Dr. Melanie Arndt
Humanities, Social, modern political, and environmental history
Humanities
South Asian linguistics, General Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
I work primarily on the South Asian language Urdu (syntax, morphology, semantics, some phonology) by taking both synchronic and historical aspects into account. Occasionally, I branch out to other South Asian languages or work on German.
I am also interested in issues of grammar architecture and investigate interface issues (syntax-semantics, morphology-syntax/semantics, prosody-syntax) from both a theoretical and a computational perspective.
Computationally, I am involved with ParGram, an international effort to develop parallel computational grammars using the same theoretical background and computational tools.
Recently, I have also become involved in experimenting with visualizing linguistic patterns via methods developed in the field of Visual Analytics.
University Fellowship, Stanford University, 1988 – 1992
Horton-Hallowell Fellowship, Wellesley College, 1988
Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Wellesley College, 1987
English, French, German, Latin, Urdu
Advisory Board, NSF Project Collaborative: A Multi-Representational and Multi-Layered Treebank for Hindi/Urdu, University of Colorado, 2009 – 2010
Collaborator/Consultant, NWO-DFG Project on Incremental Interpretation of Case and Prominence, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen and Phillips University Marburg, 2005 – 2007
Consultant, CRULP (Center for Research on Urdu Natural Language Processing), Lahore, Pakistan. Consulted on the development of a machine translation system for Urdu, 2003 – 2004
Consultant (No-Fee), PARC (until 2002 at Xerox PARC), California Part of an LFG Parallel Grammar Development effort using the XLE (Xerox Linguistic Environment), parsing/generation/translation platform. Project Name: ParGram. Languages: German, English, Danish, French, Japanese, Norwegian, Urdu. 1996 – 2003
Editorial Board, Series on Studies in Constraint-Based Linguistics, CSLI Publications, since 1999
Editor at Large, CSLI Publications, since 1997
for Publishers: Cambridge University Press, John Benjamins, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Oxford University Press, Springer Verlag
for Journals: Computational Linguistics, Folia Linguistica, Journal of Language Sciences, Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Semantics, Language, Language and Computation, Linguistic Inquiry, Linguistic Typology, Linguistics, Linguistics and Philosophy, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, The Nordic Journal of Linguistics, Studia Linguistica, Studies in Language, Syntax, Transactions of the Philological Society, Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft
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