Brief CV David Schlangen
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[last updated: May 2003]



Personal Details
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Name:                    David Schlangen
Current Post:		 Ph.D. Student / Research Associate
Nationality:		 German

Correspondence Address:  Institute for Communicating 
                         and Collaborative Systems (ICCS), 
			 School of Informatics,
                         The University of Edinburgh,
                         2 Buccleuch Place,
                         Edinburgh.
                         EH8 9LW 
Telephone:               +44 131 650 4415.
Fax:			 +44 131 650 6626
E-mail:			 das@cogsci.ed.ac.uk


Education
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* 1999 - current	Ph.D. Programme, Division of Informatics,
			University of Edinburgh
			(submission May 2003; viva August 2003)

			Thesis title: "A Coherence-Based Approach to
			the Interpretation of Non-Sentential
			Utterances in Dialogue"
			Supervisors: Alex Lascarides, Claire Grover
			Funded by: EPSRC, UK (Engineering and Physical
			Science Research Council)

						
* June 1999		M.A. in Computational Linguistics, Philosophy
			and Computer Science from the University of
			Bonn; awarded the highest possible mark (1.0).
			M.A. thesis about Semantic Underspecification
			Formalisms. 

			
* 1993 - 1999		M.A. course in Computational Linguistics
			(focussing mostly on Computational Semantics
			and Formal Syntax), Philosophy (Logic and
			Analytical Philosophy of Language and Mind)
			and Computer Science (Deductive Databases,
			Logic Programming) at the University of Bonn;
			additional courses attended at the University
			of Cologne and the University of Edinburgh
			(MSc course in Speech and Language Processing,
			1997/98; funded by the EU ERASMUS programme).


Additional Research Experience
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* 2002 - June 2003      Research Associate on Stanford-Link funded
			project ROSIE (Robust Semantic
			IntErpretation); my part is to develop tools for
			semi-automatically annotating a
			dialogue-corpus with discourse-semantic
			information.

* 1998 - 1999		Junior Researcher for ``retivox GbR Bonn'',
			developing a dialogue manager for a WWW-to-voice
			interface. 

* 1994 - 1998		Student Research Assistant in the Verbmobil
			project, University of Bonn.


			

Teaching Experience
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I have experience of teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate
students in the areas of:

- logic programming
- formal semantics
- theoretical linguistics
- techniques of natural language processing
			
During my time at Edinburgh University I have done Teaching Assistance
and Tutoring on several courses in those areas. Currently I am involved
in the supervision of a Masters student. 



Skills
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Languages: English (fluent), German (native)

Programming Languages: PROLOG, C(++), Perl, Tcl/Tk, Java, XSLT

IT Skills: Extensive knowledge of Unix/Linux, Mac OS X. Working
           knowledge of MS Windows. Proficient in TeX/LaTeX.



Research Interests:
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- formal approaches to discourse and dialogue;
- speech act theory;
- HPSG;

(For a more detailed statement of research interest please see
 http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~das/cv.pdf )



Publications:
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(Please see http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~das for an up-to-date list.)


Referees:
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(contact information available on request)