Publications

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2022

Journal Articles

De Kuthy K., Kannan M., Santhi Ponnusamy H. and Meurers D. (2022) Exploring neural question generation for formal pragmatics: Data set and model evaluation. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 5:966013. doi: 10.3389/frai.2022.966013

2021

Journal Articles

Lisa Brunetti, Kordula De Kuthy et Arndt Riester, The Information-Structural Status of Adjuncts: A Question-under-Discussion-Based Approach, Discours, 28, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.11454

Articles in Edited Volumes

De Kuthy, Kordula (2021): Information Structure. In Ste­fan Müller, Anne Abeillé, Robert D. Borsley & Jean-​Pierre Koenig (eds.), Head-​Driv­en Phrase Struc­ture Gram­mar: The hand­book (Em­pir­i­cal­ly Ori­ent­ed The­o­ret­i­cal Mor­phol­o­gy and Syn­tax 9). Berlin: Lan­guage Sci­ence Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5599864

Conference Proceedings

Kannan, M., Ponnusamy, H. S., De Kuthy, K., Stein, L., & Meurers, D. (2021). Exploring Input Representation Granularity for Generating Questions Satisfying Question-Answer Congruence. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (pp. 24-34). https://aclanthology.org/2021.inlg-1.3

2020

Conference Proceedings

De Kuthy, K., Kannan, M., Santhi Ponnusamy, H., Meurers, D. (2020). Towards automatically generating Questions under Discussion to Link Information and Discourse Structure. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). 5786–5798. https://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.509

2019

Journal Articles

Detmar Meurers, Kordula De Kuthy, Florian Nuxoll, Björn Rudzewitz, Ramon Ziai: Scaling up intervention studies to investigate real-life foreign language learning in school. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics. 39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0267190519000126

Articles in Edited Volumes

De Kuthy, Kordula & A. Konietzko (2019): Information Structural Constraints on PP Topicalization from NPs. In V. Egerland, V. Molnár and S. Winkler (eds.) Architecture of Topic. Studies in Generative Grammar. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.

De Kuthy, Kordula & B. Stolterfoht (2019). Focus projection revisited: Pitch accent perception in German. In S. Featherston, R. Hörnig, S. von Wietersheim & S. Winkler (eds.), Information Structure and Semantic Processing, Berlin: de Gruyter, Linguistische Arbeiten.

Detmar Meurers, Kordula De Kuthy, Florian Nuxoll, Björn Rudzewitz, Ramon Ziai: KI zur Lösung realer Schulherausforderungen: Interaktive und adaptive Materialien im Fach Englisch. Schulmanagement-Handbuch 1/2019, 65-84.

Conference Proceedings

De Kuthy, Kordula, Lisa Brunetti, and Marta Berardi (2019). Annotating Information Structure in Italian: Characteristics and Cross-Linguistic Applicability of a QUD-Based Approach. In Proceedings of the 13th Linguistic Annotation Workshop, Florence, pp. 113-123.

Ramon Ziai, Florian Nuxoll, Kordula De Kuthy, Björn Rudzewitz, Detmar Meurers: The Impact of Spelling Correction and Task Context on Short Answer Assessment for Intelligent Tutoring Systems. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Computer Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL 2019), September 30 2019, Turku Finland (No. 164, pp. 93-99). Linköping University Electronic Press.

 

2018

Journal Articles 

Meurers, Detmar, K. De Kuthy, Verena Möller, Florian Nuxoll, Björn Rudzewitz, & Ramon Ziai (2018). Digitale Differenzierung benötigt Informationen zu Sprache, Aufgabe und Lerner. Zur Generierung von individuellem Feedback in einem interaktiven Arbeitsheft. FLuL - Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen, 47(2).

Articles in Edited Volumes

Arndt Riester, Lisa Brunetti and Kordula De Kuthy (2018). Annotation guidelines for Questions under Discussion and information structure. In Evangelia Adamou, Katharina Haude and Martine Vanhove (eds.) Information Structure in Lesser-Described Languages: Studies in Syntax and Prosody. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 403-443.

