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Wiebke Petersen


Wiebke Petersen
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Wiebke Petersen
Institute of Language and Information
Heinrich Heine University
Universitätsstraße 1
D-40225 Düsseldorf (Germany)


Publications

  • Arps, D. & Kels, J. & Krämer, F. & Renz, Y. & Stodden, R. & Petersen, W. (2022). HHUplexity at Text Complexity DE Challenge 2022. In Proceedings of the GermEval 2022 Workshop on Text Complexity Assessment of German Text. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp 27-32. PDF
  • Naumann, R., & Petersen, W. (2022). Bridging the gap between formal semantics and neurolinguistics: the case of the N400 and the LPP. In Selected papers of the 13th International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation 2019. LNCS, vol. 13206, pp 79-112. PDF
  • Naumann, R. & W. Petersen (2021). A theoretical framework for a hybrid view of the N400. Frontiers in Psychology 12 . DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.678020 PDF
  • Gamerschlag, T., & Petersen, W. (2021). On the fictive reading of German steigen `climb, rise' - a frame account. In Sebastian Löbner, Thomas Gamerschlag, Tobias Kalenscher, Markus Schrenk, and Henk Zeevat, editors, Concepts, Frames and Cascades in Semantics, Cognition and Ontology, volume 7 of Language, Cognition, and Mind, pages 239-261. Springer, 2021 . PDF
  • Jebe, M., Gnyp, J., Münker, S., & Petersen, W. (2021). eLearning-Plattform zur Unterstützung des Erlernens des logischen Programmierens. In Proceedings of DELFI 2021 - Die 19. Fachtagung Bildungstechnologien der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. LNI, vol. P-316, pp 351-352. PDF
  • Cohrs, E., & Petersen, W. (2019). Guessing a tweet author's political party using weighted n-gram models. In Jarmo Harri Jantunen, Sisko Brunni, Niina Kunnas, Santeri Palviainen, and Katja Västi, editors, Proceedings of the Research Data and Humanities (RDHum) 2019 Conference: Data, Methods and Tools, number 17 in Studia Humaniora Ouluensia, pages 101-113, August 2019. PDF
  • Fleischhauer, J., Gamerschlag, T., & Petersen, W. (2019). Why aktionsart-based event structure templates are not enough - a frame account of 'leaking' and 'droning'. In Alexandra Silva, Sam Staton, Peter Sutton, and Carla Umbach, editors, Language, Logic, and Computation. 12th International Tbilisi Symposium (TbiLLC 2017), number 11456 in LNCS, pages 108{127, Berlin, Heidelberg. Springer-Verlag. PDF
  • Naumann, R., & Petersen, W. (2019). Bridging - Bridging inferences in a dynamic frame theory. In Alexandra Silva, Sam Staton, Peter Sutton, and Carla Umbach, editors, Language, Logic, and Computation. 12th International Tbilisi Symposium (TbiLLC 2017), number 11456 in LNCS, pages 228{252, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2019. Springer-Verlagn. PDF
  • Naumann,R., & Petersen, W. (2019). Combining neurophysiology and formal semantics and pragmatics: the case of the N400. In Julian J. Schlöder an Dean McHugh and Floris Roelofsen, editors, Proceedings of the 22nd Amsterdam Colloquium, pages 309-318, 2019. PDF
  • Balogh, K., & Petersen, W. (Eds.). (2018). Bridging Formal and Conceptual Semantics. Preproceedings of BRIDGE-18. PDF
  • Beckmann, N., Indefrey, P., & Petersen, W. (2018). Words count, but thoughts shift: a frame-based account to conceptual shifts in noun countability. Issues of Cognitive Linguistics (Voprosy Kognitivnoy Lingvistiki), 2, 79–89. PDF
  • Bladier, T., Seyffarth, E., Hellwig, O., & Petersen, W. (2018). AET: Web-based Adjective Exploration Tool for German. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan: ELRA. PDF
  • Naumann, R., Petersen, W., & Gamerschlag, T. (2018). Underspecified changes: a dynamic, probabilistic frame theory for verbs. In U. Sauerland & S. Solt (Eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22 (Vol. 2, pp. 181–198). ZASPiL 61. Berlin: Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics. PDF
  • Balogh, K., & Petersen, W. (Eds.). (2017). Bridging Formal and Conceptual Semantics, Selected Papers of BRIDGE-14. Düsseldorf University Press. PDF
  • Fleischhauer, J., Gamerschlag, T., & Petersen, W. (2017). A frame-analysis of the interplay of grammar and cognition in emission verbs. In S. Hartmann (Ed.), Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (Vol. 5, 1, pp. 179–196.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. PDF
