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C3 NEGRA

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Topics that I worked on during my time in Saarbrücken, Germany

Recent publications

Thorsten Brants, 2000. Inter-Annotator Agreement for a German Newspaper Corpus. In Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2000), Athens, Greece.

Thorsten Brants and Oliver Plaehn, 2000. Interactive Corpus Annotation. In Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2000), Athens, Greece.

Thorsten Brants, 2000. TnT - A Statistical Part-of-Speech Tagger. In Proceedings of the Sixth Applied Natural Language Processing Conference ANLP-2000, Seattle, WA.

Thorsten Brants, 1999. Tagging and Parsing with Cascaded Markov Models - Automation of Corpus Annotation. Saarbrücken Dissertations in Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, Volume 6. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.

Matthew Crocker and Thorsten Brants, 1999. Incremental probabilistic models of human linguistic performance. The 5th Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Edinburgh, U.K.

Thorsten Brants, Wojciech Skut, and Hans Uszkoreit, 1999. Syntactic Annotation of a German Newspaper Corpus. In Proceedings of the ATALA Treebank Workshop. Paris, France.

Thorsten Brants, 1999. Cascaded Markov Models, 1999. In Proceedings of 9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-99). Bergen, Norway.

Hans Uszkoreit, Thorsten Brants, and Brigitte Krenn (eds.), 1999. Proceedings of the Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-99). Bergen, Norway.

Hans Uszkoreit, Thorsten Brants, Denys Duchier, Brigitte Krenn, Lars Konieczny, Stephan Oepen, and Wojciech Skut, 1998. Studien zur performanzorientierten Linguisitk. Aspekte der Relativsatzextraposition im Deutschen. Kognitionswissenschaft 7(3).

Wojciech Skut, Thorsten Brants, Brigitte Krenn, Hans Uszkoreit, 1998. A Linguistically Interpreted Corpus of German Newspaper Text. In Proceedings of the ESSLLI Workshop on Recent Advances in Corpus Annotation. Saarbrücken, Germany.

Wojciech Skut and Thorsten Brants, 1998. Chunk Tagger - Statistical Recognition of Noun Phrases. In Proceedings of the ESSLLI Workshop on Automated Acquisition of Syntax and Parsing. Saarbrücken, Germany.

Wojciech Skut and Thorsten Brants, 1998. A Maximum-Entropy Partial Parser for Unrestricted Text In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora. Montreal, Canada.

Thorsten Brants, 1998. Estimating HMM Topologies. In Jonathan Ginzburg, Zurab Khasidashvili, Carl Vogel, Jean-Jacques Lévy, Enric Vallduví (eds.), The Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language and Computation: Selected Papers. CSLI Publications, Stanford, California.

Thorsten Brants and Wojciech Skut, 1998. Automation of Treebank Annotation. In Proceedings of New Methods in Language Processing (NeMLaP-98). Sydney, Australia.

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Teaching: Previous Courses

Summer 1999: Statistische Methoden in der Sprachverarbeitung. Blockkurs am IKP Bonn. Thorsten Brants.

Summer 1999: Statistische Methoden in der Sprachverarbeitung: Proseminar. Thorsten Brants.

Winter 1998/99: Computerlinguistische Algorithmen in C[++] : Seminar mit Übung. Thorsten Brants, Jakub Piskorski und Wojciech Skut.

Summer 1998: Sprachverarbeitung mit C++ : Seminar mit Übung. Thorsten Brants und Stephan Oepen.

Summer 1998: Computerlinguistische Algorithmen in Common-Lisp. Seminar mit Übung. Thorsten Brants und Stephan Oepen.

Winter 1997/98: Implementierung statistischer Methoden in der Sprachverarbeitung. Seminar. Thorsten Brants.

Summer 1997: Sprachverarbeitung mit C++ . Seminar mit Übung. Thorsten Brants and Stephan Oepen.

Summer 1997: Daten- und Korpusorientierte Computerlinguistik: Seminar im Sommersemester 1997. Wojciech Skut, Brigitte Krenn und Thorsten Brants.

Winter 1996/97: Implementierung statistischer Methoden in der Sprachverarbeitung Projektseminar. Thorsten Brants.

Organization: Previous Workshops and Colloquia

August 1998: Workshop on Recent Advances in Corpus Annotation. ESSLLI-98 workshop.

Winter 1996/97: A Seminar for the NEGRA project.

Summer 1996: Forschungsseminar Computational Models for NLP.

May 1995: Frühjahrs-Workshop der Graduiertenkollegs Freiburg - Hamburg - Saarbrücken

March 1995: EACL-95 Student Session

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