Talks and Presentations

29.11.04   Technology-enhanced Language Learning and Production
           European Commission, Technology-enhanced learning information day
           Luxembourg

17.11.04   Coordination of the Networking Session 
           "Comparative and Explorative Evaluation as a Driver of Technological Progress in ICT" 
           IST Event
           The Hague, NL

17.09.04   Evaluating Human Question-Answering Performance under Time Constraints
           CLEF Workshop
           Bath, UK

01.06.04   Mapping, Measuring, and Modelling the Diffusion of Linguistic Material on the Internet
           First International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication
           Kanazawa, JP

04.03.04   Semantic Routing, Service Discovery and Service Composition 
           EU FET workshop "Communication paradigms for 2020"
           Brussels

28.08.03   An Ontology-based Knowledge Portal for Language Technology
           ENABLER/ELSNET Workshop "International Roadmap for Language Resources"
           Paris

12.06.03   Video- und Webkonferenzen als Arbeitsmittel und Forschungsgegenstand
           LaTe Lunch
           DFKI Saarbrücken

04.06.03   Video- und Webkonferenzen als Arbeitsmittel und Forschungsgegenstand
           Seminar "Video- und Webconferencing im Universitätsumfeld"
           Saarbrücken

27.03.03   Corpora and Evaluation Tools for Multilingual Named Entity Grammar Development
           Workshop Multilingual Corpora, Corpus Linguistics Conference
           Lancaster University

23.01.03   Domain-specific Web Corpora and their Applications 
           LaTe Lunch
           DFKI Saarbrücken

24.07.02   Information Management and Collocations (invited talk)
           Collocation Workshop, Vienna

12.07.02   Domain-specific Web Corpora and their applications
           Colloquium on Applications of Natural Langauge Corpora
           Saarland University 

30.05.02   COLLATE: Competence Center in Speech and Language Technology
           Language Resources and Evaluation Conference.
           La Palma, Gran Canaria

23.11.00   Sprachdialogsysteme für Telefondienste
           Conference of the International Association 
           Language and Business, Köln

10.07.00   Language Technology for Tourism Applications. Euromap/HOPE
           Expert Panel "Language Technology and Tourism", Vienna

19.05.00   Warum muss der Computer Österreichisch lernen?
           Science Week Austria, Wien

19.05.00   Existierende und zukünftige Sprachdialogsysteme
           Science Week Austria, Wien

08.10.99   Document Databases for Information Management
           Workshop "Sprachtechnologie für das Informations- und
           Wissensmanagement"
           7. Fachtagung der Sektion Computerlinguistik der DGFS
           Saarbrücken

29.09.99   Multilingual Internet Search Engines: Technologies and Approaches
           Electrotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan

20.09.99   Multilingual Internet Search Engines: Technologies and Approaches
           University of Tokyo

01.07.99   Multilingual Internet Search Engines: Technologies and Approaches
           Forschungszentrum für Telekommunikation, Wien

16.10.98   Crosslingual Information Management: Architectures and Applications
           German-Japanese NLP workshop, University of Stuttgart

07.10.98   Mulinex: Multilinguale Suche und Navigation im Internet
           Informatik-Forum, Uni Saarbrücken

05.10.98   Mulinex - project overview
           IR projects concertation meeting
           Chateau de Blier, Erezee, Belgium

12.08.98   MULINEX: Multilingual Search and Navigation
           Conference Natural Language Processing and Industrial Applications
           Moncton, CA

04.07.98   Internet: woher, wozu, wohin?
           Tag der offenen Tür, Uni des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken

05.11.97   Multilinguale und konzeptbasierte Suche im Internet
           Invited Talk
           Forum "Sprache ohne Grenzen", Muenchen

17.09.97   MULINEX: Multilingual Indexing, Navigation and Editing Extensions for
 the WWW
           2nd Tbilisi Symposium in Language, Logic and Computation
           Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia

05.07.97   Internet: woher, wozu, wohin? (with Stephan Oepen)
           Tag der offenen Tuer, Universitaet des Saarlandes

11.04.97   Multilingual and Intelligent Information Retrieval for the WWW
           Invited Talk
           German-Japanese workshop on Natural-Language Processing
           Nara, Japan

25.03.97   MULINEX: Multilingual Indexing, Navigation and Editing Extensions for the WWW
           AAAI spring symposium "Cross-Language Text and Speech Retrieval"
           Stanford

05.03.97   MULINEX: Multilingual Indexing, Navigation and Editing Extensions for the WWW
           DELOS workshop "Cross-Language Information Retrieval"
           Zurich

21.11.96   Cross-Language Information Retrieval and Management of Mulitlingual Web Sites
           W3C Workshop on WWW Internationalisation and Multilinguism
           Sevilla

04.07.96   State of the Art in Search Engines
           Invited Talk
           6th WWW Concertation Meeting (for Telematics Applications Projects)
           Brussels