  • Goldschmidt, A., Gamerschlag, T., Petersen, W., Gabrovska, E., & Geuder, W. (2017). Towards verb modification in frames: A case study on German ‘schlagen’ (to hit). In Proceedings of the 11th International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation (pp. 18–36). LNCS. Springer. PDF
  • Naumann, R., & Petersen, W. (2017). Semantic Predictions in Natural Language Processing, Default Reasoning and Belief Revision. In Proceedings of 11th International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation (pp. 118–145). LNCS. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. PDF
  • Petersen, W., & Hellwig, O. (2017). Unsupervised induction of compositional types for English adjective-noun pairs. In C. Gardent & C. Retoré (Eds.), Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2017). PDF
  • Oliver Hellwig and Wiebke Petersen (2016). Exploring the value space of attributes: Unsupervised bidirectional clustering of adjectives in german. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. PDF
  • Oliver Hellwig and Wiebke Petersen (2016). Sprachwandel im Sanskrit? Eine Corpusstudie zum Einfluss Pāninis auf die Lexik des Sanskrit. In DHd 2016 Modellierung - Vernetzung - Visualisierung Die Digital Humanities als fächerübergreifendes Forschungsparadigma, nisaba verlag, 2016. PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen and Oliver Hellwig (2016). Annotating and Analyzing the Astādhyāyī. In Francisco Alonso Almeida, Ivalla Ortega Barrera, Elena Quintana Toledo, and Margarita Sánchez Cuervo, editors, Input a Word, Analyse the World: Selected Approaches to Corpus Linguistics, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. PDF
  • Oliver Hellwig and Wiebke Petersen (2015). Correlation between Lexical and Determination Types. In Proceedings of the International Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology. Gesellschaft für Sprachtechnologie und Computerlinguistik e.V. PDF
  • Gamerschlag, T., Gerland, D., Osswald, R., and Petersen, W., editors (2015). Meaning, Frames, and Conceptual Representation, volume 2 of Studies in Language and Cognition. Düsseldorf University Press. PDF
  • Gottfried Vosgerau and Wiebke Petersen (2015). The relation between cognitive and linguistic structures. In Gabriella Airenti, Bruno G. Bara, Giulio Sandini, and Marco Cruciani, editors, Proceedings of the EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science / 4th European Conference on Cognitive Science / 11th International Conference on Cognitive Science, Torino, Italy, September 25-27, 2015. Vol. 1419 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. CEUR-WS.org, 2015. PDF
  • Oliver Hellwig and Wiebke Petersen (2015, accepted). What’s Pānini got to do with it? In Amba Kulkarni, editor, Sanskrit and computational linguistics, selected papers presented in the 'Sanskrit and the IT World' Section at the 16th World Sanskrit Conference (28 June - 2 July 2015) Bangkok, Thailand, New Delhi, India : DK Publishers Distributors Pvt. Ltd, 2016. PDF
  • Oliver Hellwig and Wiebke Petersen (2015). Extending the core functionalities of Astādhyāyī 2.0. In Proceedings of the 31st South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable 2015 PDF
  • Ralf Naumann and Wiebke Petersen (2015). Frame theory, dependence logic and strategies. In Emil Jerabek Martin Aher, Daniel Hole and Clemens Kupke, editors, Logic, Language, and Computation. Proceedings of the 10th International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation, TbiLLC 2013., vol. 8984 of Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen (2015). Representation of concepts as frames. In Thomas Gamerschlag, Doris Gerland, Rainer Osswald, and Wiebke Petersen, editors, Meaning, Frames, and Conceptual Representation, Studies in Language and Cognition. Düsseldorf University Press. (commented reprint of Wiebke Petersen. (2007). Representation of Concepts as Frames. In: Complex Cognition and Qualitative Science. Eds.: Jurgis Skilters, Fiorenza Toccafondi and Gerhard Stemberger. The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2, p. 151-170. University of Latvia.) PDF
  • Gottfried Vosgerau, Tim Seuchter, and Wiebke Petersen (2015). Analyzing concepts in action- frames. In Thomas Gamerschlag, Doris Gerland, Rainer Osswald, and Wiebke Petersen,editors, Meaning, Frames, and Conceptual Representation, Studies in Language and Cognition. Düsseldorf University Press. PDF
