I See Dead Code

Over the years, I have given a couple of talks or presentations, whether in seminars or conferences.

Seminar Presentations

• WS 07/08: Information Ordering
  Sentence ordering based on local Coherence metrics, based on „Stochastic Text Structuring using the Principle of Continuity” by Karamanis & Manurung.
• WS 07/08: Linking FrameNet to SUMO
  Linking the hierarchy of semantic types in the Berkeley FrameNet to the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology, based on a paper by Scheffczyk, Pease and Ellsworth.
• SS 08: Morphology Induction wigh LSA
  Knowledge-free induction of morphology, based on Latent Semantic Analysis, based on a paper by Schone & Jurafsky.
• WS 08/09: Polynomial-Time Fragments of Dominance Constraints
  Normal dominance constraints and dominance graphs for scope underspecification, based on a paper by Koller, Mehlhorn and Niehren.

Conference & Workshop Talks

• TaCoS ’08: The Stockholm TreeAligner
  General presention about the Stockholm TreeAligner along with a couple of potential student projects, held in June ’08 in Potsdam.
• STA Workshop ’08: Status of TIGER Engine in STA
  Very technical talk about the current status of the TIGER query evaluation engine in the Stockholm TreeAligner at that point, given 09/08 at UZH.
• KONVENS ’08: Allquantoren in der TIGER-Abfragesprache
  Presentation of our implementation for limited universal quantification in the TIGER query language, for the paper Extending the TIGER Query Language with Universal Quantification by Marek, Lundborg and Volk. Given 10/08 in Berlin.
• TaCoS ’09: Text+Berg digital
  Presentation of the Text+Berg digital project for archiving cultural heritage data at UZH. Given 06/09 in Heidelberg.

Kolloquium Talks

• Saarbrücken: Frame Semantics in TIGER
  The presentation I gave as a part of the M.Sc. thesis in Saarbrücken, about my work to integrate query elements for frame semantic annotation into the TIGER query language. Presented 02/09 during the research colloquium of Prof. Pinkal’s group.

Other

• swiss.py: Python Metaclasses
  A Python user group talk on the details of Python metaclasses and their use cases (with code examples). Given 06/09 at local.ch in Zürich.