Invited speakers
Change: Plenary speaker
Unfortunately one of our speakers had to cancel the participation at NoSLiP2020. However, we are happy to announce that Koenraad De Smedt will give a plenary talk at NoSLiP2020!
Professor Svetlana Petrova (Bergische Universität Wuppertal).
She has studied the role of information structure in language variation and change, with a particular emphasis on early Germanic, and has a long-standing interest in corpus linguistics and formal diachronic syntax. Her current fields of research comprise the meaning and use of various types of nominal expressions, including pronouns, in the history of German, as well as the development of the determiner system of German.
Professor Koenraad De Smedt (University of Bergen).
Koenraad De Smedt has been professor at the University of Bergen since 1995. He teaches computational linguistics. His current research interests are in corpus linguistics, in particular treebanks. He is active in organizing research infrastructure and researcher training. He has coordinated three Marie Curie ITNs and is currently coordinating CLARINO, the Norwegian research infrastructure for language resources and technologies which is part of the European CLARIN.
Professor Jennifer Smith (University of Glasgow).
Her research is in language variation and change, concentrating on the morphosyntactic features of non-standard dialects through the use of online corpora. She has directed a number of ESRC, AHRC and British Academy funded projects, including Caregiver and child in the acquisition of variation, Obsolescence vs stability in a Shetland dialect: evidence from three generations of speakers and One speaker, two dialects: bidialectalism across the generations in a Scottish community. She has conducted research on Scottish dialects and their relationships to colonial Englishes in North America (co-author Sali Tagliamonte), sociolinguistic development in the childhood years (co-author Sophie Holmes-Elliott), and on the interface between formal theories of language and variation (co-author David Adger). She is currently the Principal Investigator on the AHRC funded The Scots Syntax Atlas, a major new digital resource for the analysis of speech patterns across Scotland.
Professor Eric Wehrli (University of Geneva).
His main research interest is natural language processing. With his colleagues at the Language Lab (LATL), he developed the Fips parser, an efficient grammar-based syntactic parser which has been applied to several languages and used in a wide-range of tasks, such as speech analysis and synthesis, translation, word translation in context, medical language analysis and terminological extraction. During the last few years, he has been an active member of the PARSEME European COST project, dedicated to the study of multi-word expressions and their implications for natural language processing.
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