  • Adrian Czardybon, Oliver Hellwig and Wiebke Petersen. (2014). Statistical analysis of the interaction between word order and definiteness in Polish. Eds.:Przepiórkowski, Adam and Ogrodniczuk, Maciej. Proceedings of PolTAL2014, p. 144-150, Springer International Publishing. PDF
  • Thomas Gamerschlag, Doris Gerland, Rainer Osswald and Wiebke Petersen, editors (2014). Frames and Concept Types. Applications in Language, Cognition, and Philosophy. Number 94 in Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy. Springer, Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London. (Publisher's website)
  • Thomas Gamerschlag, Willi Geuder and Wiebke Petersen. (2014). Glück auf, der Steiger kommt- A frame account of extensional and intensional "steigen". In: Meaning and Grammar of Nouns and Verbs. Eds.: D. Gerland, C. Horn, A. Latrouite and A. Ortmann. Studies in Language and Cognition, vol. 1, p. 115-144. Düsseldorf University Press. Düsseldorf. PDF
  • Oliver Hellwig and Wiebke Petersen. (2014). Detecting Relational Constructions in German Texts Automatically. In: Proceedings of Konvens2014, p. 40-47, Universitätsverlag Hildesheim. Hildesheim. PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen and Thomas Gamerschlag. (2014). Why chocolate eggs can taste old but not oval: A frame-theoretic analysis of inferential evidentials. In: Frames and Concept Types. Applications in Language, Cognition, and Philosophy. Eds.: Thomas Gamerschlag, Doris Gerland, Rainer Osswald and Wiebke Petersen. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 94, Springer. Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London. PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen and Tanja Osswald. (2014). Concept Composition in Frames: Focusing on Genitive Constructions. In: Frames and Concept Types. Applications in Language, Cognition, and Philosophy. Eds.: Thomas Gamerschlag and Doris Gerland and Rainer Osswald and Wiebke Petersen. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 94, Springer. Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London. PDF
  • Thomas Gamerschlag and Wiebke Petersen. (2013). Analyzing stative dimensional verbs in frames. Eds.: Anatol Stefanowitsch and Juliana Goschler. Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, 1, p. 3-23. Mouton de Gruyter. Berlin, Boston. PDF
  • Thomas Gamerschlag and Wiebke Petersen and Liane Stroebel. (2013). Sitting, standing, and lying in frames: a frame-based approach to posture verbs. In: Proceedings of the 9th International Tbilisi Symposium on Language Logic and Computation. Eds.: Bezhanishvili, Löbner, Marra, and Richter. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7758, p.73-93. Springer. Heidelberg.PDF
  • Ralf Naumann and Wiebke Petersen. (2013). An Analysis of Quantifier Scope Restrictions in Dependence Logic. In: Proceedings of the 19th Amsterdam Colloquium. Eds.: Maria Aloni, Michael Franke and Floris Roelofsen. p.163-170. PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen and Simone Soubusta. (2013). Structure and Implementation of a Digital Edition of the Astadhyayi. In: Recent Researches in Sanskrit Computational Linguistics - Fifth International Symposium IIT Mumbai, India, January 2013 Proceedings. Eds.: Malhar Kulkarni. p. 320. D.K. Printworld. PDF
  • Thomas Gamerschlag and Wiebke Petersen. (2012). An analysis of the evidential use of German perception verbs. In: Selected Papers from UK-CLA Meetings. Eds.: Christopher Hart PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen and Tanja Osswald. (2012). A Formal Interpretation of Concept Types and Type Shifts. In: Cognitive Processes in Language. Eds.: Krzystztof Kosecki and Janusz Badio. Lodz Studies in Language, 25, p. 183-191. Peter Lang. Frankfurt. PDF
  • Franko Zeitz and Wiebke Petersen. (2012). Übersetzungsfehler in der Augenheilkunde. In: Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde. 230 (3), p. 275--279. E-Journal
