Prof. Dr. Walt Detmar Meurers
Teaching and Advising

I teach a variety of courses in computational, theoretical, and empirical linguistics. In addition to my regular courses at the University of Tübingen and from Winter 2001 to Winter 2007 at the Department of Linguistics at The Ohio State University, I have enjoyed teaching summer school courses at ESSLLI and other international venues mentioned below.

  

Teaching

  

Winter 2009/2010 (University of Tübingen)

  

  

ESSLLI Summerschool 2009 (University of Bordeaux)

  

  

Summer 2009 (University of Tübingen)

  

  

Winter 2008/2009 (University of Tübingen)

  

  

Summer 2008 (University of Tübingen)

  

  

Teaching in Previous Years

  

Advising


Current PhD advisees:

  

Graduated MA advisees:

  • Niels Ott (April 2009, now researcher at Universität Tübingen)
  • Ramon Ziai (April 2009, now researcher at Universitä Tübingen)
  • Desislava Zhekova, with Sandra Kübler (Indiana University) (March 2009, now researcher at Universität Bremen)

  

Graduated PhD advisees:

  • Stacey Bailey (now Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer at MITRE Corporation)
  • Luiz Alexandre Amaral (now Asst. Professor, University of Massachussetts Amherst)
  • Xiaofei Lu (now Asst. Professor, Penn State University)
  • Markus Dickinson (now Asst. Professor, Indiana University Bloomington)
  • Mike Daniels (now Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Speech and Language Group, Redmond)

  

External committee member for:

  • Ken Peterson,
    • Implicit feedback in computer-guided interaction, PhD ongoing, Georgetown University
  • Ines Rehbein,
    • Treebank-Based Grammar Acquisition for German. PhD 2009, Dublin City University.
  • Tonio Wandmacher,
    • Adaptive Word Prediction and Its Application in an Assistive Communication System. PhD 2008, Université François - Rabelais de Tours and University of Tübingen
  • Thomas Koller,
    • Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Plurilingual ICALL System for Romance Languages Aimed at Advanced Learners. PhD 2007, Dublin City University
  • Tavs Bjerre,
    • Syntactically and Semantically Complex Predicates, PhD 2003, Syddansk Universitet, Kolding, Denmark