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Wiebke Petersen

Juniorprofessor (Assistant Professor) of Mathematical Linguistics

Institute of Linguistics and Information Science
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

Office hours: Mi. 16:30-17:30
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+49 (0)211-81-15295
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+49 (0)211-81-11325
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Wiebke Petersen
Institute of Language and Information
Heinrich Heine University
Universitätsstraße 1
D-40225 Düsseldorf (Germany)
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Research Interests

I am a computational linguist and a mathematician, my areas of interest include:

Frame-based formalisms for knowledge representation, formal ontologies and type signatures.
- I am the head of the project A01 "Mathematical modeling of frames" of the CRC 991 "The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition, and Science" .
- Until 2009, I was a researcher in the predecessor project B1 "Formal modelling of frames and functional concepts" of the research unit FOR600 (Functional Concepts and Frames)
Finite State Techniques:
- In project C02 "Conceptual shifts: statistical evidence" of the CRC 991, which I am heading together with Sebastian Löbner, we apply finite state techniques in order to identify specific language constructions (e.g. possessive constructions).
Formal properties of the description techniques used in Panini's grammar of Sanskrit:
- The Project "Pratyāhāras or features?", that I am heading together with Silke Hamann, investigates the techniques used by Panini in order to describe the phonology of Sanskrit and compares it to modern feature-based descriptions methods.
Linguistic applications of Formal Concept Analysis:
- Together with the ophthalmologist Philipp Franko Zeitz I am testing the possibilities to apply Formal Concept Analysis in order to improve the usability of a multilingual dictionary of ophthalmology ( ⇒ website of the Dictionary of Ophthalmology by Dr. Franko Zeitz).
- In my PhD thesis, I have proven by applying Formal Concept Analysis that Panini's Sivasutras are minimal. Similar methods will be applied in the recent project "Pratyāhāras or features?" (see above).

