Dorothee Beermann Hellan
Bygg 4, 4512, Dragvoll, Edvard Bulls veg 1
About
RESEARCH
Research interests: Syntax and semantics, linguistic text analysis and data-oriented language analysis.
RESEARCH PROFILE: I am particularly interested in the development of digital tools that allow linguists to create their own research data. My field of study is data-driven formal analysis of natural language using both Lexical Functional Grammar and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. I have worked on Generative Syntax, Lexical Semantics (spatial semantics) and have experience in Grammar Engineering in the context of machine translation. For the last 10 years, I have worked on linguistic issues and Natural Language Processing for lesser resourced languages. My main languages of study are Akan, a Kwa language of West Africa, and Runyankore-Rukiga a Bantu language spoken in Uganda.
Together with Professor emeritus Lars Hellan I work on a comparative valence lexicon for Norwegian and German.
FORMER PROJECTS
Norwegian - German Valence Lexicon, Research Project together with the University of Leipzig, Germany and the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany (2019 - 2021).
Aspects of Linguistic Complexity. Comparative German/Norwegian Valence Approach to the creation of resources for Easy-To-Understand Language
IS-DAAD project (2018/19)
Digital Infrastructure for corpus work in research and education - A model approach
A IS-DAAD project (2016/17)
TypeCraft - an online natural language database and Annotation Editor.
LOGON - Lexicon, Lexical Semantics, Grammar, and Translation for Norwegian.
The Legon-Trondheim Linguistic Research Cooperation (Under the NUFU schema).
Publications
2021
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Beermann, Dorothee.
(2021)
Akan-English Dictionary.
Google Play Store, Apple Store. 2021.
Digital teaching aids
2020
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Beermann, Dorothee;
Hellan, Lars.
(2020)
Enhancing grammar and valence resources for Akan and Ga.
West African languages. Linguistic theory and communication.
Academic chapter/article
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Beermann, Dorothee;
Hellan, Lars;
Mihaylov, Pavel;
Struck, Anna.
(2020)
Developing a Twi (Asante) Dictionary from Akan Interlinear Glossed Texts.
Proceedings of the LREC 20201st Joint SLTU and CCURL Workshop(SLTU-CCURL 2020).
Academic chapter/article
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Beermann, Dorothee;
Soria, Claudia;
Sakti, Sakriani;
Besacier, Laurent.
(2020)
Proceedings of the LREC 20201st Joint SLTU and CCURL Workshop(SLTU-CCURL 2020).
European Language Resources Association. 2020. ISBN 979-10-95546-35-1.
Scientific anthology
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Hellan, Lars;
Beermann, Dorothee.
(2020)
Presentational and related constructions in Norwegian with reference to German.
Thetics and Categoricals.
Academic chapter/article
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Hellan, Lars;
Beermann, Dorothee.
(2020)
Thetische Repräsentationen und die Präsentativkonstruktion im Norwegischen und Deutschen.
Zur Architektur von Thetik und Kategorik.
Academic chapter/article
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Hellan, Lars;
Beermann, Dorothee;
Bruland, Tore;
Aamot, Elias;
Haugland, Tormod.
(2020)
Creating a Norwegian valence corpus from a deep grammar.
Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics. 8th Language & Technology Conferene, LTC2017.
Academic chapter/article
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Quasthoff, Uwe;
Hellan, Lars;
Körner, Erik;
Eckart, Thomas;
Goldhahn, Dirk;
Beermann, Dorothee.
(2020)
Typical Sentences as a Resource for Valence.
Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference.
Academic chapter/article
2019
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Beermann, Dorothee.
(2019)
Tense, Modality and Aspect in Krio - A corpus based study.
The grammar of verbs and their arguments: a cross-linguistic perspective. Studies in African Linguistics..
Academic chapter/article
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van Dommelen, Wim A.;
Beermann, Dorothee.
(2019)
Tonal properties of the Akan particle 'na'.
Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
Academic chapter/article
2018
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Beermann, Dorothee;
Hellan, Lars.
(2018)
West African serial verb constructions: the case of Akan and Ga.
The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics.
Academic chapter/article
2017
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Beermann, Dorothee.
(2017)
Infinitives.
Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency.
Academic chapter/article
2016
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Beermann, Dorothee;
Hellan, Lars.
(2016)
Switched control and other 'uncontrolled' cases of obligatory control.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
Academic article
-
Beermann, Dorothee;
Hellan, Lars;
Quasthoff, Uwe;
Eckart, Thomas;
Kuras, Christoph;
Haugland, Tormod.
(2016)
Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis in the work with African Languages.
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016).
Academic chapter/article
2015
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Beermann, Dorothee.
(2015)
Data management and analysis for endangered languages.
Endangered Languages and New Technologies.
Academic chapter/article
2014
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Beermann, Dorothee;
Bouda, Peter.