  • Wiebke Petersen. (2010). Linear coding of non-linear hierarchies - revitalization of an ancient classification method. In: Advances in Data Analysis, Data Handling and Business Intelligence (Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation 2008). Eds.: A. Fink, B. Lausen, W. Seidel and A. Ultsch. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization, 4, p. 307-316. Springer. Berlin, Heidelberg. PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen and Silke Hamann. (2010). On the generalizability of Paninis pratyahara-technique to other languages. In: Sanskrit Computational Linguistics - 4th International Symposium New Delhi, India. Eds.: G. N. Jha. LNCS, 6465, p. 21-38. Springer. Berlin. PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen. (2009). On the Construction of Sivasutra-Alphabets. In: Sanskrit Computational Linguistics. Eds.: Amba Kulkarni and Gerard Huet. LNAI, 5406, p. 7897. Spr. Berlin, Heidelberg. PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen. (2008). Zur Minimalität von Paninis Sivasutras - Eine Untersuchung mit Methoden der Formalen Begriffsanalyse. PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen. (2008). Type Signature Induction with FCAType. In: Proceedings of CLA 2006. Eds.: Yahia, S. and Nguifo, E.. LNAI, 4923, p. 275-280. Springer. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen, Jens Fleischhauer, Hakan Beseoglu and Peter Bücker. (2008). A frame-based analysis of synaesthetic metaphors. In: The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication New Prairie Press, 3. PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen and Markus Werning. (2007). Conceptual Fingerprints: Lexical Decomposition by Means of Frames - a Neuro-cognitive Model. In: Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Architectures for Smart Applications Proceedings of ICCS 2007. Eds.: Uta Priss, Simon Polovina and Richard Hill. LNCS, 4604, p. 415-428. Spr. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen. (2007). Representation of Concepts as Frames. In: Complex Cognition and Qualitative Science. Eds.: Jurgis Skilters, Fiorenza Toccafondi and Gerhard Stemberger. The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2, p. 151-170. University of Latvia. PDF
  • James Kilbury, Wiebke Petersen and Christof Rumpf. (2006). Inheritance-based models of the lexicon. In: Advances in the Theory of the Lexicon. Eds.: Dieter Wunderlich. p. 429--477. Mouton de Gruyter. Berlin . PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen. (2006). FCAType -- a System for Type Signature Induction. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Concept Lattices and their Applications (CLA 2006). Eds.: Sadok Ben Yahia and Engelbert Mephu Nguifo. Faculte des Sciences de Tunis, Universite Centrale. PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen. (2005). How Formal Concept Lattices Solve a Problem of Ancient Linguistics. In: Conceptual Structures: Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2005, Kassel, Germany, July 17-22, 2005. Eds.: F. Dau; M.-L. Mugnier & G. Stumme. LNCS, 3596, p. 337-352. Spr. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen and James Kilbury. (2005). What feature co-occurrence restrictions have to do with type signatures. In: Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Formal Grammar and Mathematics of Language (FG/MOL-05). p. 125-139. PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen. (2004). A Set-Theoretic Approach for the Induction of Inheritance Hierachies. In: Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. Eds.: Lawrence S. Moss and Richard T. Oehrle. 53, Elsevier. PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen. (2004). A Mathematical Analysis of Panini's Sivasutras. In: JoLLI. 13 (4), p. 471-489. PDF
  • Rainer Osswald and Wiebke Petersen. (2003). A Logical Approach to Data-Driven Classification. In: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the 26th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2003, Hamburg, Germany, September 15-18, 2003. Eds.: Andreas Günter, Rudolf Kruse and Bernd Neumann. LNCS, 2821, p. 267-281. Spr. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen. (2003). A set-theoretical investigation of Panini's Sivasutras. In: Proceedings of the Eighth Meeting on Mathematics of Language (MOL-8). Bloomington IN . PDF
  • Rainer Osswald and Wiebke Petersen. (2002). Induction of Classifications from Linguistic Data. In: Proceedings of the ECAI-Workshop on Advances in Formal Concept Analysis for Knowledge Discovery in Databases. Lyon. PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen. (2001). A Set-Theoretic Approach for the Induction of Inheritance Hierachies. In: Preproceedings of the Joint Conference on Formal Grammar and Mathematics of Language (FG/MOL-01). PDF
  • Wiebke Petersen. (1998). A Proof of Varchenko's Conjecture about Arrangements of Hyperplanes. Unpublished MA Thesis

Talks (outdated)

  • 09/2016 "On the fictive reading of German 'steigen' (climb, rise) - A frame account". Presented at the `CoSt16' in Düsseldorf (together with Thomas Gamerschlag).