Publications

Petersen, Wiebke & Soubusta, Simone (2013): Structure and Implementation of a Digital Edition of the Astadhyayi. In Girish Nath Jha (ed.): Sanskrit Computational Linguistics - 5th International Symposium, Mumbai, India.
Zeitz, Franko, Petersen, Wiebke (2012): Übersetzungsfehler in der Augenheilkunde. In Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde (09/2012). Stuttgart, New York: Georg Thieme Verlag KG. E-Journal
Gamerschlag, T., Gerland, D., Osswald, R., and Petersen, W. (under review). Concept Types and Frames. Applications in Language, Cognition, and Philosophy. Dodrecht, NL:Springer.
Gamerschlag, T. and Petersen, W. (accepted): Analyzing stative dimensional verbs in frames. In Selected papers from DGKL meetings.
Petersen, Wiebke; Osswald, Tanja (2012): A Formal Interpretation of Concept Types and Type Shifts. In K. Kosecki and J. Badio (eds.): Cognitive Processes in Language. Volume 25 of Lodz Studies in Language. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 183-191.
Gamerschlag, Thomas; Petersen, Wiebke and Stroebel, Liane (2012 accepted): Sitting, standing, and lying in frames: a frame-based approach to posture verbs. Proceedings of the 9th International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation.
Petersen, Wiebke & Gamerschlag, Thomas(2012 accepted): A frame-theoretic account of inferential evidentials based on German perception verbs. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Concept Types and Frames.
Petersen, Wiebke & Osswald, Tanja (2012 accepted): Concept Composition in Frames – Focusing on Genitive Constructions Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Concept Types and Frames.
Gamerschlag, Thomas & Petersen, Wiebke (2012): An analysis of the evidential use of German perception verbs. Proceedings of the 3rd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Herfordshire.
Petersen Wiebke; Hamann, Silke (2010): On the generalizability of Panini's pratyahara-technique to other languages. In Girish Nath Jha (ed.): Sanskrit Computational Linguistics - 4th International Symposium, New Delhi, India. LNCS 6465, 21–38, Springer.
Petersen Wiebke (2010): Linear Coding of Non-linear Hierarchies: Revitalization of an Ancient Classification Method. In A. Fink, B. Lausen, W. Seidel and A. Ultsch (eds.): Advances in Data Analysis, Data Handling and Business Intelligence. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization, 307-316, Springer.
Petersen Wiebke (2009): On the Construction of Sivasutra-Alphabets. In A. Kulkarni and G. Huet (eds.): Sanskrit Computational Linguistics. LNCS 5406, 79–98, Springer.
Petersen Wiebke (2008): Zur Minimalität von Paninis Sivasutras - Eine Untersuchung mit Methoden der Formalen Begriffsanalyse. Dissertation.
Petersen, Wiebke; Fleischhauer, Jens; Beseoglu, Hakan; Bücker, Peter (2008): A frame-based analysis of synaesthetic metaphors. In: The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, Vol. 3, New Prairie Press, ISSN 1944-3676.
Petersen, Wiebke (2008): Type Signature Induction with FCAType. In: Sadok Ben Yahia, Engelbert Mephu Nguifo, Radim Belohlavek (eds.): Concept Lattices and Their Applications. LNAI 4923, 276-281, Springer.
Petersen, Wiebke; Fleischhauer, Jens; Beseoglu, Hakan; Bücker, Peter (2007): A frame-based analysis of synaesthetic metaphors. Extended abstract for the conference "A Figure of Speech Conference on Metaphor", December 2007, Riga.
Petersen, Wiebke (2007): Representation of Concepts as Frames. In: The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, Vol. 2, 151-170.
Petersen, Wiebke ; Werning, Markus (2007): Conceptual Fingerprints: Lexical Decomposition by Means of Frames – a Neuro-cognitive Model. In: Priss, Uta; Polovina, Simon; Hill, Richard;(eds.): Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Architectures for Smart Applications (ICCS 2007). LNAI 4604, 415-428, Springer.
Petersen, Wiebke (2006): FCAType - a System for Type Signature Induction. In: Yahia, Sadok Ben; Nguifo, Engelbert Mephu (eds.): Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Concept Lattices and their Applications (CLA'2006). Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Université Centrale, 2006.
Kilbury, James; Petersen, Wiebke; Rumpf, Christof (2006): Inheritance-based models of the lexicon. In: Wunderlich, Dieter: Advances in the Theory of the Lexicon. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin; 429-477.
Petersen, Wiebke; Kilbury, James (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).
Petersen, Wiebke (2005): How Formal Concept Lattices Solve a Problem of Ancient Linguistics. In: Dau, Frithjof; Mugnier, Marie-Laure; Stumme, Gerd (eds.): Conceptual Structures: Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge, 13th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2005, Kassel, Germany, July 17-22, 2005, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3596, 337-352, Springer.
Petersen, Wiebke (2004): A Set-Theoretical Approach for the Induction of Inheritance Hierarchies. In: Moss, Lawrence S.; Oehrle, Richard T. (eds.): Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Formal Grammar and Mathematics of Language (FG/MOL-01), Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 53, Elsevier.
Petersen, Wiebke (2004): A Mathematical Analysis of Panini's Siva-Sutras. Journal of Logic, Language and Information 13 (4), 471-489.
Osswald, Rainer ; Petersen, Wiebke (2003): A Logical Approach to Data-Driven Classification. In: Günter, Andreas; Kruse, Rudolf; Neumann, Bernd (eds.): KI 2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 26th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2003, Hamburg, Germany, September 15-18, 2003, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2821, 267-281, Springer.
Petersen, Wiebke (2003): A set-theoretical investigation of Panini's Sivasutras. In: Proceedings of the Eighth Meeting on Mathematics of Language (MOL-8). Bloomington, Indiana, July 20-22, 2003.
Osswald, Rainer; Petersen, Wiebke (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, July 23 2002.
Petersen, Wiebke (2001): A Set-Theoretic Approach for the Induction of Inheritance-Hierachies. Preproceedings of the Joint Conference on Formal Grammar and Mathematics of Language (FG/MOL-01).

