Dorothee Beermann Hellan

Professor Emerita

Department of Language and Literature

dorothee.beermann@ntnu.no

Bygg 4, 4512, Dragvoll, Edvard Bulls veg 1

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).

Scientific, academic and artistic work

Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database

2021

Beermann, Dorothee. (2021) Akan-English Dictionary. Google Play Store, Apple Store. 2021.

2020

Beermann, Dorothee; Hellan, Lars. (2020) Enhancing grammar and valence resources for Akan and Ga. West African languages. Linguistic theory and communication.
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).
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.
Hellan, Lars; Beermann, Dorothee. (2020) Presentational and related constructions in Norwegian with reference to German. Thetics and Categoricals.
Hellan, Lars; Beermann, Dorothee. (2020) Thetische Repräsentationen und die Präsentativkonstruktion im Norwegischen und Deutschen. Zur Architektur von Thetik und Kategorik.
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.
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.

2019

Beermann, Dorothee. (2019) Locative nominals in Runyankore-Rukiga. Nominal expressions in the Bantu languages . LLACAN, CNRS; Paris. 2019-06-01 - 2019-06-01.
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..
Beermann, 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.
Siegel, 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.
van Dommelen, Wim A.; Beermann, Dorothee. (2019) Tonal properties of the Akan particle 'na'. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

2018

Beermann, 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.
Beermann, Dorothee; Hellan, Lars. (2018) West African serial verb constructions: the case of Akan and Ga. The Routledge Handbook of African Linguistics.
Beermann, 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.

2017

Beermann, Dorothee. (2017) Infinitives. Contrastive Studies in Verbal Valency.

2016

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.
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).

2015

Beermann, Dorothee. (2015) Data management and analysis for endangered languages. Endangered Languages and New Technologies.

2014

Beermann, Dorothee; Bouda, Peter. (2014) Using GrAF for Advanced Convertibility of IGT data. LREC 2014, Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation.
Beermann, Dorothee; Mihaylov, Pavel. (2014) TypeCraft collaborative databasing and resource sharing for linguists. Language Resources and Evaluation. vol. 48 (2).
Beermann, Dorothee; Mihaylov, Pavel. (2014) TypeCraft v.2. Dorothee Beermann. 2014.
Hellan, Lars; Beermann, Dorothee. (2014) Inducing grammars from IGT. Human Language Technology Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics.
Hellan, 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.
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.
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.

2013

Hellan, 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

Beermann, 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.
Beermann, 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.
Beermann, 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.
Hellan, Lars; Beermann, Dorothee. (2012) Spatial Prepositions as Typed Feature Structures. 'Meaning of P' . Ruhruniversität Bochum; Bochum. 2012-11-24 - 2012-11-26.

2011

Beermann, Dorothee. (2011) TypeCraft - Text Annotation in the context of African Linguistics. North-South Contributions to African Languages.
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).
Beermann, Dorothee; Hellan, Lars. (2011) Inducing grammar from IGT. 5th Language & Technology Conference . University of Poznán; Posnán. 2011-11-25 - 2011-11-27.
Beermann, 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.

2009

Beermann, Dorothee; Mihaylov, Pavel. (2009) Glossing and databasing for linguists. Multilingualism. Proceedings of the 23rd Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics.
Beermann, Dorothee; Mihaylov, Pavel. (2009) Interlinear Glossing On-Line. Proceedings of 4th Language & Technology Conference.
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.

2008

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.

2006

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).

2005

Beermann, Dorothee; Hellan, Lars. (2005) Preposition stranding and locative adverbs in German. Organizing Grammar. Linguistic Studies in Honor of Henk van Riemsdijk.
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.

2004

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.

2002

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/.

1997

LeBlanc, David; Riemsdijk, Henk van; Beermann, Dorothee. (1997) Rightward Movement. John Benjamins Publishing Company. 1997. Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today.

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