General Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
D-50923 Cologne
Telefon: 0221 – 470 5624/5639 (Administration)
Fax: 0221 – 470 5947
Research interests
- Research on syntactic alternations (possessive alternations and relative clause extraposition) using corpus-linguistic as well as experimental methods
- Corpus-based psycholinguistics investigating the temporal flow of spontaneous speech (development/application of relevant tools: forced alignment, automatic prosodic segmentation, etc.)
- Development of tools for working with language documentation data (format conversion, cleaning-up, annotation, analysis)
- Formal syntax (LFG, HPSG), syntax of the Germanic languages and of Kurdish (Ezafe)
- Automatic tokenization, sentence boundary and abbreviation detection (practical NLP)
- Low Saxon dialectology, new dialects / regional varieties (especially Ruhr German)
- Development of computational linguistic tools for dealing with non-standardized language data (dialect corpora), information retrieval for languages without a standardized orthography
- Statistical methods for experimental and corpus linguistics