  • 09/2016 "Attributes, values, the head and the world". Presented at the `CoSt16' in Düsseldorf (together with Alex Tillas).
  • 01/2016 "Zwei Beispiele vermeintlicher Redundanzen in Beschreibungsformaten zur Klassenmodellierung aus Semantik und Phonologie". Lecture given at the Universität Leipzig (on the invitation of Gereon Müller).
  • 09/2015 "A Probabilistic Approach to Semantic Predictions in Natural Language Processing". Presented at the `Eleventh International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation' in Tbilisi (together with Ralf Naumann).
  • 09/2015 "Does the rain hit the window playfully? A frame-based analysis of German hit-verbs". Presented at the `Eleventh International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation' in Tbilisi (together with Thomas Gamerschlag, Wilhelm Geuder,Ekaterina Gabrovska, Anja Goldschmidt).
  • 04/2015 "Zur Bedeutung von Attributen in der Wissensrepräsentation und Sprachverarbeitung". Invited lecture given at the `Fachbereich Informatik' in Hamburg.
  • 02/2015 "Wissensrepräsentation in der Linguistik". Presented at the 85. Ernst-Schröder- Kolloquium, Darmstadt (on the invitation of Karl Erich Wolff)
  • 02/2015 "Collocation Based Semantic Clustering of German Adjectives". Presented at the ‘16th Szklarska Poreba Workshop’ in Poland (together with Anika Westburg, Ekaterina Gabrovska, Kai Koch).
  • 01/2015 "A frame analysis of the interplay of grammar and cognition in emission verbs". Presented at the ‘Workshop: Formal Semantics Meets Cognitive Semantics’ in Nijmegen, Netherlands (together with Jens Fleischhauer and Thomas Gamerschlag).
  • 12/2014 "Modelling of Conceptual Meaning: Frame-based Contributions to Language in Interaction". Presented at the ILLC Amsterdam (on the invitation of Rens Bod)
  • 10/2014 "Movement in frames: On German 'steigen' ('rise/climb')" . Presented at the DGKL 2014, Erlangen, Germany (together with Wilhelm Geuder and Thomas Gamerschlag).
  • 10/2014 "Detecting Relational Constructions in German Texts Automatically". Presented at the Konvens2014 in Hildesheim, Germany (together with Oliver Hellwig).
  • 09/2014 "Statistical analysis of the role of word order in Polish determination types". Presented at the PolTAL 2014 in Warsaw, Poland (together with Adrian Czardybon and Oliver Hellwig).
  • 08/2014 "Bleeding, droning and yowling in(to) frames". Presented at the CTF 2014, Düsseldorf, Germany (together with J. Fleischhauer and Thomas Gamerschlag).
  • 07/2014 "Analyzing verb polysemy in frames - A case study of German 'steigen' (‘rise/climb’)". Presented at the 5th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference in Lancaster, UK (together with Wilhelm Geuder and Thomas Gamerschlag).
