2007-2008

• TABU Dag, University of Groningen, Keynote Lecture:
  Does Language Technology need Linguistics? Do Linguists need Language Technology? (June 6, 2008)
• Dublin City University:
  Taking Advantage of Parallel Corpora and Deep Parallel Grammars in NLP (Febr. 21, 2008)
• Workshop "Unified Linguistic Annotation – Transcontinental Perspectives", University of Bergen:
  Broad-coverage LFG Parsing: Beyond Parallel Grammar Development (Dec. 5, 2007)
• School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh:
  Grammar Learning from Multilingual Parallel Corpora (Nov. 24, 2007)

• International Symposium on Parallel Treebanks, University of Stockholm:
  Multilingual parallel corpora as training data for grammar inference (Sept 21, 2006)
• Workshop "Tangible Visions", Opening Ceremony for the new Center for Language Research and Language Technology, Saarland University,G Saarbrücken:
  Regeln für die Satzanalyse automatisch lernen: Mehrsprachige Websites als "Tutoren" (June 17, 2005)
• Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany:
  Lernverfahren auf Basis von Parallelkorpora (June 16, 2005)
• Colloquium for Computational Linguistics, Saarland University:
  Grammar Induction from Parallel Corpora (June 9, 2005)
• Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen:
  Grammar Induction from Parallel Corpora (June 6, 2005)
• Institutskolloquium, IMS Stuttgart:
  Grammar Induction from Parallel Corpora (May 30, 2005)
• Universität Potsdam:
  Grammatikinduktion aus Parallelkorpora (January 17, 2005)
• Royal Dutch Academy of Science, Colloquium "Cognitive Foundations of Interpretations", Amsterdam:
  Optimality in Analysis, Generation, and Learning: Towards a Robust Computational Architecture for Corpus-based Studies of Syntax (October 27, 2004)
• Linguistics graduate school colloquium, Stuttgart:
  Parallel corpora as a basis for linguistically grounded grammar induction (July 15, 2004)
• Humboldt-Universität Berlin:
  Parallelkorpora als Basis für linguistisch fundierte Grammatikinduktion (July 6, 2004)
• Universität Potsdam:
  Learnability of Grammar Models: Towards an Empirial Test Methodology Based on Parallel Corpora (July 5, 2004)

• Institutsversammlung, IMS Stuttgart:
  A Transparent Prolog Implementation of a Parser for Probabilistic Contextfree Grammars (December 17, 2003)
• Forum for Artificial Intelligence, The University of Texas at Austin:
  Multilingual Natural Language Processing: Integrating Insights from Linguistic Theory (December 5, 2003)
• 8th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG 2003) Saratoga Springs, New York:
  Generalized Tree Descriptions for LFG (July 18, 2003)
• The 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2003), Sapporo, Japan:
  Compounding and derivational morphology in a finite-state setting (July 8, 2003)
• The UT Linguistic Circle, Austin:
  Integrating a Word Formation Component in the Context of a Large Computational Grammar (May 2, 2003)
• 6th Workshop on Optimality Theory Syntax, Potsdam:
  Some computational issues in bidirectional OT Syntax (October 19, 2002)
• Workshop: Quantative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (QITL), Osnabrueck:
  Extended constraint-ranking models for frequency-sensitive accounts of syntax (October 3, 2002)
• The 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2002), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
  OT Syntax: Decidability of Generation-based Optimization (July 8, 2002)
• 7th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference (LFG 2002), Athens:
  Corpus-based learning in Stochastic OT-LFG -- Experiments with a bidirectional bootstrapping approach (July 3, 2002)
• State University of New York, Buffalo:
  Optimization-based Accounts of Syntax --- Parsing, Generation, and Learning (February 25, 2002)
• University of Texas at Austin:
  Optimization-based Accounts of Syntax --- Parsing, Generation, and Learning (February 22, 2002)
• Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.:
  Optimization-based Accounts of Syntax --- Parsing, Generation, and Learning (February 14, 2002)
• Indiana University, Bloomington:
  Optimization-based Accounts of Syntax --- Parsing, Generation, and Learning (January 25, 2002)