(2014)
Using GrAF for Advanced Convertibility of IGT data.
LREC 2014, Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.
Academic chapter/article
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Beermann, Dorothee;
Mihaylov, Pavel.
(2014)
TypeCraft collaborative databasing and resource sharing for linguists.
Language Resources and Evaluation.
volum 48 (2).
Academic article
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Beermann, Dorothee;
Mihaylov, Pavel.
(2014)
TypeCraft v.2.
Dorothee Beermann. 2014.
Software
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Hellan, Lars;
Beermann, Dorothee.
(2014)
Inducing grammars from IGT.
Human Language Technology Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics.
Academic chapter/article
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Hellan, Lars;
Beermann, Dorothee;
Dakubu, Mary Esther Kropp;
Marimon, Montserrat;
Bruland, Tore.
(2014)
MultiVal – towards a multilingual valence lexicon.
LREC 2014, Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.
Academic chapter/article
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Hellan, Lars;
Beermann, Dorothee;
Jha, Girish Nath Jha;
Singh, Srishti;
Behera, Pitambar;
Banerjee, Esha.
(2014)
Indian languages on the TypeCraft platform – the case of Hindi and Odia.
LREC 2014, Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.
Academic chapter/article
2011
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Beermann, Dorothee.
(2011)
TypeCraft - Text Annotation in the context of African Linguistics.
North-South Contributions to African Languages.
Academic chapter/article
-
Beermann, Dorothee;
Hellan, Lars.
(2011)
Inducing grammar from IGT.
Proceedings of the 5th Language and Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics (LTC 2011).
Academic chapter/article
2009
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Beermann, Dorothee;
Mihaylov, Pavel.
(2009)
Glossing and databasing for linguists.
Multilingualism. Proceedings of the 23rd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics.
Academic chapter/article
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Beermann, Dorothee;
Mihaylov, Pavel.
(2009)
Interlinear Glossing On-Line.
Proceedings of 4th Language & Technology Conference.
Academic chapter/article
-
Beermann, Dorothee;
Mihaylov, Pavel.
(2009)
Interlinear glossing and its role in theoretical and descriptive studies of African and other lesser-documented languages.
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages.
Academic chapter/article
2008
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Hellan, Lars;
Beermann, Dorothee;
Dakubu, May Esther Kropp.
(2008)
Verb Sequencing Constraints in Ga: Serial Verb Constructions and the Extended Verb Complex.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
Academic article
2006
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Beermann, Dorothee;
Hellan, Lars.
(2006)
Word Sense and Semantic Disambiguation of Constructions in a Deep Processing Grammar.
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006).
Academic chapter/article
2005
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Beermann, Dorothee;
Hellan, Lars.
(2005)
Preposition stranding and locative adverbs in German.
Organizing Grammar. Linguistic Studies in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk.
Academic chapter/article
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Beermann, Dorothee;
Brindle, Jonathan;
Hellan, Lars;
Tedla, Solomon Gebrechristos;
Furberg, Janicke;
Bayiga, Florence Tendo;
Otoo, Yvonne Akwele Amaa;
Dakubu, Mary Esther Kropp.
(2005)
A Comparison of Comparatives.
Proceedings of the LFG-conference.
Academic article
2004
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Hellan, Lars;
Beermann, Dorothee.
(2004)
Semantic Decomposition in a Computational HPSG Grammar: A Treatment of Aspect and Context-Dependent Directionals.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
Academic article
2002
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Hellan, Lars;
Beermann, Dorothee.
(2002)
VP-Chaining in Oriya.
Proceedings of the LFG02 Conference National Technical University of Athens, Athens Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (Editors) 2002 CSLI Publications http:/csli-publications.stanford.edu/.
Academic article
1997
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LeBlanc, David;
Riemsdijk, Henk van;
Beermann, Dorothee.
(1997)
Rightward Movement.
John Benjamins Publishing Company. 1997. Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today.
Nonfiction book
Scientific articles
-
Beermann, Dorothee;
Hellan, Lars.
(2016)
Switched control and other 'uncontrolled' cases of obligatory control.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
Academic article
-
Beermann, Dorothee;
Mihaylov, Pavel.
(2014)
TypeCraft collaborative databasing and resource sharing for linguists.
Language Resources and Evaluation.
volum 48 (2).
Academic article
-
Hellan, Lars;
Beermann, Dorothee;
Dakubu, May Esther Kropp.
(2008)
Verb Sequencing Constraints in Ga: Serial Verb Constructions and the Extended Verb Complex.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
Academic article
-
Beermann, Dorothee;
Brindle, Jonathan;
Hellan, Lars;
Tedla, Solomon Gebrechristos;
Furberg, Janicke;
Bayiga, Florence Tendo;
Otoo, Yvonne Akwele Amaa;
Dakubu, Mary Esther Kropp.
