Amir Zeldes - Homepage

Overview

Researcher Collaborative Research Centre 632 (Information Structure) Sub-Project D1 (Linguistic Database) Institute for German Language and Linguistics Humboldt University Berlin Unter den Linden 6 D-10099 Berlin Telephone: +49 (0)30 2093 9720 E-Mail: amir(dot)zeldes at rz(dot)hu-berlin(dot)de   Consultation time (Room 3.333) Summer Term 2012 Monday, 16:00-17:00 Research Interests Quantitative modeling of morphological and syntactic productivity Productivity in second language learners Annotation interdependence in multilevel and parallel corpora Theoretical and methodological implications of annotating empirical data Corpus-based historical and comparative linguistics

 

Teaching

Summer Term 2011

• R Workshop 'Binary Logistic Regression & Linear Mixed Effect Models', 24 May 2011 at ZAS (data, slides)

Winter Term 2010/11

• 52 20104 GK Introduction to Linguistics (Wed 10-14 DOR24 1.102)
  
  
• R II - Advanced Course in Statistical Methods with R (Empirical Methods Workshop 2011)

Summer Term 2010

• 52 20146 UE Statistical Methods in Linguistics (Mon 16-18 DOR24 1.302)
  
  
• 52 20169 CO Corpus Linguistics Colloquium (Tue 18-20 DOR24 3.102, together with Hagen Hirschmann)
  
  
• Corpus Linguistics (Empirical Methods Workshop 2010)

Summer Term 2009

• 52 20120 GK Introduction to Morphology (Mon 14-16 BE1 42)
• Corpus Linguistics (block seminar at the University of Oldenburg, together with Hagen Hirschmann)
  
  

Winter Term 2008/09

• 52 20154 SE Parallel Corpora (Tue 16-18 DOR24 1.102)
  
  

Summer Term 2008

• 52 185 UE Corpus Linguistics (Tue 18-20 DOR24 1.102)
  
  

Projects

• ANNIS2 - Search and Visualization in Multilevel Corpora
  
  
• <tiger2/> - Developing an XML serialization of the SynAF syntactic model
  
  
• RIDGES - A digital humanities project investigating the development of German scientific language from the 16th to the 19th century

Events

Current

• Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora - Workshop on the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference LREC-2012 (22.5.2012)
  
  
• Reading Circle - Usage-Based Grammar - An open reading circle discussing articles in the area of usage-based grammar (see link for dates and articles)
  
  

Past Events

• Information Structure: Empirical Perspectives on Theory - SFB 632 Workshop, Universität Potsdam, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Freie Universität Berlin (2-3.12.2011)
  
  
• QITL-4 - Fourth conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (28-31.3.2011)
  
  
• Poster Session of the Section for Computational Linguistics at the 32nd Conference of the German Society for Linguistics (DGfS) in Berlin (25.2.2010)
  

Resources

• Excel EXMARaLDA Add-In - the freely available Excel Add-In, which allows users to import EXMARaLDA XML data into Excel spreadsheets and vice versa, is now hosted by exmaralda.org here.
  
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• Excel Overuse / Underuse Add-In - An Excel Add-In for the automatic visualization of relative overuse and underuse of linguistic elements.
  
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• Lexiconless Phonetic Transcription and Syllable Analysis - this page attempts to give an IPA phonetic transcription and tree-based syllable analysis for German and Polish orthographic words. (You will need the latest version of Firefox or an SVG plugin in order to view the tree analyses.)
  
• • New: Phonetic transcription tools are now downloadable as Perl scripts: [German] [Polish]
    (since no lexicon is used, these will inevitably make numerous errors - use at your own risk!)
  
  
• Sound Change Transducers - a web page with transducers modeling Indo-European sound change laws.
  
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• Indo-European Sound Correspondences - a table illustrating the main sound correspondences between some Indo-European languages.
  
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Photos etc.

• One of my favorite German compounds
  
  
• A selection of photos from the QITL-4 conference which was held at the Humboldt Graduate School in April 2011
  
  
• Pictures from the poster session of the Section for Computational Linguistics at the DGfS Conference 2010 in Berlin
  
  
• Reverse machine translation - Slides (in German) from a game at the end of semester party (WS08/09), with contributions from Hagen Hirschmann, Thomas Krause, Sören Schalowski and Florian Zipser
  
  
• Pictures from our end of semester party (SS08) and some IPA cookies
  

Publications

List in [ BibTeX]

• Hirschmann, Hagen, Lüdeling, Anke & Zeldes, Amir (to appear), "Measuring and Coding Language Change: An Evolving Study in a Multi-Layer Corpus Architecture". ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage.
  
