Employment
| since 05/2009 | Computational Linguist at VICO Research & Consulting, Leinfelden-Echterdingen
- Automated Sentiment Analysis
- Research&Development for automatic analysis of user-generated content
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| 12/2007-03/2009 | Research Engineer at Pearson Knowledge Technologies, Palo Alto, CA
- Automated scoring methods
- Development of automated tests of spoken language
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| 01/2007-09/2007 |
Post-Doctoral Researcher in the IRTG "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems", Saarland University, Germany
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Education
| 10/2007-09/2008 | Visiting Scholar in the NLP Group, Stanford University |
| 2003-2006 | PhD student in the IRTG "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems", Saarland University |
| 2002-2003 | Master's Programme in Cognitive Science and Natural Language, University of Edinburgh |
| 1999-2002 | Computational Linguistics at Saarland University, Germany |
Studentships
| 2003-2006 | Member of the IRTG "Language Technology and Cognitive Systems" | |
| 2002-2003 | DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) |
| 2002-2003 | Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation) |
Professional Service - Reviews
| EACL | 2012 |
| COLING | 2010 |
| CogSci | 2010 |
| ACL Workshop: Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics | 2010, 2011 |
| NAACL:HLT | 2010 |
| NSF (Linguistics track) | 2009 |
| EMNLP | 2009 |
| EACL student session | 2009 |
Languages
German (native)
English (fluent)
French (good)
Arabic - MSA (basic)
Chinese (basic)
Perl
Java
Prolog
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