  • 05/2014 "Annotating and analyzing the Astadhyayi". Presented at the CILC2014 International Conference on Corpus Linguistics in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (together with Oliver Hellwig).
  • 09/2013 "Towards a frame-based analysis of event structures and aspectual classes" presented at the 'Tenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation' in Gudauri (together with Ralf Naumann).
  • 09/2013 "A Formalization of Frame Theory in Dependence Logic using (explicit) Strategies " presented at the 'Tenth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation' in Gudauri (together with Ralf Naumann).
  • 07/2013 "Extension of a multilingual medical lexicon by combined feature extraction methods" presented at the 'International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS 2013)' in Tilburg (together with Dennis Anuschewski, Pascal Chave and Philipp Franko Zeitz).
  • 02/2013 "Attribute und Werte im Düsseldorfer Frame-Modell" presented at the 'Workshop on Comparing Frame-Theories' in Düsseldorf.
  • 08/2012 "Attributes or types? What are the fundamental frame elements?" presented at the '2nd Conference on Concept Types and Frames' in Düsseldorf.
  • 08/2012 "I'm still standing: A frame account of the polysemous meanings of posture verbs referring to standing" presented at the '2nd Conference on Concept Types and Frames' in Düsseldorf (together with Thomas Gamerschlag and Liane Ströbel).
  • 07/2012 "Decomposing Posture Verbs into Frame Attributes" presented at the '4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference' in London (together with Thomas Gamerschlag).
  • 04/2012 "Representation techniques in Panini's Sanskrit grammar" presented at the 'Workshop on Finite-state Methods in Language Resources and Historical comparative Linguistics' in Düsseldorf.
  • 04/2012 "On Frames and their components" lecture given at the Tilburg University (on the invitation of Reinhard Muskens)
  • 03/2012 "Formalizing Panini's Descriptive Techniques" invited lecture given at the 'VIIe Journée Monde Indien' in Paris.
  • 01/2012 "Unlocking Panini's Astadhyayi" lecture given at the IIIT Hyderabad (on the invitation of Navjoti Singh)
  • 01/2012 "Pratyaharas versus features" lecture given at the University of Hyderabad (on the invitation of Amba Kulkarni)
  • 01/2012 "On the descriptive techniques for phonological classes in Panini's grammar" invited lecture given at the '15th World Sanskrit Conference' in New Delhi.
  • 09/2011 "Sitting, Standing, and Lying in Frames: a frame-based approach to stative verbs of location" presented at the 'Ninth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation' in Kutaisi (together with Thomas Gamerschlag and Liane Stroebel).
  • 09/2011 "Towards a radically attribute-centered perspective on frames" presented at the 'Ninth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation' in Kutaisi.
  • 08/2011 "On the economy of Paninis Sivasutras" invited lecture given at the 'International Workshop: Dimensions of Grammar - in honor of Paul Kiparsky' in Konstanz.
  • 07/2011 "Regelsysteme in Paninis Grammatik" invited lecture given at the 'Workshop on Finite-state Methods in NLP and Historical Linguistics - in honor of James Kilbury' in Düseldorf.
  • 12/2010 "On the generalizability of Panini's pratyahara-technique to other languages " presented at the 'Sanskrit Computational Linguistics- 4th International Symposium' in New Delhi (together with Silke Hamann).
  • 11/2010 "A Formal Interpretation of Frame Composition" presented at the '6th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication' in Riga (together with Tanja Osswald).
  • 10/2010 "A frame-theoretic analysis of stative verbs of location" presented at the 'DGKL 2010' in Bremen (together with Thomas Gamerschlag).
  • 10/2010 "Formal Frame Theory for Concept Composition and Decomposition" presented at the 'Symposium: Frames - A General Formal of Representations? as part of the KogWis 2010' in Potsdam.
  • 06/2010 "Approaches to a formal frame theory" presented at the 'Workshop on formal frame theories' in Düsseldorf.
  • 05/2010 "A formal interpretation of concepts types and type shifts" presented at the 'International Conference on Cognitive Processes in Language (CogLang 2010)' in Lodz (together with Tanja Osswald).
