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Prof. Dr. Laura Kallmeyer

Nominated by

  • German Research Foundation (DFG)
  • AcademiaNet member since 17.05.2010
  • AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria


Employed by

  • SFB 833
  • Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf


Academic Discipline/Fields

  • Information and Communication Technologies


Field

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), Languages



Area of specialisation

Computational Linguistics



Research interests

  • Grammar formalisms

  • Statistical natural language processing

  • Syntax

  • Semantics



Interested in

  • Lectures, Membership in scientific bodies


Languages

English, French, German



Doctorate

  • 1998: Tree Description Grammars and Underspecified Representations


PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation

  • 2006: Linguistische und computerlinguistische Studien zur Syntax und Semantik natürlicher Sprache ("Linguistic and computational studies of the syntax and semantics of natural languages")




Short CV/Education and training

  • 1989 – 1995
    Studied mathematics with an emphasis on computer science, University of Hannover, Germany

  • 1995 – 1998
    Doctoral studies in the Research Training Group: Integrated Linguistics, University of Tübingen, Germany

  • 1998 – 2000
    Research associate in the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 441, University of Tübingen

  • 1999
    Two-month research stay at the University of Pennsylvania, USA

  • 2000 – 2001
    Lecturer at Paris Diderot University (Paris 7), France

  • 2001 – 2005
    Postdoc at Paris Diderot University (Paris 7), France

  • 2005 – 2010
    Head of an Emmy Noether young researcher group, University of Tübingen

  • Since 2010
    Professor of computational linguistics, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

Selected publications

  • Kallmeyer, L.: Parsing Beyond Context-Free Grammars. Springer, 2010.

  • Kallmeyer, L.: A Declarative Characterization of Different Types of Multicomponent Tree Adjoining Grammars (preprint version). In: Research on Language and Computation 7(1), 2009. S. 55-99.

  • Kallmeyer, L., Romero, M.: Scope and Situation Binding in LTAG using Semantic Unification (preprint version). In: Research on Language and Computation 6(1), 2008. S. 3-52.

  • Kallmeyer, L.: Tree-local Multicomponent Tree Adjoining Grammars with Shared Nodes. In: Computational Linguistics 31(2), 2005. S. 187-225.

  • Kallmeyer, L., Joshi, A.K.: Factoring Predicate Argument and Scope Semantics: Underspecified Semantics with LTAG. In: Research on Language and Computation 1(1-2), 2003. S. 3-58.



Complete list of publications

Selected projects

  • German Research Foundation (DFG) Emmy Noether junior research group: A Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar for a Fragment of German Focussing on Syntax and Semantics, 2005 – 2010

Soft Skills/Other activities and achievements

Other activities and achievements/family

  • Four children


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