(2005)
A Comparison of Comparatives.
Proceedings of the LFG-conference.
Academic article
-
Hellan, Lars;
Beermann, Dorothee.
(2004)
Semantic Decomposition in a Computational HPSG Grammar: A Treatment of Aspect and Context-Dependent Directionals.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
Academic article
-
Hellan, Lars;
Beermann, Dorothee.
(2002)
VP-Chaining in Oriya.
Proceedings of the LFG02 Conference National Technical University of Athens, Athens Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King (Editors) 2002 CSLI Publications http:/csli-publications.stanford.edu/.
Academic article
Books
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Beermann, Dorothee;
Soria, Claudia;
Sakti, Sakriani;
Besacier, Laurent.
(2020)
Proceedings of the LREC 20201st Joint SLTU and CCURL Workshop(SLTU-CCURL 2020).
European Language Resources Association. 2020. ISBN 979-10-95546-35-1.
Scientific anthology
-
LeBlanc, David;
Riemsdijk, Henk van;
Beermann, Dorothee.
(1997)
Rightward Movement.
John Benjamins Publishing Company. 1997. Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today.
Nonfiction book
Part of book/report
-
Beermann, Dorothee;
Hellan, Lars.
(2020)
Enhancing grammar and valence resources for Akan and Ga.
West African languages. Linguistic theory and communication.
Academic chapter/article
-
Beermann, Dorothee;
Hellan, Lars;
Mihaylov, Pavel;
Struck, Anna.
(2020)
Developing a Twi (Asante) Dictionary from Akan Interlinear Glossed Texts.
Proceedings of the LREC 20201st Joint SLTU and CCURL Workshop(SLTU-CCURL 2020).
Academic chapter/article
-
Hellan, Lars;
Beermann, Dorothee.
(2020)
Presentational and related constructions in Norwegian with reference to German.
Thetics and Categoricals.
Academic chapter/article
-
Hellan, Lars;
Beermann, Dorothee.
(2020)
Thetische Repräsentationen und die Präsentativkonstruktion im Norwegischen und Deutschen.
Zur Architektur von Thetik und Kategorik.
Academic chapter/article
-
Hellan, Lars;
Beermann, Dorothee;
Bruland, Tore;
Aamot, Elias;
Haugland, Tormod.
(2020)
Creating a Norwegian valence corpus from a deep grammar.
Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics. 8th Language & Technology Conferene, LTC2017.
Academic chapter/article
-
Quasthoff, Uwe;
Hellan, Lars;
Körner, Erik;
Eckart, Thomas;
Goldhahn, Dirk;
Beermann, Dorothee.
(2020)
Typical Sentences as a Resource for Valence.
Proceedings of the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference.
Academic chapter/article
-
Beermann, Dorothee.
(2019)
Tense, Modality and Aspect in Krio - A corpus based study.
The grammar of verbs and their arguments: a cross-linguistic perspective. Studies in African Linguistics..
Academic chapter/article
-
van Dommelen, Wim A.;
Beermann, Dorothee.
(2019)
Tonal properties of the Akan particle 'na'.
Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
Academic chapter/article
-
Beermann, Dorothee;
Hellan, Lars.
(2018)
West African serial verb constructions: the case of Akan and Ga.
The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics.
Academic chapter/article
-
Beermann, Dorothee.
(2017)
Infinitives.
Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency.
Academic chapter/article
-
Beermann, Dorothee;
Hellan, Lars;
Quasthoff, Uwe;
Eckart, Thomas;
Kuras, Christoph;
Haugland, Tormod.
(2016)
Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis in the work with African Languages.
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016).
Academic chapter/article
-
Beermann, Dorothee.
(2015)
Data management and analysis for endangered languages.
Endangered Languages and New Technologies.
Academic chapter/article
-
Beermann, Dorothee;
Bouda, Peter.
(2014)
Using GrAF for Advanced Convertibility of IGT data.
LREC 2014, Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.
Academic chapter/article
-
Hellan, Lars;
Beermann, Dorothee.
(2014)
Inducing grammars from IGT.
Human Language Technology Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics.
Academic chapter/article
-
Hellan, Lars;
Beermann, Dorothee;
Dakubu, Mary Esther Kropp;
Marimon, Montserrat;
Bruland, Tore.
(2014)
MultiVal – towards a multilingual valence lexicon.
LREC 2014, Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.
Academic chapter/article
-
Hellan, Lars;
Beermann, Dorothee;
Jha, Girish Nath Jha;
Singh, Srishti;
Behera, Pitambar;
Banerjee, Esha.
(2014)
Indian languages on the TypeCraft platform – the case of Hindi and Odia.
LREC 2014, Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.
Academic chapter/article
-
Beermann, Dorothee.
