Garance PARISAm Geisenberg 36 D-66125 Saarbrücken (Germany) Office: +49 (0)681 302 70009 Home: +49 (0)6897 764307 Born on January 16, 1977, in Uccle, Brussels (33 years old) Citizenship: Belgian, Mother-Tongue: French |
|
Education
| Since Sept. 2004 | Graduate studies within the International Research Training Group "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems", Saarland University. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Matthew Crocker. |
| March 2004 | M.Sc. in Language Science and Technology, Saarland University('with honors'). Thesis: Lexical Gender and Non-Native Spoken Word-Recognition, Advisor: Dr. Andrea Weber. |
| July 2002 | B.Sc. in Computational Linguistics, Saarland University (1.4). Thesis: Interaction between Tag Set Design and Multilingual Information Extraction, advisor: Prof. Dr. Elke Teich. |
| October 2000 | ‘Vordiplom’ in Computational Linguistics, Saarland University (1.5). Minor: Translation & machine translation. |
| June 1998 | ‘Candidate’ in Translation (ISTI, Brussels, ‘distinction’, 79 %). Foreign languages: English and German. |
| 1995–1996 | Rotary International Youth Exchange in Hatogaya, Saitama, Japan. |
| 1989–1995 | High School at the ‘Lycée St Jacques’ in Liège, Belgium. Options: German, Math, Latin, Ancient Greek. |
IT skills
| Operating Systems | MacOS (daily use of OS X), Linux (use, workstation installation and administration of Debian and Redhat), Unix (frequent work on Solaris, first contact with Iris), Windows (use, installation and administration of Windows 98 and 2000) |
| Applications | Emacs (daily use), MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint: very good knowledge), OpenOffice, Gimp, Adobe Illustrator |
| Web Technologies | HTML (good knowledge), PHP (good knowledge: programming of psycholinguistic web experiments), XML (first notions) |
| Programming languages | Perl (very good knowledge), LaTeX (very good knowledge), Bash (good knowledge), Prolog (good knowledge, one-year class in '99), Mozart Oz (very good knowledge, one-semester class in '01 + software project FrOZ), Lisp (basics, one-semester class in '01), SML (basics, one-semester class in '98), C, Java (introductory courses in '02), Praat and SPSS scripting languages |
Teaching
| April–June '05, Oct.–Dec.'06 & '07 | Teaching of tutorials on symbolic models of parsing using COGENT for the lecture Computational Psycholinguistics |
| May–July '04 | Teaching of an introductory course on Linux on behalf of the AStA (Student Union of Saarland University) |
| June–July '03, '04, '05, '06 | Teaching of tutorials for the lecture Mathematical Foundations of Computational Linguistics III: Statistical Methods |
| February 2002 | Teaching of an introductory course to LaTeX for students of Computational Linguistics. Webpage for the course: An introduction to LaTeX for students of computational linguistics. |
| Oct. '01,'02,'03 | Teaching of introductory courses to Unix/Linux for students beginning in Computational Linguistics (with others) |
Languages
(See the Common European Framework of Reference)| English: | near-native, C2 (elementary school from age 6 to 8 in the USA, translation school) |
| German: | fluent, C2 (high school, translation school, university studies in Germany) |
| Dutch: | good, B1 (6th grade in Tongeren, Belgium; Certificate of Dutch as a Foreign Language, 2nd and 3rd levels from 3, 2000) |
| Japanese: | good, A2 (one-year stay in host families and high school attendance; Japanese Language Proficiency Test, level "3-kyu", 1996) |
| Italian: | beginner, A1 |
Work experience
| Jan–March. '08 | Research assistant at the Department of Phonetics, Saarland University: Implementaion of an online exam in a Learning Management System.
References: Prof. Dr. William Barry. |
| March–Dec. '03 | Student research assistant at the Department of Computational Linguistics (Psycholinguistics), Saarland University: Preparing and running psycholinguistic experiments (mostly eye-tracking).
References: Dr. Andrea Weber, Dr. Alissa Melinger and Prof. Dr. Matthew Crocker. |
| April–Dec. '02 | Student research assistant at the Department of Applied Linguistics and Translation, Saarland University: Conception and creation of a French-German tagged parallel corpus and programming of a search interface.
Reference: Dr. Andrea Kamm. |
| Aug.–Sept. '02 | Internship at the Laboratory for Language Analysis and Technology (LATL), Department of Linguistics, University of Geneva, within the European R&D project ‘Freetext’: Testing of the sentence analyzer.
References: Catherine Walther-Green et Anne Vandeventer-Faltin. |
| April–Dec. '01 | Student research assistant at the Department of Applied Linguistics (English Linguistics and Translation Studies), Saarland University: Search, installation and testing (under Unix, Linux and Windows) of computer software for multilingual corpora.
References: Prof. Dr. Elke Teich et Prof. Dr. Silvia Hansen-Schirra. |
| July–Sept. '01 | Student research assistant at the Department of Computational Linguistics, Saarland University: Annotation of a German corpus with grammatical relations.
Reference: Dr. Mirella Lapata. |
Publications
(Download)Paris, G. & Weber, A. (in preparation for journal submission) Morphosyntactic Gender and Lexical Competition in Non-Native Listening.
Paris, G., Weber, A. & M. W. Crocker (2007) Interference of Lexico-Syntactic Gender in Bilingual Spoken-Word Recognition: An Eye-Tracking Study with Non-Cognate Nouns. ISB6 2007, 6th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Hamburg, Germany (Slides).
Paris, G., Weber, A. & M. W. Crocker (2006) German Morphosyntactic Gender and Lexical Access. AMLaP 2006, 12th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (Poster).
Paris. G. & Weber, A. (2005) L1 Gender Influences Lexical Competition in L2 Listening. Rovereto Workshop on Bilingualism, Rovereto, Italy (Poster).
Paris, G. & Weber, A. (2005) Explaining the gender effect in spoken-word recognition: Evidence of L1 interference during L2 lexical competition. AMLaP 2005, 11th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Gent, Belgium (Poster).
Paris, G. & Weber, A. (2004) The role of gender information in spoken-word recognition in a non-native language. AMLaP 2004, 10th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Aix-en-Provence, France (Slides).
Weber, A. & Paris, G. (2004) The origin of the linguistic gender effect in spoken-word recognition: Evidence from non-native listening. CogSci 2004, 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago (Poster).
Participated in: Scheepers, C. (2003). Syntactic priming of relative clause attachments: Persistence of structural configuration in sentence production. Cognition, 89, 179–205.