Slides of talks

"Structure and Implementation of a Digital Edition of the Astadhyayi". Lecture given at the 5th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium in Mumbai. January 2013 (together with Simone Soubusta)
“Representation techniques in Panini’s Sanskrit grammar”. Lecture given at the “Workshop on Finite-state Methods in Language Resources and Historical-comparative Linguistics” in Düsseldorf. April 2012
“On Frames and their components”. Invited lecture at the “Tilburg University”. April 2012
“Formalizing Panini’s Descriptive Techniques”. Invited lecture at the “VIIe JournéeMonde Indien” in Paris. March 2012
Invited Lecture at IIIT; Hyderabad 2012: Unlocking Panini's Astadhyayi. 2012
Invited Lecture at the University of Hyderabad; Hyderabad 2012: Pratyaharas versus features. 2012
15th World Sanskrit Conference; New Delhi 2012: On the descriptive techniques for phonological classes in Panini’s grammar
Sitting, Standing, and Lying in Frames: a frame-based approach to stative verbs of location. Lecture given at the Ninth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation in Kutaisi (with Thomas Gamerschlag and Liane Stroebel), 2011.
Towards a radically attribute-centered perspective on frames. Lecture given at the Ninth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation in Kutaisi, 2011.
On the economy of Paninis Sivasutras. Invited lecture given at the International Workshop: Dimensions of Grammar in honor of Paul Kiparsky, Koblenz, 2011
Regelsysteme in Paninis Grammatik lecture given at the Workshop on Finite-state Methods in NLP and Historical Linguistics in honor of James Kilbury, Düseldorf, 2011.
3rd International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium; Delhi 2010: On the generalizability of Panini’s pratyahara-technique to other languages (together with Silke Hamann)
6th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication; Riga 2010: A Formal Interpretation of Frame Composition (together with Tanja Osswald)
DGKL 2010; Bremen 2010: A frame-theoretic analysis of stative verbs of location (together with Thomas Gamerschlag)
KogWis 2010 (Symposium: Frames – A General Formal of Representations?); Potsdam 2010: Formal Frame Theory for Concept Composition and Decomposition
3rd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference; Hertfordshire 2010: An analysis of the evidential use of German perception verbs (together with Thomas Gamerschlag)
CogLang 2010; Lodz 2010: A formal interpretation of concepts types and type shifts (together with Tanja Osswald)
Journées Sémantique et Modélisation (JSM 2010); Nancy 2010: An Analysis of Inferential Evidentials as Dimensional Shifts (together with Thomas Gamerschlag)
2nd Conference on Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science; Düsseldorf 2009: A frame-theoretic account of inferential evidentials based on German perception verbs (together with Thomas Gamerschlag)
2nd Conference on Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science; Düsseldorf 2009: A Formal Interpretation of Frame Composition (together with Tanja Osswald)
The following 6 presentations have been all delivered on a visit to India at the beginning of 2009. They treat the same subject and differ mainly in length and in the scientific background of the audience. The main purpose to include them all in this list is to enable participants to download the exact version of slides of the talk they attended.

On the Construction of Sivasutra-Alphabets invited lecture at the Center for Indian Language Technology Lab of Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharya at IIT Bombay; 7th February 2009
On the Construction of Sivasutra-Alphabets invited lecture in the seminar "Scientific Concepts in Sanskrit Texts" of Prof. Malhar Kulkarni at IIT Bombay; 5th February 2009
On the Construction of Sivasutra-Alphabets invited lecture at the IIIT Hyderabad; 20th January 2009
On the minimality of Panini's Sivasutras invited presentation delivered at the English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad; 19th January 2009
3rd International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium; Hyderabad 15.-17.1.2009. On the Construction of Sivasutra-Alphabets
On the minimality of Panini's Sivasutras invited presentation delivered at the French Institute of Pondicherry, India, 9th January 2009

GfKl 2008: German Classification Society, 32nd Annual Conference; Hamburg 2008. Linear coding of non-linear hierarchies: Revitalization of an ancient classification method
GfKl 2008: German Classification Society, 32nd Annual Conference; Hamburg 2008. Qualitative citation analysis based on Formal Concept Analysis (together with Petja Heinrich)
A Figure of Speech: Conference on Metaphor; 3rd International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication; Riga 2007: A frame-based analysis of synaesthetic metaphors
Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science; Düsseldorf 2007: Frames for sortal, relational, and functional concepts
15th ICCS; 2007: Conceptual Fingerprints: Lexical Decomposition by Means of Frames – a Neuro-cognitive Model
Oswald Külpe: Aspects of a Qualitative Science; 2nd International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication; Riga 2006: Decomposing Concepts with Frames
Second International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association; 2006:Functional Concepts in Frames and Functional Concepts as Frames
MOL9; 2005: What feature co-occurrence restrictions have to do with type signatures
13th ICCS; 2005: How formal concept lattices solve a problem of ancient linguistics;
MOL8; 2003: A set-theoretical investigation of Panini's Sivasutras
Die Mächtigkeit natürlicher Sprachen: Was macht das Schweizerdeutsche so komplex? Vortrag an der TU Dresden 2002
ECAI-Workshop on Advances in Formal Concept Analysis for Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2002: Induction of Classifications from Linguistic Data
FG/MOL7; 2001: A set-theoretical approach to the induction of inheritance networks
Introduction to Formal Concept Analysis (2000) in German:

Teaching

Research Projects

SFF Project "Pratyāhāras or features?" (2011-2013)
SFB 991 The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition, and Science. Project A01 Mathematical modeling of frames (2011-2015)
SFB 991 The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition, and Science. Project C02: Conceptual shifts: statistical evidence (2011-2015)
FOR 600 Functional concepts and frames. Project B1: Formal modelling of frames and functional concepts (2005-2011)
SFB 282 Theory of the Lexicon. Project D5: Modelling subregularity in the lexicon (2000-2002)

Conferences & Workshops

Workshop on formal frame theories. Düsseldorf, June 25.-26. 2010
Workshop on modern Insights from Indian Grammatical Tradition. Düsseldorf, November 9th 2009
Second Conference on Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science. Düsseldorf, August 24.-26. 2009