Articles in Conference Proceedings

De Kuthy, Kordula, N. Reiter & A. Riester (2018). QUD-based annotation of discourse structure and information structure: Tool and evaluation. In Nicoletta Calzolari et al. (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Miyazaki, JP, pp. 1932-1938.
2017

Conference Proceedings

Björn Rudzewitz, Ramon Ziai, Kordula De Kuthy and Detmar Meurers. Developing a web-based workbook for English supporting the interaction of students and teachers. Proceedings of the Joint 6th Workshop on NLP for Computer Assisted Language Learning and 2nd Workshop on NLP for Research on Language Acquisition at NoDaLiDa 2017. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 134: 36–46.
http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/134/005/ecp17134005.pdf

2016

Conference Proceedings

Kordula De Kuthy, Ramon Ziai & Detmar Meurers (2016). Focus annotation of task-based data: a comparison of expert and crowd-sourced annotation in a reading comprehension corpus. In Proceedings of the 10th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Portorož, Slovenia, 3928-3935. http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/pdf/1083_Paper.pdf

Kordula De Kuthy, Ramon Ziai & Detmar Meurers (2016). Focus annotation of task-based data: Establishing the quality of crowd annotation. In Proceedings of the 10th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW), 2016, Berlin, Germany. 110-119. https://aclweb.org/anthology/W16-1713.pdf

Ramon Ziai, Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers (2016). Approximating Givenness in Content Assessment through Distributional Semantics. In Proceedings of the Fifth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Berlin, Germany, 209-218. https://aclweb.org/anthology/S16-2026.pdf

2015

Conference Proceedings

Kordula De Kuthy, Ramon Ziai & Detmar Meurers (2015). "Learning what the crowd can do: A case study on focus annotation". In Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics. Universität Tübingen.

2014 and earlier

Books

De Kuthy, Kordula (2002). Discontinuous NPs in German - A Case Study of the Interaction of Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics. Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

Journal Articles

De Kuthy, Kordula (2008). A review of Complex predicates: Verbal complexes, resultative constructions, and particle verbs in German by St. Müller. Language, Volume 84, Number 4, pp. 888-892.

De Kuthy, Kordula and Meurers, Walt Detmar (2001). On Partial Constituent Fronting in German. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, 3 (3), 143-205.

Articles in Edited Volumes

De Kuthy, Kordula and Detmar Meurers (2012). Focus projection between theory and evidence. In Sam Featherston and Britta Stolterfoth (Eds.), Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory - Studies in Meaning and Structure. Studies in Generative Grammar 111. De Gruyter.

De Kuthy, Kordula (2001). Splitting PPs from NPs. In W. D. Meurers and T. Kiss (Eds.), Constraint-Based Approaches to Germanic Syntax, Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism, pp. 31-76. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

Meurers, Walt Detmar & De Kuthy, Kordula (2001). Case Assignment in Partially Fronted Constituents. In C. Rohrer, A. Rossdeutscher, and H. Kamp (Eds.), Linguistic Form and its Computation, pp. 29-63. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

De Kuthy, Kordula and Meurers, Walt Detmar (2000). From Argument Raising to Dependent Raising. In R. Cann, C. Grover, and P. Miller (Eds.), Grammatical Interfaces in HPSG, Studies in Constraint-Based Lexicalism, pp. 97-112. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.

De Kuthy, Kordula (1998). Linearization versus Movement: Evidence from German Pied-Piped Infinitives. In G. Webelhuth, J.-P. Koenig, and A. Kathol (Eds.), Lexical and Constructional Aspects of Linguistic Explanation. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
 
De Kuthy, Kordula and Meurers, Walt Detmar (1998). Incomplete Category Fronting in German without Remnant Movement. In B. Schröder, W. Lenders, W. Hess, and T. Portele (Eds.), Computers, Linguistics, and Phonetics between Language and Speech, Volume 1 of Computer Studies in Language and Speech, pp. 57-68. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang.
 

Conference Proceedings

De Kuthy, Kordula and Detmar Meurers (2012). Definiteness Effects as Epiphenomena of Information Structure talk presented at AG 9: Defniteness Effects. 34. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, 8. March 2012.

