Esther Seyffarth
SFB 991 / CRC 991
Room 23.32.02.62
Phone +49 211 81-03185
Email Esther.Seyffarth@uni-duesseldorf.de
Subject
Linguistics
SToRE Membership
SToRE member since 04.09.2017
1. advisor: Laura Kallmeyer
2. advisor: Rainer Osswald
3. advisor: Kilian Evang
PhD Project
For my PhD thesis, I research verb alternations and their impact on frame induction. Semantic frames in the sense of Barsalou seem to be a good abstraction for representing alternating verbs, because they can be used to explicitly distinguish between the different forms that each alternating verb can take, and to express the similarities and differences in their meanings.
My research includes developing systems for the automatic identification of verbs that participate in particular alternations; designing frame structures that represent the meaning of alternating verbs in a useful way; and relating verb alternations and their impact on frame induction to similar phenomena, such as polysemy or coercion.
Publications
2019. Esther Seyffarth. Identifying Participation of Individual Verbs or VerbNet Classes in the Causative Alternation. In Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics. (Link)
2018. Esther Seyffarth (2018). Verb Alternations and Their Impact on Frame Induction. In Proceedings of the NAACL Student Research Workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics.
2018. Tatiana Bladier, Esther Seyffarth, Oliver Hellwig, Wiebke Petersen (2018). AET: Web-based Adjective Exploration Tool for German. In Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Miyazaki, Japan.
Conference presentations
2018. Esther Seyffarth (2018). Verb Alternations and Their Impact on Frame Induction. In Proceedings of the NAACL Student Research Workshop, Association for Computational Linguistics.
2018. Tatiana Bladier, Esther Seyffarth, Oliver Hellwig, Wiebke Petersen (2018). AET: Web-based Adjective Exploration Tool for German. In Proceedings of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), Miyazaki, Japan.
2016. Esther Seyffarth (2016). NLP for bots, and bots for NLP. Open source and NLP workshop, University of Cambridge.
Last updated
09.01.2019