• Stanford University, Seminar on Optimization, Variation, and Change:
  Bidirectional OT models and the role of utterance context (November 2, 2001)
• Fourth Workshop on Optimality Theory Syntax, Stuttgart:
  Bidirectionality in OT syntax: strong, weak, or asymmetrical? (February 17, 2001)
• The 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2000):
  Processing Optimality-Theoretic Syntax by Interleaved Chart Parsing and Generation (October 5, 2000)
• LFG 2000 Conference & Berkeley Formal Grammar Conference:
  Faithfulness violations and bidirectional optimization (July 19, 2000)
• Workshop on ``Syntactic Annotation of Electronic Corpora'', Tübingen:
  From LFG Structures to TIGER Treebank Annotations (joint talk with Heike Zinsmeister, 14 June, 2000)
• Sociable Syntax Supper, Stanford University:
  Issues in the Formalization of OT Syntax (March 14, 2000)
• Natural Language Theory and Technology, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA:
  Optimality Theoretic Syntax -- Processing aspects of an LFG-based model (March 3, 2000)
• Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Computational Linguistics:
  Optimality Theoretic Syntax -- Processing aspects of an LFG-based model (January 20, 2000)

1999

• 30th annual conference of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 30, Rutgers, NJ):
  Resolving some apparent formal problems of OT Syntax (poster presentation, 24 October)
• Workshop ``Linguistic Form and its Computation'', Bad Teinach (Schwarzwald), Germany :
  OT Constraints within Lexical-Functional Grammar (October 12)
• Division of Informatics, School of Cognitive Science, Edinburgh:
  Formalizing OT Syntax in the LFG framework (July 23)
• LFG99 Conference, Manchester University:
  Towards a simple architecture for the structure-function mapping (July 20)
• Generative Grammatik des Südens (GGS), Stuttgart:
  Zwei alternative komputationelle Umsetzungen von OT-Syntax: ihre Komplexität und linguistische Konsequenzen (May 15)

1998

• 4. Konferenz ``Verarbeitung Natürlicher Sprache'' (KONVENS-98), Bonn:
  Towards data-intensive testing of a broad-coverage LFG grammar (October 5)
• ESSLLI workshop ``Current topics in constraint-based theories of Germanic syntax,'' Saarbrücken:
  Resource Sensitivity in the Syntax-Semantics Interface and the German Split NP Construction (August 20)
• LFG98 Conference, University of Queensland, Brisbane:
  Argument clauses and correlative es in German -- deriving discourse properties in a unification analysis (presentation of joint paper with Judith Berman, Stefanie Dipper und Christian Fortmann, 2 July)
• First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC98), Granada:
  Lexicon Acquisition with and for Symbolic NLP-Systems -- a Bootstrapping Approach (presentation of joint paper with Judith Eckle-Kohler und Christian Rohrer, 28 May)
• Workshop ``Applications of Constraint-Based Programming to Computational Linguistics'', Blaubeuren:
  Some recent extensions of the LFG formalism and their application in broad-coverage grammars (May 4)
• Natural Language Theory and Technology, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA:
  The Syntax and Semantics of Split NPs in LFG (March 27)

1997

• Colloque de Syntaxe et Sémantique de Paris (CSSP), Paris:
  The Syntax and Semantics of Split NPs and Floating Quantifiers in Lexical Functional Grammar (October 17)
• Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Sektion Computerlinguistik, Heidelberg:
  Approaching ambiguity in real-life sentences -- the application of an Optimality Theory-inspired constraint ranking in a large-scale LFG grammar (presentation of a joint paper with Christian Rohrer, 9 October)
• Stuttgart, assessment of SFB 340:
  Methoden zur Entwicklung umfassender Unifikationsgrammatiken (June 19)

1996

• 3. Konferenz ``Verarbeitung Natuerlicher Sprache'' (KONVENS-96), Bielefeld:
  Context effects on interpretation and intonation (October 7)
• Formal Grammar Conference, Prague:
  Domain Restriction in Quantification is Independent of Focus Marking (August 11)
• The 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-96), Kopenhagen:
  An Underspecified HPSG Representation for Information Structure (August 5)
• IBM, Institut für Logik und Linguistik, Heidelberg:
  Fokus, Diskurstopik und Quantifikation (July 19)
• Conference de Sémantique, Paris:
  Topic, Focus and Quantification (June 21)
• SFB-Tag (Sonderforschungsbereich 340), Stuttgart:
  Zur Repräsentation von Informationsstruktur (January 27)

• IBM, Institut für Logik und Linguistik, Heidelberg:
  Informationsstruktur -- Vorschläge zu einer unterspezifizierten Repräsentation in HPSG (October 13)
• Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh:
  Information Packaging in German (June 15)
• Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh:
  The treatment of support verb constructions in HPSG-based Machine Translation (March 7)

• Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Münster/Westfalen:
  Treating structural differences in an HPSG-based approach to interlingual machine translation (March 9)