Integrated Graduate School MGK (2010-2018)

Overview of the Integrated Graduate School MGK of the CRC 732

Integriertes Graduiertenkolleg - Integrated Research Training Group

Principal Investigators (2010-2014): Grzegorz Dogil & Achim Stein
Principal Investigators (2014-2018): Sabine Schulte im Walde & Sabine Zerbian

Coordinators: Jagoda Bruni (2014-2015), Cornelia Ebert (2015), Boris Haselbach (2015-2018), Katrin Schweitzer (2018)


The goal of the integrated graduate school was to provide the PhD students in the SFB with a structured qualification program for academic training and a forum for mutual exchange and feedback. To this end, a teaching program aimed at broadening the background and improving the professional opportunities of the PhD students, to ensure further qualification of the graduate school members. Additionally, graduate school members met regularly to present and discuss their postgraduate work in an equal-status group and to encourage collaborative and interdisciplinary research.

Short-term one-year research grants for PhD students served as a special tool for mutual exchange and collaborative work. The grants were closely linked to individual projects of the SFB.

The goal of the integrated graduate school was to provide the PhD students in the SFB with a structured qualification program for academic training and a forum for mutual exchange and feedback. To this end, a teaching program aimed at broadening the background and improving the professional opportunities of the PhD students, to ensure further qualification of the graduate school members. Courses were taught

  • by the academic staff,
  • by postgraduates specialized in a particular domain (e.g. speech processing, lexical semantics, corpus linguistics), or
  • by external researchers and GRADUS (graduate academy of the University of Stuttgart), on topics that complement the expertise of the SFB members (e.g. statistical methods, visualization techniques), and soft skills for doctoral students (e.g. writing skills, presentation techniques).

Additionally, graduate school members met regularly to present and discuss their postgraduate work in an equal-status group and to encourage collaborative and interdisciplinary research.

Short-term research grants for PhD students served as a special tool for mutual exchange and collaborative work. The grants were closely linked to individual projects of the SFB.

The structural goals of the Integrated Research Training Group were

  • to intensify national and international exchange with PhD students working on closely related topics,
  • to identify and foster novel collaborations and connections with other research institutes through the exchange of graduate students, and
  • at a more general level, to support ongoing research in the SFB projects and the exchange between the SFB projects, areas and research fields.

The members of our graduate school were the PhD students of the SFB as well as one-year scholarship holders.

Al Ebrahim, Hayyan (B8 - scholarship)
Al Khatib, Khalid (Statistical NLP Group; H. Schütze - scholarship)
Barnes, Jeremy (D12 - scholarship)
Barouni, Maria (B6)
Björkelund, Anders (D8)
Blessing, Andre
(B3)
Braune, Fabienne
(Emmy-Noether Group; A. Maletti)
Bondarenko, Tanya (B3 - scholarship)
Bravi, Arianna (C2 and C4 - scholarship)
Buljan, Maja (D10 - scholarship)
Caruso, Durdica Zeljka (B1 - scholarship)
Chiriacescu, Sofiana
(C2 and C4 - scholarship)
Cui, Jin (C2 and C4 - scholarship)
Deichsel, Annika
(C4)
Del Tredici, Marco (D12 - scholarship)
Duran, Daniel
(A2)
Eckart, Kerstin (INF)
Falenska, Agnieszka (D8)
Galts, Tobias (A7 - scholarship)
Gärtner, Markus (INF)
Ghayoomi, Masood
(D2 - scholarship)
Glaser, Andrea
(D7 - scholarship)
Guntsetseg, Dolgor
(C2)
Gupta, Abhijeet (D10)
Han, Qi
(A2 - scholarship)
Haselbach, Boris (B4)
Jurth, Réka (B6 - scholarship)
Kallara Rajappan, Arun Kumar (B9 - scholarship)
Kelly, Niamh
(A2 - scholarship)
Kessler, Wiltrud
(D7 - scholarship)
Kisselew, Max (D9)
Köper, Maximilian (D12)
Kiagia, Evangelia (D12 - scholarship)
Kiemtoré, Alassane (B8 - scholarship)
Kliche, Fritz (INF - scholarship)
Kolev, Nickolay (B4 - scholarship)
Lapesa, Gabriella (D6 - scholarship)
Lewandowski, Natalie (A4)
Li, Chia-Yu (A8 - scholarship)
Lipenkova, Janna (C2 - scholarship)
Michelbacher, Lukas (D4 - scholarship)
Müller, Stefan (D11)
Müller, Thomas (D4)
Naumann, Daniela (D12/10 - scholarship)
Neumann, Michael (A8)
Oikonomou, Despina (B6 - scholarship)
Ortega Vazquez, Mario Daniel (A8 - scholarship)
Pitteroff, Marcel (B6)
Pizzolante, Laura (B5 - scholarship)
Quyngoc, Doan (B8 - scholarship)
Ramm, Anita (Heisenberg Group; S. Schulte im Walde - scholarship)
Richardson, Kyle (D2)
Rösiger, Ina (A6)
Roller, Stephen (Heisenberg Group; S. Schulte im Walde - scholarship)
Schauffler, Nadja (A7)
Scheible, Christian (D7)
Schindler, Carola (A2 - scholarship)
Schlechtweg, Dominik (B8/D12 - scholarship)
Schönhof-Wilkans, Agnieszka (B6 - scholarship)
Schulz, Sarah (INF; Digital Humanities)
Schweitzer, Katrin (A1)
Scott, John (A7 - scholarship)
Seeker, Wolfgang (D8)
Springorum, Sylvia (D12)
Stehwien, Sabrina (A8)
Suditsch, Isabell (A4 - scholarship)
Sundaresan, Sandhya (B6)
Temme, Anne (B6)
Ul Alam, Mahbub (A8 - scholarship)
Utt, Jason (D6)
Varvara, Rossella (B9 - scholarship)
Viesel, Yvonne (A6 - scholarship)
Woolwine, Cassandra (B4 - scholarship)
Yu, Xiang (D8)
Zarcone, Alessandra (D6)
Zarrieß, Sina (D2)
Zeller, Britta (B9 - scholarship)
Ziering, Patrick (D11)
Zhu, Moritz (A8 - scholarship)

Schedule of classes

Fridays, 09:45. Raum: 3. 11 (Phonetik Labor, IMS)

Lecturer

 

Introductory and organization class (userid and access to the databases etc.), requirements/planning

G. Faaß

22.10

An Introduction to TIGER XML, SW installation instructions

A. Stein/G. Faaß

29.10

An Introduction to CWB and CQP, SW installation instruc.

A. Stein

05.11

CWB Macros + how to use perl scripts to automated queries; Types of corpora and existing corpora for different languages at IMS / via the WWW

G. Faaß

12.11

Corpus compilation and Metadata annotation

G. Faaß

19.11

Pre-processing: annotation standards, word-based annotation (part-of-speech tagging, lemmatization)

G. Faaß/ H. Schmid

26.11

Syntactic annotation and parsing

H. Schmid

03.12

Mapping of linguistic problems to corpus queries

A. Stein

10.12

Corpora and semantics

K. Eberle/G. Faaß

17.12

Discussion, requirements of specific dissertation projects

A. Stein/G.Faaß

14.01

Evaluation and presentation of results: statistics and statistic tools (Intro R)

Alessandra Zarcone

21.01

Signals and Spectrograms - Short Introduction to Phonetics

G. Dogil

28.01

Phonetic Database at IMS

A. Madsack

04.02

Phonetic Tools - wavesurfer, praat

A. Schweitzer

11.02

Extracting Phonetic Cues from a Database - Formants, Harmonic Structure, Voice Quality

W. Wokurek

29.04

Extracting Phonetic Cues from a Database2 - Voicing and Fundamental Frequency

W. Wokurek

06.05.

Extracting Phonetic Cues from a Database3 - MFCC, Amplitude Envelopes

W. Wokurek

13.05

Prosodically labeled Databases

K. Schweitzer

20.05

Processing Prosodically Labeled Databases

A. Schweitzer

27.05

Language Acquisition

B. Lintfert

03.06

Foundation of general linguistics

K. von Heusinger

10.06

Formulating Experimental Results

G. Dogil

24.06

Types of universals (phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics)

A. Alexiadou or sb from the team

01.07

Methods of describing linguistic universals

A. Alexiadou

08.07

Linguistic universals and the architecture of grammar

A. Alexiadou

15.07

Linguistic universals and cross-linguistic investigations

A. Stein

21.07

Speaker

Topic

Date

Jagoda Bruni

Organisation meeting.

04.11.11

Daniel Duran

Presentation of current research.

09.12.11

Sina Zarrieß

Presentation of current research.

20.01.12

Andrea Glaser

Presentation of current research

10.02.12

Marcel Piteroff and

Boris Haselbach

Presentation of current research

(collaboration).

17.02.12

Jin Cui

Presentation of current research

09.03.12

Arianna Bravi

Presentation of current research

16.03.12

Kerstin Eckhart,

Wolfgang Seeker and

Kati Schweitzer

Presentation of current research

(collaboration).

20.04.12

Christian Scheible

Presentation of current research

25.05.12

Speaker

Topic

Date

Jagoda Bruni

Ogranisation meeting.

19.10.12

Daniel Duran &

Jagoda Bruni

Presentation of ongoing research (collaboration).

23.11.12

Alessandra Zarcone, Jason Utt, Stephen Roller, Kerstin Eckart and Masood Ghayoomi.

Presentation of ongoing research (teaser talks).

14.12.12

Laura Pizzolante and Sylvia Springorum.

Presentation of ongoing research (collaboration).

25.01.13

Marion Weller, Sylvia Springorum and Christian Scheible.

Presentation of ongoing research (teaser talks).

08.03.13

Daniel Duran

Presentation of the PhD Thesis.

12.04.13

Natalie Lewandowski

Presentation of ongoing research.

03.05.13

Speaker

Topic

Date

Jagoda Bruni

Organisation meeting.

25.10.13

A. Schönhof-Wilkans

Presentation of the ongoing research.

22.11.13

Jagoda Bruni

Presentation of the ongoing research.

06.12.1

Gabriella Lapesa

Presentation of the ongoing research.

13.12.13

Anita Ramm

 

Carola Schindler

Presentation of the ongoing research (teaser talk).

 

Presentation of the ongoing research.

24.01.14

 

Sabine Schulte im Walde

 

Sabine Zerbian

 

Presentation of the goals of the MGK for the next SFB-Phase and general discussion with the students.

31.01.14

Anders Bjorkelund

Presentation of the ongoing research.

07.02.14

 

Semester break

March

 

04.04. - 06.04. 2014 Trip to Kleinwarseltal

April

Niamh Kelly

The effect of focus on lexical pitch in Norwegian.

09.05.14

Jagoda Bruni

 

 

 

Anita Ramm

Usage-based phonology and simulations as means to investigate unintuitive voicing behavior (teaser talk).

 

 

Correct Translation of Verbs in English to German Statistical Machine Translation (full talk).

13.06.14

Meetings take place on Fridays at 09:45 - 11:15 at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS), Pfaffenwaldring 5B, 70569 Stuttgart; room 5 V.01.

1. 24.10.14:

Jagoda Bruni: Presentation of the MGK organisation and different opportunities for doctoral students of the SFB 732.

Talk: Carola Schindler - "Perceptual speaker discrimination based on German consonants".

2. 31.10.14:  exceptionally at 2 p.m., rooms V 5.01 and V 5.02 (at the IMS)

Projection of an animated documentary interview with Noam Chomsky, called "Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy" (by Michel Gondry, year of production 2013).

3. 14.11.14:

Discussion of the program of academic courses and interdisciplinary courses + talk by Stefan Müller: "A crosslingual approach to the analysis of compound nouns - Overview and current work".

4. 12.12.14:

Agnieszka Schönhof-Wilkans will present the result of her newest fieldwork research in Tanzania: "Towards the theory of diathesis in Swahili. Transitivity, Transmittivity, Causativity."

5. 09.01.15:

Maximilan Köper: "Multilingual Reliability and Semantic Structure of Continuous Word Spaces."

6. February - semester break

7. 13.03.15

Ina Rösiger: "Computational modelling of aspects of information structure in interview data."

+ discussion of the program of the KWT trip.

 

8. 27.03.15 (exceptionally at 09.30!!!)

Information meeting concerning interdisciplinary courses.

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Starting from April 2015 the MGK meetings will have a form of weekly academic courses
(which will also take place on Fridays at 09:45 - 11:15 at the Institute for Natural Language Processing [IMS], Pfaffenwaldring 5B, 70569 Stuttgart; room 5 V.01.)

For schedule please click here.

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Materials from the academic courses:

1. Kerstin Eckart, Katrin Schweitzer, Markus Gärtner:

Introduction to corpora and phonetic databases and how to access them.

