Antske Fokkens

Contact
Address:
Department of Computational Linguistics
Saarland University
Building C.7.4, Room 2.03
66041 Saarbrücken
Phone: +49 (681) 302 70019
E-mail: afokkens@coli.uni-saarland.de

News
I am currently living in Berlin, working on my PhD.
I spent August - November 2010 at Microsoft - Powerset in San Francisco, where I worked on statistical methods in query analysis.

General
I am a PhD student in Prof. Hans Uszkoreit's research group. Most of my research involves the LinGO Grammar Matrix customization system. I am part of the International Research Training Group (IRTG) for Language Technology and Cognitive Systems.


Supervision
MSc Completed
Irina Borisova. Implementing Georgian Polypersonal Agreement through the LinGO Grammar Matrix. Submitted 30 September, 2010.

Past
From January 1st till March 31st 2009, I visited the Computer Science Department at Brown University. This exchange was part of the PIRE program.

From October 2008 until December 2008, I visited the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington, where I worked on word order phenomena for the Grammar Matrix customization system under supervision of Professor Emily Bender.