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   Research
  Teaching
    Ph.D. Projects
    Archive
    Ph. D. Dissertations

     


   Teaching

Courses 2006/2007:

Remko Scha: Taalverwerking per Computer (Bachelor Taalwetenschap)

Remko Scha: Taaltheorie en Taalverwerking (Bachelor Kunstmatige Intelligentie)

Remko Scha: Natuurlijke-Taal Interfaces (Bachelor Kunstmatige Intelligentie)

Khalil Sima'an: Taalmodellen (Bachelor Kunstmatige Intelligentie)

Khalil Sima'an: Probabilistic Grammars and Data-Oriented Parsing (Master Linguistics & Master of Logic)


   Research

Research is concerned with the following topics:

Data-Oriented Parsing
Discourse Semantics

Gestalt Percept
ion & Visualization
Music Cognition


   Ph.D. Projects

Hannah Bosma: authorship and gender in electro-acoustic vocal music.
  (Supervisors: Rokus de Groot and Remko Scha.)


   Archive

Amstelogue'99 Workshop on Dialogue


   Ph. D. Dissertations

Dik Bakker: Formal and Computational Aspects of Functional Grammar and Language Typology. March 17, 1994. (Promotores: Simon Dik, Harm Pinkster and Remko Scha.) Amsterdam: IFOTT, Studies in Language and Language Use 5.

Markwin J. van den Berg: Aspects of a Formal Theory of Music Cognition. September 30, 1996. (Promotor: Remko Scha.)

Martin H. van den Berg: Some Aspects of the Internal Structure of Discourse; The Dynamics of Nominal Anaphora. March 7, 1996. (Promotores: Johan van Benthem and Remko Scha. Co-promotor: Jaap van der Does.) ILLC Dissertation Series 1996-3.

Rens Bod: Enriching Linguistics with Statistics: Performance Models of Natural Language. 1995. (Promotor: Remko Scha.) ILLC Dissertation Series 1995-14.

Jet van Dam van Isselt: "Her name is - uh dat weet ik niet"; Authenticity in the L2 Classroom. August 27, 1993. (Promotor: Remko Scha.)

Mohammad Mehdi Dastani: Languages of Perception. December 9, 1998. ILLC Dissertation Series 1998-05. (Promotores: Remko Scha and Peter van Emde Boas. Co-promotor: Bipin Indurkhya.)

Crist-Jan Doedens: Text Databases. One Database Model and Several Retrieval Languages. Utrecht University, OTS. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994. (Promotores: Jan Landsbergen and Remko Scha.)

Jörg von Engelhardt: The Language of Graphics. A framework for the analysis of syntax and meaning in maps, charts and diagrams. September 13, 2002. ILLC Dissertation Series 2002-03. (Promotores: Remko Scha and Peter van Emde Boas.)

Henk Harmsen: These are the words. Procedures for computer-assisted syntactical parsing and actant analysis of biblical Hebrew texts. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Theology. (Promotor: E. Talstra; co-promotores: R. Scha and N. van Uchelen.) 1998.

Christiane ten Hoopen: Perceptions of Sound; Source, Cause and Human Presence in Electroacoustic Music. April 21, 1997. (Promotores: Remko Scha and Rembrandt Wolpert.)

Kwee Tjoe Liong: Programmer's Reflections on Functional Grammar; More Exercises in Computational Theoretical Linguistics. June 13, 1994. (Promotores: Simon Dik and Remko Scha.) Amsterdam: IFOTT, Studies in Language and Language Use 8.

Hub Prüst: On Discourse Structuring, VP Anaphora and Gapping. December 3, 1992. (Promotor: Remko Scha.)

Jan Rietveld: OROC. Online Record linking in Online Catalogues; mogelijkheden om het zoeken op onderwerp te verbeteren. January 20, 1993. (Promotores: A. Kouwenhoven and R. Scha.)

Kirsten Romijn: Hoe doen we het? Verwijzen naar linguistische en cognitieve representaties met het voornaamwoord het.November 29, 1996. Amsterdam: P.J. Meertens-Instituut. (Publicaties van het P.J. Meertens-Instituut 27.) (Promotor: Remko Scha.)

Gerjan van Schaaik: Studies in Turkish Grammar. February 23, 1995. (Promotores: Simon Dik and Lars Johanson. Co-promotor: Machtelt Bolkestein.)

Jan Scholtes: Neural Networks in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. January 21, 1993. (Promotor: Remko Scha)

Khalil Sima'an: Learning Efficient Disambiguation. March 31, 1999. Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS. ILLC Dissertation Series 1999-02. (Promotores: Jan Landsbergen and Remko Scha.) FoLLI 2000 Dissertation Award.

Gert Jan van der Steen: A Program Generator for Recognition, Parsing and Transduction with Syntactic Patterns. November 19, 1987. (Promotores: J. van Leeuwen and W.G. Klooster.)

Dejuan Wang: Studies on the Formal Semantics of Pictures. January 17, 1995. ILLC Dissertation Series 1995-04. (Promotor: Remko Scha. Co-promotor: John Lee.)

Hendrik Willem Zeevat: Aspects of Discourse Semantics and Unification Grammar. May 17, 1991. (Promotor: Renate Bartsch.)


  Master's Theses (small selection)

Remko Bonnema: Data-Oriented Semantics. Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, 1996.

Lars Hoogweg: Extending DOP1 with the insertion operation. Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, 2000.