I’m a Ph.D. in Linguistics. You may want to download my Ph.D. thesis from here. You might also want to read our recent article in Cognition which can be seen as a summary of my Ph.D. project. (I’m more than happy to send you the published version, just drop me a line!)
I was working in the Language and Cognition Group (led by Prof. Dr. Pia Knoeferle) at the CITEC, Bielefed University. In my Ph.D. project, I explored the relationships of language understanding and visual attention in the case of projective spatial prepositions (such as above, below, to the right of). To this end, I refined the Attentional Vector Sum (AVS) model developed by Regier & Carlson (2001). I assessed the refined model(s) computationally and empirically. You can download the source code of my modeling work here.
When I have the opportunity to present my work at a conference, I like to rent a bike at that place.
Vita
- 2012: B.Sc., Computer Science, University of Münster (Bachelor Thesis: "Color Based Image Retrieval", pdf (in German))
- 2014: M.Sc., Computer Science, University of Bremen (Master Thesis: "One Focus or Many? Modeling Attentional Distributions During Spatial Term Use", pdf)
- 07/2014 – 09/2014: Research assistant, Cognitive Systems Group, University of Bremen
- 10/2014 – 05/2019: Member of the Graduate School at CITEC, University of Bielefeld, Language and Cognition Group
- 05/2019: Dr. phil., Linguistics, Bielefeld University (Dissertation: "Modeling the Contribution of Visual Attention To Spatial Language Verification")
Other Links
- Code for Münster, a group of volunteers improving the local community by coding. Within this group, I implemented R shiny webapps to visualize and eventually analyze traffic count data and crashes from the city of Münster (where I live).
- My blog.
- Glutamat Improvisationstheater, an improv group I'm member of.