06.05.96   Multilingual Web Site Access and Management
           WWW Internationalisation Workshop
           Fifth International WWW Conference
           Paris

17.12.95   Visions for the Future of Logic-Based Natural Language Processing
           Workshop "Visions for the Future of Logic Programming" held
           during the International Logic Programming Symposium
           Portland, OR

04.11.95   Exchange Formats for Grammar Formalisms
           EAGLES workshop on subcategorisation standards, Abingdon, UK

02.11.95   CL-ONE
           Sharp Labs of Europe, Oxford, UK

20.10.95   Performance Models based on Competence Grammars
           Invited Talk, Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation
           Gudauri, Republic of Georgia

22.08.95   ProFIT: Prolog with Features, Inheritance and Templates
           Workshop "Constraint-based Formalisms and Grammar Writing"
           LLI Summer School, Barcelona

12.04.95   CL-ONE: A Grammar Formalism with Set and Linear Precedence Constraints
           Swedish Insitute for Computer Science, Kista, Sweden

06.04.95   Implementation of CL-ONE
           RGR Workshop, South Queensferry

30.03.95   ProFIT: Prolog with Features, Inheritance and Templates
           EACL 95, Dublin

16.06.94   Multi-Dimensional Inheritance
           Universität des Saarlandes, Saabrücken
     
29.09.94   Multi-Dimensional Inheritance
           KONVENS, Vienna
     
07.12.94   Anexoria -- On the Growth Potential of Lean Formalisms
           ALEP User Group Workshop, Luxembourg

10.04.94   ProFIT: Prolog with Features, Inheritance and Templates
           University of Edinburgh

04.08.93   Word Order in German
           1st International HPSG Workshop
           Columbus, Ohio

22.07.93   Generalised Linguistic Deduction (GeLD)
           1st International HPSG Workshop
           Columbus, Ohio

31.03.93   Towards a Theory of Degrees of Grammaticality
           International Conference on Mathematical Linguistics
           Tarragona

03.09.92   Idioms and Support-Verb Constructions in HPSG
           International Conference on Idioms, Tilburg

03.08.92   Ambiguity and Linguistic Preferences
           ECAI workshop W2 "Coping with Ambiguity in Typed Feature
           Formalisms", Wien

02.07.92   Handling Linear Precedence Constraints by Unification
           ACL Meeting, Newark, DE

22.06.92   Processing Ill-Formed Input
           IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

29.11.91   Handling Linear Precendece Constraints by Unification
           CLIN, Amsterdam

24.08.91   An Environment for Experimenting with Parsing Strategies
           IJCAI, Sydney

17.09.91   Evaluation von Grammatiken für die Analyse natürlicher
           Sprache durch Generierung einer repräsentativen Satzmenge
           German Workshop on Artificial Intelligence, Bonn

04.04.91   Robust Parsing
           Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa

20.09.90   Syntactic Processing of Unknown Words
           AIMSA, Albena, Bulgaria

08.03.89   Handling Ill-Formed Input
           LILOG-Workshop, Bad Herrenalb 

Teaching Experience

SoSe 03    Softwareprojekt "Question Answering"
           with Zhiping Zheng
           Universität des Saarlandes
           
WiSe 02/03 Programmierkurs LISP
           Universität des Saarlandes

August 01  Languages for Annotation and Specification of Dialogues
           European Summer School in Language, Logic and Information (ESSLLI)
           Helsinki

WiSe 00/01 Ein- und Ausgabe von Sprache
           mit Markus Kommenda
           Vorlesung, TU Wien

SoSe 99    Algorithmen und Benutzerschnittstellen fuer multilinguales IR
           mit Abdel Kader Diagne
           Softwareprojekt, UdS

WiSe 97/98 Multilinguales Information Retrieval und Informations-Extraktion
           mit Günter Neumann
           Projektseminar, UdS

12.-16.05.94   Logic Programming Techniques for NLP (Kurs)
               1st Spring School in Logic and Language, Tbilisi

WiSe 93/94 Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache mit LIFE
           Proseminar, UdS

WiSe 92/93 Sprachverarbeitung mit Prolog, Proseminar, UdS

SoSe 92    Parsing, Proseminar, UdS

April 92   Hypertext and Hypermedia, 
           European Spring School in Technical Writing, Limoges

WiSe 91/92 Hypercard und Hypertalk
           School of Fine Arts, Saarbrücken

SoSe 91    Prolog, Programmierkurs, UdS

WiSe 90/91 Parsing, Proseminar UdS

SoSe 90    Prolog für Linguisten II (Lehrauftrag)
           Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz

SoSe 90    Prolog, Programmierkurs, UdS

WiSe 89/90 Parsing, Proseminar UdS

SoSe 89    Prolog für Linguisten II, UdS

WiSe 88/89 Prolog für Linguisten I, UdS

WiSe 88/89 Prolog für Linguisten (Lehrauftrag)
           Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz