Study and Research
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(Very) Short CV
- since 9/2003 PhD student in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- 9/1999 - 8/2003 Master of science in linguistics (computational linguistics), University of the Saarland, Germany
- 4/2002 - 7/2002 Institute for Computational Linguistics, Beijing University, China
- 9/2001 - 2/2002 Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
- 6/1999 Abitur (high school graduation) at Pestalozzi-Gymnasium, Berlin
- March 1, 1980 born in Halle (Saale), Germany
Research
Fields of Interest
semantics, syntax-semantics interface, pragmatics
Tree-Adjoining Grammar, metagrammar
natural language generation, discourse & dialogue
German, Russian and Slavic languages, (Mandarin) Chinese
Former and Current Projects
XTAG group -- IRCS, University of Pennsylvania
SmartKom -- DFKI Saarbrücken GmbH, research assistant
VerbMobil -- DFKI, research assistant
NameMapping
Multilingual Information Extraction -- Shanghai Jiaotong University
Teaching
Teaching Assistant
Spring 2007: Introduction to Syntax (LING 250, Penn)
Fall 2006: Introduction to Formal Linguistics (LING 106, Penn)
Service & Memberships
Service
- Organizer of the weekly XTAG group meeting, 2006-present
- Editor, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, 2003-present
- Co-Chair, GET-UP, 2005-2006
- Penn Linguistics Club Social Chair (with Michael Friesner), 2004-2005
- Penn Linguistics representative at the Graduate Students Association Council, 2003-2005
- Co-Chair, Organizing Commmittee, 29th Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC 29), University of Pennsylvania, 2005
- Member, Organizing Committee, 28th Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC 28), University of Pennsylvania, 2004
- Chair, Organizing Committee, 29. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (StuTS), University of the Saarland, Germany, 2001
Professional Membership
- Linguistic Society of America
- Association of Computational Linguistics
- Penn Linguistics Club
- Graduate Employees Together -- University of Pennsylvania (GET-UP), Graduate Employee Union
Contact
Tatjana Scheffler
Department of Linguistics
619 Williams Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, 19104-6305
U.S.A.