2. Antje Schweitzer:

Basics of Prosodic Labeling - ToBI

3. Sabine Schulte im Walde:

Tools for preprocessing annotation (tokenisation, part-of-speech tagging, lemmatisation); lexical semantics (approaches and resources)

4. Sebastian Pado:

Some words on statistical significance

5. Natalie Lewandowski:

The best of cognitive science

6. Antje Schweitzer:

Basics in Praat Scripting

Praat Tutorial

Script of the session

7. Gianina Iordachioaia:

Argument inheritance in derivation: nominalization

Compounds: definition and modeling

8. Sabine Zerbian:

Phonology

Speaker Topic Date
Cornelia Ebert, Boris Haselbach Organizational meeting 16.10.2015
Carrie Dohe Course: Academic Writing and Publishing Research Articles in the in the Humanities and Social Sciences 22.10.2015
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23.10.2015
Rossella Varvara To infinitive and beyond: investigating nominal infinitives in German and Italian 04.12.2015
Fritz Kliche Compiling a corpus from semi-structured data 11.12.2015
Alassane Kiemtoré On logophoricity in Jula: a first descriptive inquiry 08.01.2016
Réka Jurth On alternating experiencer verbs in Hungarian 05.02.2016
Tobias Galts Tone in second language acquisition, processing and change 08.04.2016
t.b.a. t.b.a. 13.05.2016
Kyle Richardson et al. Presentation of Kleinwalsertal guests 03.06.2016
  Kleinwalsertal 30.06.2016
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02.07.2016
Date  Speaker  Topic 
21.10.2016

Boris Haselbach
Michael Neumann
 
 
18.11.2016 Yvonne Viesel The discourse particel 'ja' in questions?
Experimental evidence and natural findings
16.12.2016 Casey Woolwine  
13.01.2017 Isabel Suditsch Challenges of interdisciplinary communication
10.02.2017 Daniel Ortega

Dialog-act classification using
Convolutional Neural Networks

21.04.2017 Sabine Schulte im Walde
Boris Haselbach

organizational matters

19.05.2017 Jeremy Barnes Improving sentiment analysis with task-specific data
23.06.2017 Moritz Stiefel (MS)
Sabrina Stehwien (SS)
Dominik Schlechtweg (DS)
Boris Haselbach (BH)
(i) Code-switching Language Modeling with Bilingual Word Embeddings (MS)
(ii) presentation of Andrew Rosenberg (SS)
(iii) presentation of Nicholas Asher (DS)
(iv) presentation of Ronnie Wilbur (BH)
(v) organizational matters (BH)
06.07.2017
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08.07.2017
  Kleinwalsertal
21.07.2017 no meeting  

The meetings take place at the IMS, room V 5.01, between 9.45 and 11.15 am.

Date Speaker Topic
27.10.2017 Dominik Schlechtweg An Annotation of Semantic Change Based on Usage Relatedness
17.11.2017 Anne Temme The relation between stimuli and experiencers: causation and/or simple mental configurations
08.12.2017 Patrick Ziering Indirect Supervision for the Determination and Structural Analysis of Nominal Compounds
12.01.2018 Chia-Yu Li Generative adversarial networks for speech recognition
02.02.2018 Maja Buljan  
20.04.2018 (i) Mahbub Ul Alam
(ii) Daniela Naumann
(i) Interpretation and visualization of deep neural network based model in the automatic speech recognition
(ii) A Contextual Analysis of Concrete and Abstract Words
18.05.2018 (i) Marco Del Tredici
(ii) Kyle Richardson, Xiang Yu, Dominik Schlechtweg
(i) Semantic Variation in Online Communities of Practice
(ii) presentations of KWT guests
08.06.2018 no meeting  
14.-16.06.2018   Kleinwalsertal

The meetings take place at the IMS, room V 5.01, between 9.45 and 11.15 am.

MGK Annual Meetings

Dates: June 13-16, 2013

Dates: June 18th - 20th, 2015

Guests:

Abstracts

Program of the trip

Dates: June 30 - July 2, 2016

Guests:

Abstracts

Program of the trip

Dates: July 6th-8th, 2017

Guests: 

Program of the trip and abstracts of the talks

Dates: June 14th-16th, 2018

Guests: 

Abstract booklet

Program of the trip

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