PhD student
Department of Linguistics
University of Leipzig
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Research Interests
Theoretical morphology, morphological typology, learning algorithms, databases, complex verbal agreement systems, mathematical and computational methods
In my thesis, I am working on learning algorithms and tools for automatic segmentation and analysis of inflectional paradigms.
Furthermore, I have developed web-based databases for
morphological and
typological data and wrote an implementation of
Distributed Morphology.
I also worked for the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data project
and did some data processing for the DoBeS project Articulation speed variation cross-linguistically.
Curriculum Vitae
| Apr 2024 - | Software Engineer at Google Zürich |
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| Feb 2018 - Mar 2024 | Computational Linguist (NLP) at Google Zürich |
| Oct 2017 - Jan 2018 | Scientific Programmer at the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena |
| Nov 2016 - Sep 2017 | Analytic Linguistic Project Manager for Adecco Buisness Solutions GmbH at Google Hamburg |
| Sep 2016 - Oct 2016 | Junior Linguist for Adecco Buisness Solutions GmbH at Google Hamburg |
| Sep 2014 - May 2015 | Research assistant at the Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig |
| Jan 2013 - Jun 2014 | Graduate assistant at the Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig |
| Feb 2012 - Jun 2012 | Research assistant in the DFG project The internal structure of person portmanteaus, University of Leipzig |
| Feb 2009 - Feb 2012 | Research assistant in the DFG project Hierarchy Effects in Kiranti and Broader Algic, University of Leipzig |
| Oct 2008 - Sept 2009 | Research assistant at the Institute of German Language and Literature I, University of Cologne |
| Aug 2008 - Oct 2008 | Graduate assistant at the Institute of German Language and Literature I, University of Cologne |
| Jun 2008 | State Certification as secondary school teacher. Thesis "Kasus, Genus und Belebtheit im Wettbewerb: Synkretismus in der deutschen Pronominalflexion", supervisor Prof. Dr. Beatrice Primus, faculty award |
| 2002-2008 | Student assistant at the Institute of German Language and Literature I |
| 2000-2008 | Studies in German and History at the University of Cologne |
Papers
- Cross-linguistic Data Formats, advancing data sharing and reuse in comparative linguistics. (with Robert Forkel, Johann-Mattis List, Simon J. Greenhill, Christoph Rzymski, Michael Cysouw, Harald Hammarström, Martin Haspelmath, Gereon A. Kaiping & Russel D. Gray) Scientific Data 5: 180205. 2018. doi:10.1038/sdata.2018.205
- Assessing the typology of person portmanteaus. Morphology, Special Issue on Computational Methods for Morphology. 2017. doi:10.1007/s11525-017-9305-z, supplemental material: doi:10.5281/zenodo.841982 [prefinal on academia.edu]
- Inflectional learning as local optimization. (with Jochen Trommer) Morphology. 2017. doi:10.1007/s11525-017-9304-0 [prefinal on academia.edu]
- Segmentation: a remark on the Syncretism Principle. Morphology. 2016. doi:10.1007/s11525-016-9295-2 [prefinal on academia.edu]
- Learning and the complexity of Ø-Marking. (with Jochen Trommer) In: Matthew Baerman, Dunstan Brown & Greville G. Corbett (eds.), Understanding and measuring morphological complexity, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 185-204. 2015. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198723769.003.0010 [prefinal on academia.edu]
- The algebraic structure of morphosyntactic features. Nordlyd 41.2, Special Issue on Features, edited by Martin Krämer, Sandra Ronai and Peter Svenonius, 239-259. 2014. doi:10.7557/12.3414 [prefinal on academia.edu]
- Paradigm learning and subanalysis complexity. (with Jochen Trommer) Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, 48, 45-59. 2012. [prefinal on academia.edu]
- Complex Scales in Multiargument Agreement. In: Sebastian Bank, Doreen Georgi & Jochen Trommer (eds.), 2 in Agreement. Linguistische Arbeits Berichte 88, Universität Leipzig, 65-92. 2010.
