Name:

Bernhard Fisseni

Adress:

University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Humanities, German Linguistics

bernhard.fisseni@mail.uni-due.de (PGP/GPG key)

Office hours:

November 2011 to February 2012 I am at the ILLC of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), so that we must make appointments via e-mail.

Research Interests

  • (Empirical Methods for) formal semantics and pragmatics
  • Text Technology

Dates

1998/99 – 5.11.2003

Rhein. Friedr.-Wilh.-Universität Bonn;
Major: Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik, specialisation computational linguistics Minors: Informatik (Computer Science) and Deutsche Sprache und ältere deutsche Literatur (German linguistics and old German literature), finished with a Magister Artium degree

Sept. 1999 – July 2000

Software development, <retivox> GbR

2000/01

visiting student University of Utrecht (scholarshib by DAAD)

2. – 11.10.2003

German-Israeli Minerva School in Computational Linguistics

17.11. – 31.12.2003

Project Medienintensive Lehrmodule in der Computerlinguistik-Ausbildung ( MiLCA) (Development of a Web interface for a speech synthesis programme)

1.1.2004 – 30.4.2005

Project Pragmatic Interpretation Constraints, Wissensformate ("Knowledge formats"), University of Bonn

30.3. – 1.4.2005

One of the Organisers of GLDV meeting (with H.-Ch. Schmitz, B. Schröder, P. Wagner)

since 2004

PhD student, working title of the thesis Empirical Investigations on Focus Interpretation

SS 2005, WS 2005/06

Vertretung einer Assistenzstelle am Institut für Kommunikations­forschung und Phonetik, Bonn (now: Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaften, Abteilung Sprache und Medien)

WS 2006/07; SS 2007

Graduate student scholarship granted by the State of Northrine-Westfalia

since WS 2007/08

University of Duisburg-Essen

March 2011

PhD in German Linguistics, University of Duisburg-Essen

Nov. 2011 – Feb 2012

ILLC der Uni Amsterdam (UvA), Project DIFOS

Teaching

Various courses on

  • Empirical, esp. experimental methods in linguistics,
  • formal methods,
  • historical linguistics,
  • text technology.