(2011)
TypeCraft - Text Annotation in the context of African Linguistics.
North-South Contributions to African Languages.
Academic chapter/article
-
Beermann, Dorothee;
Hellan, Lars.
(2011)
Inducing grammar from IGT.
Proceedings of the 5th Language and Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics (LTC 2011).
Academic chapter/article
-
Beermann, Dorothee;
Mihaylov, Pavel.
(2009)
Glossing and databasing for linguists.
Multilingualism. Proceedings of the 23rd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics.
Academic chapter/article
-
Beermann, Dorothee;
Mihaylov, Pavel.
(2009)
Interlinear Glossing On-Line.
Proceedings of 4th Language & Technology Conference.
Academic chapter/article
-
Beermann, Dorothee;
Mihaylov, Pavel.
(2009)
Interlinear glossing and its role in theoretical and descriptive studies of African and other lesser-documented languages.
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages.
Academic chapter/article
-
Beermann, Dorothee;
Hellan, Lars.
(2006)
Word Sense and Semantic Disambiguation of Constructions in a Deep Processing Grammar.
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006).
Academic chapter/article
-
Beermann, Dorothee;
Hellan, Lars.
(2005)
Preposition stranding and locative adverbs in German.
Organizing Grammar. Linguistic Studies in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk.
Academic chapter/article
Media
2019
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Academic lectureBeermann, Dorothee. (2019) Locative nominals in Runyankore-Rukiga. Nominal expressions in the Bantu languages . LLACAN, CNRS; Paris. 2019-06-01 - 2019-06-01.
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Academic lectureBeermann, Dorothee; Hellan, Lars; Haugland, Tormod; Struck, Anna. (2019) Et korpusbasert sammenlignende valensprosjekt for norsk og tysk. MONS (Møter om norsk språk) ; 2019-11-27 - 2019-11-29.
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Academic lectureSiegel, Melanie; Beermann, Dorothee; Hellan, Lars. (2019) Aspects of Linguistic Complexity: A German – Norwegian Approach to the Creation of Resources for Easy-To-Understand Language. 2019 Eleventh International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) . IEEE; Berlin. 2019-05-05.
2018
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Academic lectureBeermann, Dorothee; Hellan, Lars. (2018) Creation and reusability of digital resources from two related Kwa languages The case of Akan and Ga. SyWAL 2018 (Symposium of West African Languages) ; 2018-09-26 - 2018-09-29.
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Academic lectureBeermann, Dorothee; Hellan, Lars; Haugland, Tormod; Ssentanda, Medadi; Quasthoff, Uwe; Goldhahn, Dirk; Eckart, Thomas. (2018) Digital Infrastructure for Morpho-syntactic Analysis of Under-Resourced Languages: A Case Study for Luganda. SLE2018 ; 2018-08-28 - 2018-09-01.
2014
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Academic lectureHellan, Lars; Beermann, Dorothee. (2014) Infinitive constructions in Norwegian, in a comparative perspective. Syntax of the World's languages 6 ; Pavia. 2014-09-08 - 2014-09-10.
2013
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Academic lectureHellan, Lars; Beermann, Dorothee; Bruland, Tore. (2013) A multilingual valence database for less resourced languages. Language Technology Conference 2013 . AMU, Poznan; Poznan. 2013-12-07 - 2013-12-10.
2012
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Academic lectureBeermann, Dorothee. (2012) Contrastive Norwegian-German Valency. 45th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea . Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University; Stockholm. 2012-08-29 - 2012-09-01.
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Academic lectureBeermann, Dorothee; Mihaylov, Pavel. (2012) TypeCraft.Collaborative databasing and Resource sharing for Linguists. 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference, Workshop, Interacting with Linked Data . ESWC; Heraklion. 2012-05-27 - 2012-05-31.
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Academic lectureBeermann, Dorothee; Mihaylov, Pavel; Sloetjes, Han. (2012) Linking annotations. Steps towards tool-chaining in Language Documentation. Service-oriented Architecture. Solutions and Impact. Workshop at Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg, Germany . Digital Humanities 2012; Hamburg University. 2012-07-16 - 2012-07-22.
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Academic lectureHellan, Lars; Beermann, Dorothee. (2012) Spatial Prepositions as Typed Feature Structures. 'Meaning of P' . Ruhruniversität Bochum; Bochum. 2012-11-24 - 2012-11-26.
2011
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Academic lectureBeermann, Dorothee; Hellan, Lars. (2011) Inducing grammar from IGT. 5th Language & Technology Conference . University of Poznán; Posnán. 2011-11-25 - 2011-11-27.
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Academic lectureBeermann, Dorothee; Mihaylov, Pavel. (2011) e-Research for Linguists. Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL HLT 2011 . The Association for Computational Linguistics; Portland, Oregon. 2011-06-19 - 2011-06-24.