Publications

• Revealing Phonological Similarities between German and Dutch.
  Interspeech'2005 - Eurospeech -- 9th European Conference on Speech Communication
  and Technology 2005, pages 1609-1612, Lissabon, Portugal. (.pdf)
• Revealing Phonological Similarities between Related Languages from
  Automatically Generated Parallel Corpora,
  ACL 2005. Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data-driven
  Machine Translation and Beyond. pages 33-40, Ann Arbor, USA. (.pdf)

• Revealing Automatically Phonological Similarities of Dutch and German (Abstract),
  Talk at 15th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 2004).
• A Recall Oriented Approach to Open Domain Question Answering (Abstract),
  With David Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, Gilad Mishne, Maarten de Rijke, and Stefan Schlobach
  Poster at 15th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 2004).
• Making Stone Soup: Evaluating a Recall-Oriented Multi-Stream Question
  Answering Stream for Dutch,
  With David Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, Maarten de Rijke, Stefan Schlobach, and Gilad Mishne.
  In: Proceedings CLEF 2004, LNCS, Springer, 2005. (.pdf)
• The University of Amsterdam at QA@CLEF 2004,
  With Valentin Jijkoun, Gilad Mishne, Maarten de Rijke, Stefan Schlobach, David Ahn
  In: C. Peters and F. Borri, editors, Working Notes for the CLEF 2004 Workshop, pages 321-324, 2004. (.pdf)
• The University of Amsterdam at TREC 2004,
  With David Ahn, Valentin Jijkoun, Jaap Kamps, Gilad Mishne, Maarten de Rijke, and Stefan Schlobach.
  In: TREC 2004 Conference Notebook, 2004. (.pdf)
• Word order variation in German main clauses: A corpus analysis,
  In the Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-04)
  in Geneva, Switzerland. (.pdf)
• Semi-Automatic Construction of a Question Treebank.
  In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004)
  in Lisbon, Portugal . (.pdf)

• The impact of stemming on information retrieval in Bahasa Indonesia (Abstract),
  With Fadillah Tala, Jaap Kamps, and Maarten de Rijke.
  In 14th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 2003), 2003.
• Experiments in German Treebank Parsing.
  With Sisay Fissaha, Daniel Olejnik, Ralf Kornberger, Detlef Prescher.
  In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD-03), 8 pages.
  Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic. (.pdf)
• Using the Corpus Gesproken Nederlands to Build a Named Entity Recognizer.
  Christine Foeldesi, Karin Müller and Maarten de Rijke. Poster.
  Poster at the 14th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands,
• Grammatical Functions and Parsing the German Negra Treebank.
  With Detlef Prescher and Khalil Sima'an.
  Slides of the presentation given at the 14th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands. (abstract) , (pdf)

• Probabilistic Syllable Modeling Using Unsupervised and Supervised Learning Methods
  AIMS 2002, Vol.8, No.3 PhD Thesis, University of Stuttgart, Institute of Natural Language Processing (IMS) (PhD Thesis)
• Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars for Phonology
  ACL 2002 - Workshop on Morphological and Phonological Learning ( .ps)
• Evaluating Syllabification: One Category Shared by Many Grammars
  In Workshop -Beyond PARSEVAL- at LREC Conference 2002, Las Palmas, Spain. ( .ps)

• Automatic Detection of Syllable Boundaries Combining the Advantages of Treebank and Bracketed Corpora Training
  In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2001), Toulouse, France. ( .ps)
• Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars for Syllabification and Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion.
  In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2001), Pittsburgh (PA) ( .ps / .pdf )

• Inducing Probabilistic Syllable Classes using Multivariate Clustering. With Bernd Möbius and Detlef Prescher.
  In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2000), Hong Kong, China. ( .ps / .ps.gz )
  
• Inducing Probabilistic Syllable Classes using Multivariate Clustering - GOLD -. With Bernd Möbius and Detlef Prescher.
  In AIMS Report 6(4), IMS, Universität Stuttgart. ( .ps / .ps.gz )
• Probabilistische kontext-freie Grammatiken für Silbifizierung und Graphem-Phonem-Konvertierung
  In AIMS Report 6(4), IMS, Universität Stuttgart. ( .ps.gz)
• Silbifizierung im Deutschen mit Hilfe einer lexikalisierten probabilistischen kontextfreien Grammatik
  In AIMS Report 6(4), IMS, Universität Stuttgart. ( .ps.gz)

• German Focus Particles and Intonation.
  In Proceedings of the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), San Francisco, August 1-7 1999 ( .ps / .ps.gz )

• Master Thesis: German Focus Particles and their Influence on Intonation. Postscript(gz)
  University of Stuttgart, Institute of Natural Language Processing

• Secondary Thesis: Artikulatorische Realisierung von Akzent im Deutschen Postscript(gz),
  University of Stuttgart, Institute of Natural Language Processing