  
• Gaeta, Livio & Zeldes, Amir (to appear), "Deutsche Komposita zwischen Syntax und Morphologie: Ein korpusbasierter Ansatz". In: Gaeta, Livio & Schlücker, Barbara (eds.), Das Deutsche als kompositionsfreudige Sprache: Strukturelle Eigenschaften und systembezogene Aspekte. (Linguistik - Impulse und Tendenzen.) Mouton de Gruyter.
  
  
• Lüdeling, Anke, Hirschmann, Hagen & Zeldes, Amir (to appear), "Variationism and Underuse Statistics in the Analysis of the Development of Relative Clauses in German". In: Kawaguchi, Yuji, Minegishi, Makoto & Viereck, Wolfgang (eds.), Corpus Analysis and Diachronic Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  
  
• Petrova, Svetlana, Chiarcos, Christian, Ritz, Julia & Zeldes, Amir (to appear), "The Tatian Corpus of Old High German: Information-Structural and Grammatical Annotation". In: Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2009, July 20-23, Liverpool, UK.
  
  
• Chiarcos, Christian, Fiedler, Ines, Grubic, Mira, Hartmann, Katharina, Ritz, Julia, Schwarz, Anne, Zeldes, Amir & Zimmermann, Malte (2011), "Information Structure in African Languages: Corpora and Tools". Special Issue on African Language Technology, Language Resources and Evaluation 45(3), 361-374.
  
  
• Zeldes, Amir (2011), "On the Productivity and Variability of the Slots in German Comparative Correlative Constructions". In: Konopka, Marek, Kubczak, Jacqueline, Mair, Christian, Štícha, František & Waßner, Ulrich H. (eds.), Grammar & Corpora / Grammatik und Korpora 2009. Third International Conference / Dritte Internationale Konferenz, Mannheim, 22.-24.09.2009. Tübingen: Narr, 429-449. [ Prepublication version ]
  
  
• Petrova, Svetlana, Solf, Michael, Ritz, Julia, Chiarcos, Christian & Zeldes, Amir (2009), "Building and Using a Richly Annotated Interlinear Diachronic Corpus: The Case of Old High German Tatian". Traitement automatique des langues 50(2), 47-71.
  
  
• Zeldes, Amir, Ritz, Julia, Lüdeling, Anke & Chiarcos, Christian (2009), "ANNIS: A Search Tool for Multi-Layer Annotated Corpora". In: Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2009, July 20-23, Liverpool, UK. [ Prepublication version ]
  
  
• Zeldes, Amir (2009), "Quantifying Constructional Productivity with Unseen Slot Members". In: Proceedings of the NAACL HLT Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity, June 5, Boulder CO, 47-54.
  
  
• Chiarcos, Christian, Fiedler, Ines, Grubic, Mira, Haida, Andreas, Hartmann, Katharina, Ritz, Julia, Schwarz, Anne, Zeldes, Amir & Zimmermann, Malte (2009), "Information Structure in African Languages: Corpora and Tools". In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages (AFLAT), 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-09). Athens, Greece, 17-24.
  
  
• Lüdeling, Anke & Zeldes, Amir (2008), "Three Views on Corpora: Corpus Linguistics, Literary Computing, and Computational Linguistics". Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie 9, 149-178.
  
  
• Zeldes, Amir, Lüdeling, Anke & Hirschmann, Hagen (2008), "What's Hard? Quantitative Evidence for Difficult Constructions in German Learner Data". In: Arppe, Antti, Sinnemäki, Kaius & Nikanne, Urpo (eds.), Proceedings of Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 3 (QITL-3). Helsinki, Finnland, 2-4 June 2008, 74-77. [Abstract] [Slides]
  
  
• Zeldes, Amir (2007), "Abstracting Suffixes: A Morphophonemic Approach to Polish Morphological Analysis". Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 26(2), special issue on "Hybrid Methods in Computational Linguistics", 347-370.
  
  
• Zeldes, Amir (2007), "Machine Translation between Language Stages: Extracting Historical Grammar from a Parallel Diachronic Corpus of Polish". In: Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2007, Birmingham, 27-30 July, 2007.
  
  
• Zeldes, Amir (2006), "Abstracting Suffixes: A Morphophonemic Approach to Polish Morphological Analysis". In: Proceedings of Konvens'06, Konstanz, 4-7 October, 2006, 151-158. An extended version of this article has appeared in the Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft (see above).
  

Talks

• Zeldes, Amir (2012), "Productivity in Argument Selection: Extensibility Effects of Semantic Classes in Usage". Talk at the Seminar für Englische Philologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 17.1.2012.
  
  
• Zeldes, Amir (2011), "Getan – gesagt? Pragmatische und lexikalisierte Erklärungen zur Besetzung von Argumentstellen mit neuem Material." IZ Colloquium Europäische Sprachen, Freie Universität Berlin, 10.5.2011. [ Abstract ] [ Slides ]
  
  
• Krummes, Cedric, Reznicek, Marc, Jia Wei, Chan, Hirschmann, Hagen, Krause, Thomas, Zeldes, Amir, Ensslin Astrid & Lüdeling, Anke (2010) "'What's Hard in German?': Touching the Void of Over- and Underuse". Paper given at the Forum for Germanic Language Studies, Gregynog/Aberystwyth, January 8-9, 2010.
  