  • 03/2010 "An Analysis of Inferential Evidentials as Dimensional Shifts" presented at the '8th Conference on Semantics and Formal Modelling' in Nancy (together with Thomas Gamerschlag).
  • 07/2010 "An analysis of the evidential use of German perception verbs" presented at the '3rd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference' in Hertfordshire (together with Thomas Gamerschlag).
  • 01/2010 "Formalizing Barsalou's Frames" presented at the 'Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)' in Amsterdam.
  • 08/2009 "A frame-theoretic account of inferential evidentials based on German perception verbs" presented at the 'Second Conference on Concept Types and Frames' in Düsseldorf (together with Thomas Gamerschlag).
  • 08/2009 "A formal interpretation of frame composition" presented at the '2nd International Conference on Concept Types and Frames' in Düsseldorf (together with Tanja Osswald).
  • 01,02/2009 Series of invited lectures "On the minimality of Paninis Sivasutras and "On the construction of Sivasutra-alphabets"
    • "French Institute of Pondicherry"PDF
    • "English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad"PDF
    • "IIIT Hyderabad"PDF
    • IIT Bombay, seminar "Scientific Concepts in Sanskrit Texts", Prof. Malhar KulkarniPDF
    • IIT Bombay, "Center for Indian Language Technology Lab", Prof. Pushpak BhattacharyaPDF
  • 07/2008 "Linear coding of non-linear hierarchies - revitalization of an ancient classifi- cation method" presented at the '32nd Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation 2008' in Hamburg.
  • 07/2008 "Qualitative Citation Analysis Based on Formal Concept Analysis" presented at the '32th annual meeting of the Classification Society' in Hamburg (together with Petja Heinrich).
  • 12/2007 "A frame-based analysis of synaesthetic metaphors". Presentation at the "A Figure of Speech Conference on Metaphor" in Riga (with Jens Fleischhauer, Hakan Beseoglu, and Peter Bücker).
  • 08/2007 "Frames for sortal, relational, and functional concepts" presented at the '1st International Conference on Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science' in Düsseldorf.
  • 07/2007 "Conceptual Fingerprints: Lexical decomposition by means of frames - a neuro-cognitive model" presented at the 'ICCS 2007' in Sheffield (together with Markus Werning).
  • 12/2006 "Decomposing Concepts with Frames" presented at the 'Oswald Külpe - Aspects of a Qualitative Science; 2nd International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication' in Riga.
  • 11/2006 "FCAType- a system for type signature induction" presented at the '4th International Conference on Concept Lattices and their Applications (CLA 2006)' in Hammamet.
  • 10/2006 "Functional Concepts in Frames and Functional Concepts as Frames" presented at the 'Second International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association' in Munich.
  • 08/2005 What feature co-occurrence restrictions have to do with type signatures" presented at the 'Joint Conference on Formal Grammar and Mathematics of Language (FG/MOL-05)' in Edinburgh (together with James Kilbury).
  • 07/2005 "How formal concept lattices solve a problem of ancient linguistics" presented at the '13th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2005' in Kassel.
  • 08/2003 "A logical approach to data-driven classification" presented at the 'KI2003' in Hamburg (together with Rainer Osswald).
  • 06/2003 "A set-theoretical investigation of Paninis Sivasutras" presented at the 'Eighth Meeting on Mathematics of Language (MOL-8)' in Bloomington, IN.
  • 11/2002 "Die Mächtigkeit natürlicher Sprachen, oder: Was macht das Schweizerdeutsche so komplex?"; Invited Presentation at the TU Dresden.
  • 07/2002 "Induction of classifications from linguistic data" presented at the 'ECAIWorkshop on Advances in Formal Concept Analysis for Knowledge Discovery in Databases' in Lyon (together with Rainer Osswald).
  • 08/2001 "A set-theoretic approach for the induction of inheritance hierarchies" presented at the 'Joint Conference on Formal Grammar and Mathematics of Language (FG/MOL-01)' in Helsinki.
  • 2000 Introduction to Formal Concept Analysis in German:

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