De Kuthy, Kordula and Detmar Meurers (2011). ”Integrating GIVENness into a structured meaning approach in HPSG”. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Stanford, CSLI Publications. https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/article/view/763/1010
 
De Kuthy, Kordula and Detmar Meurers (2003): 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. https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/article/view/560/604
 
De Kuthy, Kordula and Detmar Meurers (2003): Dealing with Optional Complements in HPSG-Based Grammar Implementations. In Proceedings of the Tenth Int. Conference on HPSG. Stanford: CSLI Publications. https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/article/view/559/602
 
Meurers Detmar, Kordula De Kuthy and Vanessa Metcalf (2003): Modularity of grammatical constraints in HPSG-based grammar implementations. In Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2003 Workshop \Ideas and strategies for multilingual grammar Engineering”. Vienna, Austria.
 
De Kuthy, Kordula (2002). The Information Structure of Discontinuous NPs in German. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on HPSG. Stanford: CSLI Publications. https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/article/view/490/494
 
De Kuthy, Kordula & Detmar Meurers (1999): Argument raising meets adjuncts-as-dependents and traceless extraction. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on HPSG. Edinburgh, Scotland.
 

Talks

2019

Kordula De Kuthy: Adjuncts as (separate) discourse units: a QUD-based account. Talk given at the workshop "Information Structure  and Ambiguity'', Universität Tübingen, 8. Oktober 2019. 

2018

Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: ”Questions under Discussion”: Annotation, Evaluation and Generation. Talk given at 40. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), AG 7: Why indeed? Questions at the interface of theoretical and computational linguistics, 8. März 2018.

Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: Information Sources for Automatic Meaning Assessment of Reading Comprehension Questions, CL Poster at the 40. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Stuttgart.

2017
Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: On the In'uence of Lexical Semantics and Discourse on Word Order: A Uni↓ed QUD-Based Approach, Poster at the DETEC Workshop, Nijmegen, 26. Juni 2017.
 
Lisa Brunetti, Kordula De Kuthy & Arndt Riester: A QUD-based analysis of non-at-issue material in corpus data. Talk at Non-At-Issue Meaning and Information Structure, XPrag Workshop, Universitetet i Oslo, 9. Mai 2017.
 
Lisa Brunetti, Kordula De Kuthy & Arndt Riester: Principles of information-structure and discourse-structure analysis. Talk at 39. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), AG2: Information Structuring in Discourse, Saarbrücken, 8. März 2017.
2016
Ramon Ziai, Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: Approximating Givenness in Content Assessment through Distributional Semantics, Poster presented at the DSALT (Distributional Semantics and Linguistic Theory) Workshop, 28th ESSLLI, Bozen, 15.-20. August 2016.
 
Ramon Ziai, Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: Approximating Givenness through Distributional Semantics, Talk given at *Sem 2016: The Fifth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, Berlin, 12. August 2016.
 
Kordula De Kuthy, Ramon Ziai & Detmar Meurers: Focus Annotation of Task-based Data: Establishing the Quality of Crowd Annotation, Poster presented at the 10th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW), Berlin, 11. August 2016.
 
Kordula De Kuthy: Annotating Questions under Discussions in Authentic Data, Talk given at JerSem: The 20th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Rutgers University, 16. Juli 2016.
 
Kordula De Kuthy & Detmar Meurers: Learning what the crowd can do: A case study on focus annotation, Talk given at the Séminaires du Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence, 10. Juni 2016.
 
Kordula De Kuthy, Ramon Ziai & Detmar Meurers: Focus annotation of task-based data: a comparison of expert and crowd-sourced annotation in a reading comprehension corpus. Talk given at the 10th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Portorož, Slovenia, 27. Mai 2016.
 
Kordula De Kuthy, Ramon Ziai & Detmar Meurers: Focus Annotation by non-experts: Exploring what the crowd can do. Poster at the 2016 Annual Conference of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Konstanz, Germany.
2015
Kordula De Kuthy, Ramon Ziai & Detmar Meurers: Learning what the crowd can do: A case study on focus annotation. Talk given at the 6th Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics conference (QITL-6), Tübingen, Germany.
 
Kordula De Kuthy, Ramon Ziai & Detmar Meurers: Analyzing focus in authentic data from an explicit task context. Talk given at The Division of Labor: A View from Syntax, Semantics, Information Structure and Processing (DoL 2015), Tübingen, 23. Januar 2015.