PD Dr. Valia Kordoni - Assistant Professor (Privatdozentin) of Computational Linguistics - Director: Erasmus Mundus European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies (LCT) - Senior Researcher at the Language Technology Lab of DFKI Short Biography I am a senior lecturer at the Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics of Saarland University, and a senior researcher at the Language Technology Lab of DFKI, both of which I joined in October 2000. Before that (1997-2000) I worked as a senior researcher in the Verbmobil project at the Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft of the University of Tübingen. I received my PhD in Computational Linguistics from the Department of Language and Linguistics of the University of Essex and my Habilitation in General Linguistics from the Philosophy Faculty II of Saarland University.

Research Interests

• Machine Learning: Automated Acquisition of Lexical Knowledge
• Computational Semantics
• Grammar Engineering, especially with constraint-based linguistic formalisms (in the framework of DELPH-IN (deep NLP with HPSG) and the Modern Greek Resource Grammar)
• Machine Translation
• Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
• Context and Discourse Modelling

Educational Dissemination

• Erasmus Mundus European Masters Program in Language and Communication Technologies (LCT) (Co-ordinator)
  

• PIRE: Investigation of Meaning Representations in Language Understanding for Speech Reconstruction and Machine Translation Systems (NSF Partnership for Research and Education)
  PIRE Ph.D. Program and Grants at COLI of Saarland University
  

Current and Recent Activities

• Special Issue of Linguistic Issues in Language Technology on The Interaction between Linguistics and Computational Linguistics, Volume 6, with Timothy Baldwin.
• AAAI 2011 Tutorial on
  Discourse Structure: Theory and Practice
  with Bonnie Webber and Markus Egg.
• ACL 2010 Tutorial on
  Discourse Structure: Theory, Practice and Use
  with Bonnie Webber and Markus Egg.
• Timothy Baldwin, Valia Kordoni and Aline Villavicencio. 2009. Prepositions in Applications: A Survey and Introduction to the Special Issue. Computational Linguistics June 2009, Vol. 35, No.2: 119-149.
• Programme chair for the EACL 2009 Workshop on The Interaction between Linguistics and Computational Linguistics: Virtuous, Vicious or Vacuous? Co-organised with Timothy Baldwin. Athens, Greece, March 30, 2009.
 
• The syntax-semantics interface: theoretical insights and practical implementations
  Course at ESSLLI 2008-20th European Summer School in Logic Language and Information
  with Markus Egg.
• Data-Driven Methods for Acquiring Linguistic Information
  Course at ESSLLI 2006-18th European Summer School in Logic Language and Information
  with Timothy Baldwin, Aline Villavicencio and Anna Korhonen.
• Argument Structure
  Course at ESSLLI 2006-18th European Summer School in Logic Language and Information
  with Markus Egg.
• Syntax-Semantics Integration in HPSG
  Invited Course at the 12th ELSNET European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication (ELSNET06) - Information Fusion in Natural Language Systems.
• ACL 2005, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor: Tutorial on Computational Semantics (with M. Egg).
• Second ACL-SIGSEM Workshop on The Linguistic Dimensions of Prepositions and their Use in Computational Linguistics Formalisms and Applications. Co-organised with Aline Villavicencio (workshop chair) and Louisa Sadler. Colchester, UK, April 19-21, 2005.
• Semantics in Grammar Engineering. Workshop co-organised with Dorothee Beermann and Lars Hellan in conjunction with HPSG 2004, Leuven, Belgium, August 3, 2004.

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