- Intersecting Multiargument Feature Specifications. (with Daniela Henze) In: Sebastian Bank, Doreen Georgi & Jochen Trommer (eds.), 2 in Agreement. Linguistische Arbeits Berichte 88, Universität Leipzig, 247-265. 2010.
Theses
- [forthcoming] Automatic induction of morphological grammar: unsupervised subanalysis of inflectional paradigms with full and partial syncretism. PhD thesis: Universität Leipzig.
- Kasus, Genus und Belebtheit im Wettbewerb: Synkretismus in der deutschen Pronominalflexion. Staatsexamensarbeit: Universität zu Köln. 2007. urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-27126
Edited volumes
- Topics at InfL. (with Anke Assmann, Doreen Georgi, Timo Klein, Philipp Weisser & Eva Zimmermann) Linguistische Arbeits Berichte 91, Universität Leipzig, 2014.
- 2 in Agreement. (with Doreen Georgi & Jochen Trommer) Linguistische Arbeits Berichte 88, Universität Leipzig, 2010.
Electronic resources
- Glottolog 5.1. (with Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel & Martin Haspelmath) Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2024. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14006617.
- Glottolog 5.0. (with Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel & Martin Haspelmath) Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2024. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10804357.
- Glottolog 4.8. (with Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel & Martin Haspelmath) Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2023. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8131084.
- Glottolog 4.7. (with Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel & Martin Haspelmath) Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2022. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.739896.
- Glottolog 4.6. (with Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel & Martin Haspelmath) Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2021. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.596479.
- Glottolog 4.5. (with Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel & Martin Haspelmath) Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2021. doi:10.5281/zenodo.5772642.
- Glottolog 4.4. (with Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel & Martin Haspelmath) Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2021. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4761960.
- Glottolog 4.3. (with Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel & Martin Haspelmath) Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 2020. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4061162.
- Glottolog 4.2.1. (with Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel & Martin Haspelmath) Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 2020. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3754591.
- Glottolog 3.2. (with Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel & Martin Haspelmath) Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 2018. [database: doi:10.5281/zenodo.1159078, software (web application): doi:10.5281/zenodo.1160335]
- Glottolog 3.1. (with Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel & Martin Haspelmath) Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 2017.
- Glottolog 2.7. (with Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel & Martin Haspelmath) Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 2016. [database: doi:10.5281/zenodo.46846, software (web application): doi:10.5281/zenodo.45230]
- Glottolog 2.6. (with Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel & Martin Haspelmath) Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 2015. [database: doi:10.5281/zenodo.31872, software (web application): doi:10.5281/zenodo.31871]
- Glottolog 2.5. (with Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel & Martin Haspelmath) Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2015. [database: doi:10.5281/zenodo.20609, software (web application): doi:10.5281/zenodo.20608]
- Glottolog 2.4. (with Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel & Martin Haspelmath) Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2015. [database: doi:10.5281/zenodo.16245, software (web application): doi:10.5281/zenodo.16246]
- TypoDB. Institut für Linguistik, Universität Leipzig, 2013-2014.
Software
- bitsets — Ordered subsets over a predefined domain [GitHub]
- concepts — Formal Concept Analysis with Python [GitHub]
- features — Feature set algebra for linguistics [GitHub]
- graphviz — Simple Python interface for Graphviz [GitHub]
- dmengine — Distributed Morphology calculator [GitHub]
- latexpages — Combine LaTeX docs into a single PDF [GitHub]
- gsheets — Pythonic wrapper for the Google Sheets API [GitHub]
- csv23 — Python 2/3 unicode CSV compatibility layer [GitHub]
- jciartcl — LaTeX template for the Journal of Constraint Interaction
- treedb — Glottolog languoid tree as SQLite database [GitHub]
Contributed to
- CLLD — Cross-Linguistic Linked Data [GitHub] (e.g. clld, wals3)
- CLDF — Cross-Linguistic Data Formats [GitHub] (e.g. csvw, pycldf)
- Glottolog [GitHub] (e.g. glottolog/legacy, glottolog3, pyglottolog)
- SQLAlchemy — Database Toolkit for Python [GitHub]
- Pandas — Python Data Analysis Library [GitHub]
- IPython — Python Interactive Computing [GitHub]
Talks
- From grammar induction to learning and processing. MoProc 10, Symposium on Morphology and Theoretical Linguistics, SISSA, Trieste, 22.6 - 24.6.2017. [abstract]
- Assessing the typology of person portmanteaux. IMM17 Workshop on computational methods for descriptive and theoretical morphology, Vienna. With Daniela Henze, Jochen Trommer, and Eva Zimmermann, 18.2 - 21.2.2016. [abstract]
- CLLD - a cross-linguistic database toolkit. Language Comparison with Linguistic Databases: RefLex and Typological Databases. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. With Robert Forkel, 8.10.2014.
