teaching the Formal Foundations of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar''In Gerhard Jäger, Paola Monachesi, Gerald Penn and Shuly Wintner (eds): Proceedings of Formal Grammar 2002. July 2002. pp. 137-148.

    

Books and journal issues

  

• Detmar Meurers & Tibor Kiss (Eds.). Constraint-Based Approaches to Germanic Syntax. Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

    

Peer reviewed chapters in edited books

  

• Tibor Kiss & Detmar Meurers. Introduction to Constraint-Based Approaches to Germanic Syntax. Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

    

• Detmar Meurers & Kordula De Kuthy: "Case Assignment in Partially Fronted Constituents". Christian Rohrer, Antje Rossdeutscher and Hans Kamp (Eds.): Linguistic Form and its Computation. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

    

Journal articles

  

• Detmar Meurers: "On Expressing Lexical Generalizations in HPSG". Nordic Journal of Linguistics 24:2.

    

• Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: "On Partial Constituent Fronting in German". Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 3:3, 2001.

    

Peer reviewed conference proceedings

  

• Detmar Meurers: "To flip or not to flip: On the nature of irregularities in the German verbal complex". Frank van Eynde, Lars Hellan and Dorothee Beerman (Eds.): Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

    

Peer reviewed chapters in edited books

  

• Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers. "From Argument Raising to Dependent Raising". In Ronnie Cann, Claire Grover, and Philip Miller (Eds.): Grammatical Interfaces in HPSG. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

    

Peer reviewed conference proceedings

  

• Frederik Fouvry & Detmar Meurers. "Towards a platform for linearization grammars". In Hinrichs/Meurers/Wintner (2000).

    

• E. W. Hinrichs, D. Meurers, and S. Wintner (Eds.): Proceedings of the Workshop on Linguistic Theory and Grammar Implementation. ESSLLI-2000, Birmingham, UK.

    

Peer reviewed conference proceedings

  

• Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: Argument raising meets adjuncts-as-dependents and traceless extraction. Proceedings of the ``Sixth Int. Conference on HPSG´´. Edinburgh, Scotland.

    

Theses

  

• Detmar Meurers: Lexical Generalizations in the Syntax of German Non-Finite Constructions. Phil. Diss., Universität Tübingen. Available in 2000 as Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340, Nr. 145.

    

Other publications

  

• Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: On Partial Constituent Fronting in German. In: Valia Kordoni (Ed.), Tübingen Studies in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340, Nr. 132.

    

• Detmar Meurers: Raising Spirits (and assigning them case). In: Werner Abraham (Ed.), Groninger Arbeiten zur Germanistischen Linguistik, 43.

    

Peer reviewed chapters in edited books

  

• Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: Incomplete Category Fronting in German without Remnant Movement . In: B. Schröder et.al.: Computers, Linguistics, and Phontetics between Language and Speech (Proceedings of KONVENS 98). Frankfurt a.M.:Lang.

    

• Detmar Meurers: German Partial-VP Fronting Revisited. In: Gert Webelhuth, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Andreas Kathol (eds.): Lexical and Constructional Aspects of Linguistic Explanation, CSLI. (revised version of the paper presented at the 3rd Int. Conference on HPSG, Marseille, May 1996)

    

• Detmar Meurers & Guido Minnen: Off-line Constraint Propagation for Efficient HPSG Processing. In Gert Webelhuth, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Andreas Kathol (eds.): Lexical and Constructional Aspects of Linguistic Explanation, CSLI. (revised version of the paper presented at the 3rd Int. Conference on HPSG, joint session with TALN, Marseille, May 1996)

    

• Thilo Götz & Detmar Meurers: The importance of being lazy - Using lazy evaluation to process queries to HPSG grammars. In: Gert Webelhuth, Jean-Pierre Koenig, and Andreas Kathol (eds.): Lexical and Constructional Aspects of Linguistic Explanation, CSLI. (revised version of the paper presented at the 3rd Int. Conference on HPSG, joint session with TALN, Marseille, May 1996)

    

Peer reviewed conference proceedings

  

• Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: Towards a General Theory of Partial Constituent Fronting in German. Joint Conference on Formal Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar and Categorial Grammar (FHCG-98). Saarbrücken, Germany.

    

Journal articles

  

• Detmar Meurers & Guido Minnen: A Computational Treatment of Lexical Rules in HPSG as Covariation in Lexical Entries. Computational Linguistics, 23 (4).

    

Peer reviewed conference proceedings

  

• Detmar Meurers: Using lexical principles in HPSG to generalize over valence properties. Proceedings of the Third Conference on Formal Grammar. Aix-en-Provence, France.

    

• Thilo Götz & Detmar Meurers: Interleaving Universal Principles And Relational Constraints over Typed Feature Logic. ACL/EACL 97. Madrid, Spain.

    

• Thilo Götz & Detmar Meurers: The ConTroll System as Large Grammar Development Platform. ``ENVGRAM´´ ACL-Workshop 97. Madrid, Spain.

    

Other publications

  

• Thilo Götz, Detmar Meurers & Dale Gerdemann: Documentation of the ConTroll System (Draft of 17. Sept. 1997 for ConTroll v.1.0b and XTroll v.5.0b).
  • The ConTroll Manual. ( .ps 3.7Mb / .ps.gz 280Kb)
    
    
  • ConTroll Reference Card ( .ps 112Kb / .ps.gz 43Kb )

      

• Detmar Meurers: Statusrektion und Wortstellung in kohärenten Infintkonstruktionen des Deutschen. In Hinrichs/Meurers/Richter/Sailer/Winhart (Eds.): Ein HPSG-Fragment des Deutschen. Teil 1: Theorie. Number 95 in Arbeitspapiere des SFB 340.

    

Peer reviewed conference proceedings

  

• Detmar Meurers: German Partial-VP Fronting Revisited - Back to Basics. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on HPSG, May 1996, Marseille, France.
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• Detmar Meurers & Guido Minnen: Off-line Constraint Propagation for Efficient HPSG Processing. In: Proceedings of TALN 96 (joint session with the Third International Conference on HPSG). May 1996, Marseille, France.
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• Thilo Götz & Detmar Meurers: The importance of being lazy - Using lazy evaluation to process queries to HPSG grammars. In: Proceedings of TALN 96 (joint session with the Third International Conference on HPSG). May 1996, Marseille, France.
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Peer reviewed conference proceedings

  

• Detmar Meurers: Towards a Semantics for Lexical Rules as used in HPSG. Revised version of the paper presented at the Conference on Formal Grammar, Barcelona, Spain, at the Tübingen HPSG workshop, and the ACQUILEX II Workshop on Lexical Rules, Cambridge, UK.

    

• Thilo Götz & Detmar Meurers: Compiling HPSG type constraints into definite clause programs. ACL 95. Boston, USA.

    

• Detmar Meurers & Guido Minnen: A Computational Treatment of HPSG Lexical Rules as Covariation in Lexical Entries. Presented at the Fifth International Workshop on Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming. Lisbon, Portugal. 1995. Proceedings version.
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Theses

  

• Detmar Meurers: On Implementing an HPSG theory - Aspects of the logical architecture, the formalization and the implementation of head-driven phrase structure grammars. Master's thesis, Universität Tübingen. Appeared as Part 2 of SFB Report Nr.58

    

Other publications

  

• Detmar Meurers: A modified view of the German verbal complex Handout of a talk given on 7. October 1994 at the HPSG Workshop in Heidelberg, Germany.
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Other publications

  

• Detmar Meurers & Frank Morawietz: An Alternative Approach to ID/LP - SUP Grammars. Paper presented at the 1st International Workshop on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar held in Columbus, Ohio
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Other publications

  

• Detmar Meurers: A graphical notation for HPSG-style sort hierarchies.

    

  • A six page description of the notation
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  • A graphical representation of the signature defined in the appendix of Pollard and Sag (1994).
    Since for some obscure reason, the postscript-file doesn't print on certain printers, there are two versions: one which works on the Apple Laserwriter and possibly on other printers ( .ps / .ps.gz ), and a second for those printers on which nothing happens when the first file is printed ( .ps / .ps.gz ).