  
• Lüdeling, Anke, Zeldes, Amir, Reznicek, Marc, Rehbein, Ines & Hirschmann, Hagen (2010), "Syntactic Misuse, Overuse and Underuse: A Study of a Parsed Learner Corpus and its Target Hypothesis". In: Dickinson, Markus, Müürisep, Kaili & Passarotti, Marco (eds.), Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (NEALT Proceedings Series 9), University of Tartu, Estonia, 3 December 2010.
  
  
• Zeldes, Amir (2010), "Mehrebenenkorpora in ANNIS. Datenrepräsentation, Abfrage und Visualisierung". Computerlinguistik-Kolloquium, Universität Zürich, Institut für Computerlinguistik, 18.5.2010.
  
  
• Zeldes, Amir (2010), "ANNIS, PAULA & Salt n’ Pepper. Open source resources for multilayer corpora". Service-oriented Architectures for Language Technology, Universität Tübingen, 11.2.2010.
  
  
• Zeldes, Amir (2009), "Multi-Layer Resources in ANNIS: Historical Corpora and Information Structural Annotation". Workshop Annotating and Analysing IS in Historical Corpus Texts. HU Berlin, 13.11.2009.
  
  
• Zeldes, Amir (2009), "Variabilität in der Produktivität von je-desto-Konstruktionen". Lecture Series on Variability and Invariability in Language. Potsdam University, 25 June 2009.
  
  
• Zeldes, Amir, Hirschmann, Hagen & Lüdeling, Anke (2009), "Multilevel Learner Corpora". Workshop on Automatic Analysis of Learner Language 2009 (AALL'09), CALICO '09. Arizona State University, 10-14 March 2009. [ Abstract] [ Slides]
  
  
• Hirschmann, Hagen, Zeldes, Amir & Lüdeling, Anke (2009), "Interaction between Colligation, Register and Surface Variability in German Learners and Natives". 31. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. Osnabrück, Germany, 4-6 March 2009. [ Abstract ] [ Slides]
  
  
• Zeldes, Amir (2006), "Design and Applications of Polimatth - a Small Parallel Diachronic Bible Corpus of Polish." Lecture at Dagstuhl seminar 06491 Digital Historical Corpora.  International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science, Schloss Dagstuhl, Wadern, Germany.
  
  
• Zeldes, Amir (2006), "Verb Formation in Biblical and Modern Hebrew: Continuity and Innovation". International convention Morphology and the Digital World, Freie Universität, Berlin.
  

Poster Presentations

• Krause, Thomas, Ritz, Julia, Zeldes, Amir & Zipser, Florian (2011), "Topological Fields, Constituents and Coreference: A New Multi-layer Architecture for TüBa-D/Z". Conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL) 2011. [ Poster]
  
  
• Gaeta, Livio & Zeldes, Amir (2011), "German Synthetic Compounds and the Architecture of the Grammar: A Behavioral Analysis". Mediterranean Morphology Meeting 8, 14-17 September 2011, Cagliari. [ Poster]
  
  
• Zeldes, Amir (2010), "Novel Argument Selection: Is Lexical Semantics Enough?". Doktorandentag 2010, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. [ Poster]
  
  
• Reznicek, Marc, Krummes, Cedric, Hirschmann, Hagen, Lüdeling, Anke, Ensslin, Astrid, Chan, Jia Wei, Zeldes, Amir, Krause, Thomas & Zipser, Florian (2010) "'Dass wenn man etwas will, muss man dafür arbeiten'- Zielhypothesen im Lernerkorpus Falko". 31. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, 25 February 2010.
  
  
• Chiarcos, Christian, Krause, Thomas, Lüdeling, Anke, Ritz, Julia, Rosenfeld, Viktor, Stede, Manfred, Zeldes, Amir & Zipser, Florian (2009), "Search and Visualization of Richly Annotated Corpora with ANNIS2". 31. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. Osnabrück, Germany, 4-6 March 2009. [ Abstract] [ Poster]
  
  
• Zeldes, Amir (2009), "Applying Morphological Productivity Measures to Syntactic Constructions: German Comparatives and the je ... desto Constructions". Doktorandentag 2009, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. [ Poster]
  

Editorial Work

• Zeldes, Amir & Lüdeling, Anke (eds.) (2011), Proceedings of Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics 4 (QITL-4). 29-31 March 2011, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. [individual papers on eDoc server]
  

Reviews

• Zeldes, Amir (2010), Review of: McEnery, Tony, Xiao, Richard & Tono, Yukio, "Corpus-Based Language Studies: An Advanced Resource Book". Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft 2(2), 268–274. (in German)