Hans C. Boas, Project Director
Hans is an Associate Professor for Germanic Linguistics at UT Austin. His areas of interest include computational lexicography, documentation and preservation of endangered languages and dialects, syntax, lexical semantics, morphology, and contrastive linguistics. From January 1999 until August 2001 Hans worked with the FrameNet team at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. During this time he became interested in creating a FrameNet database for German. Since September 2001, Hans has also been involved in documenting and analyzing Texas German, a rapidly eroding German dialect spoken in central Texas (see www.tgdp.org).
Email: hcb@mail.utexas.edu
Home page: http://hcb.gmc.utexas.edu
Ryan Dux, Graduate Student
Ryan Dux is currently in the Ph.D. program in the Department of Germanic Studies at UT. His academic interests include the syntax-semantics interface, verb classification and multilingual lexicography. He is currently working on a fine-grained frame-semantic classification of English verbs of stealing which he hopes to apply to German in order to investigate translation equivalencies across languages. He has a B.A. in German from the University of Wisconsin. In his free time, Ryan enjoys being with friends, playing games and cheering for the Green Bay Packers.
Email: ryjodux@gmail.com
Elias Ponvert, Graduate Student
Elias is a graduate student in the Linguistics Department (as of 2005) and staff of the Center for Instructional Technologies (since 2001). His interests include formal semantics, computational linguistics, knowledge representation and human-computer interaction.
Email: efp@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Former Members
Inge de Bleecker, Graduate Student
Inge is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics at UT. Her current research focuses on spoken dialog systems, specifically on building natural language generation components using FrameNet. She has extensive industry experience in intelligent user interfaces and multilingual NLP applications.
Email: inge_debleecker@yahoo.com
Derek Brown, Graduate Student
Derek is a graduate student in the linguistics department and a student technician for the ~FASTTex program. His current research focuses on the lexical semantics of adjectives in large-scale corpora. his interests include lexical semantics, information extraction, knowledge representation, Zymurgy, and outdoor grilling.
Email: d_brown@mail.utexas.edu
Home page: webspace.utexas.edu/d_brown/www
Mario Guajardo, Graduate Student
Mario joined the Computer Sciences department at UT-Austin as a Masters student in Spring 2006. In addition to computational linguistics and related areas, his current research interests also include algorithms, bioinformatics, distributed systems and computer networks. In his spare time, he likes playing squash, tennis or racquetball, as well as taking close-up pictures of small things (such as flowers and insects;) he also enjoys learning how to play piano and guitar.
Email: guajardo@mail.utexas.edu
Guido Halder, Graduate Student
Guido Halder is pursuing a doctorate in German Linguistics at UT. His areas of interests are Semantics, Swiss German, Contrastive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. He has a Handelsdiplom from the Handelschule KV Baselland, Switzerland, a Masters of Art in Teaching from Trinity University and a Masters in German from UT. He has taught German, Economics and Government in Texas. Guido is applying frame-semantic insights in his on-going dissertation on support verb constructions in German and English. On his time off, Guido enjoys playing tennis, SCUBA diving, cooking and traveling.
Email: halder@mail.utexas.edu
Sumeet Rao, Graduate Student
Sumeet is a Masters student at the Department of Computer Sciences at UT Austin since Jan 2006 and is a GRA from Fasttex for German Framenet for Summer 2006. His current research interests include Wireless networks, network security and database systems. His interests also include understanding different social and work cultures.
Email: sumeet@cs.utexas.edu
Former Visitors
Anderson Bertoldi is a doctorate student in the Applied Linguistics Graduate Program at Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Brazil). His current research is applying frame-semantics in contrastive linguistic studies between Portuguese and English. His interests include lexical semantics, contrastive linguistics, knowledge representation and computational linguistics. With financial support from the Brazilian funding agency CAPES he is spending the calendar year 2010 with German FrameNet at UT Austin.
Email: andersonbertoldi@yahoo.com
Rove Chishman is an Associate Professor at the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil. Her areas of interest include computational semantics and corpus linguistics. She was a visiting scholar within the German FrameNet Project at UT Austin from March 2009 to June 2009, when she developed her post-doctoral research. Being advised by Hans Boas, she applied Talmy’s theory and FrameNet paradigm to describe motion verbs in Portuguese. In Brazil, she coordinates the FrameCorp Project, whose objective is to construct a Brazilian Portuguese corpus with Frame Semantics annotation. She also coordinates the Kicktionary_Br, a Brazilian Portuguese version of the Kicktionary Project, a multilingual electronic dictionary of soccer language being developed by Thomas Schmidt.
Email: rove.chishman@gmail.com
Han-Chun Huang is an Assistant Professor at National Hsinchu University of Education, Taiwan. His areas of interests include lexical semantics, morphology, Construction Grammar, and syntax-semantics interface. He was a visiting Ph.D. student with German FrameNet at UT Austin under the supervision of Hans C. Boas from September 2006 to April 2007, and got his PhD degree in linguistics from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan in 2008. His dissertation topic is on the resultative constructions in Mandarin Chinese. He is working on the lexical semantics of Hakka (a Sinitic language with speakers mainly in Taiwan and China) with a corpus-based approach.
Email: hambao@gmail.com
Alba Luzondo is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of La Rioja (Spain). Her current research, framed within the field of Construction Grammar, focuses on lexical constructional interaction under the scope of the Lexical Constructional Model. Likewise, she is currently working as a knowledge engineer in the domain of "transformation" (or change) on a lexico-conceptual knowledge base for natural language processing (NLP) systems called FunGramKB. Her interests include construction grammar, semantics, computational linguistics and knowledge representation. She loves to bike, and run around with her dog, Tobías.
Email: alba.luzondo@gmail.com
Nuria Del Campo Martínez is a PHD student in the Linguistics Program at the University of La Rioja in Spain. Her research focuses on the constructional component of illocution and the cognitive processes involved in illocutionary interpretation. This study applies FrameNet towards the development of a speech act categorization that considers semantic and syntactic criteria. She is spending the fall 2010 semester at UT Austin with the financial support of the University of La Rioja.
Email: ndcm85@gmail.com
Last updated March 2012