- Assembling Inflectional Subanalysis. Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zürich. 28.3.2014.
- Consistent Affix Linearization in Subanalysis Learning. American International Morphology Meeting 2, University of California, San Diego. 8.11. - 10.11.2013.
- The Algebraic Structure of Morphosyntactic Features. Features in Phonology, Morphology, Syntax and Semantics: What are they?, University of Tromsø/CASTL. 31.10. - 1.11.2013.
- Learning the Building Bits of Inflectional Paradigms. LABG 2013 Workshop on Morphology, London. With Jochen Trommer, 31.8.2013.
- Simultaneous Learning of Affix Meaning and Segmentation. Stanford Linguistics Colloquium. With Jochen Trommer, 15.3.2013.
- Visualizing morphological patterns in inflectional paradigms. DGfS 2013 Workshop on the Visualization of Linguistic Patterns, Potsdam. With Daniela Henze, Jochen Trommer, and Eva Zimmermann, 13.3.2013.
- Integrated Learning of Segmentation and Morphosyntactic Features. Workshop on Decomposition and Natural Classes in Argument Coding, University of Leipzig. With Jochen Trommer, 6.9.2012.
- Paradigm Learning and Subanalysis Complexity. CLS 48, Chicago. With Jochen Trommer, 19.4.2012.
- Learning and the Complexity of Ø-Affixation. Conference on Morphological Complexity, London. With Jochen Trommer, 15.1.2012.
- Automatic Segmentation of Transitive Paradigms. Workshop on the Fine Structure of Grammatical Relations, University of Leipizg, 10.12.2010.
- Complex Scales in Multiargument Agreement. Décembretes 7, Toulouse. Poster, with Jochen Trommer, 2.12.2010.
- Complex Scales: Modelling the Interaction of Person and Number Hierarchies in Karuk Verbal Agreement. 14th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest. With Jochen Trommer, 15.5.2010.
- Hierarchy-Effects in Karuk. Morphology of the World´s Languages, University of Leipzig. With Jochen Trommer, 12.6.2009
- Kasus, Genus und Belebtheit im Wettbewerb: Synkretismus in der pronominalen Flexion des Deutschen. Generative Grammatik des Südens 35, University of Leipzig, 23.5.2009.
- Kasus, Genus und Belebtheit im Wettbewerb: Synkretismus in der deutschen Pronominalflexion. Kolloquium: Neuere Arbeiten zu Syntax und Morphologie, Institut für Linguistik, University of Leipzig, 12.12.2008.
- Genus-/Kasussynkretismus. Linguistischer Arbeitskreis (LAK), University of Cologne, 6.7.2008.
- Belebtheit, Maskulinum und die pronominale Flexion des Deutschen. Linguistisches Nachwuchskolloquium (LinK), University of Cologne, 4.12.2007.
Teaching
- Database editing workflow with git and GitHub, Tutorial, Grambank coder workshop, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Dec 2015
- Subanalysis, with Jochen Trommer and Daniela Henze, University of Leipzig, SoSe 2011
- Introduction to German linguistics, University of Cologne, SoSe 2009
- Introduction to German linguistics, with Sonja Müller, University of Cologne, WS 08/09
- Introduction to German linguistics, Tutorial, University of Cologne, WS 05/06
- Introduction to German linguistics, Tutorial, University of Cologne, WS 04/05
