Integrated Graduate School MGK (2010-2018)

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. 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)

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

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

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

Dates: July 21-24, 2011

Dates: June 14-17, 2012

Dates: June 13-16, 2013

Dates: April 4-6, 2014

Dates: June 18th - 20th, 2015

Guests:

• Petra Augurzky (University of Tübingen)
• Richárd Farkas (University of Szeged)
• Jaklin Kornfilt (Syracuse University)
• Carola Trips (University of Mannheim)

Abstracts

Dates: June 30 - July 2, 2016

Guests:

• Eva Smolka (University of Konstanz)
• Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh)
• Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh)
• Ronnie Wilbur (Purdue University)

Abstracts

Dates: July 6th-8th, 2017

Guests: 

• Andrew Rosenberg (IBM, CUNY)
• Ronnie Wilbur (Purdue University)

Dates: June 14th-16th, 2018

Guests: 

• Jonathan Berant (Tel Aviv University)
• Martin Haspelmath (Leipzig University)
• Djamé Seddah (Univesity Paris-Sorbonne)

Abstract booklet